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Diversifying the Canon: An Interview with Peter Adamson

...the interview nomination form here to nominate yourself or a friend. Peter Adamson is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the LMU in Munich, having moved there from...

Provincializing Europe in a World Philosophy Course

...cross-cultural content to existing courses; some good ones are The Deviant Philosopher, Global Philosophy, and the APA’s Resources on Diversity and Inclusiveness. Podcast fans might enjoy Peter Adamson’s and Jonardon...

On Public Philosophizing: A Conversation with Caleb Harrison and Macy Salzberger

...as one of our workshop panelists!), VeryBadWizards (Tamler Sommers, David Pizarro), Hi-Phi Nation (Barry Lam), History of Philosophy Without any Gaps (Peter Adamson). MS: The Prindle Institute for Ethics also...

Philosophy and Pop Music

...be both quirkier and more confessional than other philosophy podcasts. I know Peter Adamson has several running jokes in The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, and Robert Talisse’s interviews...

If Aquinas is a philosopher then so are the Islamic theologians

Maybe I’m just an optimist, but I think people today mostly acknowledge the importance and originality of philosophy in the Islamic world. Would any scholar now say in print, as...

Is Journalism Anti-Philosophical?

...a while –was an interview I did for the column with Peter Adamson about the Islamic scholar Avicenna (980-1037) and his argument for the existence of God. Who knew there’s...

Lost and Found: Newly Discovered Christian Philosophy in Arabic

When philosophical texts in ancient Greek are unearthed, it is big news. Much excitement greeted the newly discovered fragments of Empedocles, found in a library in Strasbourg (See A. Martin...

Chinese Philosophy in the English-Speaking World: Interview with Bryan Van Norden

...the work of Peter Adamson who has contributed to the APA Blog, including his Philosophy in the Islamic World: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2015), and the volume...

The Diotima Problem: Women Philosophers in Classical Antiquity

As someone who is devoted to studying the history of philosophy without any gaps, I have gotten rather interested in the subject of women philosophers. They are, after all, some...

To Podcast, or Not to Podcast?

As I mentioned in a previous post here, I have, since 2010, been producing a weekly podcast series on the history of philosophy. Podcasts are an increasingly popular media format...