History of Philosophy Audio Archive

184 Episodes

1. #164 - The Future of Faith: Huston Smith on Comparative Religion, Tibetan Buddhism, Scientism versus Science, the Fairness Revolution, Darwinian Reduction, and Why Religion Matters in the 21st Century

   Published: 4/27/2025
2. Consolatio #4 - The Crystal Fount: Boethius on True and False Happiness, the Unity of Goodness, the Two Binding Threads, the Myth of Orpheus, and Those Darknesses which Bring Ruin to the Souls of Men

   Published: 4/17/2025
3. Hemlock #15 - Confronting the Bomb: Franco Castro Escobar on the History of Nuclear Weapons in Japan, Antiwar Movements, World Federation, Hibakusha, Youth Antinuclear Organizations, and Fallout

   Published: 4/13/2025
4. #163 - May, 1968: An Intellectual and Political History of the Paris Student Revolt, Sexual Liberation, Street Philosophy, Alain Badiou, Feminism, Simon Critchley, Sartre, Foucault, Derrida, and Zizek

   Published: 4/8/2025
5. #162 - The Thousand-Year Legacy of Ibn Sina: Roy Casagranda on Arab Philosophy, Medieval Medicine, the Baghdad House of Wisdom, and the Origins of Scholasticism in the Arab World

   Published: 4/5/2025
6. #160b - The Meaning of History (2 of 2): Darren Staloff on Arnold Toynbee, R. G. Collingwood, Positivism, Arthur Danto, Fernand Braudel, Poststructuralism, and William McNeill's “Plagues and People”

   Published: 4/4/2025
7. Hemlock #14 - Secrets of the Killing State: Corinna Barrett Lain on Lethal Injection, the Ethics of the Death Penalty, Prison Reform, Televised Executions, and What the State Does at its Most Powerful

   Published: 4/3/2025
8. Hemlock #13 - Human Beings First: Rev. Dr. Helen Boursier on ICE Detention Centers, Human Rights in the Borderlands, Christian Ministry in Dark Places, and the Theology of Witness and Hospitality

   Published: 3/29/2025
9. #161 - The Birmingham Tragedy: James Baldwin and Reinhold Niebuhr Discuss Civil Rights, God's Presence in Tragedy, Justice and Love, and Bearing Witness to Evil

   Published: 3/27/2025
10. #160a - The Meaning of History (1 of 2): Darren Staloff on Philosophical Approaches to History, Eliade, Vico, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, and the Search for a Universal History of Humanity

    Published: 3/18/2025
11. Consolatio #3 - Book 2: Fortune's Wheel, the Lesser and Greater Teachers of Virtue, Fate and Goodness, and How Mixed with Bitterness is the Sweetness of Man's Life

    Published: 3/16/2025
12. Hemlock #12 - Gaia Wakes: My Conversation with Topher McDougal on AI, Climate Change, Nuclear Weapons, Planetary Consciousness, David Graeber, Gregory Bateson, Technological Lifeforms, and Evolution

    Published: 3/11/2025
13. #159 - Roy Casagranda's Dreams and Genocide: Yemen, the United Arab Republic, Yemen's Civil War, the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Henry Kissinger, Houthi Revolutionaries, Climate Change, and the Arab Spring

    Published: 3/7/2025
14. Consolatio #2 - To Oppose Evil Men is the Chief Aim We Set Before Ourselves: Book I, Entrance of Philosophy to the Dungeon, Condemnation of Stoics and Epicurus, Pi & Theta, Fear Nothing, Hope Nothing

    Published: 3/2/2025
15. #158 - Mircea Eliade and the Cycles of Time: Darren Staloff on Comparative Mythology, Symbolic Archetypes, the History of Religion, Eliade's Religious Scholarship, and the Theophany of Profane Events

    Published: 2/28/2025
16. #157 - Learn to Die So You Can Learn to Live: Cornel West on Socratic Legacy, Blues, Chekhov's Christ, American Democracy, Deep Education, Jazz, Augustine, and the Blue Note in the American Song

    Published: 2/24/2025
17. Consolation #1: 100 Reviewers Special! The Consolation of Philosophy - An Experiment in Reading Boethius, Part 1: Introduction

    Published: 2/24/2025
18. Hemlock #11 - Call Your Friends (or, Unhinged Volume II)

    Published: 2/23/2025
19. #156 - Sartre: Robert C. Solomon on Existential Philosophy, Responsibility, Sartre's Experience as a POW, Being and Nothingness, No Exit, Phenomenology, Bad Faith, and Why We Are Doomed to Be Free

    Published: 2/20/2025
20. Hemlock #10 - Capital (Kapital) Volume 1: Interview with Yale's Paul North & OSU's Paul Reitter on Karl Marx's Theory of Commodification, Communism, Property Rights, Value Theory, Worker Alienation

    Published: 2/18/2025