39 - Peter Adamson: Islamic Philosophy, Mysticism, Dead Languages, & Eternity
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Show Notes
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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