Philosophical themes in Galen / edited by Peter Adamson, Rotraud Hansberger & James Wilberding.

London : Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2014.

v, 327 pages ; 25 cm.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.