Francis Bacon's idea of science and the maker's knowledge tradition

Abstract

Part 1 Introduction: Bacon's philosophy and the technocratic view of the meanings of Baconianism historiographic approaches ingredients of science as hermeneutical tools maker's knowledge. Part 2 Forma: historiographic approaches substantial forms Bacon's forms, the scholastic background and his construal of primary/secondary quantities distinction ontological presuppositions of Bacon's forms as conditions of operation forms as rules of action and the constructivist criterion of truth recapitulation - Bacon's forms and laws of nature. Part 3 Opus: Opus and utility in Bacon's idea of propositional and operative knowledge in the maker's knowledge tradition contrasting responses to the constructivist stance - Boyle, Locke, Hobbs and Vico. Part 4 Inductio: Aristotelian background medieval and Renaissance background characterization of Bacon's Inductio criticism of the Popperian Bacon. Conclusion.

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