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Peter Adamson - Selfridge Lecturer 2025

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From Substances to Processes: Rethinking Minds, Norms, and Reality

Xavier Piccone philosophy major at Lehigh University

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A Carbon-Based Democracy

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Mar

26

Lecture

Selfridge Lecture 2025 - "Skepticism Across Borders: Arguments from Animal Difference in Chinese, Greek, and Arabic Philosophy", by Peter Adamson

In this lecture, Professor Adamson will focus on a skeptical argument stating that animals have a different perspective on the world from humans. Since there is no reason to prefer the human perspective on the world to animal perspectives, one should suspend judgment about the veracity of the human perspective. Obviously this argument needs a lot of filling out before it can be evaluated.

Mar

27

Lecture

Selfridge College Talk - "Avicennan Scholasticism: Post-Classical Philosophy in the Islamic East", by Peter Adamson"

About the Lecture: According to a long-standing, but now widely discredited, narrative about philosophy in the Islamic world, it more or less ends with the commentaries of Ibn Rushd (Averroes) in the 12th century. In fact, philosophy continued to be pursued with great sophistication for centuries thereafter.

Mar

28

Class/Workshop

Selfridge Workshop

Selfridge 2025 will conclude with a two-day Selfridge Workshop on "Post-Avicennan Philosophy", which is a theme that represents much of Prof. Adamson's recent research focus. The workshop will include presentations by Prof. Peter Adamson, Prof. Bligh Somma (Fordham University), Dr. Hassan Rezakhany (ALU Freiburg) and Prof. Aladdin Yaqub (LU). Discussion to follow each presentation.

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“I think there’s a real sense of community building in the department, and the few students who are passionate about the subject, along with the amazing department administration and professors, are helping make being a philosophy major at Lehigh something really special.”

Xavier Piccone

Philosophy Major

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Mary Grace Collins talks about being part of Lehigh's philosophy department, pursuing a philosophy major, and why she chose Lehigh.

Mary Grace Collins

Philosophy and Political Science Double Major

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Heidegger and Being

Assistant Professor, Filippo Casati, examines Marin Heidegger's later work and defends an alternate interpretation of his wrestle with the notion of Being.

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