Title:
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FRANCIS BACON AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF EARLY-MODERN PHILOSOPHY
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By: |
Stephen Gaukroger |
Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£135.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0511612680 |
ISBN 13: |
9780511612688 |
Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
12 January, 2010 |
Description: |
This book, first published in 2001, provides a truly general account of Francis Bacon as a philosopher. |
Synopsis: |
This ambitious and important book, first published in 2001, provides a truly general account of Francis Bacon as a philosopher. It describes how Bacon transformed the values that had underpinned philosophical culture since antiquity by rejecting the traditional idea of a philosopher as someone engaged in contemplation of the cosmos. The book explores in detail how and why Bacon attempted to transform the largely esoteric discipline of natural philosophy into a public practice through a program in which practical science provided a model that inspired many from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. Stephen Gaukroger shows that this reform of natural philosophy was dependent on the creation of a new philosophical persona: a natural philosopher shaped through submission to the dictates of Baconian method. This book will be recognized as a major contribution to Baconian scholarship, of special interest to historians of early-modern philosophy, science, and ideas. |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing) |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |