History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

• HoP 468 Perchance to Dream: Descartes’ Skeptical Method

  How Descartes fashioned a “method” to repel even the strongest and most radical forms of doubt, with the cogito argument as its foundation.

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  29:29
• HoP 467 Written in Mathematics: Descartes’ Physics

  For Descartes body is purely geometrical. So how does he understand features we can perceive, like color, and causation between bodies?

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  27:32
• HoP 466 Well Hidden: Descartes’ Life and Works

  How René Descartes’ understanding of his own intellectual project evolved across his lifetime.

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  20:13
• HoP 465 Modern Times: France and the Netherlands in the 17th Century

  A look at the political and religious ferment that made up the historical context of philosophy in 17th century France and the Netherlands.

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  27:02
• HoP 464 Howard Hotson on the Republic of Letters

  In this interview we learn more about the Republic of Letters: its importance for the history of ideas, it geographic breadth, who was involved, and the contributions of figures including Leibniz and Hartlib.

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  42:13

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