History of Philosophy
Summary: Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU Munich, takes listeners through the history of philosophy, without any gaps. A multi-volume book version is appearing with Oxford University Press; already available is "Classical Philosophy."
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Podcasts:
Fatema Mernissi and others challenge the long-standing (but not complete) exclusion of women from the intellectual traditions of Islam.
18th and 19th century intellectuals in India and the Ottoman empire, from Shāh Walī Allāh to the Young Turks, continue Islamic traditions and grapple with European science.
Kātib Çelebi defends cigarettes and coffee, in just one of several philosophical and religious debates in the Ottoman empire.
Ideas spread to Mughal India from Iran, and prince Dārā Shikūh seeks to unite the wisdom of the Upanishads with the Koran.
Sajjad Rizvi talks to Peter about Mullā Ṣadrā's views on eternity, God's knowledge and the afterlife.
Mullā Ṣadrā proposes that all things are like sharks: in constant motion.
Mullā Ṣadrā, greatest thinker of early modern Iran, unveils his radical new understanding of existence.
Robert Wisnovsky joins Peter to discuss the enormous body of unstudied philosophical commentaries in the later Eastern Islamic world.
The roots of the Safavid philosophical tradition in some rather ill-tempered debates at Shīrāz.
Philosophy and science survive and even thrive through the coming of the Mongols.
The controversial jurist Ibn Taymiyya sets forth an originalist theory of law and a searching criticism of the philosophers’ logic.
Later Islamic logicians try to solve the Liar Paradox and take on the advances of Avicenna's logic.
Peter announces the appearance of the first HoPWaG book and plans to cover Indian philosophy with Jonardon Ganeri.
Peter is joined by Mohammed Rustom in a discussion about Sufi authors including Ibn 'Arabī and Rūmī
The Persian poet Rūmī and mystical philosopher al-Qūnawī carry on the legacy of Sufism.
