Early last year, I started listening to the podcast History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps. Even though I completed a PhD in Philosophy, there are plenty of areas of the history of philosophy I haven’t covered. And while I’m not interested in everything, I’m interested in plenty of ideas that weren’t part of my education.
Peter Adamson, a philosophy professor who specializes in late ancient and Arabic philosophy, set out to tell a sweeping story of the history of philosophy. He wanted to do so by moving beyond the canon and tying together elements of historical philosophy long ignored.