The quest for truth is Bacon's pet peeve. He thinks that the philosophers of his time are either too busy focusing on practical matters or too aloof to connect their favorite theories to systematic collection of observations and experimentations in nature. It is clear and transparent that by shifting the paradigm, Bacon has set the stage for the scientific method that has led, in the past 450 years, to significant progress in sciences and therefore improvements to humanity and its livelihood. Th...

Since I’ve lately read Aristotle’s original, I thought I’d go ahead and read Bacon’s New Organon. The title more or less says it all. For this book is an attempt to recast the method of the sciences in a better mold. Whereas Aristotle spends pages and pages enumerating the various types of syllogisms, Bacon dismisses it all with one wave of the hand—away with such scholarly nonsense! Because Aristotle is so single-mindedly deductive, his scientific research came to naught; or, as Bacon puts it,

This is just Francis Bacon calling you out for all your bad study habits.

This book is amazing. In philosophy and theory more generally, it's a mistake to talk about things being ahead of their time, because there are always assholes clinging onto false and blatantly idiotic notions (see natural law and/or divine command theory for an example) and keeping them contemporary, not even to mention that most of the world's public life is still based on not even interesting ancient myths. It's also the case that really most of the intellectual paths one may take were sketch...

Through these pages it becomes keenly aware that Francis Bacon was a top notch observationalist. His in depth analysis of heat and cold are fascinating to the modern mind. The permutations he arrives at put to shame any wikipedia entry that could be mounted on the matter. Perhaps the most striking element to this book is the rigourous sense of faith which stands tall alongside his earnest desire for inductive reasoning as a method to 'penetrate nature'. Across the text Bacon makes reference to V...

The New Organon forms part of the great renewal, or Instauratio magna, an ambitious practical and theoretical project to overhaul and reform the way in which man investigates nature. Bacon divides his project into six parts: one) a summary of current knowledge, two) the New Organon itself, which sets out the method to be followed and seeks to prepare the mind for investigation, three) a complete natural history, that will provide the foundations for this investigation, four) examples of the kind...

One of the foundational texts of Western thought for a reason. Sure it is the definition of dated and some of its assertions about nature and physics are flat out wrong, but that's because Bacon literally pioneered the method of scientific inquiry that went on to give humanity the answers. The manner in which Bacon splits the "wisdom of the ancients" from modern scientific inquiry is ruthlessly efficient and should be required reading for anyone who says all has already been discovered. The open...

There is no doubt Francis Bacon had a huge influence on philosophy, philosophy of science and science.And that is the greatest strength and greatest weakness of this book, it is a mix of philosophy and science were Bacon never full reached apex or either of those two disciplines.There are two more reasons why I gave grade 4.First, he tried to categorize a lot of natural phenomes unfortunately a lot of it didn't stand the test of time. Probably the biggest reason I didn't like this book as much I...

Read selections for a modern philosophy class

We could say that Francis Bacon, a seventeenth century scholar, certainly revolutionized Western thought by proposing new forms of researching the "natural philosophies". His inductive method predicate, first, freeing the human mind of its "idols", that distract and corrupt it, and then, by cautious and comparative observations, formulating new general laws, which would illuminate the path to new discoveries. As for the book itself, reading it was somewhat difficult, for two reasons in my view:

Read this in a sitting a month ago. I thought it was pretty amazing how much his scientific vision corresponds to our modern one. I guess he laid some serious foundations for modern scientific epistemology and research.

i hate this book.in this book, bacon separates philosphy from science. in my opinion this is the root of all scientific folly and arrogance.

Bacon's most immediate philosophical context is that of Aristotelian philosophy, which was still one of the prevalent intellectual currents of Bacon's day. Aristotle's Physics, which emphasized the role of a complex system of causes, form and matter, offered a theoretical rather than experimental picture of the natural world. Medieval Aristotelian philosophers, collectively known as the scholastics, sought to interpret and update Aristotle's system. However, absolute consensus around Aristotle c...

I would enjoy reading this book just because of its value in the history of philosophy and science. It feels like witnessing the birth of science.Introduction does its job and clearly sets your expectation to a right place, good to have that!To me Book I was more exciting than Book II. This is because it explains the motivation and reasoning behind this text. I think that is more valuable for today's readers. Second book was about the method itself, which failed to attract my attention probably

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All easy to read 17th century works are philosophical works concerning science.Therefore, some philosophical works concerning science are easy to read 17th century works.An existential fallacy - one assumes there are indeed easy to read 17th century works and I'm quite sure there are not - and thus the faltering of Aristotelian syllogism and the need for the bridge to our modern day scientific method. Much like the first part of Hobbes's Levaithan, I found myself pretty intrigued with the first

Bacon remains one of my favourite philosophers. Either maligned, ignored, or misrepresented, he is an enigmatic blend of rational and spiritual, practical and idealistic. His audacious plans for a complete revamp of science and knowledge (his "Great Instauration") are often taken as the stimulus for the scientific revolution, though in actual practice most scientists seem to have taken a more ad hoc approach.Philosophically, his main contribution may be said to have been his exploration of the p...

Book I on Bacon's Novum Organon is an enjoyable and insightful discussion of induction and the new science that he proposed to replace Aristotle and Medieval approaches to knowledge. I particularly liked his discussion of the "idols of the mind."Book II was an application of the new method to the scientific ideas of his time, thus not very engaging and something to skim through.

Well this book is really important for rennasaince philosophy and it's main question the search for another better method of researching.The new Organon has the same purpose as organon of Aristotle it is tool. In rennasaince the people start asking practical questions more. How can I live better in a city, how to fight all the diseases etc. for those questions sylogisms are not sufficient enough, progress in science happens from time to time but with the true induction science will progress fast...

A pretty challenging read, especially without all the scientific context. It really requires a close read, as he often uses some unique terminology like "idols." I found his discussion on nature the most confusing, as he used different terms for different types of nature like "simple nature" and "new nature." He does raise many ideas that are worth thinking. I believe it's important to read skeptic philosophy to make you reexamine things that you shouldn't quickly assume.