Philosophy & Podcasting: An evening with Dr. Peter Adamson

Join us for an exciting evening with Dr. Peter Adamson, the creator of #1 philosophy podcast, The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps. On Wednesday, April 16 at 6:30 PM in the Terry Symonds Room of the North Memorial Library, Dr. Adamson will deliver the 2nd Humanities Today Lecture, “Philosophy from Everywhere, for Everyone: Podcasting Global Philosophy”.

Since 2010, Peter Adamson has been producing the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, a podcast that has been downloaded more than 45 million times across nearly 700 episodes, covering not just European but also Africana, Chinese, Indian, and Islamic philosophy. In this lecture he will discuss the challenges and benefits of this sort of public outreach project in philosophy, and also talk about how the project has evolved over time, often in response to listener feedback.

Please join us for a Q&A and reception following the lecture.

About Peter Adamson

Peter Adamson is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the LMU in Munich. He is the author of Al-Kindī and Al-Razī in the series “Great Medieval Thinkers” from Oxford University Press, and has edited or co-edited numerous 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.

About the Humanities Today Lecture Series

The Humanities Today Lecture Series examines the role the humanities play in our lives and the lives of communities on the periphery of or excluded from the traditional avenues of humanities education. This series is supported by funds donated in the memory of Renate Usmiani, a professor of the Department of English at Mount St. Vincent University, remembered and beloved in her support for and teaching of the humanities. This year’s lecture is also being offered in collaboration with the Teen Program at Halifax North Memorial Library.

The Halifax Humanities Society is a registered non-profit that provides educational opportunities to adults in Halifax and Nova Scotia who experience low income or other barriers to accessing traditional education.

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