The Heirs of Avicenna
A Conversation with Peter Adamson

6.00-8.00pm | Wednesday, April 2
Elm Library, 31 Whitney Avenue

Peter Adamson, author of the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, will discuss the reception of Avicenna in the Islamic world, and the status of Islamic thought in contemporary philosophy.

Peter Adamson is Professor of Philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

This event is open to all members of the Yale community. Dinner will be served.

This event is currently at capacity. If you would like to be added to the wait list, contact Peter Wicks.

O you who are zealous to Ascertain the truth: I am bestowing upon you in these pointers and reminders fundamental principles and essential elements of philosophy; if sagacity takes hold of your hand, it will become easy for you to derive corollary principles from the former and work out the details of the latter.

—Avicenna, Pointers and Reminders