Ranked #1
HPI 24 - No Two Ways About It - Sankara and Advaita Vedanta
HPI 24 - No Two Ways About It - Sankara and Advaita Vedanta
Śaṅkara and his “non-dual” (Advaita) Vedānta, which teaches that only brahman is real, and the world of experience and i... Read more
4 Sep 2016
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21mins
Ranked #2
HPI 03 - Kingdom for a Horse - India in the Vedic Period
HPI 03 - Kingdom for a Horse - India in the Vedic Period
The Vedic period sets the context of the Upanisads, Buddhism and Jainism.
18 Oct 2015
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17mins
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Ranked #3
HAP 01 - Something Old, Something New - Introducing Africana Philosophy
HAP 01 - Something Old, Something New - Introducing Africana Philosophy
Chike Jeffers and Peter Adamson kick off the new series by explaining the scope and meaning of "Africana philosophy".
1 Apr 2018
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21mins
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HAP 39 - Doris Garraway on the Haitian Revolution
HAP 39 - Doris Garraway on the Haitian Revolution
An interview with Doris Garraway on the background, intellectual basis, and legacy of the Haitian Revolution.
10 Nov 2019
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32mins
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HAP 02 - It’s Only Human - Philosophy in Prehistoric Africa
HAP 02 - It’s Only Human - Philosophy in Prehistoric Africa
Might philosophy be as old as humankind as we know it? We investigate the implications of findings concerning the origin... Read more
15 Apr 2018
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19mins
Ranked #6
HAP 38 - My Haitian Pen - Baron de Vastey
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The Baron de Vastey unveils the horror of colonialism as a system and defends the monarchy of King Christophe in the ten... Read more
27 Oct 2019
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24mins
Ranked #7
HAP 17 - Event Horizon - African Philosophy of Time
HAP 17 - Event Horizon - African Philosophy of Time
John Mbiti’s influential and controversial claim that traditional Africans experience time as having “a long past, a pre... Read more
9 Dec 2018
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20mins
Ranked #8
HPI 05 - Do it Yourself - Indra’s Search for the Self in the Upanisads
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The god Indra learns patience and something about the self in a famous passage from the Upanisads.
15 Nov 2015
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21mins
Ranked #9
HAP 31 - Justin Smith on Amo and Race in Early Modern Philosophy
HAP 31 - Justin Smith on Amo and Race in Early Modern Philosophy
Justin E.H. Smith joins us to discuss Anton Wilhelm Amo against the background of ideas about race in early modern philo... Read more
23 Jun 2019
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40mins
Ranked #10
HAP 33 - Young, Gifted, and Black - Phillis Wheatley
HAP 33 - Young, Gifted, and Black - Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley astonishes colonial Americans with her exquisite and precocious poetry and reflects on the liberating p... Read more
21 Jul 2019
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22mins
Ranked #11
HAP 36 - Sons of Africa - Quobna Ottobah Cugoano and Olaudah Equiano
HAP 36 - Sons of Africa - Quobna Ottobah Cugoano and Olaudah Equiano
Quobna Ottobah Cugoano and Olaudah Equiano advance the goals of the abolitionist movement through a groundbreaking polit... Read more
29 Sep 2019
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30mins
Ranked #12
HPI 54 - Graham Priest on Logic and Buddhism
HPI 54 - Graham Priest on Logic and Buddhism
Graham Priest joins Peter to discuss non-classical logic and its connections with Buddhist patterns of reasoning.
26 Nov 2017
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46mins
Ranked #13
HAP 21 - The Doctor Will See You Now - Divination, Witchcraft, and Knowledge
HAP 21 - The Doctor Will See You Now - Divination, Witchcraft, and Knowledge
Special forms of knowledge and the explanation of misfortunes in African tradition.
3 Feb 2019
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21mins
Ranked #14
HAP 08 - Solomon, Socrates, and Other Sages - Early Ethiopian Philosophy
HAP 08 - Solomon, Socrates, and Other Sages - Early Ethiopian Philosophy
Philosophy in Ethiopia, with translations of religious and philosophical texts into Ge’ez and a national epic called the... Read more
8 Jul 2018
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27mins
Ranked #15
HPI 06 - You Are What You Do - Karma
HPI 06 - You Are What You Do - Karma
The origins of the idea of karma, its moral significance in the Upanisads, and an alternative conception in the Bhagavad... Read more
29 Nov 2015
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19mins
Ranked #16
HPI 47 - Jan Westerhoff on Nagarjuna
HPI 47 - Jan Westerhoff on Nagarjuna
A discussion with Jan Westerhoff, an expert on the great Buddhist thinker Nāgārjuna.
23 Jul 2017
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36mins
Ranked #17
HAP 03 - Fertile Ground - Philosophy in Ancient Mesopotamia
HAP 03 - Fertile Ground - Philosophy in Ancient Mesopotamia
Do the cuneiform writings of Babylonian culture show that it had its own philosophy?
29 Apr 2018
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20mins
Ranked #18
HAP 23 - Nkiru Nzegwu on Gender in African Tradition
HAP 23 - Nkiru Nzegwu on Gender in African Tradition
An interview with Nkiru Nzegwu on matriarchy and gender fluidity in Africa.
3 Mar 2019
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38mins
Ranked #19
HAP 43 - Kill or Be Killed - David Walker’s Appeal
HAP 43 - Kill or Be Killed - David Walker’s Appeal
David Walker defends violent resistance and encourages self-improvement in his incendiary and influential Appeal.
5 Jan 2020
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25mins
Ranked #20
HAP 41 - Should I Stay or Should I Go? - The Colonization Controversy
HAP 41 - Should I Stay or Should I Go? - The Colonization Controversy
Questions of political autonomy and group identity in the emigration movement led by Paul Cuffe, Daniel Coker, John Russ... Read more
8 Dec 2019
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22mins
