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The Dissenter · 2025-07-03 · 69 min · 11,059 words

#1118 Peter Adamson - Heirs of Avicenna: Philosophy in the Islamic East, 12-13th Centuries

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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Dissenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by your returning guest, Dr. Peter Adamson. He is professor of philosophy and host of the weekly podcast History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps. I will be leaving a link to our first interview, which was about the pre-Socratic philosophers in the description down below.

And today we're talking about his book. heirs of Avicenna philosophy in the Islamic East 12th, 13th century. So Dr. Adamson, welcome back to the show. It's a pleasure to have you one.

Thank you so much. Great to be back. So since we're going to talk here about the heirs of Avicenna and philosophy in the what they call the Islamic East in the 12th and 13th centuries. Let me start by asking you first about Avicenna himself.

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