List of my columns, posts, and interviews

It occurred to me that it might be helpful if I made a list of online columns, posts, interviews, and articles I have done for various blogs and magazines. These links are obviously additional to the blog here on the website, and do not include links to my published research (for that see my academia page). This is only for shorter pieces intended for a wide audience. Enjoy!

 

APA Blog

Filling the Gaps: Expanding the Canon in the History of Philosophy (March 2016)

To Podcast or not to Podcast? (April 2016)

Lost and Found: Newly Discovered Christian Philosophy in Arabic (May 2016)

The Diotima Problem: Women Philosophers in Classical Antiquity (May 2016)

Diversifying the Canon (April 2018)

Teaching texts from Islamic philosophy (September 2018)

 

Aeon magazine

What can Avicenna teach us about the mind-body problem? (September 2016)

Arabic translators did far more than just preserve Greek philosophy (November 2016)

If Aquinas is a philosopher then so are the Islamic theologians (February 2017)

When philosophy needed Muslims, Jews and Christians alike (April 2017)

 

Asymptote

The Greek-Arabic translations (March 2019)

 

Classical Wisdom

On the history of plagiarism, with Jim Hankins (January 2024)

 

Conway Lectures at Notre Dame

“Don’t Think for Yourself: Faith and Authority in Medieval Philosophy” (September 2019, as videos)

 

Daily Nous

The Margins of Philosophy (on the importance of "minor" figures, July 2020)

 

Essentia Foundation

Islamic philosophy and the Renaissance (video, November 2023)

 

Five Books

Five books on philosophy in the Islamic world (April 2017)

 

Fusion Magazine

Music in Islamic Philosophy (November 2019)

 

Hira

On God in Islamic Philosophy... with Arabic subtitles! (June 2023)

 

IAI News

Coping with Sorrow: the Advice of al-Kindī (December 2017)

The Philosophy of Fasting (January 2019)

The problematic phrase "Arabic philosophy" (March 2019) -- fittingly it has been translated into Arabic.

 

IPM: Medieval Philosophy Today

On the podcast and how it relates to my academic research (September 2022)

On animals in Islamic philosophy (with Bligh Somma, October 2023)

 

Irish Times

The Islamic thinker who ‘proved’ God exists [on Avicenna] (January 2017)

 

Marginalia

Decolonializing Philosophy (with Carlos Frankel; May 2023)

 

New Humanist

The legacy of Islamic philosophy (January 2017)

 

New Statesman

Where are all the women in ancient philosophy? (July 2019)

Are Islamic philosophers critical of philosophy? (September 2021)

 

New York Review of Books

What Was Philosophy? [Review of M.M. Sassi, The Beginnings of Philosophy in Greece] (June 2019)

 

OUP Blog

Ten under-appreciated ancient thinkers (June 2016)

 

 

The Philosopher

Panel discussion about public philosophy (June 2023)

 

Philosophers’ Magazine

Q&A on the podcast (August 2018)

 

Philosophy Now magazine (link to all these articles)

Greek Economics: The Ancient Edition (October 2015)

Women’s Works [women in the history of philosophy] (December 2015)

Eastern Promises [on Greek and Indian philosophy] (February 2016)

Meat is Murder [Indian arguments for non-violence to animals] (April 2016)

The Best Doctor is Also a Philosopher [medicine in antiquity] (June 2016)

Out of Europe [on the concept of “European” philosophy] (October 2016)

What is Metaphysics Anyway? (December 2016)

The Philosopher as Historian [on Bertrand Russell] (June 2017)

Don’t Be So Sure [on the history of Skepticism] (August 2017)

Who Speaks For Socrates? (October 2017)

When Your Favorite Philosopher is a Bigot (December 2017)

Wittgenstein & The War (February 2018)

The Right to Be Poor [on the medieval debate over voluntary poverty] (February 2017)

Can Confucians Have Friends? (June 2018)

Mary Wollstonecraft (October 2018)

Philosophy for the Young, Medieval Style (December 2018)

Divided Opinions [on cultural divisions of philosophy] (February 2019)

The Other Side of the Coins [on philosophy and numismatics] (March 2019)

A Passage to India [on Dara Shikoh] (April 2019)

First Believe, Then Understand [comparing Śankara to Aquinas] (July 2019)

Would Machiavelli Vote for Donald Trump? (November 2019)

The Pleasure Principle [on the Cyrenaics] (February 2020)

Life & the Mind [on Nietzsche and philosophers' biogaphies] (April 2020)

Why Minor Figures Can Be Majorly Interesting (June 2020)

Back to the Future [on Eternal Recurrence] (July 2020)

Come Together [on Aristotle and Hegel as historians of philosophy] (September 2020)

Do You Need Any Body? [on Avicenna's flying man argument] (January 2021)

The Missing Link [on Indian epistemology] (March 2021)

Evil Overruled [on theodicy and slavery] (July 2021)

Existentialism Comes to Iran [co-authored with Hanif Amin Beidokhti] (August 2021)

Mind Without Matter [ancient arguments against dualism] (October 2021)

Living the Good Life [happiness in ancient ethics] (December 2021)

All Your Love is Need [Renaissance theories of love] (February 2022)

Looking to the Past [philosopher historians] (April 2022)

 

 

Sternstunde TV show (Switzerland)

On Global Philosophy, with Anke Graness

 

Times Literary Supplement

How to combat parochialism in philosophy (February 2019)

Avicenna: the "Leading Sage" (April 2019)

 

What is it like to be a Philosopher?

Interview (March 2019)

 

The Young Idealist

On German medieval philosophy (August 2024)