TY - BOOK ID - 994155 TI - Francis Bacon and the transformation of early-modern philosophy PY - 2001 SN - 0521805368 0521801540 0511017782 1280430400 0511047614 0511173814 0511612680 0511302215 051115304X 1107122740 9780521805360 9780511612688 9780521801546 9780511017780 051103234X 9780511032349 9781107122741 9781280430404 9780511047619 9780511173813 9780511302213 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University press DB - UniCat KW - Bacon, Francis KW - Bacon, Francis. KW - Philosophy, Modern. KW - Philosophy, Modern KW - Philosophy & Religion KW - Philosophy KW - Bacon, Francis, KW - Philosophy. KW - History. KW - Bacon de Verulam, François KW - Bacon, François KW - Modern philosophy KW - Arts and Humanities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:994155 AB - 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. ER -