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Selected Philosophical Works (Bacon) (Hackett Publishing Co.) 1st Edition
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The most comprehensive collection available in paperback of Bacon’s philosophical and scientific writings, this volume offers Bacon's major works in their entirety, or in substantive selections, revised from the classic 19th century editions of Spedding, Ellis, and Heath. Selections from some of Bacon's natural histories round out this edition by showing the types of compilations that he believed would most contribute to the third part of his Great Instauration.
Each work has a separate brief introduction indicating the major themes developed. In her general Introduction, Sargent gives a biographical sketch of Bacon's early life, education, and legal career, discusses the major components of his philosophical project, and traces his influence on subsequent natural philosophy. In addition, she looks at the primarily negative evaluations of Bacon's methodological writings by philosophers of science in the first half of the twentieth century, the reassessments of his works that took place as the influence of logical empiricism declined, and the current revival of interest in Bacon that coincides with the focus on experimental practice today.
A bibliography and index complete the text.
- ISBN-100872204707
- ISBN-13978-0872204706
- Edition1st
- PublisherHackett Publishing Company, Inc.
- Publication dateSeptember 15, 1999
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions5.75 x 0.75 x 8.5 inches
- Print length328 pages
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It is a great service to teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate level to have such a fine collection of Bacon's texts available with an introduction by Rose-Mary Sargent. This is the kind of essential Bacon we need for teaching purposes. I was particularly pleased to see the Natural Histories and New Atlantis included. --Phillip R. Sloan, University of Notre Dame
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Rose-Mary Sargent is Professor of Philosophy, Merrimack College.
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- Publisher : Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.; 1st edition (September 15, 1999)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 328 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0872204707
- ISBN-13 : 978-0872204706
- Item Weight : 9.3 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.75 x 0.75 x 8.5 inches
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The collection is extensive and well-chosen by editor Rose-Mary Sargent. Particularly impressive is her informative 35 page general introduction, which discusses Bacon's life and his professional career, the nature of his various works and their influence, and Bacon's brilliant methodological dictates in the New Organon in which he discusses the four "idols" or "false notions" of the human mind that hinder the pursuit of truth. Bacon was engaged in nothing less than a frontal assault upon Aristotle's physics, metaphysics, logic and natural history and Europe's subsequent deeply entrenched formal academic Aristotelian Scholasticism, the combination of which had structured human thought and pursuit of learning for nearly 2,000 years. Bacon wanted to create the structural ground necessary for true collaborative scientific effort and discovery and that is precisely what he did. Modern science as a discipline has its birth in Bacon's philosophical writings, which were seminal in producing a broad reform in learning across Europe that influenced thinkers like Descartes, Galileo, Harvey and the young English chemist Robert Boyle. The eventual creation of the Royal Society, with its epochal influence upon the growth to maturity of natural philosophy (what we now call science), was a direct attempt to crystallize Bacon's theoretical precepts into real world public policy. One of the "giants" upon whose shoulders Isaac Newton had stood was Francis Bacon. Newton respected few men for their intellectual achievements but Bacon was someone for whom (along with Galileo and Kepler) he reserved a special regard. Read Voltaire's Letters Concerning the English Nation (1733), and the essay on Francis Bacon for an illuminating comparison and appreciation of the two men.
Bacon's writing is unusually sophisticated, complete with a masterful use of memorable metaphors that are still used today for their concision and accuracy. This excellent edition also includes an extensive bibliography organized by source catagories, introductory notes for each included work and a solid index. All of modern science and its use of induction (from particular datum to general hypothesis and theory) has its roots here, in the brilliance of Francis Bacon's philosophical works. This volume from Hackett is a reasonably priced source for some of the most important prose written in the modern era.