Novum Organum II: Going beyond the Scientific Research Model
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Novum Organum II: Going beyond the Scientific Research Model
By (Author) Chris Edwards
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
10th April 2014
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Educational strategies and policy
Social research and statistics
370.1
Physical Properties
Hardback
126
Width 162mm, Height 237mm, Spine 14mm
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.
