A Reply to Nichols’ “The Unfulfilled Promise of Cross-Cultural, Interdisciplinary Ancient History”

Authors

  • G. E. R. Lloyd Needham Research Institute

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jch.19549

Keywords:

Ancient China, Ancient Greece, History, Interdisciplinary Research, Psychology

Abstract

A critical reply to Ryan Nichols’ commentary on my book The Ambivalences of Rationality: Ancient and Modern Cross-Cultural Explorations (2018) published in this issue of the Journal of Cognitive Historiography.

Author Biography

  • G. E. R. Lloyd, Needham Research Institute

    Sir Geoffrey Lloyd is a historian of Ancient Philosophy and Science at the University of Cambridge. He is currently Senior Scholar in Residence at the Needham Research Institute in Cambridge, UK.

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Leese, M. 2018. Review of Lloyd, G. E. R., The Ambivalences of Rationality: Ancient and Modern Cross-Cultural Explorations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.09.41. Available at: https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2018/2018.09.41

Lloyd, G. E. R. 1966. Polarity and Analogy: Two Types of Argumentation in Early Greek Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lloyd, G. E. R. 2007. Cognitive Variations: Reflections on the Unity and Diversity of the Human Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Lloyd, G. E. R. 2018. The Ambivalences of Rationality: Ancient and Modern Cross-cultural Explorations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108328951

Nisbett, R. E. 2003. The Geography of Thought. How Asians and Westerners Think Differently … and Why. New York: Free Press.

Published

2022-01-06

Issue

Section

Discussion / 3

How to Cite

Lloyd, G. E. R. . (2022). A Reply to Nichols’ “The Unfulfilled Promise of Cross-Cultural, Interdisciplinary Ancient History”. Journal of Cognitive Historiography, 6(1-2), 191–193. https://doi.org/10.1558/jch.19549