History Of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

Therese Cory tells Peter what Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas thought about self-awareness.

Albert the Great’s theory of being and his attempt to explain what changes in the human mind when we come to see God in the afterlife.

Albert the Great earns his nickname “universal doctor” by devoting himself to the whole of nature, from geology and botany to the study of human nature.

Was medieval logic "formal"? Peter finds out from Catarina Dutilh Novaes.

Robert Kilwardby is infamous for his ban on teaching certain philosophical ideas at Oxford, yet made contributions in logic and on the soul.

Two Beguine authors, Hadewijch and Mechthild of Magdeburg, deploy the tropes of courtly love in vernacular writings about their mystical experiences.

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Bonaventure and Peter Olivi respond to critics of the Franciscan vow of poverty, in a debate which produced new ideas about economics and rights.

Medieval ideas about what animals do and do not have in common with humans, and how we should treat them.

Peter Olivi proposes that awareness occurs not through passively being affected by things, but by actively paying attention to them.

Bonaventure argues that human knowledge depends on an illumination from God.

Charles Burnett tells Peter about the role of magic in medieval intellectual life.

Roger Bacon extols the power of science based on experience and uses a general theory of "species" to explain light and vision.

Translator, scientist and theologian Robert Grosseteste sheds light on the cosmos, human understanding, and the rainbow.

The scholastics explore Aristotle’s ethical teaching and the concept of moral conscience.

Philip the Chancellor introduces the transcendentals, a key idea in medieval metaphysics and aesthetics.

John Blund and William of Auvergne draw on Aristotle and Avicenna to argue that the soul is immaterial and immortal.

Richard Rufus and anonymous commentators on Aristotle explore the nature of motion, time, infinity and space.

The terminist logicians William of Sherwood and Peter of Spain classify the various ways that language can relate to the world.

Kent Emery joins Peter to discuss the effects of monastic and university culture on medieval philosophy.