• 20 March 2021
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    As promised, here is a tentative episode list for the upcoming series of episodes (63 in total) on "Philosophy in the Reformation" which is shorthand for philosophy in the northern Renaissance, Protestant Reformation, and Catholic/Counter Reformation. Basically, the goal is to cover philosophy around Europe (excluding Italy, which we already did, though we will return there a bit to cover figures like Cajetan) between roughly 1400 and 1600. As you'll see from the list my plan is to organize the material geographically.

  • 18 March 2021
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    I have just recorded the first two episodes of the upcoming series on Philosophy in the Reformation: an introduction and a look at the impact of the printing press. (These will be published on April 25 and May 9.) A full list of projected episodes is coming soon!

  • 16 March 2021
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    It turns out that without noticing it, I have released 500 episodes of the History of Philosophy podcast! We're only up to 367 in the main series but if you include the Indian and Africana series, then the 500th episode was actually number 366 on Renaissance magic. I think Ficino would be pleased.

    And thanks to my Uncle Fred for pointing this out.

  • 10 March 2021
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    In this new blog post HoPWaG co-author Jonardon Ganeri asks "What is Philosophy?"

  • 17 February 2021
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    Today German radio (Deutschlandfunk) did a show on Avicenna, and I was interviewed for it, which was then translated into German.
  • 25 January 2021
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    Many thanks to Rafael Abuchedid who has translated one of my articles,"One of a Kind: Plotinus and Porphyry on Unique Instantiation," into Spanish. It's here free online, in two parts:

    https://traslapalabra.com/peter-adamson-one-of-a-kind-plotinus-and-porphyry-on-unique-instantiation-2013-i/ 

  • 3 January 2021
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    As you'll have noticed we are just about up to the year 1900 in the Africana Philosophy series, which means we'll soon be launching into the third, and by far most extensive, section of that series. It will make for a whole book's worth of episodes, beginning on Jan 24 with episode 68. Here is our tentative list of episodes, which will surely change a bit as we go along; suggestions welcome! Please note that interviews are not included in the list.

  • 24 December 2020
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    Very pleased to direct your attention to this new publication: Dimitrios Vasilakis, Eros in Neoplatonism and its Reception in Christian Philosophy: Exploring Love in Plotinus, Proclus and Dionysius the Areopagite, from Bloomsbury Press! This is based on a PhD dissertation written under my supervision at King's College London.

  • 23 December 2020
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    I was featured in today's issue of the Süddeutsche Zeitung! Complete with a slightly embarrassing picture of me looking suitably contemplative.

    https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/forschung-fragen-und-staunen-1.515…

  • 17 December 2020
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    Here now is the online recording of the talk I gave last month on 'Razi’s Relative “Reading” of Aristotle’s Physics', for the Farouk Jabre Centre. Enjoy!

  • 24 November 2020
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    I am thrilled to say that I have received the 2020 Schelling Prize from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences for work on multiculturalism in a historical perspective. It is named after Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, who I will get to eventually in the podcast!

  • 18 November 2020
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    I'll be speaking tomorrow (Nov 19) at 5 pm Munich time at the American University of Beirut (via Zoom) on al-Razi's physics as a correction of Aristotle. Register here!

    Not sure if this will be recorded; if so I will post the link here later.

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