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March - April 2024
Silvia Manzo is research scholar of the National Research Council (CONICET, Argentina) and teaches Early Modern Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities and Sciences of Education, National University of La Plata, Argentina. She did her undergraduate studies in Philosophy at the National University of La Plata. Her doctoral research on Francis Bacon's matter theory was carried out at the University of Regensburg, the University of Hamburg and Herzog August Bibliothek (Wolfenbüttel). In 2000 she received her PhD from the University of Buenos Aires. She has been a visiting scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of Cambridge University, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Technische Universität Berlin and Universitè Paris Diderot. She has been a fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD),the British Council and the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. Current research project Women philosophers in history: new readings of early modern natural philosophy, metaphysics and anthropology https://idihcs.
Francis Bacon’s Conception of Nature
The general aim of my research project is to provide a comprehensive reconstruction of Francis Bacon’s conception of nature, focusing on the fundamental role played by what I call “nomological network of nature”. Within the framework of this integral approach, the project's goal is to provide a conceptual reconstruction of the following fundamental ontological aspects of Bacon’s conception of nature: a) the historical stages of nature: chaos, cosmos, fall and restauration ; b) the causal components of nature: matter, motion, forms and ends; c) the modal structure of nature: necessity, contingency and chance; d) the nomological network of nature: summary law, laws of simple properties, and customs of nature; e) the states of nature: nature free, nature deviated, and nature constrained; the quantitative character of matter.