Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy

di Stephen Gaukroger (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2001

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.

• Autore: Stephen Gaukroger
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Anno: 2001
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 262 p.
• Dimensioni: 226 x 150 mm
• Peso: 360 gr.
• EAN: 9780521805360

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