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Analogical Investigations: Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Human Reasoning
G. E. R. Lloyd
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Description for Analogical Investigations: Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Human Reasoning
paperback. Penetrating cross-cultural analysis of alternative models of human reasoning. Uses examples from ancient Greek and Chinese thought and recent ethnography. Num Pages: 144 pages, 10 b/w illus. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPD; HPL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 264.
Western philosophy and science are responsible for constructing some powerful tools of investigation, aiming at discovering the truth, delivering robust explanations, verifying conjectures, showing that inferences are sound and demonstrating results conclusively. By contrast reasoning that depends on analogies has often been viewed with suspicion. Professor Lloyd first explores the origins of those Western ideals, criticises some of their excesses and redresses the balance in favour of looser, admittedly non-demonstrative analogical reasoning. For this he takes examples both from ancient Greek and Chinese thought and from the materials of recent ethnography to show how different ancient and modern cultures have ... Read more
Western philosophy and science are responsible for constructing some powerful tools of investigation, aiming at discovering the truth, delivering robust explanations, verifying conjectures, showing that inferences are sound and demonstrating results conclusively. By contrast reasoning that depends on analogies has often been viewed with suspicion. Professor Lloyd first explores the origins of those Western ideals, criticises some of their excesses and redresses the balance in favour of looser, admittedly non-demonstrative analogical reasoning. For this he takes examples both from ancient Greek and Chinese thought and from the materials of recent ethnography to show how different ancient and modern cultures have ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
263g
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107518377
SKU
V9781107518377
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About G. E. R. Lloyd
G. E. R. Lloyd is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Science at the University of Cambridge, Former Master of Darwin College, Cambridge, and Senior Scholar in Residence at the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge. He is the author of twenty-two books and editor of four, and was knighted for 'services to the history of thought' in 1997.
Reviews for Analogical Investigations: Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Human Reasoning
'… a challenging book which constitutes an intellectually condensed and pleasurable read.' Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Bryn Mawr Classical Review