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One (re)starting point would be Ian Hacking's Representing and Intervening (1983). See, for example, Chapter 15, "Baconian topics". In Chapter 9, "Experiment", he writes, "I hope the following chapters might initiate a Back-to-Bacon movement, in which we attend more seriously to experimental science. Experimentation has a life of its own." (p. 150) Yours, WM On 08/02/2019 12:29, Jim Endersby wrote: > I have become interested in the ways early C20 scientists refer to Bacon and Baconianism -- particularly by the fact that they do so pretty often (and pretty enthusiastically). A quick search of Archive.org seems to show quite a lot of new editions of Bacon's works in the first couple of decades of the century, and I find textbook authors refer to him as the best guide to scientific method. This is only peripheral to my research, but I'm wondering whether this suggests a revival of interest (especially in the USA), or the continuation of what seems to have been a fairly widespread C19 enthusiasm? > > However, the only secondary sources that deal with the reception and influence of that I've found focus on the 17th-19th centuries. > > Does anyone know of work on Bacon's C20 reception and reputation (and, just to be clear, I have a historian's interest, not a philosopher’s, so I'm really not looking for material on whether or not induction works). > > Thanks in advance, Jim > > ________________ > Jim Endersby > Professor of the History of Science > School of History, Art History and Philosophy, University of Sussex > * Mail: Arts Building A, Arts Road, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9RH > * Web: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/history/jimendersby > * Research: https://jimendersby.academia.edu/ > > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the MERSENNE list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MERSENNE&A=1 > -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor emeritus, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Adjunct Professor, Western Sydney University; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.tandfonline.com/loi/yisr20) and Humanist (www.dhhumanist.org) ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the MERSENNE list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MERSENNE&A=1