The philosopher and Renaissance culture / Humanism, scholasticism, and Renaissance philosophy / Continuity and change in the Aristotelian tradition / The revival of Platonic philosophy / The revival of Hellenistic philosophies / Arabic philosophy and Averroism / How to do magic, and why: philosophical prescriptions / Nicholas of Cusa and modern philosophy / Lorenzo Valla and the rise of humanist dialectic / The immortality of the soul / Philosophy and the crisis of religion / Hispanic scholastic philosophy / New visions of the cosmos / Organizations of knowledge / Humanistic and scholastic ethics / The problem of the prince / The significance of Renaissance philosophy