
HoP 483 Between Infinity and the Void: Blaise Pascal
28/12/2025 | 20 min
Blaise Pascal was a pioneering scientist and deeply spiritual religious thinker; what united these two sides of his thought?

HoP 482 Indivisible, Under God: the Revival of Atomism
14/12/2025 | 20 min
Why did Sébastian Basso and Pierre Gassendi think ancient atomism was the key to developing a new, modern science?

HoP 481 True Fool’s Gold: Pierre Gassendi
30/11/2025 | 20 min
Gassendi’s path from skepticism to “baptized Epicureanism.”

HoP 480 Honorable Ignorance: French Skepticism
16/11/2025 | 21 min
So-called “libertines” like Mothe le Vayer revive ancient skepticism, provoking a backlash from Mersenne and Arnauld. Were they right to see the skeptics as anti-religious?

HoP 479 Gideon Manning on Cartesian Medicine
02/11/2025 | 33 min
An interview exploring Descartes' interest in medicine, how his medical ideas relate to his dualism, and his influence on medical science.



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