All Episodes

All episodes published so far are listed below, or for lists of episodes with their descriptions please see the relevant introductory pages:

Episodes 1 - 14: The Presocratics

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1 - Everything is Full of Gods: Thales

2 - Infinity and Beyond: Anaximander and Anaximenes

3 - Created In Our Image: Xenophanes Against Greek Religion

4 - The Man With The Golden Thigh: Pythagoras

5 - Old Man River: Heraclitus

6 - MM McCabe on Heraclitus

7 - The Road Less Traveled: Parmenides

8 - You Can't Get There From Here: Zeno and Melissus

9 - The Final Cut: Democritus and Leucippus

10 - Mind Over Mixture: Anaxagoras

11 - All You Need is Love, and Five Other Things: Empedocles

12 - Malcolm Schofield on the Presocratics

13 - Good Humor Men: the Hippocratics

14 - Making the Weaker Argument the Stronger: the Sophists

Episodes 15 - 33: Socrates and Plato

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15 - Socrates without Plato: the Accounts of Aristophanes and Xenophon

16 - Method Man: Plato's Socrates

17 - Raphael Woolf on Socrates

18 - In Dialogue: the Life and Works of Plato

19 - Know Thyself: Two Unloved Platonic Dialogues

20 - Virtue Meets its Match: Plato's Gorgias

21 - We Don't Need No Education: Plato's Meno

22 - I Know, Because the Caged Bird Sings: Plato's Theaetetus

23 - MM McCabe on Knowledge in Plato

24 - Famous Last Words: Plato's Phaedo

25 - Soul and the City: Plato's Political Philosophy

26 - Ain't No Sunshine: The Cave Allegory of Plato's Republic

27 - Second Thoughts: Plato's Parmenides and the Forms

28 - Fiona Leigh on Plato's Sophist

29 - What's in a Name? Plato's Cratylus

30 - A Likely Story: Plato's Timaeus

31 - Wings of Desire: Plato's Erotic Dialogues

32 - Frisbee Sheffield on Platonic Love

33 - Last Judgments: Plato, Poetry and Myth

Episodes 34 - 51: Aristotle

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34 - Mr. Know It All: Aristotle's Life And Works

35 - The Philosopher's Toolkit: Aristotle's Logical Works

36 - A Principled Stand: Aristotle's Epistemology

37 - Hugh Benson on Aristotelian Method

38 - Down to Earth: Aristotle on Substance

39 - Form and Function: Aristotle's Four Causes

40 - Let's Get Physical: Aristotle's Natural Philosophy

41 - Richard Sorabji on Time and Eternity in Aristotle

42 - Soul Power: Aristotle's De Anima

43 - Classified Information: Aristotle's Biology

44 - The Goldilocks Theory: Aristotle's Ethics

45 - The Second Self: Aristotle On Pleasure And Friendship

46 - Dominic Scott on Aristotle's Ethics

47 - God Only Knows: Aristotle on Mind and God

48 - Constitutional Conventions: Aristotle's Political Philosophy

49 - Stage Directions: Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetics

50 - MM McCabe and Raphael Woolf on Aristotle on Plato

51- The Next Generation: the Followers of Plato and Aristotle

Episodes 52 - 76: Hellenistic

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52 - Fighting Over Socrates: the Hellenistic Schools

53 - Beware of the Philosopher: the Cynics

54 - Instant Gratification: the Cyrenaics

55 - The Constant Gardener: Epicurus and his Principles

56 - Am I Bothered?: Epicurean Ethics

57 - Nothing to Fear: Epicureans on Death and the Gods

58 - Reaping the Harvest: Lucretius

59 - James Warren on Epicureanism

60 - Walking on Eggshells: the Stoics on Logic

61 - Nobody’s Perfect: the Stoics on Knowledge

62 - We Didn’t Start the Fire: the Stoics on Nature

63 - Like a Rolling Stone: Stoic Ethics

64 - David Sedley on Stoicism

65 - Anger Management: Seneca

66 - You Can Chain My Leg: Epictetus

67 - The Philosopher King: Marcus Aurelius

68 - John Sellars on the Roman Stoics

69 - Beyond Belief: Pyrrho and Skepticism

70 - The Know Nothing Party: the Skeptical Academy

71 - Rhetorical Questions: Cicero

72 - Raphael Woolf on Cicero

73 - Healthy Skepticism: Sextus Empiricus

74 - Tony Long on the Self in Hellenistic Philosophy

75 - The Joy of Sects: Ancient Medicine and Philosophy

76 - R.J. Hankinson on Galen

Episodes 77 - 100: Late Antiquity

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77 - Caesarian Section: Philosophy in the Roman Empire

78 - Middle Men: the Platonic Revival

79 - To the Lighthouse: Philo of Alexandria

80 - Delphic Utterances: Plutarch

81 - Jan Opsomer on Middle Platonism

82 - Lost and Found: Aristotelianism after Aristotle

83 - Not Written in Stone: Alexander of Aphrodisias

84 - Silver Tongues in Golden Mouths: Rhetoric and Ancient Philosophy

85 - Sky Writing: Astronomy, Astrology, and Philosophy

86 - Serafina Cuomo on Ancient Mathematics

87 - A God is My Co-Pilot: the Life and Works of Plotinus

88 - Simplicity Itself: Plotinus on the One and Intellect

89 - On the Horizon: Plotinus on Soul

90 - A Decorated Corpse: Plotinus on Matter and Evil

91 - James Wilberding on Nature and Neoplatonism

92 - King of Animals: Porphyry

93 - Pythagorean Theorems: Iamblichus

94 - The Platonic Successor: Proclus

95 - Anne Sheppard on Ancient Aesthetics

96 - Dominic O'Meara on Neoplatonism

97 - A Tale of Two Cities: The Last Pagan Philosophers

98 - For a Limited Time Only: John Philoponus

99 - Richard Sorabji on the Commentators

100 - Michael Trapp and Caroline Humfress on Ancient Culture and Philosophy

Episodes 101 - 119: Ancient Christianity

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101 - Father Figures: Introduction to Ancient Christian Philosophy

102 - Please Accept Our Apologies: the Greek Church Fathers

103 - Fall and Rise: Origen

104 - Let's Talk Turkey: the Cappadocians

105 - Naming the Nameless: the Pseudo-Dionysius

106 - Double or Nothing: Maximus the Confessor

107 - Practice Makes Perfect: Christian Asceticism

108 - George Boys-Stones on the Greek Church Fathers

109 - Spreading the Word: the Latin Church Fathers

110 - Life and Time: Augustine's Confessions

111 - Papa Don't Teach: Augustine on Language

112 - Help Wanted: Augustine on Freedom

113 - Heaven and Earth: Augustine’s City of God

114 - Sarah Byers on Augustine's Ethics

115 - Me, Myself and I: Augustine on Mind and Memory

116 - Charles Brittain on Augustine's "On the Trinity"

117 - Born Again: Latin Platonism

118 - Fate, Hope and Clarity: Boethius

119 - John Marenbon on Boethius

Episodes 120 - 145: Formative Period

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120 - The Straight Path: Philosophy in the Islamic World

121 - This is a Test: the Mu'tazilites

122 - Founded in Translation: From Greek to Syriac and Arabic

123 - Philosopher of the Arabs: al-Kindī

124 - The Chosen Ones: Judaism and Philosophy

125 - Reasoned Belief: Saadia Gaon

126 - High Five: al-Rāzī

127 - Peter E Pormann on Medicine in the Islamic World

128 - Aristotelian Society: the Baghdad School

129 - The Second Master: al-Fārābī

130 - State of Mind: al-Fārābī on Religion and Politics

131 - Deborah Black on al-Fārābī's Epistemology

132 - Eye of the Beholder: Theories of Vision

133 - Strings Attached: Music and Philosophy

134 - Balancing Acts: Arabic Ethical Literature

135 - Undercover Brothers: Philosophy in the Būyid Age

136 - Farhad Daftary on the Ismā'īlīs

137 - God Willing: the Ash'arites

138 - The Self-Made Man: Avicenna's Life and Works

139 - By the Time I Get to Phoenix: Avicenna on Existence

140 - By All Means Necessary: Avicenna on God

141 - Into Thin Air: Avicenna on the Soul

142 - Dimitri Gutas on Avicenna

143 - Special Delivery: al-Ghazālī

144 - Miracle Worker: al-Ghazālī against the Philosophers

145 - Frank Griffel on al-Ghazālī

Episodes 146 - 170: Andalusia

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146 - Philosophy's Reign in Spain: Andalusia

147 - Laying Down the Law: Ibn Ḥazm and Islamic Legal Theory

148 - Fantasy Island: Ibn Bājja and Ibn Ṭufayl

149 - Back to Basics: Averroes on Reason and Religion

150 - Charles Burnett and Dag N. Hasse on Arabic-Latin Translations

151 - Single Minded: Averroes on the Intellect

152 - Richard Taylor on Averroes

153 - A Matter of Taste: Ibn ʿArabī and Mysticism

154 - The Philosophy of History: Ibn Khaldūn

155 - Matter over Mind: Ibn Gabirol

156 - Sarah Pessin on Jewish Neoplatonism

157 - Choosing My Religion: Judah Hallevi

158 - Born Under a Bad Sign: Freedom and Astrology in Jewish Philosophy

159 - With All Your Heart: Ethics and Judaism

160 - The Great Eagle: Maimonides

161 - He Moves in Mysterious Ways: Maimonides on Eternity

162 - Sarah Stroumsa on Maimonides

163 - Burnt Offerings: The Maimonides Controversy

164 - Man and Superman: Gersonides and the Jewish Reaction to Averroes

165 - Neither the Time Nor the Place: Hasdai Crescas

166 - Tamar Rudavsky on Gersonides and Crescas

167 - When Bad Things Happen to Good People: Suffering in Jewish Philosophy

168 - Chariot of Fire: Kabbalah

169 - A Matter of Principles: Albo and Abravanel

170 - Gad Freudenthal on Jewish Philosophy and Science

Episodes 171 - 195: Eastern Traditions

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171 - Golden Ages: The Later Eastern Traditions

172 - All Things Considered: Abū l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī

173 - For the Sake of Argument: Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī

174 - Leading Light: Suhrawardī

175 - Bright Ideas: Illuminationism

176 - A Man for all Seasons: al-Ṭūsī

177 - To Be or Not to Be: Debating Avicenna’s Metaphysics

178 - Eyes Wide Shut: Rūmī and Philosophical Sufism

179 - Mohammed Rustom on Philosophical Sufism

180 - Proof Positive: The Logical Tradition

181 - By the Book: Ibn Taymiyya

182 - Aftermath: Philosophy and Science in the Mongol Age

183 - Family Feud: Philosophy at Shiraz

184 - Robert Wisnovsky on Commentary Culture

185 - Follow the Leader: Philosophy under the Safavids

186 - To Be, Continued: Mullā Ṣadrā on Existence

187 - Return to Sender: Mullā Ṣadrā on Motion and Knowledge

188 - Sajjad Rizvi on Mullā Ṣadrā

189 - Subcontinental Drift: Philosophy in Islamic India

190 - Turkish Delights - Philosophy under the Ottomans

191 - The Young Ones: Encounters with European Thought

192 - The Stronger Sex: Women Scholars and Islam

193 - All for One and One for All: Muḥammad 'Abduh and Muḥammad Iqbāl

194 - Iran So Far: After Ṣadrā

195 - Anke von Kügelgen on Contemporary Islamic Thought

Episodes 196 - 224: Early Medieval

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196. Arts of Darkness: Introduction to Medieval Philosophy

197. Charles in Charge: The Carolingian Renaissance

198. Grace Notes: Eriugena and the Predestination Controversy

199. Much Ado About Nothing: Eriugena's Periphyseon

200. Jill Kraye and John Marenbon on Medieval Philosophy

201. Stephen Gersh on Medieval Platonism

202. Philosophers Anonymous: the Roots of Scholasticism

203. Virgin Territory: Peter Damian on Changing the Past

204. A Canterbury Tale: Anselm's Life and Works

205. Somebody's Perfect: Anselm's Ontological Argument

206. Eileen Sweeney on Anselm

207. All or Nothing: The Problem of Universals

208. Get Thee to a Nunnery: Heloise and Abelard

209. It’s the Thought that Counts: Abelard’s Ethics

210. John Marenbon on Peter Abelard

211. Learn Everything: the Victorines

212. Like Father, Like Son: Debating the Trinity

213. On the Shoulders of Giants: Philosophy at Chartres

214. The Good Book: Philosophy of Nature

215. Medieval History Podcasters

216. One of a Kind: Gilbert of Poitiers on Individuation

217. Andrew Arlig on Parts and Wholes

218. Two Swords: Early Medieval Political Philosophy

219. Law and Order: Gratian and Peter Lombard

220. Caroline Humfress on the Roots of Medieval Law

221. Leading Light: Hildegard of Bingen

222. Rediscovery Channel: Translations into Latin

223. Straw Men: The Rise of the Universities

224. Kent Emery on Institutions of Learning

Episodes 225 - 264: Thirteenth Century

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225. No Uncertain Terms: Thirteenth Century Logic

226. Full of Potential: Thirteenth Century Physics

227. Stayin’ Alive: Thirteenth Century Psychology

228. It's All Good: The Transcendentals

229. Do the Right Thing: Thirteenth Century Ethics

230. A Light That Never Goes Out: Robert Grosseteste

231. Origin of Species: Roger Bacon

232. Charles Burnett on Magic

233. Stairway to Heaven: Bonaventure

234. Your Attention Please: Peter Olivi

235. Juhana Toivanen on Animals in Medieval Philosophy

236. None for Me, Thanks: Franciscan Poverty

237. Begin the Beguine: Hadewijch and Mechthild of Magdeburg

238. Binding Arbitration: Robert Kilwardby

239. Catarina Dutilh Novaes on Medieval Logic

240. Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Albert the Great’s Natural Philosophy

241. The Shadow Knows: Albert the Great's Metaphysics

242. Therese Cory on Self-Awareness in Albert and Aquinas

243. The Ox Heard Round the World: Thomas Aquinas

244. Everybody Needs Some Body: Aquinas on Soul and Knowledge

245. What Comes Naturally: Ethics in Albert and Aquinas

246. What Pleases the Prince: The Rule of Law

247. Onward, Christian Soldiers: Just War Theory

248. Scott MacDonald on Aquinas

249. Paris When it Sizzles: the Condemnations

251. Masters of the University: "Latin Averroism"

252. Neverending Story: the Eternity of the World

253. Let Me Count the Ways: Speculative Grammar

254. Love, Reign Over Me: The Romance of the Rose

255. Andreas Speer on Medieval Aesthetics

256. Frequently Asked Questions: Henry of Ghent

257. Martin Pickavé on Henry of Ghent and Freedom

258. Here Comes the Son: The Trinity and the Eucharist

259. Richard Cross on Philosophy and the Trinity

260. Once and for All: Scotus on Being

261. To Will or Not to Will: Scotus on Freedom

262. On Command: Scotus on Ethics

263. One in a Million: Scotus on Universals and Individuals

264. Giorgio Pini on Scotus on Knowledge

Episodes 265 - 300: Fourteenth Century

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265. Time of the Signs: the Fourteenth Century

266. Tom Pink on the Will

267. After Virtue: Marguerite Porete

268. To Hell and Back: Dante Alighieri

269. Our Power is Real: the Clash of Church and State

270. Render unto Caesar: Marsilius of Padua

271. Do As You’re Told: Ockham on Ethics and Political Philosophy

272. A Close Shave: Ockham’s Nominalism

273. What Do You Think? Ockham on Mental Language

274. Susan Brower-Toland on Ockham's Philosophy of Mind

275. Keeping it Real: Responses to Ockham

276. Back to the Future: Foreknowledge and Predestination

277. Trivial Pursuits: Fourteenth Century Logic

278. Sara Uckelman on Obligations

279. Quadrivial Pursuits: the Oxford Calculators

280. Get to the Point: Fourteenth Century Physics

281. Monica Green on Medieval Medicine

282. Portrait of the Artist: John Buridan

283. Jack Zupko on John Buridan

284. Seeing is Believing: Nicholas of Autrecourt’s Skeptical Challenge

285. Dominik Perler on Medieval Skepticism

286. On the Money: Medieval Economic Theory

287. Down to the Ground: Meister Eckhart

288. Men in Black: the German Dominicans

289. A Wing and a Prayer: Angels in Medieval Philosophy

290. Martin Pickavé on Emotions in Medieval Philosophy

291. Alle Maner of Thyng Shall be Welle: English Mysticism

292. Say it With Poetry: Chaucer and Langland

293. The Good Wife: Gender and Sexuality in the Middle Ages

294. Isabel Davis on Sexuality and Marriage in Chaucer

295. The Most Christian Doctor: Jean Gerson

296. Morning Star of the Reformation: John Wyclif

297. The Prague Spring: Scholasticism Across Europe

298. Renaissance Men: Ramon Llull and Petrarch

299. Robert Pasnau on Substance in Scholasticism

300a. The Relevance of Ancient Philosophy Today

300b. The Relevance of Medieval Philosophy Today

Episodes 301 - 327: Byzantine Philosophy

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301. The Empire Strikes Back: Introduction to Byzantine Philosophy

302. On the Eastern Front: Philosophy in Syriac and Armenian

303. Don’t Picture This: Iconoclasm

304. Behind Enemy Lines: John of Damascus

305. Andrew Louth on John of Damascus

306. Collectors’ Items: Photius and Byzantine Compilations

307. Consul of the Philosophers: Michael Psellos

308. Dominic O'Meara on Michael Psellos

309. Hooked on Classics: Italos and the Debate over Pagan Learning

310. Purple Prose: Byzantine Political Philosophy

311. The Elements of Style: Rhetoric in Byzantium

312. Past Masters: Byzantine Historiography

313. Queen of the Sciences: Anna Komnene and her Circle

314. Katerina Ierodiakonou on Byzantine Commentaries

315. Wiser Than Men: Gender in Byzantium

316. Just Measures: Law, Money, and War in Byzantium

317. Made by Hand: Byzantine Manuscripts

318. Oliver Primavesi on Greek Manuscripts

319. Georgia on My Mind: Petritsi and the Proclus Revival

320. People of the South: Byzantium and Islam

321. Judith Herrin on Byzantium and Islam

322. Do the Math: Science in the Palaiologan Renaissance

323. Through His Works You Shall Know Him: Palamas and Hesychasm

324. United We Fall: Latin Philosophy in Byzantium

325. Platonic Love: Gemistos Plethon

326. Istanbul (Not Constantinople): the Later Orthodox Tradition

327. Michele Trizio on Byzantine and Latin Medieval Philosophy

Episodes 328 - 370: Italian Renaissance

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328. Old News: Introduction to the Italian Renaissance

329. Greeks Bearing Gifts: Byzantine Scholars in Italy

330. Republic of Letters: Italian Humanism

331. Literary Criticism: Lorenzo Valla

332. Jill Kraye on Humanism

333. Difficult to Be Good: Humanist Ethics

334. Chance Encounters: Reviving Hellenistic Philosophy

335. Sabrina Ebbersmeyer on Emotions in Renaissance Philosophy

336. We Built This City: Christine de Pizan

337. More Rare Than the Phoenix: Italian Women Humanists

338. All About Eve: the Defense of Women

339. I’d Like to Thank the Academy: Florentine Platonism

340. Footnotes to Plato: Marsilio Ficino

341. True Romance: Theories of Love

342. Denis Robichaud on Plato in the Renaissance

343. As Far as East from West: Jewish Philosophy in Renaissance Italy

344. The Count of Concord: Pico della Mirandola

345. What a Piece of Work is Man: Manetti and Pico on Human Nature

346. Cecilia Muratori on Animals in the Renaissance

347. Bonfire of the Vanities: Savonarola

348. The Sweet Restraints of Liberty: Republicanism and Civic Humanism

349. No More Mr Nice Guy: Machiavelli

350. The Sentence: Machiavelli on Republicanism

351. Quentin Skinner on Machiavelli

352. The Teacher of Our Actions: Renaissance Historiography

353. The Good Place: Utopias in the Italian Renaissance

354. Greed is Good: Economics in the Italian Renaissance

355. Town and Gown: Italian Universities

356. I’d Like to Thank the Lyceum: Aristotle in Renaissance Italy

357. David Lines on Aristotle's Ethics in the Renaissance

358. Of Two Minds: Pomponazzi and Nifo on the Intellect

359. There and Back Again: Zabarella on Scientific Method

360. Dag N. Hasse on Arabic Learning in the Renaissance

361. The Measure of All Things: Renaissance Mathematics and Art

362. Just What the Doctor Ordered: Renaissance Medicine

363. Man of Discoveries: Girolamo Cardano

364. Guido Giglioni on Renaissance Medicine

365. Spirits in the Material World: Telesio and Campanella on Nature

366. The Men Who Saw Tomorrow: Renaissance Magic and Astrology

367. Brian Copenhaver on Renaissance Magic

368. Boundless Enthusiasm: Giordano Bruno

369. The Harder They Fall: Galileo and the Renaissance

370. Ingrid Rowland on Rome in the Renaissance

Episodes 371 - 396: Renaissance and Reformation in Central Europe

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371. European Disunion: Introduction to the Reformation

372. Strong, Silent Type: the Printing Press

373. Lords of Language: Northern Humanism

374. Opposites Attract: Nicholas of Cusa

375. Paul Richard Blum on Nicholas of Cusa

376. Books That Last Forever: Erasmus

377. One Way or Another: Northern Scholasticism

378. Faith, No More: Martin Luther

379. Lyndal Roper on Luther

380. Take Your Choice: Erasmus vs Luther on Free Will

381. More Lutheran than Luther: Philip Melanchthon

382. No Lord but God: the Peasants’ War and Radical Reformation

383. Slowly But Surely: Huldrych Zwingli

384. We Are Not Our Own: John Calvin

385. I Too Can Ask Questions: Protestant Scholasticism

386. Perhaps Not Wrong: Cornelius Agrippa

387. Helen Hattab on Protestant Philosophy

388. Just Add Salt: Paracelsus and Alchemy

389. The Acid Test: Theories of Matter

390. Born to Be Contrary: Toleration in the Netherlands

391. Everything is Mine and Nothing: Lipsius and the Revival of Stoicism

392. John Sellars on Lipsius and Early Modern Stoicism

393. The World Doesn’t Revolve Around You: Copernicus

394. Best of Both Worlds: Tycho Brahe

395. Music of the Spheres: Johannes Kepler

396. Lorraine Daston on Renaissance Science

Episodes 397 - 415: Renaissance and Reformation in France

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397. Do As the Romans Did: French Humanism

398. Pearls of Wisdom: Marguerite of Navarre

399. Seriously Funny: Rabelais

400. Philosophy Podcasters

401. Word Perfect: Logic and Language in Renaissance France

402. Life is Not Enough: Medicine in Renaissance France

403. Make It Simple: Peter Ramus

404. Robert Goulding on Peter Ramus

405. Divide and Conquer: the Spread of Ramism

406. Believe at Your Own Risk: Toleration in France

407. Maria Rosa Antognazza on Early Modern Toleration

408. Constitutional Conventions: the Huguenots

409. One to Rule Them All: Jean Bodin

410. Ann Blair on Jean Bodin's Natural Philosophy

411. Pen Pals: Later French Humanism

412. Not Matter, But Me: Michel de Montaigne

413. Don’t Be So Sure: French Skepticism

414. Henrik Lagerlund on Renaissance Skepticism

415. The Tenth Muse: Marie de Gournay

Episodes 416 -: Renaissance and Reformation in Britain

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416. God’s is the Quarrel: the English Reformation

417. To Kill a King: The Scottish Reformation

418. Diarmaid MacCulloch on the British Reformations

419. Write Till Your Ink Be Dry: Humanism in Britain

420. No Place Will Please Me So: Thomas More

421. With Such Perfection Govern: English Political Thought

422. The World’s Law: Richard Hooker

423. Heaven-Bred Poesy: Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser

424. Hast Any Philosophy In Thee? William Shakespeare

425. Patrick Gray on Shakespeare

426. A Face Without a Heart: Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Individualism

427. Brave New World: Shakespeare’s Tempest and Colonialism

428. Weird Sisters: Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Witchcraft

Episodes 1 - 17: Origins

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1. Begin at the End: Introduction to Indian Philosophy

2. Sages, Schools and Systems: a Historical Overview

3. Kingdom for a Horse: India in the Vedic Period

4. Hide and Seek: The Upanisads

5. Do it Yourself: Indra’s Search for the Self in the Upaniṣads

6. You Are What You Do: Karma

7. Brian Black on the Upanisads

8. Case Worker: Panini's Grammar

9. Suffering and Smiling: the Buddha

10. Crossover Appeal: The Nature of the Buddha’s Teaching

11. Carry a Big Stick: Ancient Indian Political Thought

12. Rupert Gethin on Buddhism and the Self

13. Grand Illusion: Dharma and Deception in the Mahabharata

14. World on a String: The Bhagavad-Gita

15. Mostly Harmless: Non-Violence

16. Better Half: Women in Ancient India

17. Jessica Frazier on Hinduism and Philosophy

Episodes 18 - 42: Age of the Sutra

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18. A Tangled Web: the Age of the Sutra

19. When in Doubt: the Rise of Skepticism

20. Master of Ceremonies: Jaimini’s Mimamsa-Sutra

21. Innocent Until Proven Guilty: Mimamsa on Knowledge and Language

22. Elisa Freschi on Mimamsa

23. Source Code: Badarayana’s Vedanta-Sutra

24. No Two Ways About It: Śaṅkara and Advaita Vedānta

25. Communication Breakdown: Bhartrihari on Language

26. Francis Clooney on Vedanta

27. The Theory of Evolution: Īśvarakṛṣṇa’s Sāṃkhya-kārikā

28. Who Wants to Live Forever? Early Ayurvedic Medicine

29. Practice Makes Perfect: Patañjali’s Yoga-Sūtra

30. Philipp Maas on Yoga

31. Where There’s Smoke There’s Fire: Gautama’s Nyāya-Sūtra

32. What You See Is What You Get: Nyāya on Perception

33. Standard Deductions: Nyāya on Reasoning

34. The Truth Shall Set You Free: Nyāya on the Mind

35. Ujjwala Jha and V.N. Jha on Nyāya

36. Fine Grained Analysis: Kaṇāda’s Vaiśeṣika-sūtra

37. The Whole Story: Vaiśeṣika on Complexity and Causation

38. A Day in the Life: Theories of Time

39. The Wolf’s Footprint: Indian Naturalism

40. Mind out of Matter: Materialist Theories of the Self

41. Monima Chadha on Indian Philosophy of Mind

42. In Good Taste: The Aesthetics of Rasa

Episodes 43 - 62: Buddhists and Jains

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43. We Beg to Differ: the Buddhists and Jains

44. It All Depends: Nagarjuna on Emptiness

45. Motion Denied: Nāgārjuna on Change

46. No Four Ways About It: Nāgārjuna’s Tetralemma

47. Jan Westerhoff on Nāgārjuna

48. Taking Perspective: the Jain Theory of Standpoints

49. Well Qualified: the Jains on Truth

50. Marie-Hélène Gorisse on Jain Epistemology

51. Change of Mind: Vasubandhu and Yogācāra Buddhism

52. Under Construction: Dignāga on Perception and Language

53. Follow the Evidence: Dignāga's Logic

54. Graham Priest on Logic and Buddhism

55. Doors of Perception: Dignāga on Consciousness

56. Who’s Pulling Your Strings? Buddhaghosa

57. Learn by Doing: Tantra

58. Amber Carpenter on Animals in Indian Philosophy

59. Looking East: Indian Influence on Greek Thought

60. The Buddha and I: Indian Influence on Islamic and European Thought

61. What Happened Next: Indian Philosophy After Dignaga

62. Kit Patrick on Philosophy and Indian History

Episodes 1 - 28: Locating and Debating Precolonial African Philosophy

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1. Something Old, Something New: Introducing Africana Philosophy

2. It’s Only Human: Philosophy in Prehistoric Africa

3. Fertile Ground: Philosophy in Ancient Mesopotamia

4. Pyramid Schemes: Philosophy in Ancient Egypt

5. Father Knows Best: Moral and Political Philosophy in the Instructions

6. Heated Exchanges: Philosophy in Egyptian Narratives and Dialogues

7. Richard Parkinson on Egyptian Poetry

8. Solomon, Socrates, and Other Sages: Early Ethiopian Philosophy

9. In You I Take Shelter: Zera Yacob

10. Think for Yourself: Walda Heywat

11. Teodros Kiros on Ethiopian Philosophy

12. From Here to Timbuktu: Subsaharan Islamic Philosophy

13. Renewing the Faith: the Sokoto Caliphate

14. Souleymane Bachir Diagne on Islam in Africa

15. Heard it Through the Grapevine: Oral Philosophy in Africa

16. Samuel Imbo on Okot p'Bitek and Oral Traditions

17. Event Horizon: African Philosophy of Time

18. One to Rule Them All: God in African Philosophy

19. Behind the Mask: African Philosophy of the Person

20. I Am Because We Are: Communalism in African Ethics and Politics

21. The Doctor Will See You Now: Divination, Witchcraft, and Knowledge

22. Women Have No Tribe: Gender in African Tradition

23. Nkiru Nzegwu on Gender in African Tradition

24. Professionally Speaking: The Reaction Against Ethnophilosophy

25. Wise Guys: Sage Philosophy

26. Kai Kresse on the Anthropology of Philosophy

27. Beyond the Reaction: The Continuing Relevance of Precolonial Traditions

28. Chike Jeffers on Precolonial African Philosophy

Episodes 29 - 67: Slavery and the Creation of Diasporic African Philosophy

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29. Out of Africa: Slavery and the Diaspora

30. Dualist Personality: Anton Wilhelm Amo

31. Justin Smith on Amo and Race in Early Modern Philosophy

32. Talking Book: Early Africana Writing in English

33. Young, Gifted, and Black: Phillis Wheatley

34. New England Patriot: Lemuel Haynes

35. Letters from the Heart: Ignatius Sancho and Benjamin Banneker

36. Sons of Africa: Quobna Ottobah Cugoano and Olaudah Equiano

37. Liberty, Equality, Humanity: The Haitian Revolution

38. My Haitian Pen: Baron de Vastey

39. Doris Garraway on the Haitian Revolution

40. American Africans: Early Black Institutions in the US

41. Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Colonization Controversy

42. James Sidbury on African Identity

43. Kill or Be Killed: David Walker’s Appeal

44. Religion and Pure Principles: Maria W. Stewart

45. Unnatural Causes: Hosea Easton’s Treatise

46. Melvin Rogers on Early 19th Century Political Thought

47. Written by Himself: the Life of Frederick Douglass

48. Happy Holidays: Two Speeches by Frederick Douglass

49. Let Your Motto Be Resistance: Henry Highland Garnet

50. Nation Within a Nation: Martin Delany

51. I Read Men and Nations: Sojourner Truth and Frances Harper

52. Great White North: Emigration to Canada

53. Pilgrim’s Progress: Alexander Crummell

54. Wilson Moses on the Roots of Black Nationalism

55. Planting the Seeds: James Africanus Beale Horton

56. African Personality: Edward Blyden

57. Race First, Then Party: T. Thomas Fortune

58. A Common Circle: Anténor Firmin

59. Frowning at Froudacious Fabrications: J.J. Thomas and F.A. Durham

60. Though Late, It Is Liberty: Abolitionism in Brazil

61. When and Where I Enter: Anna Julia Cooper

62. American Barbarism: Ida B. Wells

63. Brittney Cooper on Black Women Activists

64. God is a Negro: Henry McNeal Turner

65. Separate Fingers, One Hand: Booker T. Washington

66. Lifting the Veil: Introducing W.E.B. Du Bois

67. Chike Jeffers on Slavery and Diasporic Philosophy

Episodes 68 - Africana Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

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68. The Problem of the Color Line: Introducing the Twentieth Century

69. The Best We Have: The American Negro Academy

70. Tommy Curry on the Early 20th Century

71. In Blyden’s Wake: West African Intellectuals of the Early Twentieth Century

72. In A Class of Their Own: Early African American Socialism

73. Vanessa Wills on Africana Marxism

74. Black Star: Marcus Garvey

75. Now I Have a Rival: the Two Amy Garveys

76. Michael Dawson on Garvey and Black Nationalism

77. A Race Capital: the Harlem Renaissance

78. Freedom Through Art: Alain Locke

79. Leonard Harris on Alain Locke

80. Scholarly Contributions: African American Professional Philosophers

81. Making History: Carter G. Woodson

82. The Florida Project: Zora Neale Hurston

83. Songs of the People: Paul Robeson and the Negro Spiritual

84. Live Long and Protest: W.E.B. Du Bois, 1920-1963

85. Liam Kofi Bright on Du Bois' Philosophy of Science

86. French Connection: The Negritude Movement

87. Call It Intuition: Leopold Senghor

88. The Surreal Deal: Aimé and Suzanne Césaire

89. Separate but Unequal: E. Franklin Frazier

90. Move Fast and Break Things: C.L.R. James

91. Massa Day Done: Oliver Cox and Eric Williams

92. Half the World: Claudia Jones

93. Carole Boyce Davies on Claudia Jones

94. How Did You Happen? Richard Wright

95. Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison

96. A Lover’s War: James Baldwin

97. American Dream: Martin Luther King Jr.

98. Meena Krishnamurthy on Martin Luther King Jr

99. American Nightmare: Malcolm X

100. Chike Jeffers on the First Half of the Twentieth Century

101. Crossing Paths: the Last Years of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr

102. From Cuba with Love: Juan Rene Betancourt

103. A Federal Case: Nnamdi Azikiwe and Obafemi Awolowo

104. In Unity Lies Strength: Kwame Nkrumah

105. Meeting the Gaze: Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin White Masks

106. Combat Literature: Franz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth

107. Lewis Gordon on Frantz Fanon

108. Or Does It Explode? Lorraine Hansberry

109. Say It Loud: Black Power

110. Politics with Bloodshed: the Black Panthers

111. A Kwanzaa Story: Maulana Karenga

112. Poems That Kill: the Black Arts Movement

113. A Fighting God: Black Theology

114. Teacher Taught Me: Julius Nyerere

115. Weapon of Choice: Amílcar Cabral

116. Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò and Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò on Cabral

117. Spear of the Nation: Nelson Mandela and the ANC

118. African Survivals: Abdias do Nascimento

119. The Space Race: Afrofuturism

120. Redemption Songs: Reggae and Rastafari

121. No Agreement: Fela Kuti and Wole Soyinka

122. A More Human Face: Steve Biko

123. History Teaches Us: Walter Rodney

124. Double Jeopardy: Black Feminism

125. Phenomenal Woman: The Black Women’s Literary Renaissance

126. Fugitive for Justice: Angela Davis

127. Knowing the Difference: Audre Lorde

128. Marginal Comments: bell hooks and Patricia Hill Collins

129. Afrophone Home: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

130. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o on... Himself!

131. Mixed Messages: Black British Cultural Studies