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

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

HoP 481 True Fool’s Gold: Pierre Gassendi

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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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?

HoP 480 Honorable Ignorance: French Skepticism

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

HoP 479 Gideon Manning on Cartesian Medicine

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

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

HoP 478 This Gland Is Your Gland: Cartesian Science

Why Cartesianism appealed to women and became the inspiration for a pioneering feminist, Poullain de la Barre; and why Cartesianism was not the only option for women philosophers of the age.

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Why Cartesianism appealed to women and became the inspiration for a pioneering feminist, Poullain de la Barre; and why Cartesianism was not the only option for women philosophers of the age.

HoP 477 The Mind Has No Sex: Cartesianism and Gender

Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, takes listeners through the history of philosophy, "without any gaps". www.historyofphilosophy.net

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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