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History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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
Episodes
- History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
HoP 034 - Mr. Know It All - Aristotle's Life And Works
Aristotle's career, corpus and unparalleled influence
- History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
HoP 033 - Last Judgments - Plato, Poetry and Myth
Plato's attack on the poets and his own use of myth in the Republic and other dialogues
- History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
HoP 032 - Frisbee Sheffield on Platonic Love
Frisbee Sheffield discusses Plato's erotic dialogues, including the Symposium
- History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
HoP 031 - Wings of Desire - Plato's Erotic Dialogues
Love, friendship and philosophy in the Symposium, Phaedrus and Lysis
- History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
HoP 030 - A Likely Story - Plato's Timaeus
A divine craftsman makes the cosmos from triangles in Plato's Timaeus
- History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
HoP 029 - What's in a Name? - Plato's Cratylus
Philosophy of language and Heraclitean flux in Plato's Cratylus
- History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
HoP 028 - Fiona Leigh on Plato's Sophist
Fiona Leigh discusses Plato's revised theory of Forms in the Sophist
- History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
HoP 027 - Second Thoughts - Plato's Parmenides and the Forms
The Third Man Argument and other criticisms of Forms in the Parmenides
- History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
HoP 026 - Ain't No Sunshine - The Cave Allegory of Plato's Republic
The Divided Line, Form of the Good, and Cave in Plato's Republic
- History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
HoP 025 - Soul and The City - Plato's Political Philosophy
Plato's Republic defends and defines justice at the level of the ideal city and the person
- History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
HoP 024 - Famous Last Words - Plato's Phaedo
Forms and the immortality of the soul in the Phaedo
- History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
HoP 023 - MM McCabe on Knowledge in Plato
MM McCabe discusses epistemology and virtue in Plato
- History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
HoP 022 - I Know Because The Caged Bird Sings - Plato's Theaetetus
Knowledge, relativism, and memory in the Theaetetus
- History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
HoP 021 - We Don't Need No Education - Plato's Meno
The Meno and Plato's theory of recollection
- History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
HoP 020 - Virtue Meets Its Match - Plato's Gorgias
Ethics against immoralism in a Socratic masterpiece.
- History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
HoP 019 - Know Thyself - Two Unloved Platonic Dialogues
Virtue and knowledge in Plato's Charmides and Euthydemus
- History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
HoP 018 - In Dialogue - The Life And Writings Of Plato
The life, times and dialogues of Plato
- History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
HoP 017 - Raphael Woolf on Socrates
Raphael Woolf discusses Socrates as presented by Plato
- History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
HoP 016 - Method Man - Plato's Socrates
Socratic virtue, ignorance and irony in the Platonic dialogues Socrates' claim that no one does wrong willingly
- History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
HoP 015 - Socrates without Plato - the Portrayals of Aristophanes and Xenophon
Socrates according to the comic poet Aristophanes and the historian Xenophon
- History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
HoP 014 - Making the Weaker Argument the Stronger - the Sophists
Rhetoric and relativism in Protagoras, Gorgias and other sophists
- History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
HoP 013 - Good Humor Men - the Hippocratics
Hippocrates and the relation between early Greek medicine and philosophy
- History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
HoP 012 - Malcolm Schofield on the Presocratics
Malcolm Schofield on Heraclitus, Parmenides and other early Greek philosophers
- History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
HoP 011 - All You Need Is Love, and Five Other Things - Empedocles
Love, Strife and the four elements in Empedocles
- History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
HoP 010 - Mind Over Mixture - Anaxagoras
Is everything mixed with everything? Anaxagoras on Mind and the cosmos
- History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
HoP 009 - The Final Cut - Democritus And Leuccipus
Ancient atomism as a response to Parmenides
- History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
HoP 008 - You Can't Get There From Here - Zeno And Melissus
Zeno's paradoxes and Melissus develop the Eleatic philosophy
- History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
HoP 007 - The Road Less Traveled - Parmenides
The father of metaphysics, Parmenides of Elea
- History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
HoP 006 - MM McCabe on Heraclitus
MM McCabe of King's discusses the fragments of Heraclitus
- History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
HoP 005 - Old Man River - Heraclitus
Everything changes in the riddling philosophy of Heraclitus
- History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
HoP 004 - The Man With The Golden Thigh - Pythagoras
Pythagoras and mathematics in ancient philosophy
- History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
HoP 003 - Created In Our Image - Xenophanes Against Greek Religion
The gods in Homer and Hesiod, and the critique of Xenophanes
- History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
HoP 002 - Infinity and Beyond - Anaximander and Anaximenes
Two early Pre-Socratics claim that the world is made of air, and the infinite
History of Philosophy Without Any GapsHoP 001 - Everything is Full of Gods - Thales
In this first episode, Peter discusses the goals of the series and Thales, the first Greek philosopher.