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Galen's Epistemology - Experience, Reason, and Method in Ancient Medicine (Hardcover)
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Galen's Epistemology - Experience, Reason, and Method in Ancient Medicine (Hardcover)
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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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