• Volunteers needed
    30 March 2023
    3 comments

    Thanks to an ingenious listener, I now have transcripts of all the interview episodes in a raw form; these were done by automatic voice recognition, so they have some errors (though astonishingly few) and some other drawbacks, for instance no indication of who is saying what. I thought I might appeal to the listeners out there for volunteers to prepare some of these transcripts for publishing on the website, since this would be a valuable resource.

  • Dogs With Torches interview
    24 March 2023
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    Here is my guest appearance on the "Dogs With Torches" podcast! On authority and scholasticism.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSOGEHUWcu4

  • Philosophy benefit for Ukraine
    13 March 2023
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    Online benefit philosophy conference for Ukraine!
  • Me on Swiss TV!
    11 March 2023
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    Here is my appearance on the Swiss TV show "Sternstunde" together with Anke Graness, talking about global philosophy! (In German.)

  • Appearance on Julian Baggini's "Microphilosophy" podcast
    10 March 2023
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    A new guest podcast appearance! In which Tom Kasulis and I are interviewed by Julian Baggini. We talk about the use of thought experiments in philosophy, focusing on Islamic and Japanese philosophy.

    https://www.julianbaggini.com/how-to-think-like-a-philosopher-ep3/

  • Job opening here in Munich
    6 March 2023
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    The Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Studies invites applications for a Professorship (W2) (6 years/tenure track) of Philosophy, especially History of Philosophy of Modern Age to the Present, commencing as soon as possible.

  • SIHSPAI in Munich this summer
    28 February 2023
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    We are pleased to announce that the International Society for the History of Arabic and Islamic Science and Philosophy (SIHSPAI) will hold its 1
  • FDR on SEP
    5 February 2023
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    I am pleased to say that the great Muslim philosopher and theologian Fakhr al-Din al-Razi is now covered on the Stanford Enyclopedia of Philosophy! I did the entry together with Fedor Benevich of Edinburgh University.

    https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/al-din-al-razi/

    He was covered here on the podcast too, in this episode:

  • Come study with us in Munich!
    24 January 2023
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    Our annual announcement that we have three-year fellowships for doctoral study at the Munich School of Ancient Philosophy.
  • Yet another interview
    9 January 2023
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    A lot of these seem to be coming along at the moment: here's a second appearance for me on the series Blogging Theology devoted to the ancient and Islamic debate over the Eternity of the Universe. It's a one hour conversation on video with the host, Paul Williams.

  • Love and its Discontents
    7 January 2023
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    Here's another video podcast appearance! I was interviewed for "Love and its Discontents" on the topic of love in Greek philosophy, and this has just appeared today:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa93Bap0Hv4

  • Interview with Robinson Erhardt
    2 January 2023
    3 comments
    I've just appeared as a guest on Robinson Erhardt's philosophy podcast!
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Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, takes listeners through the history of philosophy, "without any gaps." The series looks at the ideas, lives and historical context of the major philosophers as well as the lesser-known figures of the tradition.

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