Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd

Sir Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Science at the Needham Research Institute. His University career has been based chiefly at the University of Cambridge, where he held various University and College posts, first at King's College and then at Darwin. From 1983 onwards he held a personal Chair in Ancient Philosophy and Science and from 1989 until retirement in 2000 he was Master of Darwin College. He served as Chairman of the East Asian History of Science trust, which is the governing body directing the work of the Needham Research Institute from 1992 to 2002, and afterward Senior Scholar in Residence at that Institute. He is principally a historian of ancient Greek and ancient Chinese Philosophy and Science, but has wide interests also in social anthropology and cognitive science. His most recent book is entitled "Analogical Investigations: Historical and Cross-cultural Perspectives on Human Reasoning" (Cambridge University Press 2015) He is currently co-editing a book comparing science in Greco-Roman antiquity and China, and preparing a monograph on Rationality. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1983, he received the Sarton medal in 1987, he was elected to a Honorary Fellowship at Kings in 1991, to the International Academy for the History of Science in 1997, to an Honorary Fellowship at Darwin in 2000, and to a Fellowship of the Learned Society of Wales in 2015. He was awarded an Honorary Litt. D. by the University of Athens in 2003, and an Honorary Litt. D. by the University of Oxford in 2010.  He received the Kenyon Medal for Classical Scholarship from the British Academy in 2007, the Dan David Prize for Classics in 2013, and the Fyssen Prize for Cognitive Science in 2014. He was knighted for ‘services to the history of thought’ in 1997.