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  • 30 March 2023
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    Thanks to an ingenious listener, I now have transcripts of all the interview episodes in a raw form; these were done by automatic voice recognition, so they have some errors (though astonishingly few) and some other drawbacks, for instance no indication of who is saying what. I thought I might appeal to the listeners out there for volunteers to prepare some of these transcripts for publishing on the website, since this would be a valuable resource.

  • 24 March 2023
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    Here is my guest appearance on the "Dogs With Torches" podcast! On authority and scholasticism.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSOGEHUWcu4

  • 13 March 2023
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    Online benefit philosophy conference for Ukraine!
  • 11 March 2023
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    Here is my appearance on the Swiss TV show "Sternstunde" together with Anke Graness, talking about global philosophy! (In German.)

  • 10 March 2023
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    A new guest podcast appearance! In which Tom Kasulis and I are interviewed by Julian Baggini. We talk about the use of thought experiments in philosophy, focusing on Islamic and Japanese philosophy.

    https://www.julianbaggini.com/how-to-think-like-a-philosopher-ep3/

  • 6 March 2023
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    The Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Studies invites applications for a Professorship (W2) (6 years/tenure track) of Philosophy, especially History of Philosophy of Modern Age to the Present, commencing as soon as possible.

  • 28 February 2023
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    We are pleased to announce that the International Society for the History of Arabic and Islamic Science and Philosophy (SIHSPAI) will hold its 1
  • 5 February 2023
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    I am pleased to say that the great Muslim philosopher and theologian Fakhr al-Din al-Razi is now covered on the Stanford Enyclopedia of Philosophy! I did the entry together with Fedor Benevich of Edinburgh University.

    https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/al-din-al-razi/

    He was covered here on the podcast too, in this episode:

  • 24 January 2023
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    Our annual announcement that we have three-year fellowships for doctoral study at the Munich School of Ancient Philosophy.
  • 9 January 2023
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    A lot of these seem to be coming along at the moment: here's a second appearance for me on the series Blogging Theology devoted to the ancient and Islamic debate over the Eternity of the Universe. It's a one hour conversation on video with the host, Paul Williams.

  • 7 January 2023
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    Here's another video podcast appearance! I was interviewed for "Love and its Discontents" on the topic of love in Greek philosophy, and this has just appeared today:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa93Bap0Hv4

  • 2 January 2023
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    I've just appeared as a guest on Robinson Erhardt's philosophy podcast!
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