Notice Board

Classcis Association of Canada West 
Presents
Corruption and Ancient Knowledge Practices

by Professor Dary Lahoux, Queen's University.

Greek and Latin authors were acutely aware of the problems of knowledge transmission. Not only could manuscripts become corrupted, as we know all too well today, or falsely attributed to some more famous author, but also incorrect claims could creep into a traditions of knowledge-making all too easily. This lecture will look at how some influential Roman thinkers (Cicero, Galen, Ptolemy) worried about, and tried to control, the integrity and the stability of facts and fact-making in the fields of medicine, politics, and the geographical mapping of the entire world known to the Romans.

Sept 23, 2024
3:30 PM at MacEwan University
Room 9 - 202
Online: meet.google.com/rmy-ryyp-spj

Daryn Lehoux is Professor of Classics and Professor of Philosophy at Queen’s University. He has published widely on the history and philosophy of the sciences in their historical contexts, asking questions about how facts become constituted, accepted, doubted, rejected, and forgotten.

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