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Podcast: New Books in Medieval History
Episode: Robert Pasnau, âMetaphysical Themes: 1274-1671â (Oxford UP, 2011)
Description: What was the scholastic metaphysical tradition of the later Middle Ages, and why did it come âcrashing down as quickly and completelyâ as it did towards the end of the 17th Century? Why was the year 1347 a âmilestone in the history of philosophyâ? And why didnât philosophy itself collapse right along with the scholastic framework?In Metaphysical Themes: 1274-1671 (Oxford University Press, 2011), Robert Pasnau (University of Colorado, Boulder) provides a monumental yet highly readable synthesis of four hundred years of philosophical thought about the nature of ordinary objects, such as cats or dogs or stones. After examining...