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Ideology, inquiry, and antiquity: a critical notice of Lloyd’s The Ideals of Inquiry: An Ancient History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Sylvia Berryman
Sylvia Berryman*
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Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, 1866 East Mall, E370, Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaV6T 1Z1
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*Email: sylvia.berryman@ubc.ca
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Abstract

A discussion of Lloyd’s Tarner Lectures at Trinity College. The importance of Lloyd’s previous scholarship is characterized and these sweeping, erudite lectures are placed in the context of that scholarship. In the broadest terms, the lectures are a call to culturally and historically comparative study of human reasoning. At their heart is a comparative history of scientific theorizing from the ancients through to modern science. Lloyd rejects the positivist picture, and the view of modern and ancient science as discontinuous; he urges scholars to undertake comparative work on the ancient sciences in different traditions. This critical notice evaluates Lloyd’s view and raises several questions for further reflection.

Keywords

ancient sciencehistorical and cultural context of scientific theoriesheuristics versus deduction
Type
Critical Notice
Information
Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , April 2015 , pp. 242 - 256
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Journal of Philosophy 2015

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