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

ISBN-13: 9781107107847 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 144 str.

G. E. R. Lloyd

Opis

Penetrating cross-cultural analysis of alternative models of human reasoning. Uses examples from ancient Greek and Chinese thought and recent ethnography.

Recenzje

'… a challenging book which constitutes an intellectually condensed and pleasurable read.' Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. On the very possibility of mutual intelligibility; 2. The multiple valences of comparativism; 3. Analogies, images and models in ethics: some first-order and second-order observations on their use and evaluation in ancient Greece and China; 4. Analogies as heuristic; 5. Ontologies revisited; 6. Conclusions.