Bücher von Stephen (University of Sydney) Gaukroger

How did we come to have a scientific culture - one in which cognitive values are shaped around scientific ones? Stephen Gaukroger presents a rich and fascinating investigation of the development of intellectual culture in early modern Europe, a period in which understandings of the natural realm began to fragment.

This ambitious and important book, first published in 2001, provides a truly general account of Francis Bacon as a philosopher. It will be recognized as a major contribution to Baconian scholarship of special interest to historians of early-modern philosophy, science, and ideas.

Towards the end of his life, Descartes published the first four parts of a projected six-part work, The Principles of Philosophy. This was intended to be the definitive statement of his complete system of philosophy. In this book, Gaukroger examines the whole system, and reconstructs the last two parts from Descartes' other writings.