Introduction
1: Democracy and Demonstration
2: Gurus, Experts and Idiots: The Modalities of Debate
3: Heuristics and its Hazards
4: Ontologies and Values
5: Some Great Divide?
Glossary of Chinese terms
Notes on Editions
Bibliography
Index
G. E. R. Lloyd is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy and
Science at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of
nineteen books, including Being, Humanity, and Understanding (OUP,
2012), Cognitive Variations: Reflections on the Unity and Diversity
of the Human Mind (OUP, 2007), and Disciplines in the Making:
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Elites, Learning, and Innovation
(OUP, 2009). He became a Fellow of the British Academy in
1983, and received the Sarton medal in 1987. Lloyd was elected to
an Honorary Fellowship at Kings in 1991, to Honorary Foreign
Membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995, to
the International Academy for the
History of Science in 1997, to an Honorary Fellowship at Darwin in
2000, and to an Honorary D.Litt by the University of Athens in
2003. He was knighted for 'services to the history of thought' in
1997, and received the Kenyon Medal for Classical scholarship from
the British Academy in 2007.
"In all, this is an intensely satisfying read. Lloyd's clear prose
and his impressive knowledge of the field makes one feel safe in
taking for granted that each sentence merits reflection. And not
least given the compactness of the text, the curious reader will be
spurred on to other sources in order to unwrap further the
significance of phenomena and relations described. The book is also
a guided tour through several of the author's earlier well-known
publications, and is accordingly brimming with references to a
dozen other books and a handful of articles by Lloyd written in the
course of the last half century. The book will thus to a certain
extent function as a perspective on many of the more detailed
investigations Lloyd has carried out during the last few decades;
not the only possible perspective, certainly, but a central one."
-- The Philosophical Quarterly
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