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Autore: | Gaukroger Stephen |
Titolo: | Francis Bacon and the transformation of early-modern philosophy / / Stephen Gaukroger [[electronic resource]] |
Pubblicazione: | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xii, 249 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina: | 192 |
Soggetto topico: | Philosophy, Modern |
Note generali: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-241) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgments; References to Bacon s works; Prologue; 1 The nature of Bacon s project; 2 Humanist models for scientia; 3 The legitimation of natural philosophy; 4 The shaping of the natural philosopher; 5 Method as a way of pursuing natural philosophy; 6 Dominion over nature; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Altri titoli varianti: | Francis Bacon & the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy |
Titolo autorizzato: | Francis Bacon and the transformation of early-modern philosophy |
ISBN: | 1-107-12274-0 |
1-280-43040-0 | |
0-511-04761-4 | |
0-511-17381-4 | |
0-511-61268-0 | |
0-511-30221-5 | |
0-521-80154-0 | |
0-511-15304-X | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910456014603321 |
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