Location: Room 3109, Lee Shau Kee Humanities Complex Building No. 3(李兆基人文学苑3号楼3109)

Why Platonists Should Do Biology

Time: 19:00-20:30, Sep.23, 2025

Sound Mind in Unsound Body: Arguments from Physical Deficiency from Aristotle to Avicenna

Time: 19:00-20:30, Sep.25, 2025

Avicenna’s Philosophical Project

Time: 15:00-16:30, Sep.29, 2025

Lecturer’s profile: Peter Adamson is now a director of Munich School of Ancient Philosophy. He has published on Aristotle, Plotinus, al-Farabi and other members of the Baghdad School, Avicenna, and Averroes. A special focus of research is the output of the translation circle of al-Kindi, on which he has written The Arabic Plotinus: a Philosophical Study of the "Theology of Aristotle" (Duckworth, 2002) and Great Medieval Thinkers: al-Kindi (OUP, 2007) He is also editor or co-editor of several books, including The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy (2004) and Philosophy, Science and Exegesis in Greek, Arabic and Latin Commentaries (Institute for Classical Studies, 2004)