History of Philosophy
By Peter Adamson
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Podcast Description
Peter Adamson, Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at King's College London, takes listeners through the history of Western philosophy, without any gaps.
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CleanHoP 082 - Lost and Found – Aristotelianism after Aristotle | Peter looks at the history of Aristotelianism up the time of the Roman Empire and the beginning of commentaries on his works | 27 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 081 - Jan Opsomer on Middle Platonism | Jan Opsomer helps Peter to understand principles, Plato interpretation, and Plutarch in a wide-ranging discussion of Middle Platonism | 19 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 080 - Delphic Utterances - Plutarch | Plutarch was a historian, a priest of Apollo, and a Platonist | 13 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 079 - To the Lighthouse - Philo of Alexandria | Philo of Alexandria uses Platonism to understand the Bible of Moses | 6 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 078 - Middle Men - the Platonic Revival | Pioneering thinkers Eudorus, Alcinous, and Numenius fuse Pythagoreanism with Platonism and pave the way for Plotinus. | 29 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 077 - Caesarian Section – Philosophy in the Roman Empire | In late antiquity, Aristotelianism and Platonism made a comeback, and pagan philosophy developed alongside Judaism and Christianity. | 22 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 076 - R.J. Hankinson on Galen | Jim Hankinson tells Peter about the life, work and philosophical contributions of Galen | 15 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 075 - The Joy of Sects - Ancient Medicine and Philosophy | Hellenistic doctors discover the nerves and argue about method; Galen passes judgment | 7 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 074 - Tony Long on the Self in Hellenistic Philosophy | Leading Hellenistic philosophy scholar Tony Long talks to Peter about the self, ethics and politics in the Stoics, Epicureans and Skeptics | 31 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 073 - Healthy Skepticism - Sextus Empiricus | Sextus Empiricus pushes skepticism to its limits with his uncompromising Pyrrhonism | 25 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 072 - Raphael Woolf on Cicero | Peter discusses Cicero's method and philosophical allegiances with Raphael Woolf | 18 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 071 - Rhetorical Questions - Cicero | Cicero, inspired by the skepticism of the New Academy, uses his literary talents to present the wisdom of the Greeks | 10 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 070 - The Know-Nothing Party - the Skeptical Academy | The Skeptical Academy attacks Stoic claims that certain knowledge is possible | 3 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 069 - Beyond Belief - Pyrrho and Skepticism | Peter begins to examine ancient Skepticism, beginning with Pyrrho's life and doctrines, or lack thereof | 25 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 068 - John Sellars on the Roman Stoics | John Sellars joins Peter to discuss the Roman Stoics and their "art of living" | 19 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 067 - The Philosopher King - Marcus Aurelius | Marcus Aurelius' Meditations are a classic of Stoicism written by the most powerful philosopher who ever lived | 12 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 066 - You Can Chain My Leg - Epictetus | Epictetus, greatest of the Roman Stoics, tells you how to set yourself free | 5 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 065 - Anger Management - Seneca | Seneca wields his rhetorically charged Latin to advance Stoic ethical theory | 29 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 064 - David Sedley on Stoicism | David Sedley discusses the Stoic school and its evolution | 22 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 063 - Like a Rolling Stone - Stoic Ethics | The Stoic ethical theory insists that perfection is possible, and that moral responsibility is compatible with determinism | 15 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 062 - We Didn’t Start the Fire - the Stoics on Nature | The Stoic cosmos: suffused with divinity, surrounded by void, and endlessly repeating | 8 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 061 - Nobody’s Perfect - the Stoics on Knowledge | The Stoics set out and defend an ambitious theory of knowledge, where it is possible to avoid all error | 1 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 060 - Walking on Eggshells - the Stoics on Logic | Introducing the early Stoics, Zeno, Cleanthes and Chrysippus, and their innovations in logic | 25 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 059 - James Warren on Epicureanism | James Warren chats with Peter about the pleasures of Epicureanism | 18 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 058 - Reaping the Harvest - Lucretius | In "On the Nature of Things" Lucretius sets Epicureanism into Latin poetic verse | 11 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 057 - Nothing to Fear - Epicureans on Death and the Gods | The Epicureans reassure us against the terrors of death and punishment by the gods | 4 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 056 - Am I Bothered? - Epicurean Ethics | Pleasure is the good, according to Epicurus. But how do we live most pleasantly? | 27 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 055 - The Constant Gardener - Epicurus and his Principles | Epicurus sets out an empiricist theory of knowledge and atomist physics, in support of hedonism | 20 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 054 - Instant Gratification - the Cyrenaics | The Cyrenaics, the ultimate pleasure seekers of ancient philosophy | 13 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 053 - Beware of the Philosopher - the Cynics | Diogenes and the other Cynics “deface the currency” by exposing the hypocrisy of Greek society. | 6 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 052 - Fighting Over Socrates - the Hellenistic Schools | Introducing the Stoics, Skeptics, Epicureans and Cynics, the schools of the Hellenistic age | 30 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 051 - The Next Generation - the Followers of Plato and Aristotle | The Old Academy and Theophrastus carry on the legacy of Plato and Aristotle | 23 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 050 - MM McCabe and Raphael Woolf on Aristotle on Plato | Peter's colleagues MM McCabe and Raphael Woolf join him for a special 50th episode interview, to discuss Aristotle's reactions to his teacher Plato | 16 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 049 - Stage Directions - Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetics | In the Rhetoric and Poetics, Aristotle explores persuasive speech and engages with ancient tragedy | 9 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 048 - Constitutional Conventions - Aristotle's Political Philosophy | Aristotle's Politics responds to Plato's Republic and sets out its own ideas about the ideal state, the types of political constitution, and the role of women and slaves | 2 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 047 - God Only Knows - Aristotle on Mind and God | Aristotle on the intellect, both human and divine, in works ranging from On the Soul to the Metaphysics | 25 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 046 - Dominic Scott on Aristotle's Ethics | Dominic Scott discusses Aristotle's method in his Nicomachean Ethics | 18 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 045 - The Second Self - Aristotle On Pleasure And Friendship | What place does Aristotle leave for pleasure and friendship in his vision of the good life? | 11 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 044 - The Goldilocks Theory - Aristotle's Ethics | Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics on happiness and virtue | 3 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 043 - Classified Information - Aristotle's Biology | In his zoology, Aristotle divides and defines all kinds of animals, and so invents the science of biology | 24 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 042 - Soul Power - Aristotle's De Anima | Aristotle's theory of soul: its functions and how it relates to the body | 17 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 041 - Richard Sorabji on Time and Eternity in Aristotle | Richard Sorabji discusses time, eternity and mosquitos in Aristotle's Physics | 10 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 040 - Let's Get Physical - Aristotle's Natural Philosophy | Aristotle's Physics explains change, time and place with the help of his actuality/potentiality distinction | 3 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 039 - Form and Function - Aristotle's Four Causes | The four types of explanation: formal, material, efficient and final cause | 26 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 038 - Down To Earth - Aristotle on Substance | Aristotle's critique of Platonic Forms and defense of his own metaphysics | 19 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 037 - Hugh Benson on Aristotelian Method | Hugh Benson discusses Aristotle's ideas about arriving at knowledge | 12 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 036 - A Principled Stand - Aristotle's Epistemology | Knowledge according to Aristotle's Posterior Analytics | 7 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 035 - The Philosopher's Toolkit - Aristotle's Logical Works | Aristotle's invention of logic in the Organon (especially Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics) | 30 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 034 - Mr. Know It All - Aristotle's Life And Works | Aristotle's career, corpus and unparalleled influence | 23 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 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 | 16 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 032 - Frisbee Sheffield on Platonic Love | Frisbee Sheffield discusses Plato's erotic dialogues, including the Symposium | 9 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 031 - Wings of Desire - Plato's Erotic Dialogues | Love, friendship and philosophy in the Symposium, Phaedrus and Lysis | 2 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 030 - A Likely Story - Plato's Timaeus | A divine craftsman makes the cosmos from triangles in Plato's Timaeus | 25 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 029 - What's in a Name? - Plato's Cratylus | Philosophy of language and Heraclitean flux in Plato's Cratylus | 18 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 028 - Fiona Leigh on Plato's Sophist | Fiona Leigh discusses Plato's revised theory of Forms in the Sophist | 11 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 027 - Second Thoughts - Plato's Parmenides and the Forms | The Third Man Argument and other criticisms of Forms in the Parmenides | 4 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 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 | 28 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 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 | 20 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 024 - Famous Last Words - Plato's Phaedo | Forms and the immortality of the soul in the Phaedo | 14 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 023 - MM McCabe on Knowledge in Plato | MM McCabe discusses epistemology and virtue in Plato | 7 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 022 - I Know Because The Caged Bird Sings - Plato's Theaetetus | Knowledge, relativism, and memory in the Theaetetus | 28 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 021 - We Don't Need No Education - Plato's Meno | The Meno and Plato's theory of recollection | 21 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 020 - Virtue Meets Its Match - Plato's Gorgias | Ethics against immoralism in a Socratic masterpiece. | 14 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 019 - Know Thyself - Two Unloved Platonic Dialogues | Virtue and knowledge in Plato's Charmides and Euthydemus | 7 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 018 - In Dialogue - The Life And Writings Of Plato | The life, times and dialogues of Plato | 31 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 017 - Raphael Woolf on Socrates | Raphael Woolf discusses Socrates as presented by Plato | 24 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 016 - Method Man - Plato's Socrates | Socratic virtue, ignorance and irony in the Platonic dialogues Socrates' claim that no one does wrong willingly | 17 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 015 - Socrates without Plato - the Portrayals of Aristophanes and Xenophon | Socrates according to the comic poet Aristophanes and the historian Xenophon | 10 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 014 - Making the Weaker Argument the Stronger - the Sophists | Rhetoric and relativism in Protagoras, Gorgias and other sophists | 3 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 013 - Good Humor Men - the Hippocratics | Hippocrates and the relation between early Greek medicine and philosophy | 27 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 012 - Malcolm Schofield on the Presocratics | Malcolm Schofield on Heraclitus, Parmenides and other early Greek philosophers | 20 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 011 - All You Need Is Love, and Five Other Things - Empedocles | Love, Strife and the four elements in Empedocles | 13 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 010 - Mind Over Mixture - Anaxagoras | Is everything mixed with everything? Anaxagoras on Mind and the cosmos | 6 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 009 - The Final Cut - Democritus And Leuccipus | Ancient atomism as a response to Parmenides | 25 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 008 - You Can't Get There From Here - Zeno And Melissus | Zeno's paradoxes and Melissus develop the Eleatic philosophy | 22 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHop 007 - The Road Less Traveled - Parmenides | The father of metaphysics, Parmenides of Elea | 15 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 006 - MM McCabe on Heraclitus | MM McCabe of King's discusses the fragments of Heraclitus | 8 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 005 - Old Man River - Heraclitus | Everything changes in the riddling philosophy of Heraclitus | 1 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 004 - The Man With The Golden Thigh - Pythagoras | Pythagoras and mathematics in ancient philosophy | 25 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 003 - Created In Our Image - Xenophanes Against Greek Religion | The gods in Homer and Hesiod, and the critique of Xenophanes | 25 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 002 - Infinity and Beyond - Anaximander and Anaximines | Two early Pre-Socratics claim that the world is made of air, and the infinite | 25 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHoP 001 - Everything is Full of Gods - Thales | Introduction to the podcast and the beginnings of Greek philosophy | 25 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 82 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
You can never listen to the same podcast twice...
For those of you interested in philosophy, but with no training in it, this is a fab podcast. The philosophers are brought to life through the narrator's fresh interpretation of their work, contemporary situation and... er... life.
Another plus is the pleasantly modulated voice, and the narrator's enthusiasm. Well worth signing up for.
Great for last thing at night
I don't read in bed anymore. It's so much less foreboding when there is no exam at the end of it (I'm presuming we won't get tested on this).
Staggeringly good
Top marks to Peter Adamson for bringing us a podcast which is thought-provoking, informative and entertaining in equal measure. The ground covered is more or less the same as Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy, but the style is rather more accessible and contemporary; Adamson apologises for not being able to adequately portray Anaximander's cosmology due to his insufficient special effects budget, for example.
