Francis Bacon’s philosophy of experiment has been often subject to fierce debates and sometimes straightforward interpretative abuse in the writings of historians of philosophy or historians and philosophers of science. Despite the widespread agreement that experience, experiment and experimentation do play a role in Bacon’s writings, researchers do not agree on any other particulars with respect to the meaning, importance and purpose of Baconian experimentation.
The general claim of this book is that a thorough investigation of Bacon’s natural and experimental histories can unveil a very elaborate and sophisticated philosophy of experiment. Such an investigation has not been done so far and, in doing it, I will provide, I hope, a good number of interesting and insufficiently explored examples and useful case-studies for answering the preceding questions regarding the relation between theory and experiment in Bacon but also, more generally, in the early modern experimental philosophy.
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Forthcoming publications Dana Jalobeanu - The Hunt of Pan: Francis Bacon’s art of experimentation 