Events

Mar

26

Lecture

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

Location:

HST 101 Forum

March 26, 2025, 4:30 - 5:30pm

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…

Mar

27

Lecture

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

Location:

Scheler Humanities Forum (LI 200)

March 27, 2025, 4:30 - 5:30pm

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…

Mar

28

Class/Workshop

Selfridge Workshop

Location:

The Humanities Center

March 28, 2025, 2 - 6pm

March 29, 2025, 2 - 6pm

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),…

Mar

28

Class/Workshop

Selfridge Workshop

Location:

The Humanities Center

March 28, 2025, 2 - 6pm

March 29, 2025, 2 - 6pm