G. E. R. Lloyd
Sir G. E. R. Lloyd | |
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| Born | Sir Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd 25 January 1933 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | History of science in classical antiquity |
| Institutions | King's College, Cambridge Darwin College, Cambridge |
Sir Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd
Early life
His father, a Welsh physician, specialised in
Career
A keen interest in anthropology informed his reading of ancient Greek philosophy, and his doctoral studies, conducted under the supervision of Geoffrey Kirk, focused on patterns of polarity and analogy in Greek thought, a thesis which, revised, was eventually published in 1966.
He was called up for
On his return to Cambridge in 1960, a chance conversation with Edmund Leach stimulated him to read deeply in the emerging approach of structural anthropology being formulated by Claude Lévi-Strauss. In 1965, thanks to the support of Moses Finley, he was appointed to an assistant lectureship. Consideration of how political discourse affected the modes of scientific discourse and demonstration in Ancient Greece was a recurring theme in his methodology.
After a visit to lecture in China in 1987, Lloyd turned to the study of Classical Chinese. This has added a broad comparative scope to his more recent work, which, following in the wake of Joseph Needham's pioneering studies, analyses how the different political cultures of ancient China and Greece influenced the different forms of scientific discourse in those cultures.
In 1989 he was appointed
Honours
Lloyd was elected a
Publications
- 1966. Polarity and Analogy: Two Types of Argumentation in Early Greek Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-87220-140-6.
- 1968. Aristotle: The Growth and Structure of his Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-09456-9.
- 1970. Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. ISBN 0-393-00583-6.
- 1973. Greek Science after Aristotle. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1973. ISBN 0-393-00780-4.
- 1978. Aristotle on Mind and the Senses (Cambridge Classical Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-21669-9.
- 1978. with J. Chadwick. Hippocratic Writings (Penguin Classics). Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-044451-3.
- 1979. Magic Reason and Experience: Studies in the Origin and Development of Greek Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-29641-2.
- 1983. Science, Folklore and Ideology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-27307-2.
- 1987. The Revolutions of Wisdom: Studies in the Claims and Practice of Ancient Greek Science (Sather Classical Lectures, 52). Berkeley: University of California Press, ISBN 0-520-06742-8.
- 1990. Demystifying Mentalities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-36680-1.
- 1991. Methods and Problems in Greek Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-39762-6
- 1996. Adversaries and Authorities: Investigations into ancient Greek and Chinese Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-55695-3.
- 1996. Aristotelian Explorations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-55619-8.
- 2002. The Ambitions of Curiosity: Understanding the World in Ancient Greece and China. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pr. ISBN 0-521-81542-8.
- 2002. with ISBN 0-300-10160-0.
- 2003. In the Grip of Disease: Studies in the Greek Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-927587-4.
- 2004. Ancient Worlds, Modern Reflections: Philosophical Perspectives on Greek and Chinese Science and Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-928870-4.
- 2005. The Delusions of Invulnerability: Wisdom and Morality in Ancient Greece, China and Today. London: Duckworth. ISBN 0-7156-3386-4.
- 2006. Principles And Practices in Ancient Greek And Chinese Science (Variorum Collected Studies Series). Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN 0-86078-993-4.
- 2007. Cognitive Variations: Reflections on the Unity and Diversity of the Human Mind. New York: Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-921461-1.
- 2009. Disciplines in the Making, Oxford University Press, pp. viii + 215. ISBN 978-0-19-956787-4.
- 2012. Being, Humanity and Understanding, Oxford University Press, pp. 136. ISBN 978-0-19-965472-7.
- 2014. The Ideals of Inquiry, Oxford University Press, pp. 163. ISBN 978-0-19-870560-4.
- 2015. Analogical Investigations: Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Human Reasoning, Cambridge University Press, pp. 139. ISBN 978-1-107-10784-7.
- 2017. The Ambivalences of Rationality: Ancient and Modern Cross-Cultural Explorations, Cambridge University Press, pp. 132. ISBN 978-1108420044
- 2020. Intelligence and Intelligibility: Cross-Cultural Studies of Human Cognitive Experience, Oxford University Press, pp. 176. ISBN 978-0198854593
References
- ^ "British Academy Fellowship entry". Archived from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 18 June 2008.
- ^ "No. 41713". The London Gazette (Supplement). 19 May 1959. p. 3318.
- ^ "Kenyon Medal 2007". Prizes and medals. British Academy. Archived from the original on 14 June 2015. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
- ^ Dan David Prize • Laureates 2013 • Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, retrieved 30 August 2014,
Sir Geoffrey Lloyd is the greatest living scholar of the history of ancient science, who has completely transformed the field over the last four decades. He has brought together insights from anthropology, sociology and general history to bear upon the history of ideas, and initiated the research program of comparative studies of Greek and Chinese science. He showed how Greek science is a product of Greek society, and he crucially uncovered the great diversity of Greek scientific practices.
- ^ "Fellows Elected 2015" (PDF). Learned Society of Wales. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
