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:
Maimonides as a "Mediterranean thinker": Peter is joined by Sarah Stroumsa.
Maimonides tries to settle the eternity of the world debate by declaring a draw.
The great Jewish philosopher and legal scholar Maimonides, and the ideas in his Mishneh Torah and Guide for the Perplexed.
Baḥya Ibn Paquda and Maimonides explore the ethical dimension of the Jewish scriptures and legal tradition.
Abraham Ibn Ezra, Ibn Daud and Maimonides consider the philosophical implications of astrology as science flourishes in the Jewish culture of Andalusia.
Judah Hallevi argues that Judaism has a better claim to belief than philosophy, Christianity, or Islam.
Peter chats with Sarah Pessin about the Neoplatonism of Jewish philosophers such as Isaac Israeli, Ibn Gabirol, and Maimonides.
Neoplatonism returns in Ibn Gabriol, who controversially holds that everything apart from God has both matter and form.
The historian Ibn Khaldūn applies the methods of philosophy to understand the rise and fall of political regimes.
Sufism, the mystical tradition of Islam, collides with philosophy in the work of Ibn ʿArabī.
Averroes scholar Richard C. Taylor joins Peter to talk about Averroes' views on the relation between Islam and philosophy.
Averroes defends the rather surprising notion that all of mankind shares a single intellect.
A special 150th double interview episode on the transmission of philosophy from Arabic into Latin.
An introduction to “the Commentator” Averroes, and his defense of philosophy in the Decisive Treatise.
Avicenna’s proof of the Necessary Existent is ingenious and influential; but does it amount to a proof of God’s existence?
