Francis Bacon and the transformation of early-modern philosophy / / Stephen Gaukroger

• Autore: Gaukroger Stephen
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2001
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 249 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 192
• Soggetto topico: Philosophy, Modern - History
• 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.
• 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.: 9910817920103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II