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.
Edited by:
R. J. Hankinson (University of Texas Austin),
Matyáš Havrda
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 158mm,
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 630g
ISBN: 9781316513484
ISBN 10: 1316513483
Pages: 348
Publication Date: 12 May 2022
Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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 Alexandrians' 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.
R. J. Hankinson is a Professor of Philosophy and Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. Matyáš Havrda is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the Czech Academy of Sciences.
