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What role did technology play in the formation of early modern philosophy? In Early Modern Philosophy of Technology: Bacon and Descartes, Robert Arnautu offers a fresh interpretation of two foundational thinkers of modernity by examining the technological dimensions of their work.
Rather than presenting Francis Bacon and René Descartes solely as abstract philosophers, this book reveals their deep engagement with technical invention, practical experimentation, and the construction of useful devices. Particular attention is given to Descartes not only as a theorist of science, but also as a designer working alongside craftsmen on optical instruments, automata, drainage systems, musical devices, and mechanical tools.
Through a close reading of philosophical and technical texts, Arnăutu explores how Bacon’s vision of experimental knowledge and Descartes’ mechanistic philosophy helped shape the intellectual foundations of modern technology. The book challenges simplistic narratives about technological modernity and offers a more nuanced understanding of the conceptual links between science, technique, invention, and practical reason in the seventeenth century.
Situated at the crossroads of history of philosophy, philosophy of technology, and science and technology studies, this volume will be of interest to scholars and students working on early modern thought, Descartes studies, Bacon studies, and the origins of technological modernity.
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Early Modern Philosophy of Technology: Bacon and Descartes
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