• HoP 489 All Power to Him: Malebranche and Occasionalism
    Mar 22 2026

    What led Malebranche to his notorious view that all bodily motions and thoughts are caused by God, with created things serving only as “occasions” for divine action?

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    21 mins
  • HoP 488 No Particular Reason: Nicolas Malebranche
    Mar 8 2026

    We begin to explore Malebranche’s controversial development of Cartesian philosophy by looking at his theodicy.

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    20 mins
  • HoP 487 Showing Good Judgment: The Port Royal Logic
    Feb 22 2026

    Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole update the study of logic to take account of the ideas of Descartes.

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    22 mins
  • HoP 486 Friends of the Truth: Arnauld and Jansenism
    Feb 8 2026

    Antoine Arnauld combines Cartesian philosophy with Jansenism, one of the most controversial religious movements of the 17th century.

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    20 mins
  • HoP 485 Liz Jackson on Pascal's Wager
    Jan 25 2026

    An interview on contemporary approaches to Pascal's Wager: where decision theory meets philosophy of religion.

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    39 mins
  • HoP 484 You Bet Your Life: Pascal’s Wager
    Jan 11 2026

    Should we gamble on belief in God to have a chance at infinite reward?

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    23 mins
  • HoP 483 Between Infinity and the Void: Blaise Pascal
    Dec 28 2025

    Blaise Pascal was a pioneering scientist and deeply spiritual religious thinker; what united these two sides of his thought?

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    20 mins
  • HoP 482 Indivisible, Under God: the Revival of Atomism
    Dec 14 2025

    Why did Sébastian Basso and Pierre Gassendi think ancient atomism was the key to developing a new, modern science?

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    20 mins