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The Sceptics is the first comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of
Greek scepticism, from the beginnings of epistemology with
Xenophanes, to the final full development of Pyrrhonism as
presented in the work of Sextus Empiricus. Tracing the evolution of
scepticism from 500 B.C to A.D 200, this clear and rigorous
analysis presents the arguments of the Greek sceptics in their
historical context and provides an in-depth study of the various
strands of the sceptical tradition.
The Sceptics is the first comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of Greek scepticism, from the beginnings of epistemology with Xenophanes, to the final full development of Pyrrhonism as presented in the work of Sextus Empiricus. Tracing the evolution of scepticism from 500 B.C to A.D 200, this clear and rigorous analysis presents the arguments of the Greek sceptics in their historical context and provides an in-depth study of the various strands of the sceptical tradition. eBook available with sample pages: 02034582570203067770
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Galen of Pergamum (AD 129-c.216) was the most influential doctor of
later antiquity, whose work was to influence medical theory and
practice for more than fifteen hundred years. He was a prolific
writer on anatomy, physiology, diagnosis and prognosis,
pulse-doctrine, pharmacology, therapeutics, and the theory of
medicine; but he also wrote extensively on philosophical topics,
making original contributions to logic and the philosophy of
science, and outlining a scientific epistemology which married a
deep respect for empirical adequacy with a commitment to rigorous
rational exposition and demonstration. He was also a vigorous
polemicist, deeply involved in the doctrinal disputes among the
medical schools of his day. This volume offers an introduction to
and overview of Galen's achievement in all these fields, while
seeking also to evaluate that achievement in the light of the
advances made in Galen scholarship over the past thirty years.
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.
Aristotle argues in On the Heavens 1.5-7 that there can be no
infinitely large body, and in 1.8-9 that there cannot be more than
one physical world. As a corollary in 1.9, he infers that there is
no place, vacuum or time beyond the outermost stars. As one
argument in favour of a single world, he argues that his four
elements: earth, air, fire and water, have only one natural
destination apiece. Moreover they accelerate as they approach it
and acceleration cannot be unlimited. However, the Neoplatonist
Simplicius, who wrote the commentary in the sixth century AD (here
translated into English), tells us that this whole world view was
to be rejected by Strato, the third head of Aristotle's school. At
the same time, he tells us the different theories of acceleration
in Greek philosophy.
In the three chapters of On the Heavens dealt with in this volume,
Aristotle argues that the universe is ungenerated and
indestructible. In Simplicius' commentary, translated here, we see
a battle royal between the Neoplatonist Simplicius and the
Aristotelian Alexander, whose lost commentary on Aristotle's On the
Heavens Simplicius partly preserves. Simplicius' rival, the
Christian Philoponus, had conducted a parallel battle in his
Against Proclus but had taken the side of Alexander against Proclus
and other Platonists, arguing that Plato's Timaeus gives a
beginning to the universe. Simplicius takes the Platonist side,
denying that Plato intended a beginning. The origin to which Plato
refers is, according to Simplicius, not a temporal origin, but the
divine cause that produces the world without beginning.
Galen of Pergamum (AD 129 c.216) was the most influential doctor of
later antiquity, whose work was to influence medical theory and
practice for more than fifteen hundred years. He was a prolific
writer on anatomy, physiology, diagnosis and prognosis,
pulse-doctrine, pharmacology, therapeutics, and the theory of
medicine; but he also wrote extensively on philosophical topics,
making original contributions to logic and the philosophy of
science, and outlining a scientific epistemology which married a
deep respect for empirical adequacy with a commitment to rigorous
rational exposition and demonstration. He was also a vigorous
polemicist, deeply involved in the doctrinal disputes among the
medical schools of his day. This volume offers an introduction to
and overview of Galen's achievement in all these fields, while
seeking also to evaluate that achievement in the light of the
advances made in Galen scholarship over the past thirty years."
This book is a new edition of a short but fascinating treatise by
Galen on causal theory. This text survives only in a Latin
translation of the fourteenth century, and it is this which appears
here. The volume also contains the first translation of the
treatise into any modern language, and the first philosophical
commentary thereon. The commentary ranges widely in Galen's
voluminous oeuvre, and compares his views with those of other
ancient theorists. The introduction deals in detail with Galen's
life and work, with the background both philosophical and medieval
to his causal theory, and with the history of the text itself.
This book is a new edition of a short but fascinating treatise by
Galen on causal theory. This text survives only in a Latin
translation of the fourteenth century, and it is this which appears
here. The volume also contains the first translation of the
treatise into any modern language, and the first philosophical
commentary thereon. The commentary ranges widely in Galen's
voluminous oeuvre, and compares his views with those of other
ancient theorists. The introduction deals in detail with Galen's
life and work, with the background both philosophical and medieval
to his causal theory, and with the history of the text itself.
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