Introduction -- What is philosophy? -- Mathematics -- History -- Medicine -- Art -- Law -- Religion -- Science -- Conclusion: Discipline and interdisciplinarity
Summary
The organisation of higher education across the world is one of several factors that conspire to create the assumption that our own map of the intellectual disciplines is, broadly speaking, valid cross-culturally. Disciplines in the Making challenges this in relation to eight main areas of human endeavour, namely philosophy, mathematics, history, medicine, art, law, religion and science. Lloyd focuses on historical and cross-cultural data that throw light on the differentways in which these disciplines were constituted and defined in different periods and civilisations, especially in ancient G
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-203) and index