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History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

Peter Adamson

Philosophy Society & Culture

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HoP 494 Tell the Truth While Laughing: The French Moralists
2026/05/31 | 23 mins.
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?
HoP 493 Better Nature: The French Garden
2026/05/17 | 21 mins.
How the French formal garden embodied both Cartesian philosophy and the political ideology of the French monarchy.
HoP 492 Changing By Degrees: French Scholasticism
2026/05/03 | 21 mins.
How philosophy at the universities evolved in response to Cartesianism and the “new science.”
HoP 491 Image Problems: Arnauld vs Malebranche on Ideas
2026/04/19 | 19 mins.
Arnauld’s attack on Malebranche’s theory of the “vision in God” leads to a nuanced debate over the nature of ideas.
HoP 490 Steven Nadler on Occasionalism
2026/04/05 | 32 mins.
What inspired the occasionalist theory embraced by the 17th century Cartesians? We find out from a leading specialist on the topic.

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About History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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

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