denXte: Fliegende Menschen und die Trennung von Körper und Seele

In the organizer's words:

Imagine you are floating high in the air, deprived of all your senses: you can no longer see, hear, touch, taste or smell anything. What can you still know about your own existence and that of your body? The Muslim philosopher Ibn Sīnā (lat. Avicenna) developed exciting insights into the relationship between body and mind using such a scenario back in the Middle Ages. Find out more and discuss with denXte and Prof. Peter Adamson (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich)!

Peter Adamson's research focuses on the philosophy of late antiquity and the Arabic tradition. His monographs deal with the Arabic version of Plotinus, al-Kindī, al-Rāzī, and authority in medieval philosophy. He also produces the History of Philosophy podcast, which is published as a book series by Oxford University Press.

denXte is an interactive philosophical lecture series in which renowned philosophers present socially topical and scientifically relevant issues in the form of thought experiments. After a short thematic introduction by the philosophers, the audience is invited to explore their own intuition on the topic and - by voting with their smartphone and in a subsequent open discussion - to contribute to the discussion.