Prof. Dr. Peter Adamson

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Peter Adamson hat als Forschungsschwerpunkt Philosophie der Spätantike und der arabischen Tradition. Seine Monographien befassen sich mit der arabischen Version Plotins, al-Kindī, al-Rāzī, und Autorität in der mittelalterlichen Philosophie. Aufsätze hat er über die folgenden griechischen Autoren geschrieben: Aristoteles, Alexander von Aphrodisias, Plotin, Porphyrios, Proklos, Damaskios; und in der arabischen Tradition u.a. al-Kindī, Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, al-Fārābī, Yahya Ibn ʿAdī, Miskawayh, Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna), Ibn Rushd (Averroes), Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, und Ibn Khaldūn. Er hat mehrere Bücher herausgegeben und mitherausgegeben, darunter The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy, drei weitere Bände über Philosophie in der islamischen Welt für das Warburg Institute und Interpreting Avicenna: Critical Essays für Cambridge University Press. Seit 2012 hat Prof. Adamson noch eine Teil-Professur an King's College London, wo er von 2000-2012 in vollzeit tätig war. Er produziert auch den "History of Philosophy podcast", der als Buchreihe bei Oxford University Press erscheint.

Ausgewählte Publikationen

1. Adamson, P. A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps: book series published by Oxford University Press, with six volumes published to date.
2. The Heirs of Avicenna: Philosophy in the Islamic East, 12th-13th Centuries: three volume book series published by Brill. Already appeared: Adamson, P. & Benevich, F. Volume 1: Metaphysics and Theology. Leiden: Brill, 2023. Forthcoming volumes on Logic and Epistemology and Physics and Psychology.
3. Adamson, P. Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna): a Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023).
4. Adamson, P. Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy. Notre Dame: 2022.
5. Adamson, P. Al-Rāzī. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
6. Adamson, P. Studies in Early Arabic Philosophy and Studies on Plotinus and al-Kindī. Aldershot: Variorum, 2014-2015.
7. Adamson, P. Philosophy in the Islamic World: a Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).
8. Adamson, P. & Pormann, P.E. (trans). The Philosophical Works of al-Kindī. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2012.
9. Adamson, P. Al-Kindī. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
10. Adamson, P. The Arabic Plotinus: a Philosophical Study of the “Theology of Aristotle”. London: Duckworth, 2002. Reprinted by Gorgias Press, 2017.

Akademische Auszeichnungen

• 2024 - 2025 Dwight H. Terry Lecturer at Yale University.
• 2022 Gilson Lecture at the University of Toronto.
• 2022 Senior Global Fellow at the University of St Andrews.
• 2020 Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling-Preis, for research in the area of Multiculturalism in Historical Perspective.
• 2020 Carlyle Lectures at Oxford University.
• 2019 Conway Lectures at the University of Notre Dame.
• 2019 Academy of Science of South Africa Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of Witwatersrand.
• 2017 Distinguished Scholar in Residence at NYU Abu Dhabi.
• 2014 Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Award for Translation (with Peter Pormann, awarded for The Philosophical Works of al-Kindī).
• 2003 Philip Leverhulme Prize.

Forschungsprojekte

• The Philosophy of the Baghdad School, funded by the DFG (2023 - 2025).
• Animals in Philosophy of the Islamic World, ERC Advanced grant (2018 - 2023).
• Heirs of Avicenna: Philosophy in the Islamic East from the 12th to the 13th Century, funded by the DFG (2016 - 2023).
• Natural Philosophy in the Islamic World, funded by the Leverhulme Trust (2010 - 2013).
• Teilprojekt Leiter (mit Christof Rapp) für die DFG geforderte Forschungsgruppe, Natur in Politischen Ordnungsentwürfen (2013 - 2019).

Weitere Aktivitäten

• 2024 Member of the Grant Committee of the DFG for History of Philosophy.
• 2021 Elected as member of executive committee (Vorstand) of the DGPhil (German Society for Philosophy).