History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

Peter Adamson

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HoP 501 Mara van der Lugt on Bayle and Pessimism

10/11/2026 • 33 min

An interview on the surprising comforts to be found in the philosophy of pessimism, focusing on Bayle but looking all the way forward to Schopenhauer. Play episode

HoP 500e Daniel Watson on Medieval Irish Philosophy
HoP 500d Ted Good on Zoroastrianism
HoP 500c Troels Engberg-Pedersen on St Paul and the Stoics
HoP 500b Melissa Lane on Herotodus and Thucydides
HoP 500a Marguerite Johnson on Sappho
HoP 499 Beyond Belief: Bayle, Toleration, and Atheism
Bonus Episode: Glenn Adamson on A Century of Tomorrows
HoP 498 Probably Probable: Pierre Bayle and his Dictionary
HoP 497 Pure and Simple: Quietism
HoP 496 He Unwilling, She Unwilling: Jean Racine
HoP 495 Comedy of Errors: Molière
HoP 494 Tell the Truth While Laughing: The French Moralists
HoP 493 Better Nature: The French Garden
HoP 492 Changing By Degrees: French Scholasticism
HoP 491 Image Problems: Arnauld vs Malebranche on Ideas
HoP 490 Steven Nadler on Occasionalism
HoP 489 All Power to Him: Malebranche and Occasionalism
HoP 488 No Particular Reason: Nicolas Malebranche
HoP 487 Showing Good Judgment: The Port Royal Logic
HoP 486 Friends of the Truth: Arnauld and Jansenism
HoP 485 Liz Jackson on Pascal's Wager
HoP 484 You Bet Your Life: Pascal’s Wager
HoP 483 Between Infinity and the Void: Blaise Pascal
HoP 482 Indivisible, Under God: the Revival of Atomism
HoP 481 True Fool’s Gold: Pierre Gassendi
HoP 480 Honorable Ignorance: French Skepticism
HoP 479 Gideon Manning on Cartesian Medicine
HoP 478 This Gland Is Your Gland: Cartesian Science
HoP 477 The Mind Has No Sex: Cartesianism and Gender
HoP 476 What He Should Have Said: the Early Cartesians
HoP 475 Ariane Schneck on Elisabeth and Descartes
HoP 474 States of the Union: Descartes on the Passions
HoP 473 As Rational As You: Elisabeth of Bohemia
HoP 472 Less Cheer, More Knowledge: Descartes’ Ethics
HoP 471 Unclear and Indistinct Ideas: Debating the Meditations
HoP 470 Gary Hatfield on Descartes' Meditations
HoP 469 Ghost in the Machine: Cartesian Dualism
HoP 468 Perchance to Dream: Descartes’ Skeptical Method
HoP 467 Written in Mathematics: Descartes’ Physics
HoP 466 Well Hidden: Descartes’ Life and Works
HoP 465 Modern Times: France and the Netherlands in the 17th Century
HoP 464 Howard Hotson on the Republic of Letters
HoP 463 Doctors without Borders: the Republic of Letters
HoP 462 Freedom to Philosophize: Introduction to Early Modern Philosophy
HoP 461 - Eileen Reeves on Galileo and the Telescope
HoP 460 - Trial and Error - Galileo and the Inquisition
HoP 459 - Cardinal Rule - Robert Bellarmine
HoP 458 - Outsider Philosophy - The Cheese and the Worms
HoP 457 - Take Your Medicine - Oliva Sabuco and Camilla Erculiani

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