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Presocratics

1. Thales

2. Anaximander, Anaximenes

3. Xenophanes

4. Pythagoras

5. Heraclitus

6. McCabe on Heraclitus

7. Parmenides

8. Zeno and Melissus

9. Atomism

10. Anaxagoras

11. Empedocles

12. Schofield on Presocratics

13. Hippocrates

14. Sophists

Socrates and Plato

15. Socrates without Plato

16. Plato's Socrates

17. Woolf on Socrates

18. Plato's Life and Works

19. Charmides, Euthydemus

20. Plato's Gorgias

21. Plato's Meno

22. Plato's Theaetetus

23. McCabe on Plato

24. Plato's Phaedo

25. Plato's Republic pt.1

26. Plato's Republic pt.2

27. Plato's Parmenides

28. Leigh on the Sophist

29. Plato's Cratylus

30. Plato's Timaeus

31. Plato's Erotic Dialogues

32. Sheffield on Platonic Love

33. Plato on Myth

Aristotle

34. Aristotle's Life and Works

35. Aristotle's Logic

36. Aristotle's Epistemology

37. Hugh Benson on Aristotle

38. Aristotle on Substance

39. Aristotle's Four Causes

40. Aristotle's Physics

41. Sorabji on Aristotle

42. Aristotle on Soul

43. Aristotle's Biology

44. Aristotle's Ethics 1

45. Aristotle's Ethics 2

46. Scott on Aristotle

47. Aristotle on Mind and God

48. Political Philosophy

49. Rhetoric, Poetics

50. Aristotle on Plato

51. Successors
Later Antiquity

Hellenistic

52. Hellenistic Schools

53. The Cynics

54. The Cyrenaics

55. Epicurus' Principles

56. Epicurean Ethics

57. Epicurean Therapy

58. Lucretius

59. Warren on Epicurus

60. Stoic Logic

61. Stoic Epistemology

62. Stoic Physics

63. Stoic Ethics

64. Sedley on Stoicism

65. Seneca

66. Epictetus

67. Marcus Aurelius

68. Sellars on Roman Stoics

69. Pyrrho

70. New Academy

71. Cicero

72. Woolf on Cicero

73. Sextus Empiricius

74. Long on the Self

75. Ancient Medicine

76. Hankinson on Galen

Late Antiquity

77. Introduction

78. Middle Platonism

79. Philo of Alexandria

80. Plutarch

81. Opsomer on Platonism

82. Aristotelianism

83. Alexander of Aphrodisias

84. Rhetoric and Philosophy

85. Astronomy and Astrology

86. Cuomo on Mathematics

87. Plotinus Life and Works

88. Plotinus on the One

89. Plotinus on the Soul

90. Plotinus on Matter & Evil

91. Wilberding on Plotinus

92. Porphyry

93. Iamblichus

94. Proclus

95. Sheppard on Aesthetics

96. O'Meara on Neoplatonism

97. The Last Pagans

98. Philoponus

99. Sorabji - the Commentators

100. Ancient Culture

Ancient Christianity

101. Introduction

102. Greek Church Fathers

103. Origen

104. Cappadocians

105. Pseudo-Dionysius

106. Maximus the Confessor

107. Asceticism

108. Boys-Stones - Patristics

109. Latin Church Fathers

110. Augustine's Confessions

111. Augustine on Language

112. Augustine on Freedom

113. Augustine City of God

114. Byers on Augustine

115. Augustine on Mind

116. Brittain on Augustine

117. Latin Platonism

118. Boethius

119. Marenbon on Boethius
Islamic World

Formative Period

120. Philosophy and Islam

121. Mu'tazilites

122. Translation Movement

123. Al-Kindī

124. Judaism and Philosophy

125. Saadia Gaon

126. Al-Rāzī

127. Pormann on Medicine

128. The Baghdad School

129. Al-Fārābī

130. Al-Fārābī Political

131. Black on al-Fārābī

132. Vision

133. Music and Philosophy

134. Arabic Ethics

135. The Būyid Age

136. Daftary on Ismā'īlism

137. Ash'arites

138. Avicenna's Life

139. Avicenna on Existence

140. Avicenna on God

141. Avicenna on Soul

142. Gutas on Avicenna

143. Al-Ghazālī

144. Al-Ghazālī "Incoherence"

145. Griffel on al-Ghazālī

Andalusia

146. Introduction

147. Islamic Law

148. Ibn Ṭufayl

149. Averroes

150. Arabic into Latin

151. Averroes on Intellect

152. Taylor on Averroes

153. Ibn 'Arabī's mysticism

154. Ibn Khaldūn

155. Ibn Gabirol

156. Pessin Jewish Platonism

157. Judah Hallevi

158. Freedom and Astrology

159. Ethics and Judaism

160. Maimonides

161. Maimonides on eternity

162. Stroumsa on Maimonides

163. Maimonides Controversy

164. Gersonides

165. Crescas

166. Rudavsky Interview

167. Book of Job

168. Kabbalah

169. Albo and Abravanel

170. Freudenthal Interview

Eastern Traditions

171. Introduction

172. Al-Baghdādī

173. Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī

174. Suhrawardī

175. Illuminationism

176. Al-Ṭūsī

177. Existence Debate

178. Rūmī and Sufism

179. Rustom on Sufism

180. Logical Tradition

181. Ibn Taymiyya

182. Mongol Era

183. Shiraz

184. Wisnovsky Commentaries

185. Safavids

186. Mullā Ṣadrā on Existence

187. Mullā Ṣadrā on Motion

188. Rizvi on Mullā Ṣadrā

189. Islamic India

190. Ottoman Empire

191. European Encounters

192. Women and Islam

193. 'Abduh and Iqbāl

194. After Ṣadrā

195. von Kügelgen Interview
Medieval

Early Medieval

196. Introduction

197. Carolingian Renaissance

198. Eriugena on Freedom

199. Eriugena's Periphyseon

200. Kraye and Marenbon

201. Gersh on Platonism

202. Roots of Scholasticism

203. Can God Change the Past?

204. Anselm's Life and Works

205. The Ontological Argument

206. Sweeney on Anselm

207. Problem of Universals

208. Heloise and Abelard

209. Abelard’s Ethics

210. Marenbon on Abelard

211. The Victorines

212. Debating the Trinity

213. Philosophy at Chartres

214. Philosophy of Nature

215. Medieval Podcasters

216. Individuation

217. Arlig on Mereology

218. Early Political

219. Gratian and Lombard

220. Humfress on Law

221. Hildegard of Bingen

222. Translations into Latin

223. Rise of the Universities

224. Emery on Institutions

Thirteenth Century

225. 13th Century Logic

226. 13th Century Physics

227. 13th Century Psychology

228. The Transcendentals

229. 13th Century Ethics

230. Robert Grosseteste

231. Roger Bacon

232. Burnett on Magic

233. Bonaventure

234. Peter Olivi

235. Toivanen on Animals

236. Franciscan Poverty

237. Hadewijch and Mechthild

238. Robert Kilwardby

239. Dutilh Novaes on Logic

240. Albert on Nature

241. Albert's Metaphysics

242. Cory on Self-Awareness

243. Thomas Aquinas

244. Aquinas Soul Knowledge

245. Ethics in Albert, Aquinas

246. The Rule of Law

247. Just War Theory

248. MacDonald on Aquinas

249. The Condemnations

250. Q&A

251. "Latin Averroism"

252. Eternity of the World

253. Speculative Grammar

254. Romance of the Rose

255. Speer Medieval Aesthetics

256. Henry of Ghent

257. Pickavé on Henry of Ghent

258. Trinity Eucharist

259. Cross on the Trinity

260. Scotus on Being

261. Scotus on Freedom

262. Scotus on Ethics

263. Scotus on Universals

264. Pini on Scotus

Fourteenth Century

265. Introduction to 14th c.

266. Pink on the Will

267. Marguerite Porete

268. Dante Alighieri

269. Church and State

270. Marsilius of Padua

271. Ockham Ethics Politics

272. Ockham’s Nominalism

273. Ockham on Mental Language

274. Brower-Toland on Ockham

275. Responses to Ockham

276. Foreknowledge

277. 14th Century Logic

278. Uckelman on Obligations

279. Oxford Calculators

280. 14th Century Physics

281. Green on Medicine

282. John Buridan

283. Zupko on Buridan

284. Autrecourt's Skepticism

285. Perler on Skepticism

286. Medieval Economic Theory

287. Meister Eckhart

288. German Dominicans

289. Angels

290. Pickavé on Emotions

291. English Mysticism

292. Chaucer and Langland

293. Gender and Sexuality

294. Davis on Chaucer

295. Jean Gerson

296. John Wyclif

297. Scholasticism in Europe

298. Ramon Llull and Petrarch

299. Pasnau on Substance

300a. Ancient Philosophy Today

300b Medieval Philosophy Today
Byzantine

Byzantine

301. Introduction

302. Syriac and Armenian

303. Iconoclasm

304. John of Damascus

305. Louth on John of Damascus

306. Photius

307. Michael Psellos

308. O'Meara on Psellos

309. John Italos

310. Political Philosophy

311. Rhetoric in Byzantium

312. Byzantine Historiography

313. Anna Komnene

314. Ierodiakonou Commentaries

315. Gender in Byzantium

316. Law, Money, and War

317. Manuscripts

318. Primavesi on Manuscripts

319. The Proclus Revival

320. Byzantium and Islam

321. Herrin Byzantium & Islam

322. Palaiologan Science

323. Palamas and Hesychasm

324. Latin in Byzantium

325. Gemistos Plethon

326. Later Orthodox

327. Trizio on East and West
Renaissance / Reformation

Italian Renaissance

328. Introduction

329. Greek Scholars in Italy

330. Italian Humanism

331. Lorenzo Valla

332. Kraye on Humanism

333. Humanist Ethics

334. Reviving Hellenistic

335. Ebbersmeyer on Emotions

336. Christine de Pizan

337. Italian Women Humanists

338. Defense of Women

339. Florentine Platonism

340. Marsilio Ficino

341. Theories of Love

342. Robichaud on Plato

343. Jewish Philosophy

344. Pico della Mirandola

345. Human Nature

346. Muratori on Animals

347. Savonarola

348. Civic Humanism

349. Machiavelli

350. Machiavelli Republicanism

351. Skinner on Machiavelli

352. Renaissance Histories

353. Italian Utopias

354. Renaissance Economics

355. Italian Universities

356. Aristotle Reception

357. Lines on Aristotle

358. Pomponazzi and Nifo

359. Zabarella

360. Hasse on Arabic Learning

361. Mathematics and Art

362. Renaissance Medicine

363. Cardano

364. Giglioni on Medicine

365. Telesio and Campanella

366. Magic and Astrology

367. Copenhaver on Magic

368. Giordano Bruno

369. Galileo and Renaissance

370. Rowland on Rome

Central Europe

371. Introduction

372. Printing Press

373. Northern Humanism

374. Nicholas of Cusa

375. Blum on Nicholas of Cusa

376. Erasmus

377. Northern Scholasticism

378. Martin Luther

379. Roper on Luther

380. Erasmus vs Luther

381. Melanchthon

382. The Peasants’ War

383. Huldrych Zwingli

384. John Calvin

385. Protestant Scholasticism

386. Cornelius Agrippa

387. Hattab on Protestantism

388. Paracelsus and Alchemy

389. Theories of Matter

390. Dutch Toleration

391. Lipsius and Stoicism

392. Sellars on Modern Stoics

393. Copernicus

394. Tycho Brahe

395. Kepler

396. Daston on Science

France

397. French Humanism

398. Marguerite of Navarre

399. Rabelais

400. Philosophy Podcasters

401. Logic and Language

402. Medicine

403. Peter Ramus

404. Goulding on Ramus

405. Ramism

406. Toleration in France

407. Antognazza on Toleration

408. The Huguenots

409. Jean Bodin

410. Blair on Bodin

411. Later French Humanism

412. Montaigne

413. French Skepticism

414. Lagerlund on Skepticism

415. Marie de Gournay

Britain

416. English Reformation

417. Scottish Reformation

418. MacCulloch on Britain

419. British Humanism

420. Thomas More

421. English Political

422. Richard Hooker

423. Elizabethan Poetry

424. Shakespeare

425. Gray on Shakespeare

426. Hamlet and Individualism

427. Tempest and Colonialism

428. Macbeth and Witchcraft

429. Women’s Spiritual Literat

430. British Scholasticism

431. Normore on Scholasticism

432. John Dee

433. Science in England

434. Theories of Vision

435. Gilbert and Magnetism

436. Robert Fludd

437. Rampling on Alchemy

Catholic Reformation

438. Introduction

439. The Inquisition

440. Exploration and Science

441. New World Debate

442. Williams on Disability

443. Iberian Humanism

444. Spanish Mysticism

445. The Jesuits

446. Aquinas Revival

447. Messmer Protestants Spain

448. Iberian Scholasticism

449. Tropia on Jesuits

450. Two Renaissance Artworks

451. Free will in Molina

452. Scholastic Metaphysics

453. Scholastic Law

454. Scholastic Politics

455. Pink on Suárez

456. Cervantes’ Don Quixote

457. Sabuco and Erculiani

458. The Cheese and the Worms
India

Origins

1. Introduction

2. Historical Overview

3. The Vedic Period

4. The Upanisads

5. The Self in the Upanisads

6. Karma

7. Black on the Upanisads

8. Panini's Grammar

9. The Buddha

10. The Buddha’s Teaching

11. Kautilya and Ashoka

12. Gethin on Buddhism

13. The Mahabharata

14. The Bhagavad-Gita

15. Non-Violence

16. Women in Ancient India

17. Frazier on Hinduism

Age of the Sutra

18. Age of the Sutra

19. Rise of Skepticism

20. Mimamsa-Sutra

21. Mimamsa on Knowledge

22. Freschi on Mimamsa

23. Vedanta-Sutra

24. Advaita Vedanta

25. Bhartrihari on Language

26. Clooney on Vedanta

27. Samkhya

28. Ayurvedic Medicine

29. Yoga-Sutra

30. Maas on Yoga

31. Nyaya-Sutra

32. Nyaya on Perception

33. Nyaya on Reasoning

34. Nyaya on the Mind

35. Jha and Jha on Nyaya

36. Vaisesika-Sutra

37. Vaisesika on Complexity

38. Theories of Time

39. Naturalism

40. Materialism

41. Chadha on Mind

42. Aesthetics of Rasa

Buddhists and Jains

43. Buddhists and Jains

44. Nagarjuna on Emptiness

45. Nagarjuna on Change

46. Nagarjuna’s Tetralemma

47. Westerhoff on Nagarjuna

48. Jain Theory of Standpoints

49. Jains on Truth

50. Gorisse Jain Epistemology

51. Vasubandhu and Yogacara

52. Dignaga on Perception

53. Dignaga's Logic

54. Graham Priest on Buddhism

55. Dignaga on Consciousness

56. Buddhaghosa

57. Tantra

58. Carpenter on Animals

59. Indian Influence on Greece

60. Influence on Islam, Europe

61. Later Indian Philosophy

62. Kit Patrick
Africana

Precolonial

1. Introduction

2. Prehistoric Africa

3. Ancient Mesopotamia

4. Ancient Egypt

5. Egyptian Instructions

6. Egyptian Narratives

7. Parkinson on Egypt

8. Early Ethiopian Philosophy

9. Zera Yacob

10. Walda Heywat

11. Kiros on Ethiopia

12. Subsaharan Islam

13. Sokoto Caliphate

14. Diagne on Islam in Africa

15. Oral Philosophy in Africa

16. Imbo on Okot p'Bitek

17. Philosophy of Time

18. God in African Philosophy

19. Philosophy of the Person

20. Communalism

21. Divination and Witchcraft

22. Gender in Africa

23. Nzegwu on Gender

24. Professional School

25. Sage Philosophy

26. Kresse on Anthropology

27. Beyond the Reaction

28. Jeffers African Philosophy

Slavery / Diaspora

29. Introduction

30. Anton Wilhelm Amo

31. Smith on Amo

32. Early Writing in English

33. Phillis Wheatley

34. Lemuel Haynes

35. Sancho and Banneker

36. Cugoano and Equiano

37. Haitian Revolution

38. Baron de Vastey

39. Garraway on Haiti

40. Early Black Institutions

41. Colonization Controversy

42. Sidbury African Identity

43. David Walker

44. Maria W. Stewart

45. Hosea Easton

46. Rogers Political Thought

47. Frederick Douglass

48. Douglass Speeches

49. Henry Highland Garnet

50. Martin Delany

51. Truth and Harper

52. Emigration to Canada

53. Alexander Crummell

54. Moses on Nationalism

55. Africanus Horton

56. Edward Blyden

57. T. Thomas Fortune

58. Anténor Firmin

59. Thomas and Durham

60. Abolitionism in Brazil

61. Anna Julia Cooper

62. Ida B. Wells

63. Cooper on Women Activists

64. Henry McNeal Turner

65. Booker T. Washington

66. Introducing Du Bois

67. Jeffers on Part Two

Africana 20th Century

68. Introduction

69. American Negro Academy

70. Curry on Early 20th C.

71. West African Intellectuals

72. African American Socialism

73. Wills on Marxism

74. Marcus Garvey

75. Two Amy Garveys

76. Dawson on Garvey

77. Harlem Renaissance

78. Alain Locke

79. Harris on Locke

80. Professional Philosophers

81. Carter G. Woodson

82. Zora Neale Hurston

83. The Negro Spiritual

84. Later Du Bois

85. Bright on Du Bois

86. Negritude

87. Leopold Senghor

88. Aimé and Suzanne Césaire

89. E. Franklin Frazier

90. C.L.R. James

91. Cox and Williams

92. Claudia Jones

93. Boyce Davies on Jones

94. Richard Wright

95. Ralph Ellison

96. James Baldwin

97. Martin Luther King Jr

98. Krishnamurthy on King

99. Malcolm X

100. Jeffers on Part Three

101. Later Malcolm X and MLK

102. Juan Rene Betancourt

103. Azikiwe & Awolowo

104. Kwame Nkrumah

105. Fanon Black Skin

106. Fanon Wretched

107. Gordon on Fanon

108. Lorraine Hansberry

109. Black Power

110. Black Panthers

111. Maulana Karenga

112. Black Arts Movement

113. Black Theology

114. Julius Nyerere

115. Amílcar Cabral

116. Taiwo x 2 on Cabral

117. Mandela and the ANC

118. Nascimento

119. Afrofuturism

120. Reggae & Rastafari

121. Kuti and Soyinka

122. Steve Biko

123. Walter Rodney

124. Black Feminism

125. Angelou, Morrison, Walker

126. Angela Davis

127. Audre Lorde

128. hooks and Collins

129. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

130. Ngũgĩ interview

131. Cultural Studies

132. Glissant and Créolité

133. Drabinski on Glissant

134. Cedric Robinson

135. Sylvia Wynter

136. African-Centered Thought

137. Asante’s Afrocentricity

138. Critical Race Theory

139. Cornel West

140. Cornel West Interview

141. Professional Philosophy

142. Final Chat with Chike
China

Classical Chinese Philosophy

1. Introduction (Dao)

2. Change and the Yi Jing

3. Interview with Karyn

4. Historical Context

5. Ancient Chinese Texts

6. Perkins on Excavated Texts

7. Kongzi (Confucius)

8. The Analects

9. Confucian Role Ethics

10. Society in Confucianism

11. Csikszentmihalyi Confucius

12. Confucian Virtue Ethics

13. Mengzi (Mencius)

14. Virtue and the Body

15. Xunzi

16. Confucianism Moral Natures

17. Confucian Epistemology

18. Brindley on Music

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Peter Adamson on 14 October 2024

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Oh thanks! How are you even figuring this out, wasn't it incredibly onerous to go through them all?