"This book 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...

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1. Verfasser:	Gaukroger, Stephen 1950- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge [u.a.] Cambridge Univ. Press 2001
Ausgabe:	1. publ.
Schlagworte:	Bacon, Francis <1561-1626> Bacon, Francis <Viscount St. Albans, 1561-1626> Bacon, Francis <1561-1626> > Philosophy Bacon, Francis > 1561-1626 Filosofie Philosophie - 17e siècle Philosophie de la Renaissance Vernieuwing Philosophie Philosophy, Modern Naturphilosophie
Zusammenfassung:	"This book 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 we shall not understand Bacon unless we understand that a key component of this program for the reform of natural philosophy was the creation of a new philosophical persona: a natural philosopher shaped through submission to the dictates of Baconian method. Thus, we begin to glimpse how the scientific paradigm for cognitive inquiry in our own culture was formed." "This book will be recognised as a major contribution to Baconian scholarship of special interest to historians of early-modern philosophy, science, and ideas."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:	XII, 249 S.
ISBN:	0521805368 0521801540