Medicine
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Early Greek medicine up until Hippocrates, and its relation to Pre-Socratic philosophers like Empedocles.
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Sextus Empiricus, the last great ancient skeptic, expounds a radical branch of the tradition called Pyrrhonism. Peter raises some doubts about how to interpret him.
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The ancient relationship between medicine and philosophy culminates in Galen, who passes judgment on the three main “sects”: rationalism, empiricism and methodism.
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Jim Hankinson, a leading expert on philosophical themes in Galen, joins Peter to discuss this greatest doctor of the ancient world.
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A double dose of Peters, as Pormann joins Adamson to discuss medicine and philosophy in the Islamic world.
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Drawing on Galen and Aristotle, philosophers from al-Kindi to Miskawayh compose ethical works designed us to achieve health in soul, as well as body.
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Philosophical aspects of Ayurveda, focusing on the oldest surviving medical treatise, the Caraka-Saṃhitā.
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An interview with Monica Green reveals parallels between medicine and philosophy in the middle ages.
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Ancient Egyptian figures and writings including the Pyramid Texts, Imhotep, and the "first monotheist" Akhenaten reflect on the nature of things and questions of morality.
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Special forms of knowledge and the explanation of misfortunes in African tradition.
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Africanus Horton looks toward a future of self-government for West Africa beyond slavery and colonialism.
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Jacopo Zabarella outlines the correct method for pursuing, and then presenting, scientific discoveries.
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Connections between philosophy and advances in medicine, including the anatomy of Vesalius.
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The polymath Girolamo Cardano explores medicine, mathematics, philosophy of mind, and the interpretation of dreams.
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An interview with Guido Giglioni, who speaks to us about the sources and philosophical implications of medical works of the Renaissance.
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Brian Copenhaver joins us to explain how Ficino and other Renaissance philosophers thought about magic.
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Comets! Magnets! Armadillos! In this wide-ranging interview Lorraine Daston tells us how Renaissance and early modern scientists dealt with the extraordinary events they called "wonders".
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Challenges to Galenic medical orthodoxy from natural philosophy: Jean Fernel with his idea of the human’s “total substance,” and the Paracelsans.
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How scientists of the Elizabethan age anticipated the discoveries and methods of the Enlightenment (without necessarily publishing them).
