HoP 300b - The Relevance of Medieval Philosophy Today

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

Peter Adamson

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Society & Culture:philosophy

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2018

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Peter King, Catarina Dutilh Novaes, and Russ Friedman discuss their approaches to medieval philosophy, and its contemporary relevance.

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0:00.0	The Hi, I'm Peter Adamson and you're listening to the History of Philosophy Podcast.
0:21.2	Brought to you with the support of the Philosophy Department at Kings College London and the LMU in Munich, online at history of philosophy.net.
0:30.0	This will be a second installment of our special 300th episode looking at the contemporary
0:34.8	relevance of all the philosophy we've covered on the podcast so far.
0:39.0	Today we'll be talking about the relationship between medieval philosophy and philosophy today, starting with Peter King, who is professor of philosophy and professor of medieval studies at the University of Toronto.
0:50.0	Hi Peter.
0:51.0	Thanks for having me on.
0:52.0	Thank you for coming. It's always good to have another Peter. Thanks for having me on. Thank you for coming.
0:53.0	It's always good to have another Peter.
0:55.0	Just to keep things clear.
0:57.0	Yeah, exactly.
0:58.0	So we're going to be talking about the relevance of some of your work on medieval philosophy to issues that
1:04.8	philosophers care about today. Maybe you could first though tell us whether that's
1:10.1	actually something you're interested in. I mean, did you get into medieval philosophy
1:14.1	because you wanted to expose its relevance for modern day philosophical debates?
1:18.9	Well, like many people, or at least those who are honest, will tell you, I got into medieval philosophy completely by mistake, or by accident, I suppose, to keep that Austinian distinction. I began working on philosophy of mathematics, my
1:37.0	undergraduate degrees in mathematics and so I started to work on philosophy of
1:41.1	mathematics and that led me to more broadly philosophy of
1:44.3	language that was about the time philosophy of language was declared dead
1:47.8	currently it's a zombie still walks still moves but it's. And so I thought, well, I suppose I have to really learn
1:55.6	something about how we got to this point. That led me to history. And then I thought, well, I should
2:00.2	really learn something about the history. They're not teaching me a lot of and that led me to read things and eventually I wound up in the Middle Ages and here I am today.
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