Galen's Epistemology : Experience, Reason, and Method in Ancient Medicine
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ISBN-10
1316513483
ISBN-13
9781316513484
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
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GB
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GB
Publication Date
May 12th, 2022
Print length
348 Pages
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664 grams
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15.80 x 23.70 x 2.30 cms
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Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
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Galen's project of scientific medicine entails philosophical issues such as the relation between experience and reason, the criteria of truth, and the methods of inquiry and justification. This volume explores his contributions to (mainly scientific) epistemology as well as their legacy in the Islamic world.
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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