History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

501 episodes

HoP 494 Tell the Truth While Laughing: The French Moralists
31/05/2026 | 23 mins.
La Rochefoucauld and other “moralists” offer a penetrating and witty critique of human pride, selfishness, and hypocrisy. Is this just cynicism, or does it support a positive ethic?
HoP 493 Better Nature: The French Garden
17/05/2026 | 21 mins.
How the French formal garden embodied both Cartesian philosophy and the political ideology of the French monarchy.
HoP 492 Changing By Degrees: French Scholasticism
03/05/2026 | 21 mins.
How philosophy at the universities evolved in response to Cartesianism and the “new science.”
HoP 491 Image Problems: Arnauld vs Malebranche on Ideas
19/04/2026 | 19 mins.
Arnauld’s attack on Malebranche’s theory of the “vision in God” leads to a nuanced debate over the nature of ideas.
HoP 490 Steven Nadler on Occasionalism
05/04/2026 | 32 mins.
What inspired the occasionalist theory embraced by the 17th century Cartesians? We find out from a leading specialist on the topic.

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Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, takes listeners through the history of philosophy, "without any gaps". www.historyofphilosophy.net

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