All Episodes

HPC 59. Forget Me Not: Han History Writing

HPC 58. Historical Fiction? Texts in the Han

HPC 57. Rise and Fall, and Rise and Fall: the Han Dynasty

HPC 56. Yuri Pines on Legalism

HPC 55. More Gain, Less Pain: the Legalists on Human Nature

HPC 54. Learning to Unlearn: Han Feizi and Confucianism

HPC 53. A Worm Riding Clouds: Standards, Strategy and Power in the Han Feizi

HPC 52. The Empire State: the Qin Dynasty

HPC 51. Standard Bearers: What is “Legalism"?

HPC 50. Bryan Van Norden on Warring States Philosophy

HPC 49. Hans-Georg Moeller on the Zhuangzi

HPC 48. Off the Beaten Path: Wandering in the Zhuangzi

HPC 47. Live and Let Die: the Zhuangzi on Death

HPC 46. Turning the Tables: Confucius in the Zhuangzi

HPC 45. Practice Makes Perfect: Skill Stories in the Zhuangzi

HPC 44. Like a Fish Out of Water: Animal Stories in the Zhuangzi

HPC 43. Chiu Wai-Wai on the Zhuangzi and Mohism

HPC 42. A Black and White World: the Zhuangzi on Shi-Fei Dogmatism

HPC 41. To Speak or Not to Speak: Skepticism in the Zhuangzi

HPC 40. Antiheroes: Sunzi’s Art of War

HPC 39. Robin Wang on Yin-Yang Thinking

HPC 38. Easy Does It: Non-Action in the Laozi

HPC 37. She Stoops to Conquer: Femininity in the Laozi

HPC 36. Fishing for Complements: Polarities in Daoism

HPC 35. Way Better than Greenwashing: Daoism on Nature

HPC 34. You Don’t Say! the Dao That Cannot Be Told

HPC 33. Let Us Count the Ways: What is Daoism?

HPC 32. Chris Fraser on Mohism

HPC 31. Push and Pull: Mohist Dialectic

HPC 30. Horse of a Different Color: the Mohists on Language and Knowledge

HPC 29. Ghost Writers: the Mohists on Religion

HPC 28. Ting Mien Lee on Mohism and Confucianism

HPC 27. Give Peace a Chance: the Mohists on War and Politics

HPC 26. Culture Wars: Mohist and Confucian Debates

HPC 25. Benefit, Then Stop: Mohism and Impartial Care

HPC 24. Measuring Up: Mohist philosophy

HPC 23. Amy Olberding on Confucian Ethics

HPC 22. Inside Job: Women in Confucianism

HPC 21. Sor-Hoon Tan on Confucian Democracy

HPC 20. Heaven Can Wait: Ritual and Religion in Confucianism

HPC 19. The Kingly Way: Confucian Political Philosophy

HPC 18. Erica Brindley on Music and the Cosmos in Confucianism

HPC 17. Knowing Me, Knowing You: Confucian Epistemology

HPC 16. To Become or Not to Become: the Confucians on Our Moral Natures

HPC 15. Flexing Your Moral Muscles: Xunzi on Moral Cultivation

HPC 14. Every Man for Himself: Virtue and the Body

HPC 13. The Trembling Ox: Mengzi and the Compassionate Heart

HPC 12. Gentlemen’s Agreement: Confucian Virtue Ethics

HPC 11. Mark Csikszentmihalyi on Early Confucianism

HPC 10. We’re a Pack Animal: Individual and Society in Confucianism

HPC 09. Family Values: Confucian Role Ethics

HPC 08. Confucius Says: Reading the Analects

HPC 07. Uncrowned King: Kongzi (Confucius) and the Analects

HPC 06. Franklin Perkins on Excavated Texts

HPC 05. Going Paperless: Ancient Chinese Texts

HPC 04. Open Season: the Historical Context

HPC 03. Karyn Lai on Classical Chinese Philosophy

HPC 02. The Only Constant: Change and the "Yi Jing"

HPC 01. Journey of a Thousand Li: Introduction to Chinese Philosophy

HAP 142 - Final Chat with Chike Jeffers

HAP 141 - Job Openings - the Rise of Africana Professional Philosophy

HAP 140 - Cornel West on Himself

HAP 139 - A Love Supreme - Cornel West

HAP 138 - Taking it Out of Neutral - Critical Race Theory

HAP 137 - Asante Sana - Molefi Asante’s Afrocentricity

HAP 136 - Civilization Reclaimed - African-Centered Thought

HAP 135 - Mastering Ceremonies - Sylvia Wynter

HAP 134 - The Marx Brothers - Cedric J. Robinson

HAP 133 - John Drabinski on Edouard Glissant

HAP 132 - French Creolizing - Edouard Glissant and the Creolité Movement

HAP 131 - Mixed Messages - Black British Cultural Studies

HAP 130 - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o on... Himself!

HAP 129 - Afrophone Home - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

HAP 128 - Marginal Comments - bell hooks and Patricia Hill Collins

HAP 127 - Knowing the Difference - Audre Lorde

HAP 126 - Fugitive for Justice - Angela Davis

HAP 125 - Phenomenal Woman - The Black Women’s Literary Renaissance

HAP 124 - Double Jeopardy - Black Feminism

HAP 123 - History Teaches Us - Walter Rodney

HAP 122 - A More Human Face - Steve Biko

HAP 121 - No Agreement - Fela Kuti and Wole Soyinka

HAP 120 - Redemption Songs - Reggae and Rastafari

HAP 119 - The Space Race - Afrofuturism

HAP 118 - African Survivals - Abdias do Nascimento

HAP 117 - Spear of the Nation - Nelson Mandela and the ANC

HAP 116 - Olufemi Taiwo and Olufemi Taiwo on Cabral

HAP 115 - Weapon of Choice - Amílcar Cabral

HAP 114 - Teacher Taught Me - Julius Nyerere

HAP 113 - A Fighting God - Black Theology

HAP 112 - Poems That Kill - the Black Arts Movement

HAP 111 - A Kwanzaa Story - Maulana Karenga

HAP 110 - Politics with Bloodshed - the Black Panthers

HAP 109 - Say It Loud - Black Power

HAP 108 - Or Does It Explode? - Lorraine Hansberry

HAP 107 - Lewis Gordon on Frantz Fanon

HAP 106 - Combat Literature - Franz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth

HAP 105 - Meeting the Gaze - Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin White Masks

HAP 104 - In Unity Lies Strength - Kwame Nkrumah

HAP 103 - A Federal Case - Nnamdi Azikiwe and Obafemi Awolowo

HAP 102 - From Cuba with Love - Juan Rene Betancourt

HAP 101 - Crossing Paths - the Last Years of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr

HAP 100 - Chike Jeffers on the Early Twentieth Century

HAP 99 - American Nightmare - Malcolm X

HAP 98 - Meena Krishnamurthy on Martin Luther King Jr

HAP 97 - American Dream - Martin Luther King Jr.

HAP 96 - A Lover’s War - James Baldwin

HAP 95 - Black and Blue - Ralph Ellison

HAP 94 - How Did You Happen? - Richard Wright

HAP 93 - Carole Boyce Davies on Claudia Jones

HAP 92 - Half the World - Claudia Jones

HAP 91 - Massa Day Done - Oliver Cox and Eric Williams

HAP 90 - Move Fast and Break Things - C.L.R. James

HAP 89 - Separate but Unequal - E. Franklin Frazier

HAP 88 - The Surreal Deal - Aimé and Suzanne Césaire

HAP 87 - Call It Intuition - Leopold Senghor

HAP 86 - French Connection - The Negritude Movement

HAP 85 - Liam Kofi Bright on Du Bois‘ Philosophy of Science

HAP 84 - Live Long and Protest - W.E.B. Du Bois, 1920-1963

HAP 83 - Songs of the People - Paul Robeson and the Negro Spiritual

HAP 82 - The Florida Project - Zora Neale Hurston

HAP 81 - Making History - Carter G. Woodson

HAP 80 - Scholarly Contributions - African American Professional Philosophers

HAP 79 - Leonard Harris on Alain Locke

HAP 78 - Freedom Through Art - Alain Locke

HAP 77 - A Race Capital - The Harlem Renaissance

HAP 76 - Michael Dawson on Garvey and Black Nationalism

HAP 75 - Now I Have a Rival - The Two Amy Garveys

HAP 74 - Black Star - Marcus Garvey

HAP 73 - Vanessa Wills on Africana Marxism

HAP 72 - In A Class of Their Own - Early African American Socialism

HAP 71 - In Blyden’s Wake - West African Intellectuals of the Early Twentieth Century

HAP 70 - Tommy Curry on the Early 20th Century

HAP 69 - The Best We Have - The American Negro Academy

HAP 68 - The Problem of the Color Line - Introducing the Twentieth Century

HAP 67 - Chike Jeffers on Slavery and Diasporic Philosophy

HAP 66 - Lifting the Veil - Introducing W.E.B. Du Bois

HAP 65 - Separate Fingers, One Hand - Booker T. Washington

HAP 64 - God is a Negro - Henry McNeal Turner

HAP 63 - Brittney Cooper on Black Women Activists

HAP 62 - American Barbarism - Ida B. Wells

HAP 61 - When and Where I Enter - Anna Julia Cooper

HAP 60 - Though Late, It Is Liberty- Abolitionism in Brazil

HAP 59 - Frowning at Froudacious Fabrications - J.J. Thomas and F.A. Durham

HAP 58 - A Common Circle - Anténor Firmin

HAP 57 - Race First, Then Party - T. Thomas Fortune

HAP 56 - African Personality - Edward Blyden

HAP 55 - Planting the Seeds - James Africanus Beale Horton

HAP 54 - Wilson Moses on the Roots of Black Nationalism

HAP 53 - Pilgrim’s Progress - Alexander Crummell

HAP 52 - Great White North - Emigration to Canada

HAP 51 - I Read Men and Nations - Sojourner Truth and Frances Harper

HAP 50 - Nation Within a Nation - Martin Delany

HAP 49 - Let Your Motto Be Resistance - Henry Highland Garnet

HAP 48 - Happy Holidays - Two Speeches by Frederick Douglass

HAP 47 - Written by Himself - the Life of Frederick Douglass

HAP 46 - Melvin Rogers on 19th Century Political Thought

HAP 45 - Unnatural Causes - Hosea Easton’s Treatise

HAP 44 - Religion and Pure Principles - Maria W. Stewart

HAP 43 - Kill or Be Killed - David Walker’s Appeal

HAP 42 - James Sidbury on African Identity

HAP 41 - Should I Stay or Should I Go? - The Colonization Controversy

HAP 40 - American Africans - Early Black Institutions in the US

HAP 39 - Doris Garraway on the Haitian Revolution

HAP 38 - My Haitian Pen - Baron de Vastey

HAP 37 - Liberty, Equality, Humanity - The Haitian Revolution

HAP 36 - Sons of Africa - Quobna Ottobah Cugoano and Olaudah Equiano

HAP 35 - Letters from the Heart - Ignatius Sancho and Benjamin Banneker

HAP 34 - New England Patriot - Lemuel Haynes

HAP 33 - Young, Gifted, and Black - Phillis Wheatley

HAP 32 - Talking Book - Early Africana Writing in English

HAP 31 - Justin Smith on Amo and Race in Early Modern Philosophy

HAP 30 - Dualist Personality - Anton Wilhelm Amo

HAP 29 - Out of Africa - Slavery and the Diaspora

HAP 28 - Chike Jeffers on Precolonial African Philosophy

HAP 27 - Beyond the Reaction - The Continuing Relevance of Precolonial Traditions

HAP 26 - Kai Kresse on the Anthropology of Philosophy

HAP 25 - Wise Guys - Sage Philosophy

HAP 24 - Professionally Speaking - The Reaction Against Ethnophilosophy

HAP 23 - Nkiru Nzegwu on Gender in African Tradition

HAP 22 - Women Have no Tribe - Gender in African Tradition

HAP 21 - The Doctor Will See You Now - Divination, Witchcraft, and Knowledge

HAP 20 - I Am Because We Are - Communalism in African Ethics and Politics

HAP 19 - Behind the Mask - African Philosophy of the Person

HAP 18 - One to Rule Them All - God in African Philosophy

HAP 17 - Event Horizon - African Philosophy of Time

HAP 16 - Samuel Imbo on Okot p'Bitek and Oral Traditions

HAP 15 - Heard it Through the Grapevine - Oral Philosophy in Africa

HAP 14 - Souleymane Bachir Diagne on Islam in Africa

HAP 13 - Renewing the Faith - the Sokoto Caliphate

HAP 12 - From Here to Timbuktu - Subsaharan Islamic Philosophy

HAP 11 - Teodros Kiros on Ethiopian Philosophy

HAP 10 - Think for Yourself - Walda Heywat

HAP 09 - In You I Take Shelter - Zera Yacob

HAP 08 - Solomon, Socrates, and Other Sages - Early Ethiopian Philosophy

HAP 07 - Richard Parkinson on Egyptian Poetry

HAP 06 - Heated Exchanges - Philosophy in Egyptian Narratives and Dialogues

HAP 05 - Father Knows Best - Moral and Political Philosophy in the Instructions

HAP 04 - Pyramid Schemes - Philosophy in Ancient Egypt

HAP 03 - Fertile Ground - Philosophy in Ancient Mesopotamia

HAP 02 - It’s Only Human - Philosophy in Prehistoric Africa

HAP 01 - Something Old, Something New - Introducing Africana Philosophy

HPI 62 - Kit Patrick on Philosophy and Indian History

HPI 61 - What Happened Next - Indian Philosophy After Dignaga

HPI 60 - The Buddha and I - Indian Influence on Islamic and European Thought

HPI 59 - Looking East - Indian Influence on Greek Thought

HPI 58 - Amber Carpenter on Animals in Indian Philosophy

HPI 57 - Learn by Doing - Tantra

HPI 56 - Who’s Pulling Your Strings? - Buddhaghosa

HPI 55 - Doors of Perception - Dignaga on Consciousness

HPI 54 - Graham Priest on Logic and Buddhism

HPI 53 - Follow the Evidence - Dignaga's Logic

HPI 52 - Under Construction - Dignaga on Perception and Language

HPI 51 - Change of Mind - Vasubandhu and Yogacara Buddhism

HPI 50 - Marie-Hélène Gorisse on Jain Epistemology

HPI 49 - Well Qualified - the Jains on Truth

HPI 48 - Taking Perspective - the Jain Theory of Standpoints

HPI 47 - Jan Westerhoff on Nagarjuna

HPI 46 - No Four Ways About It - Nagarjuna’s Tetralemma

HPI 45 - Motion Denied - Nagarjuna on Change

HPI 44 - It All Depends - Nagarjuna on Emptiness

HPI 43 - We Beg to Differ - the Buddhists and Jains

HPI 42 - In Good Taste - The Aesthetics of Rasa

HPI 41 - Monima Chadha on Indian Philosophy of Mind

HPI 40 - Mind out of Matter - Materialist Theories of the Self

HPI 39 - The Wolf’s Footprint - Indian Naturalism

HPI 38 - A Day in the Life - Theories of Time

HPI 37 - The Whole Story - Vaisesika on Complexity and Causation

HPI 36 - Fine Grained Analysis - Kanada's Vaisesika-Sutra

HPI 35 - Ujjwala Jha and V.N. Jha on Nyaya

HPI 34 - The Truth Shall Set You Free - Nyaya on the Mind

HPI 33 - Standard Deductions - Nyaya on Reasoning

HPI 32 - What You See Is What You Get - Nyaya on Perception

HPI 31 - Where There’s Smoke There’s Fire - Gautama’s Nyaya-Sutra

HPI 30 - Philipp Maas on Yoga

HPI 29 - Practice Makes Perfect - Patanjali’s Yoga-Sutra

HPI 28 - Who Wants to Live Forever? - Early Ayurvedic Medicine

HPI 27 - The Theory of Evolution - Isvarakrsna’s Samkhya-karika

HPI 26 - Francis Clooney on Vedanta

HPI 25 - Communication Breakdown - Bhartrihari on Language

HPI 24 - No Two Ways About It - Sankara and Advaita Vedanta

Summer Reading

HPI 23 - Source Code - Badarayana’s Vedanta-sutra

HPI 22 - Elisa Freschi on Mimamsa

HPI 21 - Innocent Until Proven Guilty - Mimamsa on Knowledge and Language

HPI 20 - Master of Ceremonies - Jaimini’s Mimamsa-Sutra

HPI 19 - When in Doubt - the Rise of Skepticism

HPI 18 - A Tangled Web - the Age of the Sutra

HPI 17 - Jessica Frazier on Hinduism and Philosophy

HPI 16 - Better Half - Women in Ancient India

HPI 15 - Mostly Harmless - Non-Violence

HPI 14 - World on a String - The Bhagavad-Gita

HPI 13 - Grand Illusion - Dharma and Deception in the Mahabharata

HPI 12 - Rupert Gethin on Buddhism and the Self

HPI 11 - Carry a Big Stick - Ancient Indian Political Thought

HPI 10 - Crossover Appeal - The Nature of the Buddha’s Teaching

HPI 09 - Suffering and Smiling - the Buddha

HPI 08 - Case Worker - Panini's Grammar

HPI 07 - Brian Black on the Upanisads

HPI 06 - You Are What You Do - Karma

HPI 05 - Do it Yourself - Indra’s Search for the Self in the Upanisads

HPI 04 - Hide and Seek – The Upanisads

HPI 03 - Kingdom for a Horse - India in the Vedic Period

HPI 02 - Sages, Schools and Systems – a Historical Overview

HPI 01 - Begin at the End - An Introduction to Philosophy in India