Dr. des. Alexander Lamprakis

Personal information

Alexander Lamprakis is a research associate (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) in the DFG-funded project The Philosophy of the Baghdad School under the direction of Prof. Dr. Peter Adamson. As part of this project, he conducts research on logic, epistemology and philosophy of religion within Arabic philosophy (focusing on the 10th and 11th centuries). He received his doctorate from LMU in 2022 with a thesis on the late ancient and Arabic reception of Aristotelian dialectic. Before returning to Munich, he taught and carried out research at the University of Freiburg and Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. In the academic year 2023/2024, he will also be a visiting researcher at the University of Utrecht.

Research interests

Historically, the research of Alexander Lamprakis covers the fields of late ancient Greek and classical Arabic philosophy. He is also interested in Syriac philosophy and translations of philosophical works from Greek into Arabic and from Arabic into Hebrew. Systematically, his work is concerned with questions of logic, argumentation theory, epistemology and philosophy of religion.

Selected publications

1. Lamprakis, A.: Al-Fārābī’s eighth fallacy extra dictionem and Averroes’ criticism, Arabic Sciences and Philosophy (forthcoming).
2. Lamprakis, A.: The Topics in the Medieval Arabic Tradition, A. María Mora-Marquez / G. Fernandez Walker (eds.), Revisiting Medieval Dialectics, Springer (forthcoming).
3. Davies, D. & Lamprakis, A.: Al-Fārābī’s Commentary on the Eighth Book of Aristotle’s Topics in Ṭodros Ṭodrosi’s Philosophical Anthology (Introduction, Edition of the Text, and Annotated Translation), Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy 10 (2022), 24-88.
4. Lamprakis, A.: Staunen, Wissbegier und Erkenntnisfortschritt nach Ibn Hindū, al-Fārābī und Avicenna: Eine Spurensuche der arabischen Rezeption von ‚Metaphysik‘ A 2, 982b12–983a20, in: Andreas Speer and Robert M. Schneider (eds.) Miscellanea Mediaevalia 41, De Gruyter, 2022, 137–159.
5. Lamprakis, A.: Did the Arabic Tradition Know a More Complete Version of Alexander’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Topics? The Evidence from Ps-Jābir’s Kitāb al-Nukhab / Kitāb al-Baḥth, Methodos 22, special issue on Argumentation and Arabic Philosophy of Language, ed. by Walter Edward Young and Shahid Rahman.
6. Davies, D. & Lamprakis, A.: Delineating Dialectic: The Perfect Philosopher in al-Fārābī’s Commentary on Topics VIII 1, Studia Graeco-Arabica 11/2 (2021), Logica graeco-arabico-hebraica, ed. by Yehuda Halper, 13–26.
7. Lamprakis, A.: Believing Miracles in 10th–11th Century Baghdad: Four Christian Philosophers on a Problem of Epistemic Justification, Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy 9 (2021), 40–76.