IDIHCS   22126
INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS SOCIALES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Francis Bacon and the laws of the book of nature
Autor/es:
SILVIA MANZO
Lugar:
París
Reunión:
Conferencia; Bacon and French Baconianism; 2016
Institución organizadora:
Paris Diderot- Cátedra Alicia Moreau
Resumen:
Francis Bacon?s discourse employs very frequently a vocabulary referring to the laws of nature. Although he does not provide a systematic, detailed and fully coherent view of the laws of nature, it is undeniable that they are an integral and important part of his concepts of nature and of natural science. I shall concentrate here in three particular entities which express nature?s regularity in his account: the summary law of nature, the laws of simple natures or forms, and the efficient and material causes described as habits of nature. In the first part of this talk, I will reconstruct the characteristics and relations of these three entities at different stages of the Baconian corpus. Then, I will relate them to the topos of the book of nature as adopted by Bacon. In the third and final part, I will suggest that Bacon?s account of the laws of nature constitutes a intermediate position between Renaissance and early modern views, since he draws on several previous uses of the word law and at the same time introduces new contents to such uses that transform them in a unique and somehow disruptive way of understanding nature?s regularity.