HoP 476 What He Should Have Said: the Early Cartesians

HoP 476 What He Should Have Said: the Early Cartesians

Author: Peter Adamson September 21, 2025 Duration: 26:07
Early Cartesians including Cordemoy and de La Forge develop but also challenge Descartes’ ideas, defending atomism and occasionalism.

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Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 469 Ghost in the Machine: Cartesian Dualism [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 24:30
The word “Cartesian” is synonymous with a radical contrast between mind and body. What led Descartes to his dualism, and how can he explain vital activities in humans and animals having rejected the Aristotelian theory o…
HoP 464 Howard Hotson on the Republic of Letters [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 42:13
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.
HoP 463 Doctors without Borders: the Republic of Letters [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 23:36
How scholars around Europe created an international network of intellectual exchange. As examples we consider the activities of Mersenne, Peiresc, Leibniz, Calvet, and Hartlib.