HoP 492 Changing By Degrees: French Scholasticism

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  HoP 492 Changing By Degrees: French Scholasticism

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  21:18

  How philosophy at the universities evolved in response to Cartesianism and the “new science.”
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  HoP 491 Image Problems: Arnauld vs Malebranche on Ideas

  19/4/2026

  19:05

  Arnauld’s attack on Malebranche’s theory of the “vision in God” leads to a nuanced debate over the nature of ideas.
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  HoP 490 Steven Nadler on Occasionalism

  5/4/2026

  32:15

  What inspired the occasionalist theory embraced by the 17th century Cartesians? We find out from a leading specialist on the topic.
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  HoP 489 All Power to Him: Malebranche and Occasionalism

  22/3/2026

  21:17

  What led Malebranche to his notorious view that all bodily motions and thoughts are caused by God, with created things serving only as “occasions” for divine action?
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  HoP 488 No Particular Reason: Nicolas Malebranche

  8/3/2026

  19:34

  We begin to explore Malebranche’s controversial development of Cartesian philosophy by looking at his theodicy.
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  HoP 487 Showing Good Judgment: The Port Royal Logic

  22/2/2026

  21:58

  Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole update the study of logic to take account of the ideas of Descartes.
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  HoP 486 Friends of the Truth: Arnauld and Jansenism

  8/2/2026

  19:32

  Antoine Arnauld combines Cartesian philosophy with Jansenism, one of the most controversial religious movements of the 17th century.
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  HoP 485 Liz Jackson on Pascal's Wager

  25/1/2026

  38:41

  An interview on contemporary approaches to Pascal's Wager: where decision theory meets philosophy of religion.
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  HoP 484 You Bet Your Life: Pascal’s Wager

  11/1/2026

  22:41

  Should we gamble on belief in God to have a chance at infinite reward?
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  HoP 483 Between Infinity and the Void: Blaise Pascal

  28/12/2025

  20:13

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