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HoP 494 Tell the Truth While Laughing: The French Moralists
May 31, 2026
23m 01s
HoP 493 Better Nature: The French Garden
May 17, 2026
21m 18s
HoP 492 Changing By Degrees: French Scholasticism
May 3, 2026
21m 18s
HoP 491 Image Problems: Arnauld vs Malebranche on Ideas
Apr 19, 2026
19m 05s
HoP 490 Steven Nadler on Occasionalism
Apr 5, 2026
32m 15s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 5/31/26 | HoP 494 Tell the Truth While Laughing: The French Moralists | La Rochefoucauld and other “moralists” offer a penetrating and witty critique of human pride, selfishness, and hypocrisy. Is this just cynicism, or does it support a positive ethic? | 23m 01s | ||||||
| 5/17/26 | HoP 493 Better Nature: The French Garden | How the French formal garden embodied both Cartesian philosophy and the political ideology of the French monarchy. | 21m 18s | ||||||
| 5/3/26 | HoP 492 Changing By Degrees: French Scholasticism✨ | French ScholasticismCartesianism+4 | — | French ScholasticismCartesianism+1 | — | French ScholasticismCartesianism+4 | — | 21m 18s | |
| 4/19/26 | HoP 491 Image Problems: Arnauld vs Malebranche on Ideas✨ | philosophyideas+4 | — | vision in God | — | ArnauldMalebranche+3 | — | 19m 05s | |
| 4/5/26 | HoP 490 Steven Nadler on Occasionalism✨ | occasionalism17th century philosophy+3 | Steven Nadler | 17th century Cartesians | — | occasionalismCartesians+5 | — | 32m 15s | |
| 3/22/26 | HoP 489 All Power to Him: Malebranche and Occasionalism✨ | MalebrancheOccasionalism+3 | — | — | God | MalebrancheOccasionalism+3 | — | 21m 17s | |
| 3/8/26 | HoP 488 No Particular Reason: Nicolas Malebranche✨ | Cartesian philosophytheodicy+3 | — | — | — | Nicolas MalebrancheCartesian philosophy+3 | — | 19m 34s | |
| 2/22/26 | HoP 487 Showing Good Judgment: The Port Royal Logic✨ | logicphilosophy+4 | — | Port Royal Logic | — | logicphilosophy+4 | — | 21m 58s | |
| 2/8/26 | HoP 486 Friends of the Truth: Arnauld and Jansenism✨ | Cartesian philosophyJansenism+3 | — | Cartesian philosophyJansenism | — | Antoine ArnauldCartesian philosophy+3 | — | 19m 32s | |
| 1/25/26 | HoP 485 Liz Jackson on Pascal's Wager✨ | Pascal's Wagerdecision theory+3 | Liz Jackson | Pascal's Wager | — | Pascal's Wagerdecision theory+3 | — | 38m 41s | |
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| 1/11/26 | HoP 484 You Bet Your Life: Pascal’s Wager✨ | beliefGod+3 | — | Pascal’s Wager | — | Pascal's Wagerbelief in God+3 | — | 22m 41s | |
| 12/28/25 | HoP 483 Between Infinity and the Void: Blaise Pascal✨ | Blaise Pascalscience+3 | — | — | — | Blaise Pascalscientist+3 | — | 20m 13s | |
| 12/14/25 | HoP 482 Indivisible, Under God: the Revival of Atomism✨ | atomismmodern science+3 | — | atomism | — | atomismSébatian Basso+3 | — | 20m 04s | |
| 11/30/25 | HoP 481 True Fool’s Gold: Pierre Gassendi | Gassendi’s path from skepticism to “baptized Epicureanism.” | 20m 19s | ||||||
| 11/16/25 | HoP 480 Honorable Ignorance: French Skepticism | 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? | 21m 30s | ||||||
| 11/2/25 | HoP 479 Gideon Manning on Cartesian Medicine | An interview exploring Descartes' interest in medicine, how his medical ideas relate to his dualism, and his influence on medical science. | 33m 57s | ||||||
| 10/19/25 | HoP 478 This Gland Is Your Gland: Cartesian Science | From comets to blood transfusions, embryology, and the debate over the pineal gland: Descartes’ impact on science, especially medicine. | 24m 16s | ||||||
| 10/5/25 | HoP 477 The Mind Has No Sex: Cartesianism and Gender | 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. | 20m 44s | ||||||
| 9/21/25 | HoP 476 What He Should Have Said: the Early Cartesians | Early Cartesians including Cordemoy and de La Forge develop but also challenge Descartes’ ideas, defending atomism and occasionalism. | 26m 07s | ||||||
| 9/7/25 | HoP 475 Ariane Schneck on Elisabeth and Descartes | We finish our look at Elisabeth of Bohemia and Descartes by talking to Ariane Schneck about their correspondence, focusing on the mind-body problem and the passions. | 34m 33s | ||||||
| 7/20/25 | HoP 474 States of the Union: Descartes on the Passions | What do emotions reveal about the connection between mind and body? We turn to Descartes’ correspondence with Elisabeth and his On the Passions to find out. | 19m 20s | ||||||
| 7/6/25 | HoP 473 As Rational As You: Elisabeth of Bohemia | A royal scholar and philosopher sets aside the tribulations of her family to debate Descartes over the relation between mind and body and the nature of happiness. | 21m 44s | ||||||
| 6/22/25 | HoP 472 Less Cheer, More Knowledge: Descartes’ Ethics | Descartes’ “provisional” morality and his views on free will and virtue. | 20m 31s | ||||||
| 6/8/25 | HoP 471 Unclear and Indistinct Ideas: Debating the Meditations | Descartes’ Meditations caused controversy as soon as it appeared. In this episode we look at criticisms including the “Cartesian Circle,” and how Descartes answered them. | 21m 51s | ||||||
| 5/25/25 | HoP 470 Gary Hatfield on Descartes' Meditations | We're joined in this episode by a leading expert on one of the most famous works of philosophy ever written: Descartes' Meditations. | 36m 09s | ||||||
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