Galen's Epistemology (eBook, PDF)

Experience, Reason, and Method in Ancient Medicine
Redaktion: Hankinson, R. J.

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Produktbeschreibung

Determining what has gone wrong in a malfunctioning body and proposing an effective treatment requires expertise. Since antiquity, philosophers and doctors have wondered what sort of knowledge this expertise involves, and whether and how it can warrant its conclusions. Few people were as qualified to deal with these questions as Galen of Pergamum (129-ca. 216). A practising doctor with a keen interest in logic and natural science, he devoted much of his enormous literary output to the task of putting medicine on firm methodological grounds. At the same time he reflected on philosophical issues entailed by this project, such as the nature of experience, its relation to reason, the criteria of truth, and the methods of justification. This volume explores Galen's contributions to (mainly scientific) epistemology, as they arise in the specific inquiries and polemics of his works, as well as their legacy in the Islamic world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009075695
• Artikelnr.: 66177278

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction R. J. Hankinson and Matyá Havrda; 1. 'Do I wake or sleep?'
Galen, scepticism, and dreams Jonathan Barnes; 2. Galen's empiricist
background: A study of the argument in On medical experience Inna Kupreeva;
3. Discovery, method, and justification: Galen and the determination of
therapy R. J.Hankinson; 4. From problems to demonstrations: Two case
studies of Galen's method Matyá Havrda; 5. Galen's notion of dialectic
Teun Tieleman; 6. The relationship between perceptual experience and Logos:
Galen's clinical perspective P. N. Singer; 7. Galen against Archigenes on
the pulse and what it teaches us about Galen's method of Diairesis Orly
Lewis; 8. On sense perception: Galen in dialogue with Plato and the stoics
Katerina Ierodiakonou; 9. Reason and experience in Galen's moral
epistemology David Kaufman; 10. The Arabic Alexandrians' summary of Galen's
On the therapeutic method Elvira Wakelnig; 11. What level of certainty can
medical sign-inference reach? A discussion of Galen's demonstrative method
in the Islamic world Pauline Koetschet.