History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

Episodi

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  HoP 499 Beyond Belief: Bayle, Toleration, and Atheism 13.09.2026 23min

  Pierre Bayle argues that religious disagreements should be tolerated and that there are powerful arguments against monotheism, even as some contemporaries embrace outright atheism.
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  Bonus Episode: Glenn Adamson on A Century of Tomorrows 16.08.2026 42min

  Go to www.glennadamson.com to find out more about Glenn's books including A Century of Tomorrows
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  HoP 498 Probably Probable: Pierre Bayle and his Dictionary 26.07.2026 20min

  Is Pierre Bayle’s pioneering reference work, the Historical and Critical Dictionary, a monument to skepticism or to fideism?
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  HoP 497 Pure and Simple: Quietism 12.07.2026 19min

  The “Quietists” Jeanne Guyon and François Fénelon argue that self-love can be overcome by cultivating a “pure love” for God. Their reward: to be accused of heresy.
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  HoP 496 He Unwilling, She Unwilling: Jean Racine 28.06.2026 16min

  How the “neo-classical” tragedies of Racine explore the battle between passion and reason.
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  HoP 495 Comedy of Errors: Molière 14.06.2026 18min

  Molière’s famous comedies scandalize Paris and dramatize themes from French moralism, especially the danger of hypocrisy.
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  HoP 494 Tell the Truth While Laughing: The French Moralists 31.05.2026 23min

  La Rochefoucauld and other “moralists” offer a penetrating and witty critique of human pride, selfishness, and hypocrisy. Is this just cynicism, or does it support a positive ethic?
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  HoP 493 Better Nature: The French Garden 17.05.2026 21min

  How the French formal garden embodied both Cartesian philosophy and the political ideology of the French monarchy.
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  HoP 492 Changing By Degrees: French Scholasticism 03.05.2026 21min

  How philosophy at the universities evolved in response to Cartesianism and the “new science.”
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  HoP 491 Image Problems: Arnauld vs Malebranche on Ideas 19.04.2026 19min

  Arnauld’s attack on Malebranche’s theory of the “vision in God” leads to a nuanced debate over the nature of ideas.
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  HoP 490 Steven Nadler on Occasionalism 05.04.2026 32min

  What inspired the occasionalist theory embraced by the 17th century Cartesians? We find out from a leading specialist on the topic.
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  HoP 489 All Power to Him: Malebranche and Occasionalism 22.03.2026 21min

  What led Malebranche to his notorious view that all bodily motions and thoughts are caused by God, with created things serving only as “occasions” for divine action?
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  HoP 488 No Particular Reason: Nicolas Malebranche 08.03.2026 19min

  We begin to explore Malebranche’s controversial development of Cartesian philosophy by looking at his theodicy.
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  HoP 487 Showing Good Judgment: The Port Royal Logic 22.02.2026 21min

  Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole update the study of logic to take account of the ideas of Descartes.
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  HoP 486 Friends of the Truth: Arnauld and Jansenism 08.02.2026 19min

  Antoine Arnauld combines Cartesian philosophy with Jansenism, one of the most controversial religious movements of the 17th century.
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  HoP 485 Liz Jackson on Pascal's Wager 25.01.2026 38min

  An interview on contemporary approaches to Pascal's Wager: where decision theory meets philosophy of religion.
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  HoP 484 You Bet Your Life: Pascal’s Wager 11.01.2026 22min

  Should we gamble on belief in God to have a chance at infinite reward?
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  HoP 483 Between Infinity and the Void: Blaise Pascal 28.12.2025 20min

  Blaise Pascal was a pioneering scientist and deeply spiritual religious thinker; what united these two sides of his thought?
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  HoP 482 Indivisible, Under God: the Revival of Atomism 14.12.2025 20min

  Why did Sébastian Basso and Pierre Gassendi think ancient atomism was the key to developing a new, modern science?
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  HoP 481 True Fool’s Gold: Pierre Gassendi 30.11.2025 20min

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