Here is a lovely review of my brother Glenn's "profound and engaging" new book on craft and American history, in the NY Review of Books!

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/08/19/knowing-how/?lp_txn_id=1267…

Just a quick note that as usual the podcast will be on break over August (though we have released a new episode today about Martin Luther, even though it is August 1, so the break will actually be shorter than usual). Service resumes on Sept 5 with an episode about Zora Neale Hurston.

Get in the spirit of our Reformation series by learning to insult people Luther's way! This website gives you randomly selected insults from his works - lots to choose from. Happily it looks like they skipped the anti-semitic material.

I'm pleased and, to be honest, a little flabbergasted to have made Prospect Magazine's list of "The world’s top 50 thinkers 2021":

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/the-worlds-top-50-thinkers-…

You can vote for me, or more reasonably, one of the other 49 nominees, at the same link.

Just to say I have appeared on the Slowdown podcast talking about how to form beliefs in response to authority; among other things we touch on the pandemic and what the history of philosophy can teach us about responding to it. These are themes I talk about more in a book that will appear with University of Notre Dame Press in 2022!

I can now announce that the new volume on Byzantium and Renaissance Philosophy will be out in February 2022! As if that weren't exciting enough, paperback versions of the volumes on Medieval Philosophy and Classical Indian Philosophy will both be out in January 2022. We can correct typos and errors that were in the hardback versions so if you spotted anything please let me know, you can do this by email: peter.adamson@lrz.uni-muenchen.de

Many congratulations to HoPWaG co-author Chike Jeffers who has been awarded a Canada Research chair at his institution, Dalhousie University! The university says: "Dr.

If you have been harboring an inexplicable desire to hear me speaking in German for almost two hours, here is a wide-ranging interview I just did for the Bavarian Academy of Sciences:

https://badw.de/die-akademie/presse/podcast/podcast-details/detail/woher-das-schaf-weiss-dass-der-wolf-gefaehrlich-ist-der-schellingpreistraeger-peter-adamson-ueber-philosophie.html

I'm very happy to say that I have now gotten my author copies of my book on Abu Bakr al-Razi which I wrote for the "Great Medieval Thinkers" series at Oxford University Press (the same series where my book on al-Kindi appeared). To give you an idea how long I was working on this, I started it a couple of years before launching the podcast! So it's great to see it finally in finished form.