Individuation

Posted on 22 March 2015

Gilbert of Poitiers proposes a unique way to explain how each individual is the individual it is.

Posted on 23 October 2016

Scotus explains how things can share a nature in common while being unique individuals.

Posted on 19 February 2017

The Vaiśeṣika school offers a metaphysical analysis of the world and an atomistic physics.

Posted on 26 February 2017

Ockham trims away the unnecessary entities posited by other scholastics with his famous Razor principle.

Posted on 19 November 2017

Be surprised by how many philosophical problems arise in connection with angels (how many can dance on the head of a pin is not one of them).

Posted on 11 March 2018

New ideas and and new universities in Italy and greater Germany including Vienna and Prague, where Jan Hus carries on the radical ideas of Wyclif.

Posted on 8 April 2018

Bob Pasnau joins Peter to discuss ideas about substance from Aquinas down to the time of Locke, Leibniz and Descartes.

Posted on 2 January 2022

An interview with Helen Hattab on the scope and impact of scholastic philosophy among Protestants.

Posted on 23 July 2023

How the Renaissance turn towards individual identity is reflected in Shakespeare's most famous play.