{"product_id":"francis-bacon-discovery-and-the-art-of-discourse-paperback-9780521109086","title":"Francis Bacon: Discovery and the Art of Discourse (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521109086","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFrancis Bacon: Discovery and the Art of Discourse\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis is a substantial and valuable study of the intellectual Renaissance background from which Bacon emerged and against which he reacted.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLisa Jardine (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521109086, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 18 June 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e276 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.6 cm, 0.35 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eBy modern standards Bacon's writings are striking in their range and diversity, and they are too often considered a separate specialist concerns in isolation from each other. Dr Jardine finds a unifying principle in Bacon's preoccupation with 'method', the evaluation and organisation of information as a procedure of investigation or of presentation. She shows how such an interpretation makes consistent (and often surprising) sense of the whole corpus of Bacon's writings: how the familiar but misunderstood inductive method for natural science relations to the more information strategies of argument in his historical, ethical, political and literary work. There is a substantial and valuable study of the intellectual Renaissance background from which Bacon emerged and against which he reacted. Through a series of details comparisons and contrasts we are led to appreciate the true originality and ingenuity of Bacon's own views and also to discount the more superficial resemblances between them and later developments in the philosophy of science.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Dialectic and method in the sixteenth century\u003cbr\u003e 2. An English dialectical controversy\u003cbr\u003e 3. Bacon's response to the dialectical tradition\u003cbr\u003e 4. Bacon's theory of knowledge\u003cbr\u003e 5. The goal of the interpretation of nature\u003cbr\u003e 6. The interpretation of nature\u003cbr\u003e 7. Analogy and generalisation in natural philosophy\u003cbr\u003e 8. analogy and generalisation in ethics and civics\u003cbr\u003e 9. Methods of communication\u003cbr\u003e 10. parable\u003cbr\u003e 11. Exempla\u003cbr\u003e 12. Bacon's view of rhetoric\u003cbr\u003e 13. The method of Bacon's essays\u003cbr\u003e Appendix, Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy of science [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy of science\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20of%20science%20%5BPDA%5D%22\"\u003ePDA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004794655000,"sku":"9780521109086","price":25.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521109086i.jpg?v=1694976231","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/francis-bacon-discovery-and-the-art-of-discourse-paperback-9780521109086","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}