Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
Leon Battista Alberti, Benedetto Cotrugli, and Poggio Bracciolini grapple with the moral and conceptual problems raised by the prospect of people getting filthy rich.
T. Thomas Fortune uses newspaper editorials to put forth a theory of civil rights and set out a plan of political action for protecting them.
Tommaso Campanella’s The City of the Sun and other utopian works of the Italian Renaissance describe perfect cities as an ideal for real life politics.
Edward Blyden gains appreciation for Islam in West Africa and gradually moves from political nationalism to cultural nationalism.
Bruni, Poggio, Machiavelli, and Guicciardini explore political ideas and historical method in works on Roman and Italian history.
Africanus Horton looks toward a future of self-government for West Africa beyond slavery and colonialism.
Leading Machiavelli scholar Quentin Skinner joins Peter to discuss morality, history, and religion in the Prince and the Discourses.
Wilson Moses speaks to us about his research into early black nationalism, with reference to Crummell, Douglass, and others.
Stop me if you've heard this one
Talking politics: History of Ideas
For those on the lookout for other history of philosophy podcasts, you might check out this series, which in comparison to HoPWaG is mercifully short. Covers some of the main figures since Hobbes, including Wollstonecraft, Marx, Fanon, etc.
Peter auf Deutsch
Daily Nous blog post
Here is a blog post I just wrote for "Daily Nous": The Margins of Philosophy, on the importance of studying "minor" figures and including them in popular philosophical projects like this podcast.
Intelligent Speech Conference
Just an announcement that I will be speaking at Intelligent Speech 2020, an online conference that brings together the best educational podcasters and their listeners, to be held online on June 27. Some key info (act now to get a cheaper ticket):
Stephen Fry on HoPWaG
OMG the new issue of podcasting magazine Pod Bible has an interview in which the great Stephen Fry (of whom I am a huge fan, like he is literally my favorite celebrity) reports that he listens to HoPWaG. So listeners you are in excellent company! And I, to quote from Blackadder, am as excited as a particularly excitable person who has a special reason to be excited.
Interview on New Books in Hindu Studies
Here is an interview I did for "New Books in Hindu Studies" on "Classical Indian Philosophy" which is vol.5 of the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, co-authored with Jonardon Ganeri.
Me on the internet yet again
Looking forward to speaking this Thursday (April 2, 2020) at 6 pm Central European Time in Bob Pasnau's "virtual colloquium" on medieval philosophy.
My topic will be Averroes’ “Decisive Treatise” as a Dialectical Work.
https://inmediasphil.wordpress.com/2020/03/29/virtual-colloquium-2-featu...
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Ravi P Reddy
Love the podcasts. Please correct the errors in the MP3 tags which are creating errors when I try to play the files in sequence. I corrected my downloaded copy by using MP3 Tag editor but other users may not have the tools.
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Bashir
Hume’s argument compels us to question what we can infer about causality on the basis of experience. Given phenomena as disparate as the motion of billiard balls impacting one another, the radioactive decay of uranium isotopes, and the choice about whether to eat strawberry or chocolate ice cream given that a person likes both equally but can only choose one, how do we infer a notion of causality that applies to them all?
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Bashir
I know I'm hella late to this conversation but I hope my comment will nonetheless elicit a response. I discovered the podcast about a month ago and have been working my way from the first episode at a steady clip. It's become part of my daily routine. I'm particularly looking forward to geting into the episodes on Indian and African philosophy. With Chinese philosophy hopefully to come. Thank you, Peter, for the great work.
Reading all the previous comments in this thread led me to ponder this question:
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Austin
I've really been enjoying this podcast, it's been challenging and exciting stuff to dig into. Thank you both for the work you've put into this. I hope we can get some stuff on Africana Philosophy and Film when we get into the 20th and 21st century stuff!
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Karl Young
:-) Well, given the relatively recent developments re. chaos, maybe there’s some room for a slight glitch in the recurrence...
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Luiz Eva
Dear Peter Adamson:
My pleasure! Some of these philosophers are mentioned in a passing way by Richard Popkin's "History of Scepticism from Savonarola to Bayle" (another important and more known reference, and he quotes Busson himself). I look forward to these coming episodes.
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Joseph Edmondson
Hi, I'm going to publish content online and will use you as a resource. I plan to drive traffic your way as much as possible. Are there any permissions necessary when linking to your content? Please let me know and thank you for what you do for philosophy.
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Karl Young
Oh no Peter not again... nice piece, covering quite a bit of ground (Nietzsche, the Stoics, Hindu philosophy,...) quickly - too bad you didn’t have room to add anything about Boltzmann and his physics cronies re. their contribution via ergodic theory - that’s a catchy version...
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Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, takes listeners through the history of philosophy, "without any gaps." The series looks at the ideas, lives and historical context of the major philosophers as well as the lesser-known figures of the tradition.
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