Peter Adamson received his BA from Williams College and PhD from the University of Notre Dame. From 2000 to 2012 he was a member of the Philosophy Department at King's College London, and he maintains a connection to King's. But his primary position is now as Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the LMU in Munich. The author of numerous monographs and articles on ancient and medieval philosophy, especially Neoplatonism and philosophy in the Islamic world, he also hosts the History of Philosophy podcast, which appears as a series of books with Oxford University Press.

• 1: Life works


• 2: Logic epistemology


• 3: Human person


• 4: Physics


• 5: God and world


• 6: Legacy


• Further reading


• Index

In this book, Peter Adamson introduces the most important philosopher of the Islamic world, Ibn S¿n¿. After describing the historical context in which he lived, what we know of the man, and his surviving works, Adamson discusses the different areas of Ibn S¿n¿'s thought.