Research
Ancient science; comparative studies of Greek and Chinese philosophy and science.
Publications
Polarity and Analogy (C.U.P. 1966)
Aristotle: The Growth and Structure of His Thought (C.U.P. 1968)
Early Greek Science, Thales to Aristotle (Chatto and Windus 1970)
Greek Science After Aristotle (Chatto and Windus 1973)
Hippocratic Writings (Penguin 1978)
(ed. with G.E.L. Owen) Aristotle on the Mind and the Senses (C.U.P. 1978)
Magic, Reason and Experience (C.U.P. 1979)
Science, Folklore and Ideology (C.U.P. 1983)
The Revolutions of Wisdom (University of California Press 1987, his 1984 Sather Lectures)
Demystifying Mentalities (C.U.P. 1990)
Methods and Problems in Greek Science (C.U.P. 1991)
Aristotelian Explorations (C.U.P. 1996)
Adversaries and Authorities: Investigations into Ancient Greek and Chinese Science (1996)
(with Jacques Brunschwig and others) Le Savoir grec: dictionnaire critique (Flammarion 1996; English version, A Guide to Greek Thought. Major Figures and Trends , Harvard U.P. 2000)
(with G. Cambiano and M. Vegetti) 'La Scienza greco-romana', i.537-1044 in Storia della scienza (Rome 2001)
(with Nathan Sivin) The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece (Yale U.P. 2002)
The Ambitions of Curiosity: Understanding the World in Ancient Greece and China (C.U.P. 2002)
In the Grip of Disease - Studies in the Greek Imagination (O.U.P. 2003)
Ancient Worlds, Modern Reflections: Philosophical Perspectives on Greek and Chinese Science and Culture (O.U.P. 2004)
The Delusions of Invulnerability (Duckworth 2005)
Principles and practices in ancient Greek and Chinese science (Ashgate 2006)
Cognitive Variations: reflections on the unity and diversity of the human mind (OUP 2007)
Disciplines in the Making: Cross-cultural Perspectives on Elites, Learning and Innovation (OUP 2009)
Being, Humanity and Understanding (Oxford 2012)
