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

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

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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