HoP 489 All Power to Him: Malebranche and Occasionalism

HoP 489 All Power to Him: Malebranche and Occasionalism

Author: Peter Adamson March 22, 2026 Duration: 21:17
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?

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.” The series looks at the ideas, lives and historical context of the major philosophers as well as the lesser-known figures of the tradition. www.historyofphilosophy.net. NOTE: iTunes shows only the most recent 300 episodes; subscribe on iTunes or go to a different platform for the whole series.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
Podcast Episodes
HoP 400 - Philosophy Podcasters [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:00:30
Peter chats with the hosts of three great philosophy podcasts: Elucidations, Hi-Phi Nation, and the Unmute Podcast.
HoP 399 - Seriously Funny - Rabelais [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:30
In his outrageous novel about Pantagruel and Gargantua, Rabelais engages with scholasticism, humanism, medicine, the reformation, and the querelle des femmes.
HoP 397 - Do As the Romans Did - French Humanism [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 22:32
We begin to look at philosophy in Renaissance France, beginning with humanists like Budé and the use of classical philosophy by poets du Bellay and Ronsard.
HoP 396 - Lorraine Daston on Renaissance Science [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 35:11
Comets! Magnets! Armadillos! In this wide-ranging interview Lorraine Daston tells us how Renaissance and early modern scientists dealt with the extraordinary events they called "wonders".

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