Peter Adamson

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Peter Scott Adamson (born August 10, 1972 ) is an American historian of ancient , medieval, and Arabic philosophy .

Life

After graduating from Williams College in Williamstown , Massachusetts in 1994 , Adamson earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame , Indiana . He was then a Lecturer (2000–2006), then Reader (2006–2009) and finally Professor for Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (2009–2013) at King's College London . However, in 2012 he moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich to head the Munich School of Ancient Philosophy with Christof Rapp and Oliver Primavesi .

Research priorities

Adamson interprets the history of philosophy on the reception of Aristotle and Neoplatonism , especially Plotinus in the form of the so-called theology of Aristotle , in Arabic philosophy. Among the Arab philosophers he has dedicated work to al-Kindī , al-Fārābī and the school of Baghdad , Avicenna and Averroes , but also presented conceptual studies (e.g. on eternity , free will , being ).

He became known to a larger English-speaking audience through his weekly podcast History of Philosophy without Any Gaps and through appearances primarily in audio media.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • The Arabic Plotinus. A Philosophical Study of the "Theology of Aristotle". Duckworth, London 2002, ISBN 0-7156-3163-2 .
  • Great Medieval Thinkers: al-Kindī. Oxford University Press, New York 2007 ( online ).
  • with Peter E. Pormann: The Philosophical Works of al-Kindī. Oxford University Press, Karachi 2012.

Editorships

  • (Ed., With Richard C. Taylor ) The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2004 ( online ).
  • (Eds., With Han Baltussen, Martin William Francis Stone): Philosophy, Science and Exegesis in Greek, Arabic and Latin Commentaries. Institute of Classical Studies , London 2004.
  • (Ed.) Classical Arabic Philosophy: Sources and Reception. Warburg Institute , London 2007.
  • (Ed.) In the Age of al-Fārābī. Arabic Philosophy in the Fourth-Tenth Century. Warburg Institute, London 2008.
  • (Ed.) In the Age of Averroes. Arabic Philosophy in the Sixth / Twelfth Century. Warburg Institute, London 2011.

Articles and Reviews

  • Freedom and Determinism. In: The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy . Cambridge UP, Cambridge 2010, 399-413.
  • with Peter E. Portman: Aristotle's Categories and the Soul: An Annotated Translation of Al-Kindi's That There Are Separate Substances . In: John M. Dillon , The afterlife of the Platonic soul: reflections of Platonic psychology in the monotheistic religions. Brill, Leiden 2009 (Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition, Vol. 9), 95-106 ( online ).
  • Review of: Epistles of the Brethren of Purity. On Logic. An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistles 10-14 . Edited and translated by Carmela Baffioni (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, in: Journal of Islamic Studies 2011 ( online )).
  • Review of: Pauliina Remes, Neoplatonism , Acumen, 2008, in: Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 01.06.2009. ( online ).

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personal data
SURNAME Adamson, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adamson, Peter Scott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Arabist
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1972