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45The Philebus - J. C. B. Gosling: Plato, Philebus, translated with Notes and Commentary. Pp. xxi + 238. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. Cloth £6 (review)The Classical Review 27 (2): 173-175. 1977.
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37The Hippogratic QuestionClassical Quarterly 25 (02): 171-. 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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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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46Saving the AppearancesClassical Quarterly 28 (01): 202-. 1978.‘Saving the appearances’, , is a slogan that, in its time, stood or was made to stand for many different methodological positions in many different branches of ancient natural science. It is not my aim, in this paper, to attempt to tackle the subject as a whole. I shall concentrate on just one inquiry, astronomy. Nor, with astronomy, can I do justice to all the complexities of what was certainly one of the central methodological issues, if not the central issue, in the history of ancient theoret…Read more
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23Saving the AppearancesClassical Quarterly 28 (1): 202-222. 1978.‘Saving the appearances’,, is a slogan that, in its time, stood or was made to stand for many different methodological positions in many different branches of ancient natural science. It is not my aim, in this paper, to attempt to tackle the subject as a whole. I shall concentrate on just one inquiry, astronomy. Nor, with astronomy, can I do justice to all the complexities of what was certainly one of the central methodological issues, if not the central issue, in the history of ancient theoreti…Read more
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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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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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14Multidimensional realityCommon Knowledge 17 (1): 27-30. 2011.This piece is a response to Barbara Herrnstein Smith's article, “The Chimera of Relativism: A Tragicomedy,” in the Common Knowledge symposium on “comparative relativism.” The theme is complexity—as distinct from simple contrast or binarism of any kind—similarities as well as differences are observed in ancient Chinese and ancient Greek responses to cultural difference; also the significantly different views of these matters among the Greek philosophers. In the same vein, discussing studies of cu…Read more
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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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33Mind and Madness in Ancient Greece: the classical roots of modern psychiatry (review)The Classical Review 30 (2): 318-319. 1980.
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25Methods and Problems in the History of Ancient Science: The Greek CaseIsis 83 (4): 564-577. 1992.
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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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17Fortunes of Analogy: Replies to CommentatorsAustralasian Philosophical Review 1 (3): 336-345. 2017.
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33Fortunes of AnalogyAustralasian Philosophical Review 1 (3): 236-249. 2017.ABSTRACTThis article, which summarises some of the main arguments of Analogical Investigations [Lloyd 2015], undertakes a comparative cross-cultural critique of the dominant Western view that downgrades analogy especially when that is contrasted unfavourably with a notion of axiomatic-deductive demonstration aiming to secure incontrovertible conclusions. It draws on materials from ancient Greece, ancient China and modern social anthropology and philosophy of science to explore the problems of tr…Read more
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52Brad Inwood : The Poem of Empedocles. A Text and Translation with an Introduction. Pp. x + 320. Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 1992. £31.95 (review)The Classical Review 43 (1): 164-164. 1993.
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52Archimède, Ménélaos d'Alexandrie et le ‘Carmen de ponderibus et mensuris’: contributions à l'histoire des sciences (review)The Classical Review 40 (2): 525-526. 1990.
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34The Revolutions of Wisdom: Studies in the Claims and Practice of Ancient Greek SciencePhilosophical Review 100 (2): 321. 1991.
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51Aristotelian ExplorationsCambridge University Press. 1996.This book challenges several widespread views concerning Aristotle's methods and practices of scientific and philosophical research. Taking central topics in psychology, zoology, astronomy and politics, Professor Lloyd explores generally unrecognised tensions between Aristotle's deeply held a priori convictions and his remarkable empirical honesty in the face of complexities in the data or perceived difficult or exceptional cases. The picture that emerges of Aristotle's actual engagement in scie…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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7Expanding Horizons in the History of ScienceCambridge 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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44Science, Folklore and Ideology: Studies in the Life Sciences in Ancient GreeceCambridge University Press. 1983.Taking a set of central issues from ancient Greek medicine and biology, this book studies firstly, the interaction between scientific theorising and folklore or popular assumptions; secondly, the ideological character of scientific inquiry. Topics of interest in the philosphy and sociology of science illuminated here include the relationship between primitive thought and early science, the roles of the consensus on the scientific community, tradition and the authority of the written text, in the…Read more
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17Adversaries and Authorities: Investigations into Ancient Greek and Chinese ScienceCambridge University Press. 1996.Did science and philosophy develop differently in ancient Greece and ancient China? If so, can we say why? This book consists of a series of detailed studies of cosmology, natural philosophy, mathematics and medicine that suggest the answer to the first question is yes. To answer the second, the author relates the science produced in each ancient civilization first to the values of the society in question and then to the institutions within which the scientists and philosophers worked.
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