Epistemology, Psychology and Medicine in the Age of Hellenism

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Project Director dr. sc. Filip Grgić

Summary:
Within its broader framework, research on this project will focus on the following topics: skepticism and Hellenistic epistemology; medical empiricism and its relationship to philosophical skepticism; Stoic and peripatetic psychology and the influence of Hellenistic medicine on them; and Stoic epistemology. Therewith, the project aims to shed light not only on the influence of medical theory on philosophy, but also on the epistemological conflict concerning the status of medicine as a science or discipline, a conflict which during the Hellenistic period was conducted within the field of medicine itself.