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"The eBLJ is the journal of scholarly research into the contents and history of the British Library and its collections. It is the successor to the British Library Journal, which appeared in twenty-five volumes between 1975 and 1999. It is available free to all users of the BL Website."

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Francis Bacon (1561-1626), the English philosopher, statesman and jurist, is best known for developing the empiricist method which forms the basis of modern science. Bacon's writings concentrated on philosophy and judicial reform. His most significant work is the Instauratio Magna comprising two parts - The Advancement of Learning and the Novum Organum. The first part is noteworthy as the first major philosophical work published in English (1605). James Spedding (1808-81) and his co-editors arranged this fourteen-volume edition, published in London between 1857 and 1874, not in chronological order but by subject matter, so that different volumes would appeal to different audiences. Volume 2, published in 1857, continues part 1 of Bacon's Latin writings intended to be included as part of the Instauratio Magna.

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The book is devoted to the theory of knowledge espoused by Richard Burthogge (1638-⁠1705), a seventeenth-century English philosopher, author of works such as Organum Vetus & Novum (1678) and An Essay upon Reason, and the Nature of Spirits (1694).Although Burthogge's epistemological ideas failed to have a significant impact on philosophy at the time, and, as a consequence, have not yet become the subject of deeper analysis, his writings contain a very original concept of constructivist idealism, which - assessed from a broader historical perspective - turns out to anticipate in key points the philosophy of Kant that came almost a century later.The most important element of this position is the rejection of the possibility of direct (intellectual or sensual) cognition of external objects in favour of the theory of modi concipiendi, according to which the conceptualization of extramental reality is always carried out in the form and using the means determined by the structural and functional properties of the human cognitive abilities.In this way, by proving that the outside world is accessible to the human mind only through the "phenomena" that it co-creates, Burthogge clearly anticipates Kant's claim of the incognizability of reality in itself.A need has been repeatedly articulated, at least since the 1920s, for a more detailed analysis of the writings of the eternally "forgotten" thinkers of the 17th and 18th centuries.The present monograph addresses this demand.Although its immediate goal is to expand the knowledge of early modern British philosophy, to restore the memory of the idealistic doctrine, almost a century ahead of Kant's concept, it should also allow the future formulation of new conclusions on internal logic and immanent dynamics of the evolution of all post-Cartesian thought.

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