History of philosophy

Colin received his BA from Reed College and his PhD from New York University.

Before teaching at the University of Washington, he was the Jerry Higgins Lecturer in History of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne.

He is an adjunct associate professor of German studies and an affiliate of the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies.

His work focuses primarily on German philosophy and issues in ethics.

Hello and welcome to The History of Philosophy in China by Peter Adamson and Karen Lai, brought to you with the support of the Philosophy Department at King's College London and the LMU in Munich.

Online at historyofphilosophy.net. Today's episode, Just Going Through a Phase: Han Metaphysics.

As we explained in an earlier episode, the characters of the Chinese language are not in fact simple pictograms that represent or symbolize things in stylized visual terms, but that has never stopped people from extracting meaning from them as if they were indeed tiny pictures.

This can often seem quaint or even ridiculous, as when Dong Zhongshu's Luxuriant Gems and the Huainanzi both tell us that there are exactly as many joints in the human body as there are days in the year.

Rather than laughing at such apparent naivete, though, we should ask ourselves why so many authors found such observations so insightful and even built their philosophical systems around it.

This is the question we'll be posing next time when we hope you'll pay us the compliment, that's compliment with an E, of joining us again for The History of Philosophy in China.

[upbeat music] Hi, I'm Peter Adamson, and you're listening to the History of Philosophy podcast, brought to you with the support of the Philosophy Department at King's College London and the LMU in Munich, online at historyofphilosophy.net. Today's episode will be another installment of our miniseries in which we celebrate reaching five hundred episodes by going back to touch on a few topics I skipped over in previous series of the podcast.

Today, I'm joined by Ted Good, who is a postdoctoral fellow at the Ruhr University of Bochum, and he's gonna help me fill the gap on Zoroastrian philosophy.

Thank you so much, Ted, for coming on.

And thank you for listening, dear audience.

This was yet another installment of this little series where we're celebrating reaching episode five hundred, and it's not the last one.

So I hope you'll enjoy the whole series in which we try to make this a little bit closer to a history of philosophy without any gaps.

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Hello and welcome to the History of Philosophy in China by Peter Adamson and Karen Lai, brought to you with the support of the philosophy department at King's College London and the LMU in Munich.

Online at historyofphilosophy.net. Today's episode, The Cosmos in Motion: Han Dynasty Philosophy.

We have given some thought to what it might be like to be an advisor to a ruler or a prince, but what would it have been like being the ruler? What would a ruler in ancient China need to know? Without the internet and before modern forms of communication, the ruler would be relying on those advisors to gather information about the kingdom so that he could select his policies and actions.

These words bring together my foolish sentiments and simply keep them from being forgotten.

Which seems a helpfully modest note to end on, as we embark on what might seem a rather immodest task, surveying the whole of Han thought in podcast form.

Though we will be covering Wang Chong and Wang Fu, hopefully we won't get it all wrong, here on the History of Philosophy in China.

[upbeat music] Hi, I'm Peter Adamson, and you're listening to the History of Philosophy podcast, brought to you with the support of the Philosophy Department at King's College London and the LMU in Munich, online at historyofphilosophy.net. Today's episode will be another installment of our miniseries in which we celebrate reaching 500 episodes by going back to touch on a few topics I skipped over in previous series of the podcast.

And today I'm joined by Troels Engberg-Pedersen, who's Emeritus Professor of New Testament Exegesis at the University of Copenhagen, and he's joining me to talk about St. Paul, especially with reference to Stoicism.

Hello, Troels.

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Because if he was intellectual at all, he was a theologian, not a philosopher.

This is a history of philosophy podcast.

Yeah.

So what would you say to someone who says, "Look, this is too much philosophy, this is too much Greek culture, it's not Jewish enough as a take on Paul, it's not theological enough as a take on Paul"? What would you say to that?

[upbeat music] Hi, I'm Peter Adamson, and you're listening to the History of Philosophy podcast, brought to you with the support of the Philosophy Department at King's College London and the LMU in Munich, online at historyofphilosophy.net. Today's episode will be another installment of our miniseries in which we celebrate reaching five hundred episodes by going back to touch on a few topics I skipped over in previous series of the podcast.

Today, I'm joined by Melissa Lane, who is Class of 1943 Professor of Politics at Princeton University, and we're going to talk about the Greek historians Herodotus and Thucydides.

Hello, Melissa.

There's more coming.

There is-- there will be five in total.

So I invite the listener to join me for the other ones right here on The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps.

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