Philosophical themes in Galen / edited by Peter Adamson, Rotraud Hansberger & James Wilberding.
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London :
Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London,
2014.
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| Series: | Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Supplement ;
114. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Galen and the philosophers: philosophical engagement, shadowy contemporaries, Aristotelian transformations / P.N. Singer
- Genre and Galen's philosophical discourses / Todd Curtis
- Galen on what is persuasive (pithanon) and what approximates to truth / Riccardo Chiaradonna
- Galen on the nature of human beings / Philip van der Eijk
- Galen on mental illness: a physiological approach to phrenitis / Glenda McDonald
- Galen's theory of elements / Inna Kupreeva
- Galen on void / Peter Adamson
- Galen's refutation of atomism / David Leith
- On Galen's theory of vision / Katerina Ierodiakonou
- Secret of sentient vegetative life in Galen / James Wilberding
- What does pseudo-Galen tell us that Galen does not? Ancient medical schools in the Roman Empire / Caroline Petit
- Index of subjects and persons
- Index locorum.