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Steve Nadler

This Easter why not hop on over to #HoPWaG and check out our latest episode? It's an interview with Steven Nadler about all things occasionalist!

www.historyofphilosophy.net/occasionalis...

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Just about to drop over on #HoPWaG, an interview with the fabulous Steven Nadler on occasionalism! Will our conversation contain any Easter eggs? Tune in to find out...

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Coming up in a few hours on #HoPWaG: Karyn and I speak to Bryan Van Norden, one of the most prominent and eloquent interpreters of Chinese philosophy!

We ask him, among other things, how should we convince skeptics to make the effort to investigate non-European philosophical traditions?

Cotton being lit aflame by a match

Today's new #HoPWaG episode looks at the occasionalism of Malebranche: why did he think that God is the only cause that can make anything happen? His arguments are surprisingly good as it turns out...

www.historyofphilosophy.net/malebranche-...

#philsky #philosophy #malebranche #podcasts

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Today's new #HoPWaG episode: an interview with Hans-Georg Moeller on humor and amoral ethics in a Daoist classic, the Zhuangzi - and its relation to Confucianism and Legalism.

www.historyofphilosophy.net/zhuangzi-moe...

#philsky #philosophy #zhuangzi #daoism #podcast

Coming up on tomorrow's new #HoPWaG episode, we talk to Hans-Georg Moeller about humor, talking animals, and "genuine pretending" in the Daoist classic, "Zhuangzi."

It's a special occasion this week, as we start to look at Malebranche on #HoPWaG! Starting with his solution to the problem of evil.

www.historyofphilosophy.net/malebranche

#philsky #philosophy #podcast #malebranche

Going to California | History of Philosophy without any gaps Like Led Zeppelin once upon a time I am "going to California" where I'll be giving several talks in late March and early April. Mostly at Berkeley:March 17, 5 pm: The Anatomy of Avicenna’s Philosophy:...

If you're in striking distance, come see me speaking at Berkeley in California in the coming weeks! Info here on the #HoPWaG blog (I will add more links as I get them):

www.historyofphilosophy.net/going-to-cal...

#berkeley #philsky #philosophy

Chinese landscape painting with a sage

It's #HoPWaG time again! Today we look at the theme of "wandering" in the Zhuangzi, comparing this to Thomas Nagel's idea of "philosophical absurdity."

www.historyofphilosophy.net/zhuangzi-wan...

#philsky #philosophy #podcasts #daoism #zhuangzi

Painting of the Port Royal Monastery

On today's new episode we tackle the Port-Royal Logic, the most influential philosophy textbook of early modern Europe, which combines ideas from Descartes with scholasticism:

www.historyofphilosophy.net/port-royal-l...

#logic #podcast #philsky #philosophy #podcast #earlymodern #hopwag

Painting of a butterfly

www.historyofphilosophy.net/zhuangzi-death

Time for a new #HoPWaG episode! Today we tackle the many passages in the Daoist classic, the Zhuangzi, that deal with death - including the famous "dreaming you are a butterfly" passage.

#daoism #zhuangzi #philsky #philosophy #podcasts

Portrait of Antoine Arnauld

Today's new #HoPWaG episode:

www.historyofphilosophy.net/arnauld-jansenism

Antoine Arnauld combines Cartesian philosophy with Jansenism, one of the most controversial religious movements of the 17th century.

#philosophy #philsky #podcast #christianity #descartes #arnauld

Coming up tomorrow on the new podcast episode of #HoPWaG, we look at Arnauld and Jansenism, and why this intense religious movement is associated with Cartesianism.

Painting of two Chinese sages.

Today on #HoPWaG, we look at the variety of presentations (and names) of Confucius in the "Zhuangzi." What do these portrayal's tell us about Daoist attitudes towards Confucianism?

www.historyofphilosophy.net/zhuangzi-con...

#podcast #philosophy #philsky #confucisus #daoism #zhuangzi

Coming up on Sunday on #HoPWaG, we have a look at the various mentions of Confucius/Kongzi in the Zhuangzi. Did Daoists think this great sage was all that great?

#podcast #philosophy #daoism #zhuangzi

On today's new episode we look at some of the most memorable passages from the Zhuangzi, the so-called "skill stories," in which butchers, wheelmakers, etc are shown to have a special kind of knowledge.

www.historyofphilosophy.net/zhuangzi-ski...

#HoPWaG #philosophy #philsky #podcast #daoism

Roulette wheel

First #HoPWaG of the year on early modern philosophy. It's a fun one: what contemporary philosophers have made of Pascal's wager! Would it make sense to bet on the existence of God just because the payoffs are better?

www.historyofphilosophy.net/pascals-wager

#philsky #philosophy #podcasts

New #HoPWaG for you today, on animals in the Daoist classic, the Zhuangzi! With discussion of one of my all time favorite passages, the "happy fish" story.

www.historyofphilosophy.net/zhuangzi-ani...

#philosophy #philsky #daoism #podcasts

Pascal performing an atmospheric experiment

Last #HoPWaG episode of the year, on Blaise Pascal!

He was a pioneering scientist and deeply spiritual religious thinker; what united these two sides of his thought?

www.historyofphilosophy.net/pascal

#philsky #philosophy #pascal #podcasts

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Today's new #HoPWaG is an interview on the debates over argumentation and truth between the Zhuangzi and the Mohists, with Wai-Wai Chiu - a former student of Karyn's!

www.historyofphilosophy.net/zhuangzi-moh...

#philsky #philosophy #daoism #mohism #chinesephilosophy

Coming up tomorrow on #HoPWaG: we speak to Wai-Wai Chiu about the debates between Mohists and Daoists on language and argumentation, focusing on the criticisms of Mohism found in the Zhuangzi. Who has the better of this dispute? Only one place to find out...

#philsky #philosophy #podcast #daoism

New #HoPWaG for you today: The Zhuangzi's critique of dogmatism in argument and politics, which it calls "shi-fei" thinking.

www.historyofphilosophy.net/zhuangzi-shi...

#philsky #philosophy #podcast #daoism #zhuangzi

Coming up tomorrow on #HoPWaG: we meet Pierre Gassendi, who rivaled Descartes as an early French protagonist of the "new science."

Our new podcast episode on #HoPWaG is the first of a mini-series on the Daoist classic, the Zhuangzi! We start by asking in what sense this is a "skeptical" work.

www.historyofphilosophy.net/zhuangzi-ske...

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Coming up on Sunday, we begin to look at everyone's favorite philosophical work from classical China, the Zhuangzi!

#hopwag #philsky #daoism #philosophy #podcast

Chinese terracotta army

Today's new #HoPWaG: the famous "Art of War" by Sunzi (or Sun Tzu, if you prefer), and its surprising links to Daoism!

www.historyofphilosophy.net/sunzi-art-of...

#artofwar #daoism #philsky #philosophy #podcast

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Today on #HoPWaG we're joined by Gideon Manning to hear about medicine in Descartes and amongst the Cartesians! A fascinating discussion of method, dualism, the circulatory system, and much more.

www.historyofphilosophy.net/cartesian-me...

#philsky #descartes #philosophy #podcast

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On today's new #HoPWaG episode we are joined by Robin Wang, who discusses yin-yang theory: she argues it is not so much a piece of doctrine as a whole pattern of thought.

www.historyofphilosophy.net/yin-yang-wang

#philsky #chinesephilosophy #yinyang

a black and white yin yang symbol with two circles in it ALT: a black and white yin yang symbol with two circles in it

Tomorrow on #HoPWaG, Prof Robin Wang of Loyola Marymount University ("the other LMU" as I like to think of it) joins us to discuss yin-yang theory in Daoism and classical Chinese thought more generally.