Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy
Professor Peter Adamson (Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at LMU Munich)
4 February 2020 – Taqlid: Authority and the Intellectual Elite in the Islamic World
11 February 2020 – Too High a Standard: Knowledge and Skepticism in Medieval Philosophy
18 February 2020 – Testing the Prophets: Reason and the Choice of Faiths
25 February 2020 – Using the Pagans: Reason in Interreligious Debate
3 March 2020 – Some Pagans are Better than Others: the Merits of Plato and Aristotle
10 March 2020 – Finding Their Voice: Women in Byzantine and Latin Christian Philosophy
Tuesdays, weeks 3 – 8 Hilary Term, University of Oxford, South Schools, Examination Schools, Oxford
For further information: https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/carlyle-lectures