- Tytuł:
- Scientific Realism and the Objects of Medicine in the Hippocratic Treatise On the Art
- Autorzy:
- Cales, Kevin Ray
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/2057140.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2022-03-30
- Wydawca:
- International Étienne Gilson Society
- Tematy:
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scientific realism
medicine
ancient Greek philosophy
sophism
abstract objects
ontology - Opis:
- On the Art is a polemical treatise in the Hippocratic corpus that has been dated to 450–400 Bce. As a polemical work, the author defends the existence of medicine against detractors. i argue that the author employs two arguments for scientific realism in defense of medicine that are among the earliest known. First, i situate the work in the context of the sophistic movement and the nomos vs. physis debate. Second, i analyze the two arguments in On the Art ii, and i argue by contraposing spatiotemporalist, constructivist, and realist interpretations of the passage that the author grapples with the semantic stretch of the word εἶδος. thereafter, i propose the arguments are best understood as indispensability arguments in which medical realism is defended in order to explain clinical practice.
- Źródło:
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Studia Gilsoniana; 2022, 11, 2; 229-248
2300-0066 - Pojawia się w:
- Studia Gilsoniana
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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