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Today's episode will be an interview about John Buriden with Jack Zippko, who is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alberta.

Hi Jack.

Yeah, hi Peter.

Thanks, this is very nice.

Yeah, it's great to have you on the series because we're going to be talking about John

Burden and you're someone who's published a lot about him including a book about burden

yeah which is subtitled portrait of a 14th century arts master and I take the

subtitle to be an indication of the importance of the fact that he remained in the faculty of arts, which

is unusual.

I mean, he doesn't join one of the orders.

He doesn't become a Franciscan or Dominican.

And also he doesn't join the theology faculty so in this

respect he's unlike a lot of the other major medieval philosophers we've looked at like

Aquinas, Scottis, Occam and so what do you think that these biographical facts tell us about his

philosophical project?

Yeah, well I think actually that they tell us quite a bit about Burriton, but it's all indirect because he never

himself tells us why he remains a career arts master, why he doesn't join a religious order like the Dominicans and Franciscans.

But there would have been reasons for doing so.

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