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Cover 1 Half-Title 3 Title page 5 Copyright information 6 Contents 7 Abbreviations 9 Introduction 11 I.1 Galen's Scientific Epistemology 11 I.2 State of the Art and the Present Volume 15 Acknowledgements 22 Chapter 1 'Do I Wake or Sleep?': Galen, Scepticism, and Dreams 23 Chapter 2 Galen's Empiricist Background: A Study of the Argument in On Medical Experience 42 2.1 The Treatise On Medical Experience 43 2.2 The Rationalist Attack 47 2.2.1 The Objections Stated by the Rationalist 47 2.2.2 Rationalist Objections Summarised by the Empiricist (Med.Exp. 8) 54 2.3 The Empiricist Apology 56 2.3.1 The Rationalists Do Make Use of Experience (Med.Exp. 9-11) 56 2.3.2 The Empiricist Concept of Experience: Not What the Rationalists Thought? (Med.Exp. 12-21) 58 2.4 Empiricism and Ontology: The Unity of the Object of Experience (Med.Exp. 22-23) 66 2.5 Epilogism 75 2.6 Concluding Remarks: Galen's Lessons from the Empiricist Doctor 83 Chapter 3 Discovery, Method, and Justification: Galen and the Determination of Therapy 89 3.1 The Exemplification of the 'Orderly Method' 91 3.2 The Debate with the Empiricists 94 3.3 'The Proper, Hippocratic Method for Treating Hollow Wounds' 97 3.4 The Treatment

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R. J. Hankinson and Matyáš Havrda

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