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Peter Adamson is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at King's College London. He’s also the host of the podcast History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps and the author of the book series by the same name. Robinson and Peter talk about Islamic philosophy broadly conceived, as well as some of its great philosophers—Avicenna in particular—and its most fascinating debates.  


00:00 Introduction


04:46 Can Anything Be the Subject of Philosophy? 


11:03 Dead and Living Languages 


24:35 What Is Islamic Philosophy? 


40:28 Some Distinctive Problems of Islamic Philosophy 


50:40 Metaphysical Debates about the Eucharist and Koran 


59:21 Free Will, Islamic Philosophy, and the Koran 


01:08:56 Islam and the Eternity of the World 


01:29:48 Avicenna's Flying Man Argument 


01:41:25 Al-Farabi and Illuminationism 


01:47:54 What Is Philosophical Mysticism? 


01:55:00 Islamic Mysticism and Sufism 


01:59:18 Philosophy, Reincarnation, and Vegetarianism 


02:03:37 The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps




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