Filosofía y medicina en la antigua Grecia: modelos de conocimiento y sus repercusiones

Abstract

This paper investigates some of the complexities in the relationship between philosophy and medicine in ancient Greece. Some philosophers cite medicine as an analogue to philosophy, for instance in connection with the claim that there can be objective experts to whom mere lay people should defer. Some doctors, however, object to what they represent as the dogmatic, 'a priori', strands of philosophical inquiry and develop an alternative, empiricist, epistemology and methodology. Recollection and experience are invoked in strikingly divergent ways as the debate within and between different philosophical and medical traditions developed.