Galen's epistemology : experience, reason, and method in ancient medicine

Weitere Verfasser: Hankinson, R. J. , [HerausgeberIn]
Havrda, Matyáš 1972- , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Umfang/Format: viii, 325 pages ; 24 cm.
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Parallelausgabe: ebook version : | ISSN: 9781009075695
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction / R. J. Hankinson and Matyáš Havrda
  • 1. "Do I wake or sleep?': Galen, scepticism, and dreams / Jonathan Barnes
  • 2. Galen's empiricist background: a study of the argument in On Medical Experience / Inna Kupreeva
  • 3. Discovery, method, and justification: Galen and the determination of therapy / R. J. Hankinson
  • 4. From problems to demonstrations: two case studies of Galen's method / Matyáš Havrda
  • 5. Galen's notion of dialectic / Teun Tieleman
  • 6. The relationship between perceptual experience and Logos: Galen's clinical perspective / P.N. Singer
  • 7. Galen against Archigenes on the pulse and what it teaches us about Galen's method of Diairesis / Orly Lewis
  • 8. On sense-perception: Galen in dialogue with Plato and the Stoics / Katerina Ierodiakonou
  • 9. Reason and experience in Galen's moral epistemology / David Kaufman
  • 10. The Arabic Alexandrian's Summary of Galen's On the Therapeutic Method / Elvira Wakelnig
  • 11. What level of certainty can medical sign-inference reach? A discussion of Galen's demonstrative method in the Islamic world / Pauline Koetschet.