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20In Dialogue with Plato’s Politics and EducationComparative and Continental Philosophy 12 (3): 165-166. 2020.
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16Philosophical Method of Dioscorides’s De Materia MedicaHopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 13 (1): 180-198. 2023.It is commonly thought that Dioscorides’s view on medicine is purely pragmatic, focused entirely on the effectiveness of medicines, and derived from trial and error. One reason for this interpretation is that Dioscorides himself wrote little about his theory of medicine. In this article, however, we argue that he would have arranged De Materia Medica in a way that would have been useful only to a skilled practitioner. This argument implies that Dioscorides had a medical theory, as the arrangemen…Read more
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