G. E. R. Lloyd (Cambridge Needham Research Institute)

Expanding Horizons in the History of Science

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book challenges a Western modernist perspective for the history of science. The study of ancient societies and modern indigenous groups enables us to critique many of our own assumptions. The realities to be accounted for are multidimensional and all such accounts are to some extent value-laden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9781316516249
• ISBN-10: 1316516245
• Artikelnr.: 62216824

Autorenporträt

G. E. R. Lloyd is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Science at the University of Cambridge and Senior Scholar in Residence at the Needham Research Institute. He has authored or edited more than thirty books and won numerous international prizes and medals (Dan David Prize, Fyssen prize, Sarton medal, Kenyon medal) for pioneering studies in the comparative history of science.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. On aspects of the status quaestionis
2. Translatability, intelligibility, revisability
3. Demystifying the Greek miracle
4. The question of causal factors
5. The criteria of theories, simplicity for instance
6. Definitions and the problems of foreclosure
7. The challenge of 'mythology'
8. Elements, processes, substances, stuff
9. Health and disease, illness and well-being
10. Mind, body, heart, brain, soul, spirit
Conclusions.