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12Analogical Investigations: Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Human ReasoningCambridge University Press. 2015.Western philosophy and science are responsible for constructing some powerful tools of investigation, aiming at discovering the truth, delivering robust explanations, verifying conjectures, showing that inferences are sound and demonstrating results conclusively. By contrast reasoning that depends on analogies has often been viewed with suspicion. Professor Lloyd first explores the origins of those Western ideals, criticises some of their excesses and redresses the balance in favour of looser, a…Read more
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10The Hippogratic QuestionClassical Quarterly 25 (2): 171-192. 1975.The question of determining the genuine works of Hippocrates, a topic already much discussed by the ancient commentators, still continues to be actively debated, although the disagreements among scholars remain, it seems, almost as wide as ever. In comparatively recent times, Edelstein's IIEPI AEPQN and two subsequent studies of his written in the 1930s and marked a turning-point in that they presented a particularly clear and comprehensive statement of the sceptical view, according to which Hip…Read more
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9Aristotle: The Growth and Structure of His Thought (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1968.Dr Lloyd writes for those who want to discover and explore Aristotle's work for themselves. He acts as mediator between Aristotle and the modern reader. The book is divided into two parts. The first tells the story of Aristotle's intellectual development as far as it can be reconstructed; the second presents the fundamentals of his thought in the main fields of inquiry which interested him: logic and metaphysics, physics, psychology, ethics, politics, and literary criticism. The final chapter co…Read more
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7Galenus Latinus II. Burgundio of Pisa's Translation of Galen's ΠΕΡΙ ΤΩΝ ΠΕΠΟΝΘΟΤΩΝ ΤΟΠΩΝ ‘De interioribus’ (review)The Classical Review 43 (2): 423-423. 1993.
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7The papers of Dr Thomas Coke: a catalogueBulletin of the John Rylands Library 76 (2): 205-320. 1994.
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7Notes on the Framework for Comparing Science and Philosophy Across CivilizationsJournal of Chinese Philosophy 40 (S1): 39-46. 2013.How far can we construct a framework within which to compare different traditions of philosophy and science across civilizations? The first problem lies with the terms “philosophy” and “science” themselves, for they carry particular associations in Western thought, some of which contribute to the mistaken view that they are uniquely Western activities. This brief article refutes that view, examining how we can compare the philosophical and scientific achievements of different cultures, and furth…Read more
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7Expanding Horizons in the History of Science: The Comparative ApproachCambridge University Press. 2021.This book challenges the common assumption that the predominant focus of the history of science should be the achievements of Western scientists since the so-called Scientific Revolution. The conceptual frameworks within which the members of earlier societies and of modern indigenous groups worked admittedly pose severe problems for our understanding. But rather than dismiss them on the grounds that they are incommensurable with our own and to that extent unintelligible, we should see them as of…Read more
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6The Ambitions of Curiosity: Understanding the World in Ancient Greece and ChinaCambridge University Press. 2002.In The Ambitions of Curiosity, first published in 2002, one of the world's foremost philosophers of science explores the origins and growth of systematic inquiry in Greece, China, and Mesopotamia. Professor Lloyd examines which factors stimulated or inhibited this development, and whose interests were served. He asks who set the agenda? What was the role of the state in sponsoring, supporting or blocking research, in such areas as historiography, natural philosophy, medical research, astronomy, …Read more
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5In the Grip of Disease: Studies in the Greek ImaginationOxford University Press. 2003.This original and lively book uses texts from ancient medicine, epic, lyric, tragedy, historiography, philosophy, and religion to explore the influence of Greek ideas on health and disease on Greek thought. Fundamental issues are deeply implicated: causation and responsibility, purification and pollution, the mind-body relationship and gender differences, authority and the expert, reality and appearances, good government, and good and evil themselves.
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5Being, Humanity, and Understanding: Studies in Ancient and Modern SocietiesOxford University Press UK. 2012.G. E. R. Lloyd explores the amazing diversity of views that humans have held on being, humanity, and understanding. In a cross-cultural study that ranges from ancient to modern times, he asks how far we are bound by the conceptual systems to which we belong, and explores topics such as ontology, morality, philosophy of language, and communication.
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5Notes on the Framework for Comparing Science and Philosophy Across CivilizationsJournal of Chinese Philosophy 40 (5): 39-46. 2013.How far can we construct a framework within which to compare different traditions of philosophy and science across civilizations? The first problem lies with the terms “philosophy” and “science” themselves, for they carry particular associations in Western thought, some of which contribute to the mistaken view that they are uniquely Western activities. This brief article refutes that view, examining how we can compare the philosophical and scientific achievements of different cultures, and furth…Read more
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4Science and Morality in Greco-Roman Antiquity: An Inaugural LectureCambridge University Press. 1985.This inaugural lecture considers three main aspects of the relationship between science and morality in Greco-Roman antiquity: first some of the ancient debates on the morality of particular scientific research programmes, especially in connection with the practice of human and animal dissection and vivisection; secondly ancient attempts to secure the autonomy and objectivity of natural scientific inquiry; and thirdly the continuing influence - in certain areas of ancient science - of values, in…Read more
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4Gu Dai Shi Jie de Xian Dai Si Kao: Tou Shi Xila, Zhongguo de Ke Xue Yu Wen HuaShanghai Ke Ji Jiao Yu Chu Ban She. 2008.本书内容包括:理解古代社会、开拓疆域、信仰的可疑性、研究风格和共同本体论问题、对实例论证的支持和反对、对民主的一种批判等。
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4George Bell and early Methodist enthusiasm: a new manuscript source from the Manchester ArchivesBulletin of the John Rylands Library 80 (1): 89-102. 1998.
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4Models for living in ancient Greece and ChinaIn R. A. H. King (ed.), The Good Life and Conceptions of Life in Early China and Graeco-Roman Antiquity, De Gruyter. pp. 21-28. 2015.
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3The Poem of Empedocles. A Text and Translation with an Introduction (review)The Classical Review 43 (1): 164-164. 1993.
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3The Ambivalences of Rationality: Ancient and Modern Cross-Cultural ExplorationsCambridge University Press. 2017.Is rationality a well-defined human universal such that ideas and behaviour can everywhere be judged by a single set of criteria? Or are the rational and the irrational simply cultural constructs? This study provides an alternative to both options. The universalist thesis underestimates the variety found in sound human reasonings exemplified across time and space and often displays a marked Eurocentric bias. The extreme relativist faces the danger of concluding that we are all locked into mutual…Read more
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3Aristotle on mind and the senses: proceedings of the seventh Symposium Aristotelicum (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1978.The Symposia Aristotelica were inaugurated at Oxford in 1957. They are conferences of select groups of Aristotelian scholars from the UK, USA and Europe, and are held every three years. In 1975 the meeting was held in Cambridge and was devoted to Aristotle's psychological treatises, the De anima and the Parva uaturalia. The members of the conference discussed some of the much debated problems of Aristotle's psychology and broached important new topics such as his ideas on imagination. Dr Lloyd a…Read more
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1Review of Gregory Vlastos: Plato’s Universe (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 27 (4): 408-411. 1976.
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1Magic, Reason and Experience. Studies in the Origines and Development of Greek ScienceTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 43 (4): 747-748. 1981.
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