Episodios

  • 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
    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
    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
    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
    Nov 30 2025

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

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    20 m
  • HoP 480 Honorable Ignorance: French Skepticism
    Nov 16 2025

    So-called “libertines” like Mothe le Vayer revive ancient skepticism, provoking a backlash from Mersenne and Arnauld. Were they right to see the skeptics as anti-religious?

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    22 m
  • HoP 479 Gideon Manning on Cartesian Medicine
    Nov 2 2025

    An interview exploring Descartes' interest in medicine, how his medical ideas relate to his dualism, and his influence on medical science.

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    34 m
  • HoP 478 This Gland Is Your Gland: Cartesian Science
    Oct 19 2025

    From comets to blood transfusions, embryology, and the debate over the pineal gland: Descartes’ impact on science, especially medicine.

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    24 m