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Analogical Investigations
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller notes
- “Unread. There is some shelfwear to the cover.”
- Book Title
- Analogical Investigations
- ISBN
- 9781107518377
- Subject Area
- Philosophy
- Publication Name
- Analogical Investigations : Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Human Reasoning
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Item Length
- 8.9 in
- Subject
- History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, General
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.3 in
- Item Weight
- 9.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.9 in
- Number of Pages
- 144 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
1107518377
ISBN-13
9781107518377
eBay Product ID (ePID)
211988088
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Publication Name
Analogical Investigations : Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Human Reasoning
Language
English
Subject
History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, General
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Philosophy
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.3 in
Item Weight
9.2 Oz
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2015-487597
Reviews
"… a challenging book which constitutes an intellectually condensed and pleasurable read." Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, "... a challenging book which constitutes an intellectually condensed and pleasurable read." Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
153.43
Table Of Content
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.
Synopsis
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 and recent ethnography. Of interest to philosophers, anthropologists, historians, linguists and cognitive scientists as well as classicists and sinologists., 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 developed different styles of reasoning. He also develops two original but controversial ideas, that of semantic stretch (to cast doubt on the literal/metaphorical dichotomy) and the multidimensionality of reality (to bypass the realism versus relativism and nature versus nurture controversies).
LC Classification Number
BC177
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