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Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy

Stephen Gaukroger
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      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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Stephen Gaukroger EAN: 9780521805360 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 360 g HEIGHT: 226 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2001-03-19 CITY: GENRE: PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern WIDTH: 150 cm SPINE:

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      Literature: history and criticism, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought

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      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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Stephen Gaukroger EAN: 9780521805360 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 360 g HEIGHT: 226 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2001-03-19 CITY: GENRE: PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern WIDTH: 150 cm SPINE:

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      Literature: history and criticism, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought

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