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HoP 501 Mara van der Lugt on Bayle and Pessimism

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In the last of five episodes to celebrate reaching the episode 500 mark by looking at things he skipped in earlier series, Peter talks to Daniel Watson about philosophy in early medieval Ireland. 

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