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Classical Greek
Presocratics
- 1. Thales
- 2. Anaximander, Anaximenes
- 3. Xenophanes
- 4. Pythagoras
- 5. Heraclitus
- 6. McCabe on Heraclitus
- 7. Parmenides
- 8. Zeno and Melissus
- 9. Atomism
- 10. Anaxagoras
- 11. Empedocles
- 12. Schofield on Presocratics
- 13. Hippocrates
- 14. Sophists
- 500a. Johnson on Sappho
- 500b. Lane on Greek historians
Socrates and Plato
- 15. Socrates without Plato
- 16. Plato's Socrates
- 17. Woolf on Socrates
- 18. Plato's Life and Works
- 19. Charmides, Euthydemus
- 20. Plato's Gorgias
- 21. Plato's Meno
- 22. Plato's Theaetetus
- 23. McCabe on Plato
- 24. Plato's Phaedo
- 25. Plato's Republic pt.1
- 26. Plato's Republic pt.2
- 27. Plato's Parmenides
- 28. Leigh on the Sophist
- 29. Plato's Cratylus
- 30. Plato's Timaeus
- 31. Plato's Erotic Dialogues
- 32. Sheffield on Platonic Love
- 33. Plato on Myth
Aristotle
- 34. Aristotle's Life and Works
- 35. Aristotle's Logic
- 36. Aristotle's Epistemology
- 37. Hugh Benson on Aristotle
- 38. Aristotle on Substance
- 39. Aristotle's Four Causes
- 40. Aristotle's Physics
- 41. Sorabji on Aristotle
- 42. Aristotle on Soul
- 43. Aristotle's Biology
- 44. Aristotle's Ethics 1
- 45. Aristotle's Ethics 2
- 46. Scott on Aristotle
- 47. Aristotle on Mind and God
- 48. Political Philosophy
- 49. Rhetoric, Poetics
- 50. Aristotle on Plato
- 51. Successors
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Later Antiquity
Hellenistic
- 52. Hellenistic Schools
- 53. The Cynics
- 54. The Cyrenaics
- 55. Epicurus' Principles
- 56. Epicurean Ethics
- 57. Epicurean Therapy
- 58. Lucretius
- 59. Warren on Epicurus
- 60. Stoic Logic
- 61. Stoic Epistemology
- 62. Stoic Physics
- 63. Stoic Ethics
- 64. Sedley on Stoicism
- 65. Seneca
- 66. Epictetus
- 67. Marcus Aurelius
- 68. Sellars on Roman Stoics
- 69. Pyrrho
- 70. New Academy
- 71. Cicero
- 72. Woolf on Cicero
- 73. Sextus Empiricius
- 74. Long on the Self
- 75. Ancient Medicine
- 76. Hankinson on Galen
Late Antiquity
- 77. Introduction
- 78. Middle Platonism
- 79. Philo of Alexandria
- 80. Plutarch
- 81. Opsomer on Platonism
- 82. Aristotelianism
- 83. Alexander of Aphrodisias
- 84. Rhetoric and Philosophy
- 85. Astronomy and Astrology
- 86. Cuomo on Mathematics
- 87. Plotinus Life and Works
- 88. Plotinus on the One
- 89. Plotinus on the Soul
- 90. Plotinus on Matter & Evil
- 91. Wilberding on Plotinus
- 92. Porphyry
- 93. Iamblichus
- 94. Proclus
- 95. Sheppard on Aesthetics
- 96. O'Meara on Neoplatonism
- 97. The Last Pagans
- 98. Philoponus
- 99. Sorabji - the Commentators
- 100. Ancient Culture
Ancient Christianity
- 101. Introduction
- 102. Greek Church Fathers
- 103. Origen
- 104. Cappadocians
- 105. Pseudo-Dionysius
- 106. Maximus the Confessor
- 107. Asceticism
- 108. Boys-Stones - Patristics
- 109. Latin Church Fathers
- 110. Augustine's Confessions
- 111. Augustine on Language
- 112. Augustine on Freedom
- 113. Augustine City of God
- 114. Byers on Augustine
- 115. Augustine on Mind
- 116. Brittain on Augustine
- 117. Latin Platonism
- 118. Boethius
- 119. Marenbon on Boethius
- 500c. Engberg-Pedersen on Paul
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Islamic World
Formative Period
- 120. Philosophy and Islam
- 121. Mu'tazilites
- 122. Translation Movement
- 123. Al-Kindī
- 124. Judaism and Philosophy
- 125. Saadia Gaon
- 126. Al-RÄzÄ«
- 127. Pormann on Medicine
- 128. The Baghdad School
- 129. Al-FÄrÄbÄ«
- 130. Al-FÄrÄbÄ« Political
- 131. Black on al-FÄrÄbÄ«
- 132. Vision
- 133. Music and Philosophy
- 134. Arabic Ethics
- 135. The BÅ«yid Age
- 136. Daftary on IsmÄ'Ä«lism
- 137. Ash'arites
- 138. Avicenna's Life
- 139. Avicenna on Existence
- 140. Avicenna on God
- 141. Avicenna on Soul
- 142. Gutas on Avicenna
- 143. Al-GhazÄlÄ«
- 144. Al-GhazÄlÄ« "Incoherence"
- 145. Griffel on al-GhazÄlÄ«
- 500d. Ted Good on Zoroastrianism
Andalusia
- 146. Introduction
- 147. Islamic Law
- 148. Ibn Ṭufayl
- 149. Averroes
- 150. Arabic into Latin
- 151. Averroes on Intellect
- 152. Taylor on Averroes
- 153. Ibn 'Arabī's mysticism
- 154. Ibn Khaldūn
- 155. Ibn Gabirol
- 156. Pessin Jewish Platonism
- 157. Judah Hallevi
- 158. Freedom and Astrology
- 159. Ethics and Judaism
- 160. Maimonides
- 161. Maimonides on eternity
- 162. Stroumsa on Maimonides
- 163. Maimonides Controversy
- 164. Gersonides
- 165. Crescas
- 166. Rudavsky Interview
- 167. Book of Job
- 168. Kabbalah
- 169. Albo and Abravanel
- 170. Freudenthal Interview
Eastern Traditions
- 171. Introduction
- 172. Al-BaghdÄdÄ«
- 173. Fakhr al-DÄ«n al-RÄzÄ«
- 174. Suhrawardī
- 175. Illuminationism
- 176. Al-Ṭūsī
- 177. Existence Debate
- 178. Rūmī and Sufism
- 179. Rustom on Sufism
- 180. Logical Tradition
- 181. Ibn Taymiyya
- 182. Mongol Era
- 183. Shiraz
- 184. Wisnovsky Commentaries
- 185. Safavids
- 186. MullÄ á¹¢adrÄ on Existence
- 187. MullÄ á¹¢adrÄ on Motion
- 188. Rizvi on MullÄ á¹¢adrÄ
- 189. Islamic India
- 190. Ottoman Empire
- 191. European Encounters
- 192. Women and Islam
- 193. 'Abduh and IqbÄl
- 194. After á¹¢adrÄ
- 195. von Kügelgen Interview
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Medieval
Early Medieval
- 196. Introduction
- 197. Carolingian Renaissance
- 198. Eriugena on Freedom
- 199. Eriugena's Periphyseon
- 200. Kraye and Marenbon
- 201. Gersh on Platonism
- 202. Roots of Scholasticism
- 203. Can God Change the Past?
- 204. Anselm's Life and Works
- 205. The Ontological Argument
- 206. Sweeney on Anselm
- 207. Problem of Universals
- 208. Heloise and Abelard
- 209. Abelard’s Ethics
- 210. Marenbon on Abelard
- 211. The Victorines
- 212. Debating the Trinity
- 213. Philosophy at Chartres
- 214. Philosophy of Nature
- 215. Medieval Podcasters
- 216. Individuation
- 217. Arlig on Mereology
- 218. Early Political
- 219. Gratian and Lombard
- 220. Humfress on Law
- 221. Hildegard of Bingen
- 222. Translations into Latin
- 223. Rise of the Universities
- 224. Emery on Institutions
- 500e. Watson on Ireland
Thirteenth Century
- 225. 13th Century Logic
- 226. 13th Century Physics
- 227. 13th Century Psychology
- 228. The Transcendentals
- 229. 13th Century Ethics
- 230. Robert Grosseteste
- 231. Roger Bacon
- 232. Burnett on Magic
- 233. Bonaventure
- 234. Peter Olivi
- 235. Toivanen on Animals
- 236. Franciscan Poverty
- 237. Hadewijch and Mechthild
- 238. Robert Kilwardby
- 239. Dutilh Novaes on Logic
- 240. Albert on Nature
- 241. Albert's Metaphysics
- 242. Cory on Self-Awareness
- 243. Thomas Aquinas
- 244. Aquinas Soul Knowledge
- 245. Ethics in Albert, Aquinas
- 246. The Rule of Law
- 247. Just War Theory
- 248. MacDonald on Aquinas
- 249. The Condemnations
- 250. Q&A
- 251. "Latin Averroism"
- 252. Eternity of the World
- 253. Speculative Grammar
- 254. Romance of the Rose
- 255. Speer Medieval Aesthetics
- 256. Henry of Ghent
- 257. Pickavé on Henry of Ghent
- 258. Trinity Eucharist
- 259. Cross on the Trinity
- 260. Scotus on Being
- 261. Scotus on Freedom
- 262. Scotus on Ethics
- 263. Scotus on Universals
- 264. Pini on Scotus
Fourteenth Century
- 265. Introduction to 14th c.
- 266. Pink on the Will
- 267. Marguerite Porete
- 268. Dante Alighieri
- 269. Church and State
- 270. Marsilius of Padua
- 271. Ockham Ethics Politics
- 272. Ockham’s Nominalism
- 273. Ockham on Mental Language
- 274. Brower-Toland on Ockham
- 275. Responses to Ockham
- 276. Foreknowledge
- 277. 14th Century Logic
- 278. Uckelman on Obligations
- 279. Oxford Calculators
- 280. 14th Century Physics
- 281. Green on Medicine
- 282. John Buridan
- 283. Zupko on Buridan
- 284. Autrecourt's Skepticism
- 285. Perler on Skepticism
- 286. Medieval Economic Theory
- 287. Meister Eckhart
- 288. German Dominicans
- 289. Angels
- 290. Pickavé on Emotions
- 291. English Mysticism
- 292. Chaucer and Langland
- 293. Gender and Sexuality
- 294. Davis on Chaucer
- 295. Jean Gerson
- 296. John Wyclif
- 297. Scholasticism in Europe
- 298. Ramon Llull and Petrarch
- 299. Pasnau on Substance
- 300a. Ancient Philosophy Today
- 300b Medieval Philosophy Today
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Byzantine
Byzantine
- 301. Introduction
- 302. Syriac and Armenian
- 303. Iconoclasm
- 304. John of Damascus
- 305. Louth on John of Damascus
- 306. Photius
- 307. Michael Psellos
- 308. O'Meara on Psellos
- 309. John Italos
- 310. Political Philosophy
- 311. Rhetoric in Byzantium
- 312. Byzantine Historiography
- 313. Anna Komnene
- 314. Ierodiakonou Commentaries
- 315. Gender in Byzantium
- 316. Law, Money, and War
- 317. Manuscripts
- 318. Primavesi on Manuscripts
- 319. The Proclus Revival
- 320. Byzantium and Islam
- 321. Herrin Byzantium & Islam
- 322. Palaiologan Science
- 323. Palamas and Hesychasm
- 324. Latin in Byzantium
- 325. Gemistos Plethon
- 326. Later Orthodox
- 327. Trizio on East and West
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Renaissance / Reformation
Italian Renaissance
- 328. Introduction
- 329. Greek Scholars in Italy
- 330. Italian Humanism
- 331. Lorenzo Valla
- 332. Kraye on Humanism
- 333. Humanist Ethics
- 334. Reviving Hellenistic
- 335. Ebbersmeyer on Emotions
- 336. Christine de Pizan
- 337. Italian Women Humanists
- 338. Defense of Women
- 339. Florentine Platonism
- 340. Marsilio Ficino
- 341. Theories of Love
- 342. Robichaud on Plato
- 343. Jewish Philosophy
- 344. Pico della Mirandola
- 345. Human Nature
- 346. Muratori on Animals
- 347. Savonarola
- 348. Civic Humanism
- 349. Machiavelli
- 350. Machiavelli Republicanism
- 351. Skinner on Machiavelli
- 352. Renaissance Histories
- 353. Italian Utopias
- 354. Renaissance Economics
- 355. Italian Universities
- 356. Aristotle Reception
- 357. Lines on Aristotle
- 358. Pomponazzi and Nifo
- 359. Zabarella
- 360. Hasse on Arabic Learning
- 361. Mathematics and Art
- 362. Renaissance Medicine
- 363. Cardano
- 364. Giglioni on Medicine
- 365. Telesio and Campanella
- 366. Magic and Astrology
- 367. Copenhaver on Magic
- 368. Giordano Bruno
- 369. Galileo and Renaissance
- 370. Rowland on Rome
Central Europe
- 371. Introduction
- 372. Printing Press
- 373. Northern Humanism
- 374. Nicholas of Cusa
- 375. Blum on Nicholas of Cusa
- 376. Erasmus
- 377. Northern Scholasticism
- 378. Martin Luther
- 379. Roper on Luther
- 380. Erasmus vs Luther
- 381. Melanchthon
- 382. The Peasants’ War
- 383. Huldrych Zwingli
- 384. John Calvin
- 385. Protestant Scholasticism
- 386. Cornelius Agrippa
- 387. Hattab on Protestantism
- 388. Paracelsus and Alchemy
- 389. Theories of Matter
- 390. Dutch Toleration
- 391. Lipsius and Stoicism
- 392. Sellars on Modern Stoics
- 393. Copernicus
- 394. Tycho Brahe
- 395. Kepler
- 396. Daston on Science
France
- 397. French Humanism
- 398. Marguerite of Navarre
- 399. Rabelais
- 400. Philosophy Podcasters
- 401. Logic and Language
- 402. Medicine
- 403. Peter Ramus
- 404. Goulding on Ramus
- 405. Ramism
- 406. Toleration in France
- 407. Antognazza on Toleration
- 408. The Huguenots
- 409. Jean Bodin
- 410. Blair on Bodin
- 411. Later French Humanism
- 412. Montaigne
- 413. French Skepticism
- 414. Lagerlund on Skepticism
- 415. Marie de Gournay
Britain
- 416. English Reformation
- 417. Scottish Reformation
- 418. MacCulloch on Britain
- 419. British Humanism
- 420. Thomas More
- 421. English Political
- 422. Richard Hooker
- 423. Elizabethan Poetry
- 424. Shakespeare
- 425. Gray on Shakespeare
- 426. Hamlet and Individualism
- 427. Tempest and Colonialism
- 428. Macbeth and Witchcraft
- 429. Women’s Spiritual Literat
- 430. British Scholasticism
- 431. Normore on Scholasticism
- 432. John Dee
- 433. Science in England
- 434. Theories of Vision
- 435. Gilbert and Magnetism
- 436. Robert Fludd
- 437. Rampling on Alchemy
Catholic Reformation
- 438. Introduction
- 439. The Inquisition
- 440. Exploration and Science
- 441. New World Debate
- 442. Williams on Disability
- 443. Iberian Humanism
- 444. Spanish Mysticism
- 445. The Jesuits
- 446. Aquinas Revival
- 447. Messmer Protestants Spain
- 448. Iberian Scholasticism
- 449. Tropia on Jesuits
- 450. Two Renaissance Artworks
- 451. Free will in Molina
- 452. Scholastic Metaphysics
- 453. Scholastic Law
- 454. Scholastic Politics
- 455. Pink on Suárez
- 456. Cervantes’ Don Quixote
- 457. Sabuco and Erculiani
- 458. The Cheese and the Worms
- 459. Bellarmine
- 460. Galileo's Trial
- 461. Reeves on Galileo
- Early Modern
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India
Origins
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Historical Overview
- 3. The Vedic Period
- 4. The Upanisads
- 5. The Self in the Upanisads
- 6. Karma
- 7. Black on the Upanisads
- 8. Panini's Grammar
- 9. The Buddha
- 10. The Buddha’s Teaching
- 11. Kautilya and Ashoka
- 12. Gethin on Buddhism
- 13. The Mahabharata
- 14. The Bhagavad-Gita
- 15. Non-Violence
- 16. Women in Ancient India
- 17. Frazier on Hinduism
Age of the Sutra
- 18. Age of the Sutra
- 19. Rise of Skepticism
- 20. Mimamsa-Sutra
- 21. Mimamsa on Knowledge
- 22. Freschi on Mimamsa
- 23. Vedanta-Sutra
- 24. Advaita Vedanta
- 25. Bhartrihari on Language
- 26. Clooney on Vedanta
- 27. Samkhya
- 28. Ayurvedic Medicine
- 29. Yoga-Sutra
- 30. Maas on Yoga
- 31. Nyaya-Sutra
- 32. Nyaya on Perception
- 33. Nyaya on Reasoning
- 34. Nyaya on the Mind
- 35. Jha and Jha on Nyaya
- 36. Vaisesika-Sutra
- 37. Vaisesika on Complexity
- 38. Theories of Time
- 39. Naturalism
- 40. Materialism
- 41. Chadha on Mind
- 42. Aesthetics of Rasa
Buddhists and Jains
- 43. Buddhists and Jains
- 44. Nagarjuna on Emptiness
- 45. Nagarjuna on Change
- 46. Nagarjuna’s Tetralemma
- 47. Westerhoff on Nagarjuna
- 48. Jain Theory of Standpoints
- 49. Jains on Truth
- 50. Gorisse Jain Epistemology
- 51. Vasubandhu and Yogacara
- 52. Dignaga on Perception
- 53. Dignaga's Logic
- 54. Graham Priest on Buddhism
- 55. Dignaga on Consciousness
- 56. Buddhaghosa
- 57. Tantra
- 58. Carpenter on Animals
- 59. Indian Influence on Greece
- 60. Influence on Islam, Europe
- 61. Later Indian Philosophy
- 62. Kit Patrick
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Africana
Precolonial
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Prehistoric Africa
- 3. Ancient Mesopotamia
- 4. Ancient Egypt
- 5. Egyptian Instructions
- 6. Egyptian Narratives
- 7. Parkinson on Egypt
- 8. Early Ethiopian Philosophy
- 9. Zera Yacob
- 10. Walda Heywat
- 11. Kiros on Ethiopia
- 12. Subsaharan Islam
- 13. Sokoto Caliphate
- 14. Diagne on Islam in Africa
- 15. Oral Philosophy in Africa
- 16. Imbo on Okot p'Bitek
- 17. Philosophy of Time
- 18. God in African Philosophy
- 19. Philosophy of the Person
- 20. Communalism
- 21. Divination and Witchcraft
- 22. Gender in Africa
- 23. Nzegwu on Gender
- 24. Professional School
- 25. Sage Philosophy
- 26. Kresse on Anthropology
- 27. Beyond the Reaction
- 28. Jeffers African Philosophy
Slavery / Diaspora
- 29. Introduction
- 30. Anton Wilhelm Amo
- 31. Smith on Amo
- 32. Early Writing in English
- 33. Phillis Wheatley
- 34. Lemuel Haynes
- 35. Sancho and Banneker
- 36. Cugoano and Equiano
- 37. Haitian Revolution
- 38. Baron de Vastey
- 39. Garraway on Haiti
- 40. Early Black Institutions
- 41. Colonization Controversy
- 42. Sidbury African Identity
- 43. David Walker
- 44. Maria W. Stewart
- 45. Hosea Easton
- 46. Rogers Political Thought
- 47. Frederick Douglass
- 48. Douglass Speeches
- 49. Henry Highland Garnet
- 50. Martin Delany
- 51. Truth and Harper
- 52. Emigration to Canada
- 53. Alexander Crummell
- 54. Moses on Nationalism
- 55. Africanus Horton
- 56. Edward Blyden
- 57. T. Thomas Fortune
- 58. Anténor Firmin
- 59. Thomas and Durham
- 60. Abolitionism in Brazil
- 61. Anna Julia Cooper
- 62. Ida B. Wells
- 63. Cooper on Women Activists
- 64. Henry McNeal Turner
- 65. Booker T. Washington
- 66. Introducing Du Bois
- 67. Jeffers on Part Two
Africana 20th Century
- 68. Introduction
- 69. American Negro Academy
- 70. Curry on Early 20th C.
- 71. West African Intellectuals
- 72. African American Socialism
- 73. Wills on Marxism
- 74. Marcus Garvey
- 75. Two Amy Garveys
- 76. Dawson on Garvey
- 77. Harlem Renaissance
- 78. Alain Locke
- 79. Harris on Locke
- 80. Professional Philosophers
- 81. Carter G. Woodson
- 82. Zora Neale Hurston
- 83. The Negro Spiritual
- 84. Later Du Bois
- 85. Bright on Du Bois
- 86. Negritude
- 87. Leopold Senghor
- 88. Aimé and Suzanne Césaire
- 89. E. Franklin Frazier
- 90. C.L.R. James
- 91. Cox and Williams
- 92. Claudia Jones
- 93. Boyce Davies on Jones
- 94. Richard Wright
- 95. Ralph Ellison
- 96. James Baldwin
- 97. Martin Luther King Jr
- 98. Krishnamurthy on King
- 99. Malcolm X
- 100. Jeffers on Part Three
- 101. Later Malcolm X and MLK
- 102. Juan Rene Betancourt
- 103. Azikiwe & Awolowo
- 104. Kwame Nkrumah
- 105. Fanon Black Skin
- 106. Fanon Wretched
- 107. Gordon on Fanon
- 108. Lorraine Hansberry
- 109. Black Power
- 110. Black Panthers
- 111. Maulana Karenga
- 112. Black Arts Movement
- 113. Black Theology
- 114. Julius Nyerere
- 115. AmÃlcar Cabral
- 116. Taiwo x 2 on Cabral
- 117. Mandela and the ANC
- 118. Nascimento
- 119. Afrofuturism
- 120. Reggae & Rastafari
- 121. Kuti and Soyinka
- 122. Steve Biko
- 123. Walter Rodney
- 124. Black Feminism
- 125. Angelou, Morrison, Walker
- 126. Angela Davis
- 127. Audre Lorde
- 128. hooks and Collins
- 129. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
- 130. Ngũgĩ interview
- 131. Cultural Studies
- 132. Glissant and Créolité
- 133. Drabinski on Glissant
- 134. Cedric Robinson
- 135. Sylvia Wynter
- 136. African-Centered Thought
- 137. Asante’s Afrocentricity
- 138. Critical Race Theory
- 139. Cornel West
- 140. Cornel West Interview
- 141. Professional Philosophy
- 142. Final Chat with Chike
- China
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133. John Drabinski on Edouard Glissant
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The author of an important book on Glissant joins us to talk about his approach to this major Caribbean thinker.
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Themes:
Further Reading
• J. Drabinski, Levinas and the Postcolonial: Race, Nation, Other (Edinburgh: 2012).
• J. Drabinski, "Aesthetics and the Abyss: Between Césaire and Lamming," The CLR James Journal 18 (2012): 126-152.
• J. Drabinski and M. Parham (eds), Theorizing Glissant: Sites and Citations (London: 2015).
• J. Drabinski, Glissant and the Middle Passage: Philosophy, Beginning, Abyss (Minnesota: 2019)
Comments
Creoles and pidgins as where language happens
One remark in the interview reminded me of a thought I had two years ago about creoles and pidgins as sites of creativity: https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2021/05/pidgins-and-creoles-as-prod…