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Novum Organum II: Going beyond the Scientific Research Model

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Full Title:

Novum Organum II: Going beyond the Scientific Research Model

Contributors:

By (Author) Chris Edwards

ISBN:

9781475809992

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint:

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Publication Date:

10th April 2014

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

Professional and Scholarly

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Educational strategies and policy
Social research and statistics

Dewey:

370.1

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

126

Dimensions:

Width 162mm, Height 237mm, Spine 14mm

Weight:

331g

Description

In 1620, the British politician and philosopher Francis Bacon published Novum Organum (New Method) and formalized the previously scattershot methods of scientific experimentation into a method able to be replicated. In due time, the Western world would build an intellectual empire on the basis of Bacons concepts of scientific research. The Wests university and its scientific and medical systems all stem from Bacons philosophy. But after nearly four hundred years; it is time for something new again. In mathematics, theoretical physics, and philosophy, a quiet revolution has begun. Thinkers who can study across disciplines and form analogies, who take seriously the History and Philosophy of Science and its problems of metaphysics and epistemology, have been making impressive breakthroughs. These methods have been, up until now, as random as the process of experimentation was in Bacons day. This timely book has come to formalize these methods, build upon Bacons scientific research model, and to ultimately go beyond it.

Reviews

Chris Edwards has written some of the most popular and important articles in the history of Skeptic magazine. In this book, his nimble mind traverses across a wide range of topics with a unique skeptical perspective. -- Michael Shermer, publisher, Skeptic Magazine, monthly columnist for Scientific American, and author of The Believing Brain

Author Bio

Dr. Chris Edwards is the author of three books of philosophy, one of which has been translated into Polish, and he is a frequent contributor on the topics of philosophy, law, logic, theoretical physics, and education to the science and philosophy journals Skeptic and Free Inquiry. His original connect-the-dots teaching methodology has been published by the National Council for Social Studies. He is the author, most recently, of Teaching Genius: Redefining Education with Lessons from Science and Philosophy.

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