All Episodes

All episodes published so far are listed below, or for lists of episodes with their descriptions please see the relevant introductory pages:

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Presocratic Philosophy

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1 - Everything is Full of Gods: Thales
2 - Infinity and Beyond: Anaximander and Anaximenes
3 - Created In Our Image: Xenophanes Against Greek Religion
4 - The Man With The Golden Thigh: Pythagoras
5 - Old Man River: Heraclitus
6 - MM McCabe on Heraclitus
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7 - The Road Less Traveled: Parmenides
8 - You Can't Get There From Here: Zeno and Melissus
9 - The Final Cut: Democritus and Leucippus
10 - Mind Over Mixture: Anaxagoras
11 - All You Need is Love, and Five Other Things: Empedocles
12 - Malcolm Schofield on the Presocratics
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13 - Good Humor Men: the Hippocratics
14 - Making the Weaker Argument the Stronger: the Sophists

Socrates and Plato

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15 - Socrates without Plato: the Accounts of Aristophanes and Xenophon
16 - Method Man: Plato's Socrates
17 - Raphael Woolf on Socrates
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18 - In Dialogue: the Life and Works of Plato
19 - Know Thyself: Two Unloved Platonic Dialogues
20 - Virtue Meets its Match: Plato's Gorgias
21 - We Don't Need No Education: Plato's Meno
22 - I Know, Because the Caged Bird Sings: Plato's Theaetetus
23 - MM McCabe on Knowledge in Plato
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24 - Famous Last Words: Plato's Phaedo
25 - Soul and the City: Plato's Political Philosophy
26 - Ain't No Sunshine: The Cave Allegory of Plato's Republic
27 - Second Thoughts: Plato's Parmenides and the Forms
28 - Fiona Leigh on Plato's Sophist
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29 - What's in a Name? Plato's Cratylus
30 - A Likely Story: Plato's Timaeus
31 - Wings of Desire: Plato's Erotic Dialogues
32 - Frisbee Sheffield on Platonic Love
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33 - Last Judgments: Plato, Poetry and Myth

Aristotle

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34 - Mr. Know It All: Aristotle's Life And Works
35 - The Philosopher's Toolkit: Aristotle's Logical Works
36 - A Principled Stand: Aristotle's Epistemology
37 - Hugh Benson on Aristotelian Method
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38 - Down to Earth: Aristotle on Substance
39 - Form and Function: Aristotle's Four Causes
40 - Let's Get Physical: Aristotle's Natural Philosophy
41 - Richard Sorabji on Time and Eternity in Aristotle
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42 - Soul Power: Aristotle's De Anima
43 - Classified Information: Aristotle's Biology
44 - The Goldilocks Theory: Aristotle's Ethics
45 - The Second Self: Aristotle On Pleasure And Friendship
46 - Dominic Scott on Aristotle's Ethics
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47 - God Only Knows: Aristotle on Mind and God
48 - Constitutional Conventions: Aristotle's Political Philosophy
49 - Stage Directions: Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetics
50 - MM McCabe and Raphael Woolf on Aristotle on Plato
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51- The Next Generation: the Followers of Plato and Aristotle

Hellenistic Philosophy

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52 - Fighting Over Socrates: the Hellenistic Schools
53 - Beware of the Philosopher: the Cynics
54 - Instant Gratification: the Cyrenaics
55 - The Constant Gardener: Epicurus and his Principles
56 - Am I Bothered?: Epicurean Ethics
57 - Nothing to Fear: Epicureans on Death and the Gods
58 - Reaping the Harvest: Lucretius
59 - James Warren on Epicureanism
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60 - Walking on Eggshells: the Stoics on Logic
61 - Nobody’s Perfect: the Stoics on Knowledge
62 - We Didn’t Start the Fire: the Stoics on Nature
63 - Like a Rolling Stone: Stoic Ethics
64 - David Sedley on Stoicism
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65 - Anger Management: Seneca
66 - You Can Chain My Leg: Epictetus
67 - The Philosopher King: Marcus Aurelius
68 - John Sellars on the Roman Stoics
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69 - Beyond Belief: Pyrrho and Skepticism
70 - The Know Nothing Party: the Skeptical Academy
71 - Rhetorical Questions: Cicero
72 - Raphael Woolf on Cicero
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73 - Healthy Skepticism: Sextus Empiricus
74 - Tony Long on the Self in Hellenistic Philosophy
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75 - The Joy of Sects: Ancient Medicine and Philosophy
76 - R.J. Hankinson on Galen
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Late Antiquity

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77 - Caesarian Section: Philosophy in the Roman Empire
78 - Middle Men: the Platonic Revival
79 - To the Lighthouse: Philo of Alexandria
80 - Delphic Utterances: Plutarch
81 - Jan Opsomer on Middle Platonism
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82 - Lost and Found: Aristotelianism after Aristotle
83 - Not Written in Stone: Alexander of Aphrodisias
84 - Silver Tongues in Golden Mouths: Rhetoric and Ancient Philosophy
85 - Sky Writing: Astronomy, Astrology, and Philosophy
86 - Serafina Cuomo on Ancient Mathematics
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87 - A God is My Co-Pilot: the Life and Works of Plotinus
88 - Simplicity Itself: Plotinus on the One and Intellect
89 - On the Horizon: Plotinus on Soul
90 - A Decorated Corpse: Plotinus on Matter and Evil
91 - James Wilberding on Nature and Neoplatonism
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92 - King of Animals: Porphyry
93 - Pythagorean Theorems: Iamblichus
94 - The Platonic Successor: Proclus
95 - Anne Sheppard on Ancient Aesthetics
96 - Dominic O'Meara on Neoplatonism
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97 - A Tale of Two Cities: The Last Pagan Philosophers
98 - For a Limited Time Only: John Philoponus
99 - Richard Sorabji on the Commentators
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100 - Michael Trapp and Caroline Humfress on Ancient Culture and Philosophy
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Ancient Christianity

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101 - Father Figures: Introduction to Ancient Christian Philosophy
102 - Please Accept Our Apologies: the Greek Church Fathers
103 - Fall and Rise: Origen
104 - Let's Talk Turkey: the Cappadocians
105 - Naming the Nameless: the Pseudo-Dionysius
106 - Double or Nothing: Maximus the Confessor
107 - Practice Makes Perfect: Christian Asceticism
108 - George Boys-Stones on the Greek Church Fathers
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109 - Spreading the Word: the Latin Church Fathers
110 - Life and Time: Augustine's Confessions
111 - Papa Don't Teach: Augustine on Language
112 - Help Wanted: Augustine on Freedom
113 - Heaven and Earth: Augustine’s City of God
114 - Sarah Byers on Augustine's Ethics
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115 - Me, Myself and I: Augustine on Mind and Memory
116 - Charles Brittain on Augustine's "On the Trinity"
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117 - Born Again: Latin Platonism
118 - Fate, Hope and Clarity: Boethius
119 - John Marenbon on Boethius
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Early Medieval Philosophy

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196. Arts of Darkness: Introduction to Medieval Philosophy
197. Charles in Charge: The Carolingian Renaissance
198. Grace Notes: Eriugena and the Predestination Controversy
199. Much Ado About Nothing: Eriugena's Periphyseon
200. Jill Kraye and John Marenbon on Medieval Philosophy
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201. Stephen Gersh on Medieval Platonism
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202. Philosophers Anonymous: the Roots of Scholasticism
203. Virgin Territory: Peter Damian on Changing the Past
204. A Canterbury Tale: Anselm's Life and Works
205. Somebody's Perfect: Anselm's Ontological Argument
206. Eileen Sweeney on Anselm
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207. All or Nothing: The Problem of Universals
208. Get Thee to a Nunnery: Heloise and Abelard
209. It’s the Thought that Counts: Abelard’s Ethics
210. John Marenbon on Peter Abelard
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211. Learn Everything: the Victorines
212. Like Father, Like Son: Debating the Trinity
213. On the Shoulders of Giants: Philosophy at Chartres
214. The Good Book: Philosophy of Nature
215. Medieval History Podcasters
216. One of a Kind: Gilbert of Poitiers on Individuation
217. Andrew Arlig on Parts and Wholes
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218. Two Swords: Early Medieval Political Philosophy
219. Law and Order: Gratian and Peter Lombard
220. Caroline Humfress on the Roots of Medieval Law
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221. Leading Light: Hildegard of Bingen
222. Rediscovery Channel: Translations into Latin
223. Straw Men: The Rise of the Universities
224. Kent Emery on Institutions of Learning
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Thirteenth Century Philosophy

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225. No Uncertain Terms: Thirteenth Century Logic
226. Full of Potential: Thirteenth Century Physics
227. Stayin’ Alive: Thirteenth Century Psychology
228. It's All Good: The Transcendentals
229. Do the Right Thing: Thirteenth Century Ethics
230. A Light That Never Goes Out: Robert Grosseteste
231. Origin of Species: Roger Bacon
232. Charles Burnett on Magic
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233. Stairway to Heaven: Bonaventure
234. Your Attention Please: Peter Olivi
235. Juhana Toivanen on Animals in Medieval Philosophy
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236. None for Me, Thanks: Franciscan Poverty
237. Begin the Beguine: Hadewijch and Mechthild of Magdeburg
238. Binding Arbitration: Robert Kilwardby
239. Catarina Dutilh Novaes on Medieval Logic
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240. Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Albert the Great’s Natural Philosophy
241. The Shadow Knows: Albert the Great's Metaphysics
242. Therese Cory on Self-Awareness in Albert and Aquinas
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243. The Ox Heard Round the World: Thomas Aquinas
244. Everybody Needs Some Body: Aquinas on Soul and Knowledge
245. What Comes Naturally: Ethics in Albert and Aquinas
246. What Pleases the Prince: The Rule of Law
247. Onward, Christian Soldiers: Just War Theory
248. Scott MacDonald on Aquinas
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249. Paris When it Sizzles: the Condemnations
250. Q&A
251. Masters of the University: "Latin Averroism"
252. Neverending Story: the Eternity of the World
253. Let Me Count the Ways: Speculative Grammar
254. Love, Reign Over Me: The Romance of the Rose
255. Andreas Speer on Medieval Aesthetics
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256. Frequently Asked Questions: Henry of Ghent
257. Martin Pickavé on Henry of Ghent and Freedom
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258. Here Comes the Son: The Trinity and the Eucharist
259. Richard Cross on Philosophy and the Trinity
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260. Once and for All: Scotus on Being
261. To Will or Not to Will: Scotus on Freedom
262. On Command: Scotus on Ethics
263. One in a Million: Scotus on Universals and Individuals
264. Giorgio Pini on Scotus on Knowledge
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Fourteenth Century Philosophy

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265. Time of the Signs: the Fourteenth Century
266. Tom Pink on the Will
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267. After Virtue: Marguerite Porete
268. To Hell and Back: Dante Alighieri
269. Our Power is Real: the Clash of Church and State
270. Render unto Caesar: Marsilius of Padua
271. Do As You’re Told: Ockham on Ethics and Political Philosophy
272. A Close Shave: Ockham’s Nominalism
273. What Do You Think? Ockham on Mental Language
274. Susan Brower-Toland on Ockham's Philosophy of Mind
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275. Keeping it Real: Responses to Ockham
276. Back to the Future: Foreknowledge and Predestination
277. Trivial Pursuits: Fourteenth Century Logic
278. Sara Uckelman on Obligations
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279. Quadrivial Pursuits: the Oxford Calculators
280. Get to the Point: Fourteenth Century Physics
281. Monica Green on Medieval Medicine
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282. Portrait of the Artist: John Buridan
283. Jack Zupko on John Buridan
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284. Seeing is Believing: Nicholas of Autrecourt’s Skeptical Challenge
285. Dominik Perler on Medieval Skepticism
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286. On the Money: Medieval Economic Theory
287. Down to the Ground: Meister Eckhart
288. Men in Black: the German Dominicans
289. A Wing and a Prayer: Angels in Medieval Philosophy
290. Martin Pickavé on Emotions in Medieval Philosophy
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291. Alle Maner of Thyng Shall be Welle: English Mysticism
292. Say it With Poetry: Chaucer and Langland
293. The Good Wife: Gender and Sexuality in the Middle Ages
294. Isabel Davis on Sexuality and Marriage in Chaucer
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295. The Most Christian Doctor: Jean Gerson
296. Morning Star of the Reformation: John Wyclif
297. The Prague Spring: Scholasticism Across Europe
298. Renaissance Men: Ramon Llull and Petrarch
299. Robert Pasnau on Substance in Scholasticism
300a. The Relevance of Ancient Philosophy Today
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300b. The Relevance of Medieval Philosophy Today
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Byzantine Philosophy

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301. The Empire Strikes Back: Introduction to Byzantine Philosophy
302. On the Eastern Front: Philosophy in Syriac and Armenian
303. Don’t Picture This: Iconoclasm
304. Behind Enemy Lines: John of Damascus
305. Andrew Louth on John of Damascus
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306. Collectors’ Items: Photius and Byzantine Compilations
307. Consul of the Philosophers: Michael Psellos
308. Dominic O'Meara on Michael Psellos
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309. Hooked on Classics: Italos and the Debate over Pagan Learning
310. Purple Prose: Byzantine Political Philosophy
311. The Elements of Style: Rhetoric in Byzantium
312. Past Masters: Byzantine Historiography
313. Queen of the Sciences: Anna Komnene and her Circle
314. Katerina Ierodiakonou on Byzantine Commentaries
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315. Wiser Than Men: Gender in Byzantium
316. Just Measures: Law, Money, and War in Byzantium
317. Made by Hand: Byzantine Manuscripts
318. Oliver Primavesi on Greek Manuscripts
319. Georgia on My Mind: Petritsi and the Proclus Revival
320. People of the South: Byzantium and Islam
321. Judith Herrin on Byzantium and Islam
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322. Do the Math: Science in the Palaiologan Renaissance
323. Through His Works You Shall Know Him: Palamas and Hesychasm
324. United We Fall: Latin Philosophy in Byzantium
325. Platonic Love: Gemistos Plethon
326. Istanbul (Not Constantinople): the Later Orthodox Tradition
327. Michele Trizio on Byzantine and Latin Medieval Philosophy
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Italian Renaissance Philosophy

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328. Old News: Introduction to the Italian Renaissance
329. Greeks Bearing Gifts: Byzantine Scholars in Italy
330. Republic of Letters: Italian Humanism
331. Literary Criticism: Lorenzo Valla
332. Jill Kraye on Humanism
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333. Difficult to Be Good: Humanist Ethics
334. Chance Encounters: Reviving Hellenistic Philosophy
335. Sabrina Ebbersmeyer on Emotions in Renaissance Philosophy
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336. We Built This City: Christine de Pizan
337. More Rare Than the Phoenix: Italian Women Humanists
338. All About Eve: the Defense of Women
339. I’d Like to Thank the Academy: Florentine Platonism
340. Footnotes to Plato: Marsilio Ficino
341. True Romance: Theories of Love
342. Denis Robichaud on Plato in the Renaissance
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343. As Far as East from West: Jewish Philosophy in Renaissance Italy
344. The Count of Concord: Pico della Mirandola
345. What a Piece of Work is Man: Manetti and Pico on Human Nature
346. Cecilia Muratori on Animals in the Renaissance
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347. Bonfire of the Vanities: Savonarola
348. The Sweet Restraints of Liberty: Republicanism and Civic Humanism
349. No More Mr Nice Guy: Machiavelli
350. The Sentence: Machiavelli on Republicanism
351. Quentin Skinner on Machiavelli
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352. The Teacher of Our Actions: Renaissance Historiography
353. The Good Place: Utopias in the Italian Renaissance
354. Greed is Good: Economics in the Italian Renaissance
355. Town and Gown: Italian Universities
356. I’d Like to Thank the Lyceum: Aristotle in Renaissance Italy
357. David Lines on Aristotle's Ethics in the Renaissance
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358. Of Two Minds: Pomponazzi and Nifo on the Intellect
359. There and Back Again: Zabarella on Scientific Method
360. Dag N. Hasse on Arabic Learning in the Renaissance
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361. The Measure of All Things: Renaissance Mathematics and Art
362. Just What the Doctor Ordered: Renaissance Medicine
363. Man of Discoveries: Girolamo Cardano
364. Guido Giglioni on Renaissance Medicine
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365. Spirits in the Material World: Telesio and Campanella on Nature
366. The Men Who Saw Tomorrow: Renaissance Magic and Astrology
367. Brian Copenhaver on Renaissance Magic
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368. Boundless Enthusiasm: Giordano Bruno
369. The Harder They Fall: Galileo and the Renaissance
370. Ingrid Rowland on Rome in the Renaissance
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Renaissance and Reformation in Central Europe

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371. European Disunion: Introduction to the Reformation
372. Strong, Silent Type: the Printing Press
373. Lords of Language: Northern Humanism
374. Opposites Attract: Nicholas of Cusa
375. Paul Richard Blum on Nicholas of Cusa
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376. Books That Last Forever: Erasmus
377. One Way or Another: Northern Scholasticism
378. Faith, No More: Martin Luther
379. Lyndal Roper on Luther
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380. Take Your Choice: Erasmus vs Luther on Free Will
381. More Lutheran than Luther: Philip Melanchthon
382. No Lord but God: the Peasants’ War and Radical Reformation
383. Slowly But Surely: Huldrych Zwingli
384. We Are Not Our Own: John Calvin
385. I Too Can Ask Questions: Protestant Scholasticism
386. Perhaps Not Wrong: Cornelius Agrippa
387. Helen Hattab on Protestant Philosophy
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388. Just Add Salt: Paracelsus and Alchemy
389. The Acid Test: Theories of Matter
390. Born to Be Contrary: Toleration in the Netherlands
391. Everything is Mine and Nothing: Lipsius and the Revival of Stoicism
392. John Sellars on Lipsius and Early Modern Stoicism
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393. The World Doesn’t Revolve Around You: Copernicus
394. Best of Both Worlds: Tycho Brahe
395. Music of the Spheres: Johannes Kepler
396. Lorraine Daston on Renaissance Science
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Renaissance and Reformation in France

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397. Do As the Romans Did: French Humanism
398. Pearls of Wisdom: Marguerite of Navarre
399. Seriously Funny: Rabelais
400. Philosophy Podcasters
401. Word Perfect: Logic and Language in Renaissance France
402. Life is Not Enough: Medicine in Renaissance France
403. Make It Simple: Peter Ramus
404. Robert Goulding on Peter Ramus
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405. Divide and Conquer: the Spread of Ramism
406. Believe at Your Own Risk: Toleration in France
407. Maria Rosa Antognazza on Early Modern Toleration
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408. Constitutional Conventions: the Huguenots
409. One to Rule Them All: Jean Bodin
410. Ann Blair on Jean Bodin's Natural Philosophy
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411. Pen Pals: Later French Humanism
412. Not Matter, But Me: Michel de Montaigne
413. Don’t Be So Sure: French Skepticism
414. Henrik Lagerlund on Renaissance Skepticism
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415. The Tenth Muse: Marie de Gournay

Renaissance and Reformation in Britain

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416. God’s is the Quarrel: the English Reformation
417. To Kill a King: The Scottish Reformation
418. Diarmaid MacCulloch on the British Reformations
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419. Write Till Your Ink Be Dry: Humanism in Britain
420. No Place Will Please Me So: Thomas More
421. With Such Perfection Govern: English Political Thought
422. The World’s Law: Richard Hooker
423. Heaven-Bred Poesy: Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser
424. Hast Any Philosophy In Thee? William Shakespeare
425. Patrick Gray on Shakespeare
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426. A Face Without a Heart: Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Individualism
427. Brave New World: Shakespeare’s Tempest and Colonialism
428. Weird Sisters: Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Witchcraft
429. She Uttereth Piercing Eloquence: Women’s Spiritual Literature
430. I’ll Teach You Differences: British Scholasticism
431. Calvin Normore on Scholasticism
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432. If This Be Magic, Let It Be an Art: John Dee
433. Nature’s Mystery: Science in Renaissance England
434. The Eye Sees Not Itself But By Reflection: Theories of Vision
435. Metal More Attractive: William Gilbert and Magnetism
436. Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores: Robert Fludd
437. Jennifer Rampling on Renaissance Alchemy
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The Catholic Reformation

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438. Don't Give Up Pope: Catholic Reformation
439. Cancel Culture: The Inquisition
440. Longitudinal Studies: Exploration and Science
441. Lambs to the Slaughter: Debating the New World
442. Scott Williams on Disability and the New World
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443. Marketplace of Letters: Iberian Humanism
444. The Dark Night Rises: Spanish Mysticism
445. Band of Brothers: the Jesuits
446. Not Doubting Thomas: the Aquinas Revival
447. Andrés Messmer on Spanish Protestantism
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448. Secondary Schools: Iberian Scholasticism
449. Anna Tropia on Jesuit Philosophy
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450. Depicting What Cannot Be Depicted: Philosophy and Two Renaissance Artworks
451. Could’ve, Would’ve, Should’ve: Free Will in the Second Scholastic
452. Better Than Nothing: Metaphysics in the Second Scholastic
453. The Price is Right: Law and Economics in the Second Scholastic
454. By Appointment Only: Political Philosophy in the Second Scholastic
455. Tom Pink on Francisco Suárez
456. Touch Me With Your Madness: Cervantes’ Don Quixote
457. Take Your Medicine: Oliva Sabuco and Camilla Erculiani
458. Outsider Philosophy: The Cheese and the Worms
459. Cardinal Rule: Robert Bellarmine
460. Trial and Error: Galileo and the Inquisition
461. Eileen Reeves on Galileo and the Telescope
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France and the Netherlands

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462. Freedom to Philosophize: Introduction to Early Modern Philosophy
463. Doctors without Borders: the Republic of Letters
464. Howard Hotson on the Republic of Letters
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465. Modern Times: France and the Netherlands in the 17th Century
466. Well Hidden: Descartes’ Life and Works
467. Written in Mathematics: Descartes’ Physics
468. Perchance to Dream: Descartes’ Skeptical Method
469. Ghost in the Machine: Cartesian Dualism
470. Gary Hatfield on Descartes' Meditations
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471. Unclear and Indistinct Ideas: Debating the Meditations
472. Less Cheer, More Knowledge: Descartes’ Ethics
473. As Rational As You: Elisabeth of Bohemia
474. States of the Union: Descartes on the Passions
475. Ariane Schneck on Elisabeth and Descartes
476. What He Should Have Said: the Early Cartesians

Formative Period

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120 - The Straight Path: Philosophy in the Islamic World
121 - This is a Test: the Mu'tazilites
122 - Founded in Translation: From Greek to Syriac and Arabic
123 - Philosopher of the Arabs: al-Kindī
124 - The Chosen Ones: Judaism and Philosophy
125 - Reasoned Belief: Saadia Gaon
126 - High Five: al-Rāzī
127 - Peter E Pormann on Medicine in the Islamic World
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128 - Aristotelian Society: the Baghdad School
129 - The Second Master: al-Fārābī
130 - State of Mind: al-Fārābī on Religion and Politics
131 - Deborah Black on al-Fārābī's Epistemology
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132 - Eye of the Beholder: Theories of Vision
133 - Strings Attached: Music and Philosophy
134 - Balancing Acts: Arabic Ethical Literature
135 - Undercover Brothers: Philosophy in the Būyid Age
136 - Farhad Daftary on the Ismā'īlīs
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137 - God Willing: the Ash'arites
138 - The Self-Made Man: Avicenna's Life and Works
139 - By the Time I Get to Phoenix: Avicenna on Existence
140 - By All Means Necessary: Avicenna on God
141 - Into Thin Air: Avicenna on the Soul
142 - Dimitri Gutas on Avicenna
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143 - Special Delivery: al-Ghazālī
144 - Miracle Worker: al-Ghazālī against the Philosophers
145 - Frank Griffel on al-Ghazālī
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Andalusia

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146 - Philosophy's Reign in Spain: Andalusia
147 - Laying Down the Law: Ibn Ḥazm and Islamic Legal Theory
148 - Fantasy Island: Ibn Bājja and Ibn Ṭufayl
149 - Back to Basics: Averroes on Reason and Religion
150 - Charles Burnett and Dag N. Hasse on Arabic-Latin Translations
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151 - Single Minded: Averroes on the Intellect
152 - Richard Taylor on Averroes
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153 - A Matter of Taste: Ibn ʿArabī and Mysticism
154 - The Philosophy of History: Ibn Khaldūn
155 - Matter over Mind: Ibn Gabirol
156 - Sarah Pessin on Jewish Neoplatonism
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157 - Choosing My Religion: Judah Hallevi
158 - Born Under a Bad Sign: Freedom and Astrology in Jewish Philosophy
159 - With All Your Heart: Ethics and Judaism
160 - The Great Eagle: Maimonides
161 - He Moves in Mysterious Ways: Maimonides on Eternity
162 - Sarah Stroumsa on Maimonides
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163 - Burnt Offerings: The Maimonides Controversy
164 - Man and Superman: Gersonides and the Jewish Reaction to Averroes
165 - Neither the Time Nor the Place: Hasdai Crescas
166 - Tamar Rudavsky on Gersonides and Crescas
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167 - When Bad Things Happen to Good People: Suffering in Jewish Philosophy
168 - Chariot of Fire: Kabbalah
169 - A Matter of Principles: Albo and Abravanel
170 - Gad Freudenthal on Jewish Philosophy and Science
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The Eastern Traditions

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171 - Golden Ages: The Later Eastern Traditions
172 - All Things Considered: Abū l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī
173 - For the Sake of Argument: Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī
174 - Leading Light: Suhrawardī
175 - Bright Ideas: Illuminationism
176 - A Man for all Seasons: al-Ṭūsī
177 - To Be or Not to Be: Debating Avicenna’s Metaphysics
178 - Eyes Wide Shut: Rūmī and Philosophical Sufism
179 - Mohammed Rustom on Philosophical Sufism
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180 - Proof Positive: The Logical Tradition
181 - By the Book: Ibn Taymiyya
182 - Aftermath: Philosophy and Science in the Mongol Age
183 - Family Feud: Philosophy at Shiraz
184 - Robert Wisnovsky on Commentary Culture
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185 - Follow the Leader: Philosophy under the Safavids
186 - To Be, Continued: Mullā Ṣadrā on Existence
187 - Return to Sender: Mullā Ṣadrā on Motion and Knowledge
188 - Sajjad Rizvi on Mullā Ṣadrā
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189 - Subcontinental Drift: Philosophy in Islamic India
190 - Turkish Delights - Philosophy under the Ottomans
191 - The Young Ones: Encounters with European Thought
192 - The Stronger Sex: Women Scholars and Islam
193 - All for One and One for All: Muḥammad 'Abduh and Muḥammad Iqbāl
194 - Iran So Far: After Ṣadrā
195 - Anke von Kügelgen on Contemporary Islamic Thought
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Origins

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1. Begin at the End: Introduction to Indian Philosophy
2. Sages, Schools and Systems: a Historical Overview
3. Kingdom for a Horse: India in the Vedic Period
4. Hide and Seek: The Upanisads
5. Do it Yourself: Indra’s Search for the Self in the Upaniṣads
6. You Are What You Do: Karma
7. Brian Black on the Upanisads
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8. Case Worker: Panini's Grammar
9. Suffering and Smiling: the Buddha
10. Crossover Appeal: The Nature of the Buddha’s Teaching
11. Carry a Big Stick: Ancient Indian Political Thought
12. Rupert Gethin on Buddhism and the Self
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13. Grand Illusion: Dharma and Deception in the Mahabharata
14. World on a String: The Bhagavad-Gita
15. Mostly Harmless: Non-Violence
16. Better Half: Women in Ancient India
17. Jessica Frazier on Hinduism and Philosophy
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Age of the Sutra

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18. A Tangled Web: the Age of the Sutra
19. When in Doubt: the Rise of Skepticism
20. Master of Ceremonies: Jaimini’s Mimamsa-Sutra
21. Innocent Until Proven Guilty: Mimamsa on Knowledge and Language
22. Elisa Freschi on Mimamsa
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23. Source Code: Badarayana’s Vedanta-Sutra
24. No Two Ways About It: Śaṅkara and Advaita Vedānta
25. Communication Breakdown: Bhartrihari on Language
26. Francis Clooney on Vedanta
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27. The Theory of Evolution: Īśvarakṛṣṇa’s Sāṃkhya-kārikā
28. Who Wants to Live Forever? Early Ayurvedic Medicine
29. Practice Makes Perfect: Patañjali’s Yoga-Sūtra
30. Philipp Maas on Yoga
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31. Where There’s Smoke There’s Fire: Gautama’s Nyāya-Sūtra
32. What You See Is What You Get: Nyāya on Perception
33. Standard Deductions: Nyāya on Reasoning
34. The Truth Shall Set You Free: Nyāya on the Mind
35. Ujjwala Jha and V.N. Jha on Nyāya
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36. Fine Grained Analysis: Kaṇāda’s Vaiśeṣika-sūtra
37. The Whole Story: Vaiśeṣika on Complexity and Causation
38. A Day in the Life: Theories of Time
39. The Wolf’s Footprint: Indian Naturalism
40. Mind out of Matter: Materialist Theories of the Self
41. Monima Chadha on Indian Philosophy of Mind
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42. In Good Taste: The Aesthetics of Rasa

Buddhists and Jains

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43. We Beg to Differ: the Buddhists and Jains
44. It All Depends: Nagarjuna on Emptiness
45. Motion Denied: Nāgārjuna on Change
46. No Four Ways About It: Nāgārjuna’s Tetralemma
47. Jan Westerhoff on Nāgārjuna
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48. Taking Perspective: the Jain Theory of Standpoints
49. Well Qualified: the Jains on Truth
50. Marie-Hélène Gorisse on Jain Epistemology
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51. Change of Mind: Vasubandhu and Yogācāra Buddhism
52. Under Construction: Dignāga on Perception and Language
53. Follow the Evidence: Dignāga's Logic
54. Graham Priest on Logic and Buddhism
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55. Doors of Perception: Dignāga on Consciousness
56. Who’s Pulling Your Strings? Buddhaghosa
57. Learn by Doing: Tantra
58. Amber Carpenter on Animals in Indian Philosophy
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59. Looking East: Indian Influence on Greek Thought
60. The Buddha and I: Indian Influence on Islamic and European Thought
61. What Happened Next: Indian Philosophy After Dignaga
62. Kit Patrick on Philosophy and Indian History
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Locating and Debating Precolonial African Philosophy

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1. Something Old, Something New: Introducing Africana Philosophy
2. It’s Only Human: Philosophy in Prehistoric Africa
3. Fertile Ground: Philosophy in Ancient Mesopotamia
4. Pyramid Schemes: Philosophy in Ancient Egypt
5. Father Knows Best: Moral and Political Philosophy in the Instructions
6. Heated Exchanges: Philosophy in Egyptian Narratives and Dialogues
7. Richard Parkinson on Egyptian Poetry
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8. Solomon, Socrates, and Other Sages: Early Ethiopian Philosophy
9. In You I Take Shelter: Zera Yacob
10. Think for Yourself: Walda Heywat
11. Teodros Kiros on Ethiopian Philosophy
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12. From Here to Timbuktu: Subsaharan Islamic Philosophy
13. Renewing the Faith: the Sokoto Caliphate
14. Souleymane Bachir Diagne on Islam in Africa
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15. Heard it Through the Grapevine: Oral Philosophy in Africa
16. Samuel Imbo on Okot p'Bitek and Oral Traditions
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17. Event Horizon: African Philosophy of Time
18. One to Rule Them All: God in African Philosophy
19. Behind the Mask: African Philosophy of the Person
20. I Am Because We Are: Communalism in African Ethics and Politics
21. The Doctor Will See You Now: Divination, Witchcraft, and Knowledge
22. Women Have No Tribe: Gender in African Tradition
23. Nkiru Nzegwu on Gender in African Tradition
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24. Professionally Speaking: The Reaction Against Ethnophilosophy
25. Wise Guys: Sage Philosophy
26. Kai Kresse on the Anthropology of Philosophy
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27. Beyond the Reaction: The Continuing Relevance of Precolonial Traditions
28. Chike Jeffers on Precolonial African Philosophy
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Slavery and the Creation of Diasporic Africana Philosophy

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29. Out of Africa: Slavery and the Diaspora
30. Dualist Personality: Anton Wilhelm Amo
31. Justin Smith on Amo and Race in Early Modern Philosophy
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32. Talking Book: Early Africana Writing in English
33. Young, Gifted, and Black: Phillis Wheatley
34. New England Patriot: Lemuel Haynes
35. Letters from the Heart: Ignatius Sancho and Benjamin Banneker
36. Sons of Africa: Quobna Ottobah Cugoano and Olaudah Equiano
37. Liberty, Equality, Humanity: The Haitian Revolution
38. My Haitian Pen: Baron de Vastey
39. Doris Garraway on the Haitian Revolution
40. American Africans: Early Black Institutions in the US
41. Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Colonization Controversy
42. James Sidbury on African Identity
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43. Kill or Be Killed: David Walker’s Appeal
44. Religion and Pure Principles: Maria W. Stewart
45. Unnatural Causes: Hosea Easton’s Treatise
46. Melvin Rogers on Early 19th Century Political Thought
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47. Written by Himself: the Life of Frederick Douglass
48. Happy Holidays: Two Speeches by Frederick Douglass
49. Let Your Motto Be Resistance: Henry Highland Garnet
50. Nation Within a Nation: Martin Delany
51. I Read Men and Nations: Sojourner Truth and Frances Harper
52. Great White North: Emigration to Canada
53. Pilgrim’s Progress: Alexander Crummell
54. Wilson Moses on the Roots of Black Nationalism
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55. Planting the Seeds: James Africanus Beale Horton
56. African Personality: Edward Blyden
57. Race First, Then Party: T. Thomas Fortune
58. A Common Circle: Anténor Firmin
59. Frowning at Froudacious Fabrications: J.J. Thomas and F.A. Durham
60. Though Late, It Is Liberty: Abolitionism in Brazil
61. When and Where I Enter: Anna Julia Cooper
62. American Barbarism: Ida B. Wells
63. Brittney Cooper on Black Women Activists
64. God is a Negro: Henry McNeal Turner
65. Separate Fingers, One Hand: Booker T. Washington
66. Lifting the Veil: Introducing W.E.B. Du Bois
67. Chike Jeffers on Slavery and Diasporic Philosophy
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Africana Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

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68. The Problem of the Color Line: Introducing the Twentieth Century
69. The Best We Have: The American Negro Academy
70. Tommy Curry on the Early 20th Century
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71. In Blyden’s Wake: West African Intellectuals of the Early Twentieth Century
72. In A Class of Their Own: Early African American Socialism
73. Vanessa Wills on Africana Marxism
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74. Black Star: Marcus Garvey
75. Now I Have a Rival: the Two Amy Garveys
76. Michael Dawson on Garvey and Black Nationalism
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77. A Race Capital: the Harlem Renaissance
78. Freedom Through Art: Alain Locke
79. Leonard Harris on Alain Locke
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80. Scholarly Contributions: African American Professional Philosophers
81. Making History: Carter G. Woodson
82. The Florida Project: Zora Neale Hurston
83. Songs of the People: Paul Robeson and the Negro Spiritual
84. Live Long and Protest: W.E.B. Du Bois, 1920-1963
85. Liam Kofi Bright on Du Bois' Philosophy of Science
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86. French Connection: The Negritude Movement
87. Call It Intuition: Leopold Senghor
88. The Surreal Deal: Aimé and Suzanne Césaire
89. Separate but Unequal: E. Franklin Frazier
90. Move Fast and Break Things: C.L.R. James
91. Massa Day Done: Oliver Cox and Eric Williams
92. Half the World: Claudia Jones
93. Carole Boyce Davies on Claudia Jones
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94. How Did You Happen? Richard Wright
95. Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison
96. A Lover’s War: James Baldwin
97. American Dream: Martin Luther King Jr.
98. Meena Krishnamurthy on Martin Luther King Jr
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99. American Nightmare: Malcolm X
100. Chike Jeffers on the First Half of the Twentieth Century
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101. Crossing Paths: the Last Years of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr
102. From Cuba with Love: Juan Rene Betancourt
103. A Federal Case: Nnamdi Azikiwe and Obafemi Awolowo
104. In Unity Lies Strength: Kwame Nkrumah
105. Meeting the Gaze: Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin White Masks
106. Combat Literature: Franz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth
107. Lewis Gordon on Frantz Fanon
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108. Or Does It Explode? Lorraine Hansberry
109. Say It Loud: Black Power
110. Politics with Bloodshed: the Black Panthers
111. A Kwanzaa Story: Maulana Karenga
112. Poems That Kill: the Black Arts Movement
113. A Fighting God: Black Theology
114. Teacher Taught Me: Julius Nyerere
115. Weapon of Choice: Amílcar Cabral
116. Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò and Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò on Cabral
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117. Spear of the Nation: Nelson Mandela and the ANC
118. African Survivals: Abdias do Nascimento
119. The Space Race: Afrofuturism
120. Redemption Songs: Reggae and Rastafari
121. No Agreement: Fela Kuti and Wole Soyinka
122. A More Human Face: Steve Biko
123. History Teaches Us: Walter Rodney
124. Double Jeopardy: Black Feminism
125. Phenomenal Woman: The Black Women’s Literary Renaissance
126. Fugitive for Justice: Angela Davis
127. Knowing the Difference: Audre Lorde
128. Marginal Comments: bell hooks and Patricia Hill Collins
129. Afrophone Home: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
130. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o on Himself
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131. Mixed Messages: Black British Cultural Studies
132. French Creolizing: Edouard Glissant and the Créolité Movement
133. John Drabinski on Edouard Glissant
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134. The Marx Brothers: Cedric J. Robinson
135. Mastering Ceremonies: Sylvia Wynter
136. Civilization Reclaimed: African-Centered Thought
137. Asante Sana: Molefi Asante’s Afrocentricity
138. Taking it Out of Neutral: Critical Race Theory
139. A Love Supreme: Cornel West
140. Cornel West on Himself
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141. Job Openings: the Rise of Africana Professional Philosophy
142. Final Chat with Chike Jeffers
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Classical Chinese Philosophy

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1. Journey of a Thousand Li: Introduction to Chinese Philosophy
2. The Only Constant: Change and the "Yi Jing"
3. Karyn Lai on Classical Chinese Philosophy
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4. Open Season: the Historical Context
5. Going Paperless: Ancient Chinese Texts
6. Franklin Perkins on Excavated Texts
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7. Uncrowned King: Kongzi (Confucius) and the Analects
8. Confucius Says: Reading the Analects
9. Family Values: Confucian Role Ethics
10. We’re a Pack Animal: Individual and Society in Confucianism
11. Mark Csikszentmihalyi on Early Confucianism
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12. Gentlemen’s Agreement: Confucian Virtue Ethics
13. The Trembling Ox: Mengzi and the Compassionate Heart
14. Every Man for Himself: Virtue and the Body
15. Flexing Your Moral Muscles: Xunzi on Moral Cultivation
16. To Become or Not to Become: the Confucians on Our Moral Natures
17. Knowing Me, Knowing You: Confucian Epistemology
18. Erica Brindley on Music and the Cosmos in Confucianism
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19. The Kingly Way: Confucian Political Philosophy
20. Heaven Can Wait: Ritual and Religion in Confucianism
21. Sor-Hoon Tan on Confucian Democracy
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22. Inside Job: Women in Confucianism
23. Amy Olberding on Confucian Ethics
24. Measuring Up: Mohist philosophy
25. Benefit, Then Stop: Mohism and Impartial Care
26. Culture Wars: Mohist and Confucian Debates
27. Give Peace a Chance: the Mohists on War and Politics
28. Ting Mien Lee on Mohism and Confucianism
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29. Ghost Writers: the Mohists on Religion
30. Horse of a Different Color: the Mohists on Language and Knowledge
31. Push and Pull: Mohist Dialectic
32. Chris Fraser on Mohism
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33. Let Us Count the Ways: What is Daoism?
34. You Don’t Say! The Dao That Cannot Be Told
35. Way Better than Greenwashing: Daoism on Nature
36. Fishing for Complements: Polarities in Daoism