Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy

Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy

by StephenGaukroger (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 262
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 19 Mar 2001

ISBN 10: 0521805368
ISBN 13: 9780521805360
Book Overview: This book, first published in 2001, provides a truly general account of Francis Bacon as a philosopher.

Media Reviews
...a well-rounded and fairly comprehensive overview of Bacon the philosopher, sufficiently contextualized to make it an excellent, serious introduction to his thought and work. The Philosophical Review
...will certainly stimulate and enrich discussion... Renaissance Quarterly
Engaging and well-documented... Canadian Journal of Political Science
All students of Bacon's philosophy of science will want to read Gaukroger's book and will undoubtedly find much in it that is interesting and valuable. Isis
This is a remarkable book...Gaukroger's book is laced with interesting observations and insights. American Historical Review