{"title":"Peter Adamson","description":"Peter Adamson, Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Chike Jeffers, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Dalhousie University Halifax Peter Adamson received his BA from Williams College and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. He worked at King's College London from 2000-2012 and retains an affiliation there, but his main position is at the LMU in Munich. He has published widely in ancient and medieval philosophy and is the host of the History of Philosophy podcast. Chike Jeffers is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Dalhousie University. He specializes in Africana philosophy and philosophy of race, with broad interests in social and political philosophy. Jeffers is co-author of What is Race? 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