Peter Adamson

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New Books in Philosophy · Peter Adamson, "Philosophy in the Islamic World: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 3" (Oxford UP, 2019) · 16 Dec 2019 podcast

It was really much more of a tactical decision like, okay, well, if there's a lot of uh scope to do new research in Latin medieval philosophy, then probably even more so there will be a lot of scope to do new research in Arabic philosophy.

And of course that was true.

I mean

I was kind of guessing at the time actually, 'cause I didn't really know what I was doing, but it was a good guess.

And then I got very lucky, got this job at King's College London right out of grad school, very much to my surprise, actually, at the time.

And they also have a department that's very strong in history of philosophy.

And in fact, um s someone who was there who had just retired was Richard Sorobjee, who's a famous scholar of Aristotle and the late ancient reception of Aristotle.

And he always used to brag about the department and sort of suggest as a way of kind of marketing the department at King's that we were unusual in being a department of philosophy that could cover the entire history of philosophy without the gaps.

So he used to say without the gaps, I think.

But I so I stole the phrase from him.

I and I think I'm upfront about this.

I mean I say in the foreword of the first book in the series that I did get the phrase from him.

So I try to credit him for it.

And um I mean I I like the idea, first of all.

So I like the idea of

doing the history of philosophy as a kind of continuous story where you don't only cover the most famous figures and only, you know, the time of Plato and Aristotle, the seventeenth century and Wittgenstein or whatever, but you really do the whole thing.

So you go back to the beginning, you go through everything, and you try to cover it all.

So I liked that idea, but also since I as it happened I had wound up working on philosophy in the Islamic world, I also had this kind of

Personal commitment to the idea that it was worth studying philosophical traditions that are often ignored or underappreciated, and also um not just traditions but specific authors.

Um so I would say the sp the kinds of philosophical authors who tend to be underappreciated are either

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