Pizhuhish nāmah-i intiqādī-i mutūn va barnāmah hā-yi ̒ulūm-i insāni (Critical Studies in Texts & Programs of Human Sciences)

Francis Bacon’s Concept of Science and Scientific Method

Document Type : Research

Author

Seyed Mohammad Reza Hosseini Beheshti

Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.30465/crtls.2021.37833.2334
Abstract
By the new foundation of philosophy and science, the concept of method gains the main status among many scholars of the new ages. The “forerunners” of philosophy and science sought the way out of the skepticism, that emerged from the endless controversies concerning the universals and the possibility of rational and philosophical knowledge about nature during the High and Late scholasticism, in the concept of “method”. As one of these founders, Francis Bacon has tried to define and describe his conception of the method. He makes use of the metaphors of ship, labyrinth, thread, and trial-court to put light on his account of scientific research. These metaphors, enable us to reconstruct the various features of his account of method and his expectations of applying method in the realm of natural sciences.

Keywords

Francis Bacon
Metaphor
Method
Philosophy of New Age
Philosophy
Science

Subjects

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  • Receive Date 27 April 2021
  • Revise Date 19 July 2021
  • Accept Date 28 August 2021

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