Episodios

  • HoP 488 No Particular Reason: Nicolas Malebranche

    HoP 488 No Particular Reason: Nicolas Malebranche
    Mar 8 2026

    We begin to explore Malebranche’s controversial development of Cartesian philosophy by looking at his theodicy.
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    20 m
  • HoP 487 Showing Good Judgment: The Port Royal Logic

    HoP 487 Showing Good Judgment: The Port Royal Logic
    Feb 22 2026

    Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole update the study of logic to take account of the ideas of Descartes.
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    22 m
  • HoP 486 Friends of the Truth: Arnauld and Jansenism

    HoP 486 Friends of the Truth: Arnauld and Jansenism
    Feb 8 2026

    Antoine Arnauld combines Cartesian philosophy with Jansenism, one of the most controversial religious movements of the 17th century.
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    20 m
  • HoP 485 Liz Jackson on Pascal's Wager

    HoP 485 Liz Jackson on Pascal's Wager
    Jan 25 2026

    An interview on contemporary approaches to Pascal's Wager: where decision theory meets philosophy of religion.
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    39 m
  • HoP 484 You Bet Your Life: Pascal’s Wager

    HoP 484 You Bet Your Life: Pascal’s Wager
    Jan 11 2026

    Should we gamble on belief in God to have a chance at infinite reward?
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    23 m
  • HoP 483 Between Infinity and the Void: Blaise Pascal

    HoP 483 Between Infinity and the Void: Blaise Pascal
    Dec 28 2025

    Blaise Pascal was a pioneering scientist and deeply spiritual religious thinker; what united these two sides of his thought?
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    20 m
  • HoP 482 Indivisible, Under God: the Revival of Atomism

    HoP 482 Indivisible, Under God: the Revival of Atomism
    Dec 14 2025

    Why did Sébastian Basso and Pierre Gassendi think ancient atomism was the key to developing a new, modern science?
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    20 m
  • HoP 481 True Fool’s Gold: Pierre Gassendi

    HoP 481 True Fool’s Gold: Pierre Gassendi
    Nov 30 2025

    Gassendi’s path from skepticism to “baptized Epicureanism.”
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    20 m