PHILOSOPHICAL ARGUMENTS

Case Study of a Philosophical Argument about how Science Works

Case Study of a Philosophical Argument about how Science Works

About Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon is the original philosopher of science, the first to describe not only the analytical ambitions of recent science features, but also the organizations in which it develops. Brilliant, socially ambitious and arrogant, in his long public career he held senior positions in Bacon administration and wrote extensively on the public benefits of what is now qualified as applied science. He was among the first to discard the medieval scholastics as a research method and proposed their own. Bacon attributed the errors common in science to describe him and what he regarded as idols (Idols), or ghosts. Also, doubt the ability of intuition (intuition) to access the knowledge uncertain. Bacon laid down the rules of this induction as a method of access to certain knowledge, and left a profound impact of this approach in philosophy in general and in philosophy, English in particular.

Discussion

General framework about how science works

Bacon insisted that progress in science depended upon starting from scratch: “It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the super inducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from the very foundations, unless we would revolve forever in a circle with mean and contemptible progress” (Ariew & Watkins, 2009). In the history of philosophy and science, Bacon acted as a herald of experimental science and the scientific method. He was able to give a new image of science, starting from the belief adopted and consistently thought-out ideas about the importance of knowledge in society and human life. Even in Cambridge, young Bacon keenly experienced dissatisfaction with the traditional (scholastic), science, utility. According to Bacon, it was only to win at college debates, but not for the solution of vital problems of man and society. The medieval philosophy is barren and verbose - this is a short verdict of Francis Bacon. The main objective of the philosopher is criticism of the traditional knowledge and support of a new method of comprehending the nature of things. He criticizes thinkers of the past, because their works do not realize the voices of nature, created by the Creator. Many aspects of Bacon's methodology fit perfectly with the structure of biological and physical sciences, which then made use of it. In particular, the idea of manipulating nature ...