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Authors and authorities in ancient China: some comparative observationsIn Jenny Bryan, Robert Wardy & James Warren (eds.), Authors and Authorities in Ancient Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2018.
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Aspects of the Relationship between Aristotle's Psychology and his ZoologyIn Martha Craven Nussbaum & Amélie Rorty (eds.), Essays on Aristotle's De anima, Oxford University Press. 1995 [1992].
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61Introduction: Contexts for a Comparative RelativismCommon Knowledge 17 (1): 1-12. 2011.This introduction to the Common Knowledge symposium titled “Comparative Relativism” outlines a variety of intellectual contexts where placing the unlikely companion terms comparison and relativism in conjunction offers analytical purchase. If comparison, in the most general sense, involves the investigation of discrete contexts in order to elucidate their similarities and differences, then relativism, as a tendency, stance, or working method, usually involves the assumption that contexts exhibit…Read more
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Techniques and Dialectic: Method in Greek and Chinese Mathematics and MedicineIn Jyl Gentzler (ed.), Method in Ancient Philosophy, Oxford University Press Uk. pp. 354--70. 1997.
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14In the Grip of Disease: Studies in the Greek ImaginationOxford University Press UK. 2003.This original and lively book explores Greek ideas about health and disease and their influence on Greek thought. Fundamental issues such as causation and responsibility, purification and pollution, mind-body relations and gender differences, authority and the expert and who can challenge them, reality and appearances, good government, happiness, and good and evil themselves are deeply implicated. Using the evidence not just from Greek medical theory and practice but also from epic, lyric, trage…Read more
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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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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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22Aristotle on Mind and the Senses (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2007.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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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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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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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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1Magic, Reason and Experience. Studies in the Origines and Development of Greek ScienceTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 43 (4): 747-748. 1981.
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20Magic, Reason and Experience: Studies in the Origin and Development of Greek ScienceCambridge University Press. 1979.This book is a study of the origins and development of Greek science, focusing especially on the interactions of scientific and traditional patterns of thought from the sixth to the fourth centuries BC. The starting point is an examination of how certain Greek authors deployed the category of 'magic' and attacked magical beliefs and practices, and these attacks are related to their complex background in Greek medicine and speculative thought. In his second chapter Dr Lloyd outlines the developme…Read more
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20Methods and Problems in Greek Science: Selected PapersCambridge University Press. 1991.This book was first published in 1991. The study of ancient science and its relations with Greek philosophy has made a significant and growing contribution to our understanding of ancient thought and civilisation. This collection of articles on Greek science contains fifteen of the most important papers published by G. E. R. Lloyd in this area since 1961, together with three newer articles. The topics range over all areas and periods of Greek science, from the earliest Presocratic philosophers t…Read more
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Science, Folklore and Ideology. Studies in the Life Sciences in Ancient GreeceRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 174 (4): 447-451. 1984.
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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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32Disciplines in the Making: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Elites, Learning, and InnovationOxford University Press. 2009.We tend to assume that our map of the intellectual disciplines is valid cross-culturally. G. E. R. Lloyd challenges this in relation to eight main areas of human endeavour, namely philosophy, mathematics, history, medicine, art, law, religion, and science, by examining how the disciplines were conceived and developed in different times and places.
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14How were the aims of philosophy and the responsibilities of philosophers conceived in ancient Greece and China? How were the learned elite recruited and controlled; how were their speculations and advice influenced by the different types of audiences they faced and the institutions in which they worked? How was a yearning for invulnerability reconciled with a sense of human frailty? In each chapter of this fascinating analysis ancient Greek and Chinese ideas and practices are used as a basis for…Read more
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29The Ideals of Inquiry: An Ancient HistoryOxford University Press. 2014.Long before science as we know it existed, sophisticated studies of the physical world were undertaken-in Mesopotamia, India, China, and Greece. G. E. R. Lloyd explores the methods, subject-matter, and aims of those studies. He illuminates the origins of human intellectual inquiry, finding similarities and differences across cultures
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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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48Aristotle: The Growth and Structure of His ThoughtPhilosophical Quarterly 19 (76): 280. 1969.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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1Review of Gregory Vlastos: Plato’s Universe (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 27 (4): 408-411. 1976.
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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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76The Development of Aristotle's Theory of the Classification of AnimalsPhronesis 6 (1): 59-81. 1961.
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