As promised, here is a tentative episode list for the upcoming series of episodes (63 in total) on "Philosophy in the Reformation" which is shorthand for philosophy in the northern Renaissance, Protestant Reformation, and Catholic/Counter Reformation. Basically, the goal is to cover philosophy around Europe (excluding Italy, which we already did, though we will return there a bit to cover figures like Cajetan) between roughly 1400 and 1600. As you'll see from the list my plan is to organize the material geographically.
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73. Vanessa Wills on Africana Marxism
Posted on 4 April 2021
Vanessa Wills speaks to us about Marx and his Africana legacy, with a special focus on black women Marxists.
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369. The Harder They Fall: Galileo and the Renaissance
Posted on 28 March 2021
Did Galileo’s scientific discoveries grow out of the culture of the Italian Renaissance?
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72. In A Class of Their Own: Early African American Socialism
Posted on 21 March 2021
Around the time of World War One, Hubert Harrison, A. Philip Randolph, and other black socialists argue that racial oppression is caused by capitalism.
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368. Boundless Enthusiasm: Giordano Bruno
Posted on 14 March 2021
Giordano Bruno’s stunning vision of an infinite universe with infinite worlds, and his own untimely end.
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71. In Blyden’s Wake: West African Intellectuals of the Early Twentieth Century
Posted on 7 March 2021
West African intellectuals like J.E. Casely-Hayford (pictured) and Mojola Agbebi build upon Edward Blyden’s ideas at the dawn of the twentieth century.
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367. Brian Copenhaver on Renaissance Magic
Posted on 28 February 2021
Brian Copenhaver joins us to explain how Ficino and other Renaissance philosophers thought about magic.
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70. Tommy Curry on the Early 20th Century
Posted on 21 February 2021
We chat with Tommy Curry about African-American thought between the turn of the century and the Harlem Renaissance.
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366. The Men Who Saw Tomorrow: Renaissance Magic and Astrology
Posted on 14 February 2021
Ficino, Pico, Cardano, and other Renaissance thinkers debate whether astrology and magic are legitimate sciences with a foundation in natural philosophy.
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69. The Best We Have: The American Negro Academy
Posted on 7 February 2021
The ANA unites leading African American scholars of the early 20th century, including W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, William Ferris, Archibald Grimké, and Kelly Miller (pictured).
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20 March 202120 comments
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18 March 20211 comments
I have just recorded the first two episodes of the upcoming series on Philosophy in the Reformation: an introduction and a look at the impact of the printing press. (These will be published on April 25 and May 9.) A full list of projected episodes is coming soon!
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16 March 20210 comments
It turns out that without noticing it, I have released 500 episodes of the History of Philosophy podcast! We're only up to 367 in the main series but if you include the Indian and Africana series, then the 500th episode was actually number 366 on Renaissance magic. I think Ficino would be pleased.
And thanks to my Uncle Fred for pointing this out.
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10 March 20213 comments
In this new blog post HoPWaG co-author Jonardon Ganeri asks "What is Philosophy?"
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17 February 20210 commentsToday German radio (Deutschlandfunk) did a show on Avicenna, and I was interviewed for it, which was then translated into German.
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25 January 20210 comments
Many thanks to Rafael Abuchedid who has translated one of my articles,"One of a Kind: Plotinus and Porphyry on Unique Instantiation," into Spanish. It's here free online, in two parts:
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3 January 202119 comments
As you'll have noticed we are just about up to the year 1900 in the Africana Philosophy series, which means we'll soon be launching into the third, and by far most extensive, section of that series. It will make for a whole book's worth of episodes, beginning on Jan 24 with episode 68. Here is our tentative list of episodes, which will surely change a bit as we go along; suggestions welcome! Please note that interviews are not included in the list.
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24 December 20200 comments
Very pleased to direct your attention to this new publication: Dimitrios Vasilakis, Eros in Neoplatonism and its Reception in Christian Philosophy: Exploring Love in Plotinus, Proclus and Dionysius the Areopagite, from Bloomsbury Press! This is based on a PhD dissertation written under my supervision at King's College London.
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23 December 20200 comments
I was featured in today's issue of the Süddeutsche Zeitung! Complete with a slightly embarrassing picture of me looking suitably contemplative.
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/forschung-fragen-und-staunen-1.515…
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17 December 20200 comments
Here now is the online recording of the talk I gave last month on 'Razi’s Relative “Reading” of Aristotle’s Physics', for the Farouk Jabre Centre. Enjoy!
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24 November 20205 comments
I am thrilled to say that I have received the 2020 Schelling Prize from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences for work on multiculturalism in a historical perspective. It is named after Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, who I will get to eventually in the podcast!
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18 November 20202 comments
I'll be speaking tomorrow (Nov 19) at 5 pm Munich time at the American University of Beirut (via Zoom) on al-Razi's physics as a correction of Aristotle. Register here!
Not sure if this will be recorded; if so I will post the link here later.
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Posted on 11 April 2021
For our finale of the Italian Renaissance series we're joined by Ingrid Rowland, to speak about art, philosophy, and persecution in Renaissance Rome.
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