G. E. R. Lloyd

Broschiertes Buch

Analogical Investigations

Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Human Reasoning

Beschreibung

A penetrating cross-cultural analysis of alternative models of human reasoning producing a radical critique of Western ideals of logic and scientific method. Uses examples from ancient Greek and Chinese thought and recent ethnography. Of interest to philosophers, anthropologists, historians, linguists and cognitive scientists as well as classicists and sinologists.

Autor

G. E. R. Lloyd is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Science at the University of Cambridge, Former Master of Darwin College, Cambridge, and Senior Scholar in Residence at the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge. He is the author of twenty-two books and editor of four, and was knighted for 'services to the history of thought' in 1997.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 264g
• ISBN-13: 9781107518377
• ISBN-10: 1107518377
• Artikelnr.: 42766805