• Eros in Neoplatonism
    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.

  • Look Mom I'm in the newspaper
    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…

  • Online talk on Razi
    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!

  • Schelling Prize
    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!

  • Speaking in Beirut
    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.

  • My talk at the Dies Quodlibetalis
    5 November 2020
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    You can now watch video of me speaking on the subject of "Avicennan Scholasticism" at the 2020 Dies Quodlibetalis held in Jena:
    https://www.db-thueringen.de/receive/dbt_mods_00046588

  • Buster and me
    26 October 2020
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    Someone finally interviewed me about Buster Keaton!
  • Open access paper on Farabi
    20 October 2020
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    Excited to have a paper in this open access book edited by Dragos Calma, "Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes," vol.2.
  • New piece for Philosophy Now
    10 October 2020
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    Here's my new essay on Hegel and Aristotle as historians of philosophy, just appeared with "Philosophy Now."
     
     
  • Westerhoff talk online
    9 October 2020
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    Here's an announcement of an upcoming online talk by friend and guest of the podcast, the brilliant Jan Westerhoff!

    BSHP ANNUAL LECTURE 2020     

    JAN WESTERHOFF (OXFORD): "FOR YOUR EYES ONLY: The Problem on Solipsism
    in Ancient Indian Philosophy"  

  • Programming notes: the end of the Renaissance
    12 September 2020
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    As you may have noticed our summer break is over! Africana Philosophy already returned last week, with an episode on Anténor Firmin. Over the next few months Chike and I will be wrapping up our coverage of the 19th century, finishing with Booker T. Washington and the early writings of W.E.B. Du Bois - look out for episodes on Ida Wells, and developments in the Caribbean and in Brazil!

  • Opening to work here in Munich
    10 September 2020
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    Job opening at my Lehrstuhl here in Munich! People with expertise in late ancient and/or Islamic philosophy welcome to apply. (I am especially hoping to get someone with expertise in late ancient.) Full text of the advertisement below:

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    The Chair for Late Antique and Arabic Philosophy (Prof. Dr. Peter Adamson) at the Faculty for Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Religion at the LMU seeks to fill a temporary position beginning on April 1, 2021, as:

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