Francis Bacon's Idea of Science and the Maker's Knowledge Tradition

by Antonio Pérez-Ramos

This work provides an original account of Francis Bacon's conception of natural inquiry. P rez-Ramos sets Bacon in an epistemological tradition that postulates an intimate relation between objects of cognition and objects of construction, and regards the human knower as, fundamentally, a maker. By exploring the background to this tradition, and contrasting the responses of major philosophers of the 17th century with Bacon's own, the book charts Bacon's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198249799
• ISBN13: 9780198249795
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.8"