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1419UTOPIAN SCIENCE AND EMPIRE. NOTES ON THE IBERIAN BACKGROUND OF FRANCIS BACON’S PROJECTStudii de stiinŃă Si Cultură 6 (4 (23)): 111-123. 2010.
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1191Uma nova ciência para um novo mundo. – O projeto da Grande Restauração por meio de suas imagensRevista Sképsis 8 (12). 2015.Os escritos de Francis Bacon dedicados à filosofia abundam em imagens, metáforas, comparações e alegorias destinadas a ilustrar e apresentar com eloquência suas ideias. Solidamente formado na cultura humanista de seu tempo, Bacon adotou com destreza os recursos da retórica e nutriu-se de um amplo espectro da literatura clássica greco-latina, assim como também dos escritos bíblicos. Em especial, a mitologia clássica (a que dedicou seu De sapientia veterum (1609) - Da sabedoria dos antigos) foi um…Read more
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46Francis Bacon y la concepción aristotélica del movimiento en los siglos XVI y XVIIRevista de Filosofía (Madrid) 29 (1): 77-97. 2004.La crítica que Francis Bacon dirigió a la concepción aristotélica del movimiento no tuvo como punto de partida las obras originales de Aristóteles sino la vasta literatura de texto que durante los siglos XVI y XVII ofrecía una interpretación novedosa y ecléctica del pensamiento aristotélico. En este trabajo analizo la crítica de Bacon concentrándome en los textos aristotélicos más corrientes de su medio intelectual (Magirus, Keckermann, Conimbricenses, Toledo, Zabarella). El artículo está dividi…Read more
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336Historiographical Approaches on Experience and Empiricism in the Early Nineteenth-Century: Degérando and TennemannPerspectives on Science 27 (5): 655-679. 2019.This paper examines the views of Joseph-Márie Degérando and Wilhelm Gottlieb Tennemann about empiricism, and the scope and limits of experience as well as its relation to reason and its role in the attainment of true knowledge. While Degérando adopted the “philosophy of experience” and Tennemann advocated Kant’s critical philosophy, both authors blamed each other for the same mistake: if Degérando considered that, despite all appearances to the contrary, critical philosophy fell into empiricism,…Read more
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408Introduction: Debates on Experience and Empiricism in Nineteenth Century FrancePerspectives on Science 27 (5): 643-654. 2019.The lasting effects of the debate over canon-formation during the 1980s affected the whole field of Humanities, which became increasingly engaged in interrogating the origin and function of the Western canon. In philosophy, a great deal of criticism was, as a result, directed at the traditional narrative of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century philosophies—a critique informed by postcolonialism as well as feminist historiography. D. F. Norton, L. Loeb and many others1 attempted to demonstrate the …Read more
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709Monsters, Laws of Nature, and Teleology in Late Scholastic TextbooksIn Rodolfo Garau & Pietro Omodeo (eds.), Contingency and Natural Order in Early Modern Science, Springer Verlag. pp. 61-92. 2019.In the period of emergence of early modern science, ‘monsters’ or individuals with physical congenital anomalies were considered as rare events which required special explanations entailing assumptions about the laws of nature. This concern with monsters was shared by representatives of the new science and Late Scholastic authors of university textbooks. This paper will reconstruct the main theses of the treatment of monsters in Late Scholastic textbooks, by focusing on the question as to how th…Read more
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619Empirismo y filosofía experimental Las límitaciones del relato estándar de la filosofía moderna a la luz de la historiografía francesa del siglo XIX (J.-M. Degérando)Revista Colombiana de Filosofía de la Ciencia 16 (32): 11-35. 2016.In the last few decades, the historiographical categories rationalism and empiricism have been criticized for their limitations to explain the complex positions and the links held by the philosophers tradiotnally attached to them. This narrative was firstly conceived by Kantian German historians and began to become standard at the turn of the twentieh century. Nonetheless, nineteenth-century French historiography developed other narratives by which early modern philosophers were classified accor…Read more
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226The arguments on void in the seventeenth century: the case of Francis BaconBritish Journal for the History of Science 36 (1): 43-61. 2003.Francis Bacon's position on the existence of void and its nature has been mostly studied with regard to his views on the atom. This approach is undoubtedly right, but it disregards further topics related to Bacon's account of void, namely the world system and the transmutation of bodies. Consequently, a more comprehensive study of Bacon's view on vacuum seems desirable where all the contexts are taken into account. To address this desideratum, the present paper examines Bacon's different views o…Read more
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348Francis Bacon and Atomism: a ReappraisalIn John Murdoch, Lüthy Cristoph & Newman William (eds.), Late Medieval and Early Modern Corpuscular Matter Theories, Brill. pp. 209-243. 2001.Francis Bacon’s theory of matter is a controversial topic among historians. I agree with the viewpoint, which suggests that although Bacon changed his views on atomism repeatedly, he never rejected it completely (Partington, Urbach, Gemelli). I will substantiate this interpretation by paying more attention to the usually neglected allegorical works and by investigating why Bacon changed his mind on atomism in his Novum organum. I shall reconstruct Bacon’s various opinions in chronological order …Read more
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507Reading Scepticism Historically. Scepticism, Acatalepsia and the Fall of Adam in Francis BaconIn Sébastien Charles & Plínio Junqueira Smith (eds.), Academic Scepticism in the Development of Early Modern Philosophy, Springer Verlag. 2016.The first part of this paper will provide a reconstruction of Francis Bacon’s interpretation of Academic scepticism, Pyrrhonism, and Dogmatism, and its sources throughout his large corpus. It shall also analyze Bacon’s approach against the background of his intellectual milieu, looking particularly at Renaissance readings of scepticism as developed by Guillaume Salluste du Bartas, Pierre de la Primaudaye, Fulke Greville, and John Davies. It shall show that although Bacon made more references to …Read more
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19Holy writ, mythology, and the foundations of Francis Bacon's principle of the constancy of matterEarly Science and Medicine 4 (2): 114-126. 1999.The exact nature of the relation between science and Scripture in the thought of Francis Bacon is a well-studied but controversial field. In this paper, it is shown that Bacon, though convinced that there exists no enmity between the book of God's wisdom and the book of God's power, usually tries to separate knowledge acquired by reason from knowledge acquired by faith. In his exposition of the principle of the conservation of matter, however, Bacon seems to find himself constrained to invoke Sc…Read more
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31Probability and certainty in Francis Bacon 's natural histories. A double attitude toward skepticismIn Maia Neto, José Raimundo, Gianni Paganini & John Christian Laursen (eds.), Skepticism in the Modern Age: Building on the Work of Richard Popkin, Brill. pp. 123--138. 2009.Bacon’s project suggests in theory that the obtaining of absolute certain knowledge is possible but in fact such knowledge is revealed to be impossible. Th e description of the human mind on which Bacon’s account is based seems to imply that the impossibility of obtaining absolute certainty does not depend on the contingent historical situation of a preliminary stage of the scientifi c endeavor. Consequently, a gap emerges between the proposed goal of science and the ways to reach it: Bacon trie…Read more
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40Miguel Angel Granada, el debate cosmológico en 1588. Bruno, brahe, rothmann, ursus, röslin. Istituto italiano per gli studi filosofici, lezioni Della scuola di studi superiori in Napoli, bibliopolis, Napoli, 1996. Pp. 166 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 33 (3): 369-379. 2000.
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204Francis Bacon's Natural History and Civil History: A Comparative SurveyEarly Science and Medicine 17 (1-2): 1-2. 2012.The aim of this paper is to offer a comparative survey of Bacon's theory and practice of natural history and of civil history, particularly centered on their relationship to natural philosophy and human philosophy. I will try to show that the obvious differences concerning their subject matter encompass a number of less obvious methodological and philosophical assumptions which reveal a significant practical and con ceptual convergence of the two fields. Causes or axioms are prescribed as the th…Read more
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23Historia civil y poesía, certeza y verdad en Francis BaconAnales Del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía 31 (2). 2014.
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Algo nuevo bajo el sol: el método inductivo y la historia del conocimiento en la Gran Restauración de Francis BaconRevista Latinoamericana de Filosofia 27 (2): 227-254. 2001.
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9The Instauratio Magna Part II: Novum Organum and Associated Texts (review)British Journal for the History of Science 39 (2): 290-291. 2006.
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18Francis Bacon, philosophical studies, C. 1611–c. 1619, edited by Graham Rees. The oxford Francis Bacon, VI. oxford: Clarendon press, 1996. Pp. cxvi+503. Isbn 0-19-812290-X. £80.00 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 33 (2): 231-254. 2000.
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38Holy Writ, Mythology, and the Foundations of Francis Bacon's Principle of the Constancy of MatterEarly Science and Medicine 4 (2): 114-126. 1999.The exact nature of the relation between science and Scripture in the thought of Francis Bacon is a well-studied but controversial field. In this paper, it is shown that Bacon, though convinced that there exists no enmity between the book of God's wisdom and the book of God's power, usually tries to separate knowledge acquired by reason from knowledge acquired by faith. In his exposition of the principle of the conservation of matter, however, Bacon seems to find himself constrained to invoke Sc…Read more
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106Experimentación, instrumentos científicos y cuantificación en el método de Francis BaconManuscrito 24 (1): 49-84. 2001.Hace un tiempo G. Rees señaló la importancia del razonamiento cuantitativo en el programa de la renovación del saber propuesto por F. Bacon, renovando la imagen tradicional de su método. Con la intención de proseguir el replanteo iniciado por Rees de los conceptos centrales del método baconiano, me propongo reexaminar el significado de la experimentación y de los instrumentos científicos, lo cual implica al mismo tiempo considerar la relación entre razón y sentidos. Para ello, examinaré el signi…Read more
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21F RANCIS B ACON, The Instauratio Magna Part II: Novum Organum and Associated Texts. Edited with introduction, notes, commentaries and facing-page translations by Graham Rees with Maria Wakely. The Oxford Francis Bacon, XI. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004. Pp. cxxviii+634. ISBN 0-19-924792-7. £120.00 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 39 (2): 290-291. 2006.
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49Los usos políticos del cuerpo: los dos cuerpos del rey en la filosofía política de Francis BaconKriterion: Journal of Philosophy 49 (117): 177-199. 2008.
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254Francis Bacon: Freedom, authority and scienceBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 14 (2). 2006.This Article does not have an abstract