HoP 156 - Sarah Pessin on Jewish Neoplatonism
December 29th, 2013
Peter chats with Sarah Pessin about the Neoplatonism of Jewish philosophers such as Isaac Israeli, Ibn Gabirol, and Maimonides.
HoP 155 - Matter over Mind - Ibn Gabirol
December 22nd, 2013
Neoplatonism returns in Ibn Gabriol, who controversially holds that everything apart from God has both matter and form.
HoP 154 - The Philosophy of History - Ibn Khaldun
December 15th, 2013
The historian Ibn Khaldūn applies the methods of philosophy to understand the rise and fall of political regimes.
HoP 153 - A Matter of Taste – Ibn Arabi and Mysticism
December 8th, 2013
Sufism, the mystical tradition of Islam, collides with philosophy in the work of Ibn ʿArabī.
HoP 152 - Richard Taylor on Averroes
December 1st, 2013
Averroes scholar Richard C. Taylor joins Peter to talk about Averroes' views on the relation between Islam and philosophy.
