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Peter Adamson

Professor of Philosophy, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Peter Adamson is a professor of philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He is the author of several books, including The Arabic Plotinus (2002), Great Medieval Thinkers: al-Kindi (2007) and Philosophy in the Islamic World (2016), and hosts the History of Philosophy podcast.

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ideaHistory of ideas

When philosophy needed Muslims, Jews and Christians alike

Peter Adamson

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ideaHistory of ideas

If Aquinas is a philosopher then so are the Islamic theologians

Peter Adamson

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ideaComparative philosophy

Arabic translators did far more than just preserve Greek philosophy

Peter Adamson

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ideaMetaphysics

What can Avicenna teach us about the mind-body problem?

Peter Adamson