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PHILOSOPHICAL THEMES
INGALEN
EDITED BY
PETER ADAMSON
ROTRAUD HANSBERGER
&
JAMES WILBERDING
INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES
SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY
UNIVERSITY OF LO DON
2014
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TABLE OF CO TENTS
Introduction
P. N. Singer
Galen and the
philosophers:
philosophical engagement,
shadowy
contemporaries,
Aristotelian transformations
Genre and Galen
's
philosophical discourses
hiaradonna
Galen on
what
is persuasive
(pithanon)
and
what approximates to truth
Galen on the nature of human beings
Galen on mental illness:
a physiological approach to phrenitis
Galen's theory of elements
Galen on void
Galen's refutation
of atomism
On Galen
's
theory
of vision
The secret of sentient vegetative life
in
Galen
What doe p
eudo-Galen
tell us
that
Galen doe not?
Ancient m dical
chool
in the Roman
Empire
7
Todd
Curti
Riccardo
39
61
89
Philip
van
der
Eijk
Glenda McDonald
135
Inna Kupreeva
Peter Adamson
David Leith
Katerina
lerodiakonou
James Wilberding
Caroline
Petit
153
197
213
235
249
269
291
299
Index of
subjects and
per ons
Index locorum
v
THE ECRET
OF
SE
TIE T
VEGETATIVELIFEI
GALE
JAMES WILBERDI G
There
ha
been
a
flood of
literature in
contemporary cience
in the past decade urging u to
recon
idcr
our rather
stingy
view
regarding the
complexity
and
intelligence
of vegetative
life.
Often the
e
tudie
grab
large headline
in
the main tream media by explicitly
attributing p
ychologica
l
abilitie to
plants that have traditionally been re erved for
higher
animal
and
humans. Thu
plants have
been granted
'
memory'
1 '
en ation'
2
(including
the
perception
of magnetic fie
ld
),
3
and
even
'
intelligence
.
4
Many of thee finding ha e been
collected and pre
ented
for
popular
con
umption
in
book with titles uch as
The
ecrel
life
of
plant
·
or more
recently in
erman
Das
geheime
Bewus
l
ein
der
Pjlanzen
(The ecret
consciou
ne
ofplan
I
).
5
The
'
ecret'
referred to
in
the e title
i
pre
umably
not
that of
the
cientific community who are
more than ready to
publi h
their finding
,
but
of ature
herself.
The ugge tion i
that plants have kept their abilitie
hidden
from
u
for thou ands
of years, and now we are finally
being
let
in on their big ecret.
In
thi chapter
v
e hall ee
that
Galen
was
privy
to thi ecret,
though
he
handled it with greater
di
er
tion.
We
might ay
that together thi re earch i campaigning for
a paradigm hift by
pro iding
empi
rical
e
idence that threaten our received conception of
plants
a
utterly
non-
entient
Ii ing thing
,
and o it might
b of
intere
t that thi recei ed conception of
our i
it
elf a re
ult of much
earlier
paradigm hift, one dating back to the
fourth
c ntury
B
when Ari
totle
wrote
hi treati e
de
Anima.
Prior to Ari totle,
th
re i e idence of a
trong
(though
not ubiquitou
)
tr nd among
Pre
ocratic
philo ophers and cienti ts of
a
cribing
ome en ation,
and e en cognition,
not
ju
t to human and animal , but to tree
1
ee
e.g.
J.
Molinier, G. Rie
, .
Zipfel,
and
8
.
Hohn,
'Tran
generation
memory
of
tre
in
a111re442
(31
ugu
t
2006)
1046-49.
2
in plant '.
e
e.g.
Plant
signal
Iran duction,
ed
D. heel
and .
\
a
t
ma k
(Oxford
_002). and D. Miller,
W. Hable,
J.
ottwald,
M. llard-1
.
T.
Demura,
T.
Lomax,
and
.
Carpita, ·connection : the
hard \
iring
of
the
plant cell
ti
r per eption,
ignalling,
and
re pon e ",
The Plam Cell
9
(
1997)
2105-17. e al
the folio\ ing not
.
ce
e.g.
M.
hmad, P.
alland,
T.
Ritz. R.
\!
ilt chko, and W. Wilt hko, 'Magnetic inten ity
affe
t
crypto
hr me-d pendent
re
pon e
in rabidop i
thaliana',
Plul//a
225 (2007) 615-24.
ee
e.g.
.
Trc\ a a , '
pe t of plant
intellig
n e'.
Annal
of
Botany
92 (2003) 1-20:
id.,
'
pc
l
of
plant intelligence:
an an
,,. r to Fim
',Annal of
Botany
9
(2004)
35~-57: ~d..
'Green
plant
a intellig
nl
or ani
m
',
Trend in
Plant
cience
10
(-005)
41
-19.
Out 1de ot Florence,
Italy there
i.
n '' th Int mati nal Laborat
I)
of Plant eurobiology (LI ).
. Bird,
Th• -ecret
life
of
plant
(
ew York 197 ):
J.
cheppach,
Das geheime
Bewusstsetn
der
Pjlan:en: Bot. haften ms
einer
11nbeka111ue11 Welt
(Munich 2009).
3
~
P.
T
mpkin
and
2~9

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