UID:
almafu_9958106635502883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 249 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-107-12274-0
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1-280-43040-0
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0-511-04761-4
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0-511-17381-4
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0-511-61268-0
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0-511-30221-5
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0-521-80154-0
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0-511-15304-X
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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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
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-80536-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-511-01778-2
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511612688
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511612688
