historyofphilosophy.net

133 - Strings Attached: Music and Philosophy

Sunday, June 16, 2013 - 00:00

Peter turns DJ, with some actual music interspersed with discussion about theories of music in works by al-Kindī, the Brethren of Purity, and al-Fārābī.

132 - Eye of the Beholder: Theories of Vision

Saturday, June 8, 2013 - 00:00

Ibn al-Haytham draws on the tradition of geometrical optics to explain the mystery of human eyesight.

131 - Deborah Black on al-Fārābī's Epistemology

Sunday, June 2, 2013 - 00:00

Deborah Black joins Peter to talk about al-Farabi's innovations concerning knowledge and certainty.

130 - State of Mind: al-Fārābī on Religion and Politics

Sunday, May 26, 2013 - 00:00

Al-Fārābī combines Islam and Greek sources to present the ideal ruler as a philosopher who is also a prophet.

129 - The Second Master: al-Fārābī

Sunday, May 19, 2013 - 00:00

Peter begins to look at the systematic rethinking of Hellenic philosophy offered by al-Fārābī, focusing on his logic and metaphysics.

128 - Aristotelian Society: the Baghdad School

Sunday, May 12, 2013 - 00:00

A group of mostly Christian philosophers transpose the practices of antique Aristotelian philosophy to 10th century Baghdad.

127 - Peter E Pormann on Medicine in the Islamic World

Sunday, May 5, 2013 - 00:00

A double dose of Peters, as Pormann joins Adamson to discuss medicine and philosophy in the Islamic world.

126 - High Five: al-Rāzī

Sunday, April 28, 2013 - 00:00

The doctor and philosopher Abū Bakr al-Rāzī sets out a daring philosophical theory involving five eternal principles: God, soul, matter, time and place.

125 - Reasoned Belief: Saadia Gaon

Sunday, April 21, 2013 - 00:00

Saadia Gaon draws on philosophy and Islamic theology to provide a rational account of Jewish belief.

124 - The Chosen Ones: Judaism and Philosophy

Sunday, April 14, 2013 - 00:00

The roots of Jewish philosophy in the Islamic world, focusing on the Rabbinic background in the Mishnah and Talmud, and the thought of early figures like Isaac Israeli.