Speaker: Professor Peter Adamson

Title of the talk:

The Greatest Islamic Philosopher You’ve Never Heard Of: Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī

Date: Thursday, 25 July 2024

Time: 6 pm – 7:30 pm (London summer time)

Alongside such famous names from Islamic philosophy as al-Fārābī, Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna), and Ibn Rushd (Averroes), the tradition has many other
outstanding thinkers who are little known in the Western world. One of them is Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī who died early in the 13th century CE. In
this paper I will present a few of his most intriguing ideas: about God, space and time, and the difference between humans and animals.

Bio: Peter Adamson is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the LMU in Munich. He is the author of “Al-Kindi” and “Al-Razi” in the
series “Great Medieval Thinkers” from Oxford University Press, and has edited or co-edited many books, including “The Cambridge Companion to
Arabic Philosophy” and “Interpreting Avicenna: Critical Essays”. He is also the host of the History of Philosophy podcast
(www.historyofphilosophy.net), which appears as a series of books with Oxford University Press.