G. E. R. Lloyd

Analogical Investigations

Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Human Reasoning

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. On the very possibility of mutual intelligibility
2. The multiple valences of comparativism
3. Analogies, images and models in ethics: some first-order and second-order observations on their use and evaluation in ancient Greece and China
4. Analogies as heuristic
5. Ontologies revisited
6. Conclusions.