Peter Adamson is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the LMU in Munich. He is the author of Al-Kindi and Al-Razi in the series “Great Medieval Thinkers” series, and has edited or co-edited many books, including The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy and Interpreting Avicenna: Critical Essays. Professor Adamson is also the host of the “History of Philosophy podcast” (www.historyofphilosophy.net), which appears as a series of books with Oxford University Press.