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Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, takes listeners through the history of philosophy, "without any gaps". www.historyofphilosophy.net
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Sunday Dec 29, 2013
Sunday Dec 29, 2013
Peter chats with Sarah Pessin about the Neoplatonism of Jewish philosophers such as Isaac Israeli, Ibn Gabirol, and Maimonides.
Sunday Dec 22, 2013
Sunday Dec 22, 2013
Neoplatonism returns in Ibn Gabriol, who controversially holds that everything apart from God has both matter and form.
Sunday Dec 15, 2013
Sunday Dec 15, 2013
The historian Ibn Khaldūn applies the methods of philosophy to understand the rise and fall of political regimes.
Sunday Dec 08, 2013
Sunday Dec 08, 2013
Sufism, the mystical tradition of Islam, collides with philosophy in the work of Ibn ʿArabī.
Sunday Dec 01, 2013
Sunday Dec 01, 2013
Averroes scholar Richard C. Taylor joins Peter to talk about Averroes' views on the relation between Islam and philosophy.