Add to ORKGMethodical doubt is usually associated with Descartes. However, it is with Francis Bacon that its function and scope are first recognised - as a preliminary stage in the attainment of knowledge and as an epistemological tool for achieving true knowledge. In this paper I follow the various steps of construction and use of Baconian doubt as it appears in the first book of the Novum Organon and argue that Bacon, in distancing himself from traditional scepticism, will come to conceive methodical doubt not only as a procedure for renovating knowledge but more specifically as a prescriptive condition for identifying what 'mind' is required to pursue the aim of renovating knowledge
The philosophy of Francis Bacon was interpreted in various ways in the seventeenth century. In Engla...
In this article we argue that the views that Francis Bacon and René Descartes held about the role of...
Francis Bacon, who lived in the age of "the Scientific Revolution" said, "Human knowledge and human ...
Methodical doubt is usually associated with Descartes. However, it is with Francis Bacon that its fu...
Methodical doubt is usually associated with Descartes. However, it is with Francis Bacon that its fu...
Francis Bacon is one of the architects of the modern conception of scientific method. Yet Bacon's co...
We take seriously a statement of Francis Bacon (1561–1626) that what is he creating is no new philo...
The first part of this paper will provide a reconstruction of Francis Bacon’s interpretation of Acad...
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) wrote that good scientists are not like ants (mindlessly gathering data) o...
The first part of this paper will provide a reconstruction of Francis Bacon’s interpretation of Acad...
A historiografia contemporânea da metodologia herdou vários 'enigmas' a serem resolvidos sobre as id...
This paper argues that the methodology Francis Bacon used in his natural histories abides by the the...
In this article, I examine how Bacon is able to justify his promise that the new way he prop...
The philosophy of Francis Bacon was interpreted in various ways in the seventeenth century. In Engla...
In this article we argue that the views that Francis Bacon and René Descartes held about the role of...
Francis Bacon, who lived in the age of "the Scientific Revolution" said, "Human knowledge and human ...
Methodical doubt is usually associated with Descartes. However, it is with Francis Bacon that its fu...
Methodical doubt is usually associated with Descartes. However, it is with Francis Bacon that its fu...
Francis Bacon is one of the architects of the modern conception of scientific method. Yet Bacon's co...
We take seriously a statement of Francis Bacon (1561–1626) that what is he creating is no new philo...
The first part of this paper will provide a reconstruction of Francis Bacon’s interpretation of Acad...
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) wrote that good scientists are not like ants (mindlessly gathering data) o...
The first part of this paper will provide a reconstruction of Francis Bacon’s interpretation of Acad...
A historiografia contemporânea da metodologia herdou vários 'enigmas' a serem resolvidos sobre as id...
This paper argues that the methodology Francis Bacon used in his natural histories abides by the the...
In this article, I examine how Bacon is able to justify his promise that the new way he prop...
The philosophy of Francis Bacon was interpreted in various ways in the seventeenth century. In Engla...
In this article we argue that the views that Francis Bacon and René Descartes held about the role of...
Francis Bacon, who lived in the age of "the Scientific Revolution" said, "Human knowledge and human ...