Peter Adamson

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Peter Adamson is a Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU). He first worked at Kings College London (KCL) where he became a Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy. He is the author and presenter of the podcast ‘History of Philosophy Without any Gaps’, HoPWaG for short. The intention of the podcast is to explore the complete history of philosophy from its earliest thinkers, covering all the bases.

Top songs

HoP 001 - Everything is Full of Gods - Thales
HoP 018 - In Dialogue - The Life And Writings Of Plato
HoP 003 - Created In Our Image - Xenophanes Against Greek Religion
HoP 019 - Know Thyself - Two Unloved Platonic Dialogues
HoP 017 - Raphael Woolf on Socrates
HoP 005 - Old Man River - Heraclitus
HoP 004 - The Man With The Golden Thigh - Pythagoras
HoP 023 - MM McCabe on Knowledge in Plato
HoP 020 - Virtue Meets Its Match - Plato's Gorgias
HoP 025 - Soul and The City - Plato's Political Philosophy

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Hop 007 - The Road Less Traveled - Parmenides
HoP 021 - We Don't Need No Education - Plato's Meno
HoP 024 - Famous Last Words - Plato's Phaedo
HoP 006 - MM McCabe on Heraclitus
HoP 026 - Ain't No Sunshine - The Cave Allegory of Plato's Republic
HoP 033 - Last Judgments - Plato, Poetry and Myth
HoP 014 - Making the Weaker Argument the Stronger - the Sophists
HoP 027 - Second Thoughts - Plato's Parmenides and the Forms
HoP 032 - Frisbee Sheffield on Platonic Love
HoP 030 - A Likely Story - Plato's Timaeus
HoP 031 - Wings of Desire - Plato's Erotic Dialogues
HoP 029 - What's in a Name? - Plato's Cratylus
HoP 038 - Down To Earth - Aristotle on Substance
HoP 012 - Malcolm Schofield on the Presocratics
HoP 013 - Good Humor Men - the Hippocratics
HoP 009 - The Final Cut - Democritus And Leuccipus
HoP 037 - Hugh Benson on Aristotelian Method
HoP 035 - The Philosopher's Toolkit - Aristotle's Logical Works
HoP 002 - Infinity and Beyond - Anaximander and Anaximenes
HoP 010 - Mind Over Mixture - Anaxagoras
HoP 036 - A Principled Stand - Aristotle's Epistemology
HoP 028 - Fiona Leigh on Plato's Sophist
HoP 041 - Richard Sorabji on Time and Eternity in Aristotle
HoP 039 - Form And Function - Aristotle's Four Causes
HoP 001 Everything is Full of Gods: Thales
HoP 011 - All You Need Is Love, and Five Other Things - Empedocles
HoP 045 - The Second Self - Aristotle On Pleasure And Friendship
HoP 015 - Socrates without Plato - the Portrayals of Aristophanes and Xenophon
HoP 002 Infinity and Beyond: Anaximander and Anaximines
HoP 040 - Let's Get Physical - Aristotle's Natural Philosophy
HoP 034 - Mr. Know It All - Aristotle's Life And Works
HoP 051 - The Next Generation - the Followers of Plato and Aristotle
HoP 044 - The Goldilocks Theory - Aristotle's Ethics
HoP 047 - God Only Knows - Aristotle on Mind and God
HoP 050 - MM McCabe and Raphael Woolf on Aristotle on Plato
HoP 008 - You Can't Get There From Here - Zeno And Melissus
HoP 053 - Beware of the Philosopher - the Cynics
HoP 042 - Soul Power - Aristotle's De Anima
HoP 055 - The Constant Gardener - Epicurus and his Principles
HoP 016 - Method Man - Plato's Socrates
HoP 052 - Fighting Over Socrates - the Hellenistic Schools
HoP 056 - Am I Bothered? - Epicurean Ethics
HoP 049 - Stage Directions - Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetics
HoP 060 - Walking on Eggshells - the Stoics on Logic
HoP 003 Created In Our Image: Xenophanes Against Greek Religion
HoP 043 - Classified Information - Aristotle's Biology
HoP 022 - I Know Because The Caged Bird Sings - Plato's Theaetetus
HoP 058 - Reaping the Harvest - Lucretius
HoP 067 - The Philosopher King - Marcus Aurelius
HoP 065 - Anger Management - Seneca
HoP 054 - Instant Gratification - the Cyrenaics
HoP 057 - Nothing to Fear - Epicureans on Death and the Gods
HoP 063 - Like a Rolling Stone - Stoic Ethics
HoP 069 - Beyond Belief - Pyrrho and Skepticism
HoP 066 - You Can Chain My Leg - Epictetus
HoP 064 - David Sedley on Stoicism
HoP 061 - Nobody’s Perfect - the Stoics on Knowledge
HoP 071 - Rhetorical Questions - Cicero
HoP 062 - We Didn’t Start the Fire - the Stoics on Nature
HoP 046 - Dominic Scott on Aristotle's Ethics
HoP 004 The Man With The Golden Thigh: Pythagoras
HoP 070 - The Know-Nothing Party - the Skeptical Academy
HoP 005 Old Man River: Heraclitus
HoP 068 - John Sellars on the Roman Stoics
HoP 074 - Tony Long on the Self in Hellenistic Philosophy
HoP 073 - Healthy Skepticism - Sextus Empiricus
HoP 075 - The Joy of Sects - Ancient Medicine and Philosophy
HoP 087 - A God is My Co-Pilot - the Life and Works of Plotinus
HoP 076 - R.J. Hankinson on Galen
HoP 079 - To the Lighthouse - Philo of Alexandria
HoP 002 - Infinity and Beyond - Anaximander and Anaximines
HoP 080 - Delphic Utterances - Plutarch
HoP 077 - Caesarian Section – Philosophy in the Roman Empire
HoP 078 - Middle Men - the Platonic Revival
HoP 085 - Sky Writing - Astronomy, Astrology, and Philosophy
HoP 090 - A Decorated Corpse – Plotinus on Matter and Evil
HoP 088 - Simplicity Itself - Plotinus on the One and Intellect
HoP 089 - On the Horizon - Plotinus on the Soul
HoP 006 MM McCabe on Heraclitus
HoP 048 - Constitutional Conventions - Aristotle's Political Philosophy
HoP 086 - Serafina Cuomo on Ancient Mathematics
HoP 083 - Not Written in Stone – Alexander of Aphrodisias
HoP 084 - Silver Tongues in Golden Mouths - Rhetoric and Ancient Philosophy
HoP 008 You Can't Get There From Here: Zeno And Melissus
HoP 082 - Lost and Found – Aristotelianism after Aristotle
HoP 081 - Jan Opsomer on Middle Platonism
HoP 072 - Raphael Woolf on Cicero
HoP 095 - Anne Sheppard on Ancient Aesthetics
HoP 059 - James Warren on Epicureanism
HoP 010 Mind Over Mixture: Anaxagoras

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