文档介绍：Francis Bacon and the Limits
of Scientific Knowledge
Dennis Desroches
Continuum
FRANCIS BACON AND THE LIMITS OF
SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE
Continuum Studies in British Philosophy:
Series Editor : James Fieser, University of Tennessee at Martin
Berkeley and Irish Philosophy - David Berman
Bertrand Russell's Ethics - Michael K. Potter
Boyle on Fire - William Eaton
Doing Austin Justice - Wilfrid Rumble
The Early Wittgenstein on Religion — J. Mark Lazenby
F. P. Ramsey - Maria Frapolli
Hume's Theory of Causation - Angela M. Coventry
Idealist Political Philosophy - Colin Tyler
Matthew Tindal, Freethinker - Stephen Lalor
Radical Philosophy — Colin Tyler
Rethinking Mill's Ethics - Heydt
Russell's Theory of Perception — Sajanan Miah
Thomas Hobbes andthe Politics of Natural Philosophy - Stephen J. Finn
Wittgenstein and the Theory of Perception - Justin Good
Wittgenstein at his Word - Duncan Richter
Wittgenstein's Religious Point of View - Tim Labron
FRANCIS BACON AND THE LIMITS OF
SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE
Dennis Desroches
continuum
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