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      Magic, Reason and Experience

      G. E. R. Lloyd

      This book is a study of the origins and development of Greek science, focusing especially on the interactions of scientific and traditional patterns of thought from the 6th to the…

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      Methods and Problems in Greek Science: Selected Papers

      G. E. R. Lloyd

      Collection of articles on the problem of interpreting ancient Greek science.

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      Delusions of Invulnerability: Wisdom and Morality in Ancient Greece,China and Today

      G. E. R. Lloyd

      An examination of the crises in values in the modern world in the light of ancient Greek and Chinese concepts of wisdom and of what makes life worth living

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      In the Grip of Disease: Studies in the Greek Imagination

      G. E. R. Lloyd

      Explores Greek ideas about health and disease and their influence on Greek thought. This book talks about fundamental issues such as causation and responsibility, purification and pollution, mind-body relations and…

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      In the Grip of Disease: Studies in the Greek Imagination

      G. E. R. Lloyd

      Using texts from ancient medicine, epic, lyric, tragedy, historiography, philosophy, and religion, this book explores the influence of Greek ideas on health and disease on Greek thought. Fundamental issues such…

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      Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle

      G. E. R. Lloyd

      Although there is no exact equivalent to our term science in Greek, Western science may still be said to have originated with the Greeks, for they were the first to…

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      Greek Science After Aristotle

      G. E. R. Lloyd

      Although there is no exact equivalent to our term science in Greek, Western science may still be said to originate with the Greeks.

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      The Revolutions of Wisdom: Studies in the Claims and Practice of Ancient Greek Science

      G. E. R. Lloyd

      G.E.R. Lloyd’s wide-ranging and historical study of the development of Greek science is a valuable contribution to current debates in the philosophy of language, on the analysis of scientific revolutions…

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      Polarity and Analogy

      G. E. R. Lloyd

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      Adversaries and Authorities: Investigations into Ancient Greek and Chinese Science

      G. E. R. Lloyd (University of Cambridge)

      Did science and philosophy develop differently in ancient Greece and ancient China? If so, can we say why? This book offers answers to these questions with a series of detailed…

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      Analogical Investigations: Historical and Cross-cultural Perspectives on Human Reasoning

      G. E. R. Lloyd (University of Cambridge)

      A penetrating cross-cultural analysis of alternative models of human reasoning producing a radical critique of Western ideals of logic and scientific method. Uses examples from ancient Greek and Chinese thought…

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      Adversaries and Authorities: Investigations into Ancient Greek and Chinese Science

      G. E. R. Lloyd (University of Cambridge)

      Did science and philosophy develop differently in ancient Greece and ancient China? If so, can we say why? This book offers answers to these questions with a series of studies…

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      Aristotelian Explorations

      G. E. R. Lloyd (University of Cambridge)

      This book challenges widespread views concerning Aristotle’s methods and practices of scientific and philosophical research. It explores generally unrecognised tensions between Aristotle’s deeply held a priori convictions and his remarkable…

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      Aristotelian Explorations

      G. E. R. Lloyd (University of Cambridge)

      This book challenges widespread views concerning Aristotle’s methods and practices of scientific and philosophical research. It explores generally unrecognised tensions between Aristotle’s deeply held a priori convictions and his remarkable…

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      The Ambitions of Curiosity: Understanding the World in Ancient Greece and China

      G. E. R. Lloyd (University of Cambridge)

      An innovative study of the development of systematic inquiry in ancient Greece, Mesopotamia, and China.

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      The Ambitions of Curiosity: Understanding the World in Ancient Greece and China

      G. E. R. Lloyd (University of Cambridge)

      An innovative study of the development of systematic inquiry in ancient Greece, Mesopotamia, and China.

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      Analogical Investigations: Historical and Cross-cultural Perspectives on Human Reasoning

      G. E. R. Lloyd (University of Cambridge)

      A penetrating cross-cultural analysis of alternative models of human reasoning producing a radical critique of Western ideals of logic and scientific method. Uses examples from ancient Greek and Chinese thought…

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      Being, Humanity, and Understanding: Studies in Ancient and Modern Societies

      G. E. R. Lloyd (University of Cambridge)

      G. E. R. Lloyd explores the amazing diversity of views that humans have held on being, humanity, and understanding. In a cross-cultural study that ranges from ancient to modern times…

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      Being, Humanity, and Understanding: Studies in Ancient and Modern Societies

      G. E. R. Lloyd (University of Cambridge)

      G. E. R. Lloyd explores the amazing diversity of views that humans have held on being, humanity, and understanding. In a cross-cultural study that ranges from ancient to modern times…

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      The Ideals of Inquiry: An Ancient History

      G. E. R. Lloyd (University of Cambridge)

      Long before science as we know it existed, sophisticated studies of the physical world were undertaken-in Mesopotamia, India, China, and Greece. G. E. R. Lloyd explores the methods, subject-matter, and…

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      The Ideals of Inquiry: An Ancient History

      G. E. R. Lloyd (University of Cambridge)

      Long before science as we know it existed, sophisticated studies of the physical world were undertaken–in Mesopotamia, India, China, and Greece. G. E. R. Lloyd explores the methods, subject-matter, and…

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      Aristotle: The Growth and Structure of his Thought

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      This is a concise and lucid account of the work of a difficult and profound thinker, Aristotle. Dr Lloyd traces the fundamental philosophy of each of the main fields of…

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      The Ambivalences of Rationality: Ancient and Modern Cross-Cultural Explorations

      G. E. R. Lloyd (Needham Research Institute, Cambridge)

      Cross-cultural examination of rationality and the irrational across ancient societies (Greece and China especially) and modern ones (as revealed by ethnography). Are rationality and the irrational well-defined universals or merely…

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      Expanding Horizons in the History of Science: The Comparative Approach

      G. E. R. Lloyd (Needham Research Institute, Cambridge)

      This book challenges a Western modernist perspective for the history of science. The study of ancient societies and modern indigenous groups enables us to critique many of our own assumptions…

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      Disciplines in the Making: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Elites, Learning, and Innovation

      G. E. R. Lloyd (Emeritus Professor, University of Cambridge)

      We tend to assume that our map of the intellectual disciplines is valid cross-culturally. G. E. R. Lloyd challenges this in relation to eight main areas of human endeavour, namely…

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      Disciplines in the Making: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Elites, Learning, and Innovation

      G. E. R. Lloyd (Emeritus Professor, University of Cambridge)

      We tend to assume that our map of the intellectual disciplines is valid cross-culturally. G. E. R. Lloyd challenges this in relation to eight main areas of human endeavour, namely…

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      Aristotle on Mind and the Senses

      The Symposia Aristotelica were inaugurated at Oxford in 1957. They are conferences of select groups of Aristotelian scholars from the UK, USA and Europe, and are held every three years…

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      Ancient Greece and China Compared

      A pioneering, methodologically sophisticated set of studies describing and analysing key features of ancient Greek and Chinese civilisations, including issues in philosophy and religion, in art and literature, in mathematics…

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      Intelligence and Intelligibility: Cross-Cultural Studies of Human Cognitive Experience

      G. E. R. Lloyd (Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Science, Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Science, University of Cambridge)

      G. E. R. Lloyd considers how we can resolve the tension that exists between an appreciation of the cognitive capacities that all humans share, and a recognition of the great…

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      Intelligence and Intelligibility: Cross-Cultural Studies of Human Cognitive Experience

      G. E. R. Lloyd (Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Science, Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Science, University of Cambridge)

      G. E. R. Lloyd considers how we can resolve the tension that exists between an appreciation of the cognitive capacities that all humans share, and a recognition of the great…

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