Articles by Sandra Leonie Field

December 8, 2021

🦋 Data mountains and usable concepts: a lesson from Francis Bacon

Sandra Leonie Field

Scholars of democracy must look beyond received paradigms. With his democracy 'data mountain', Jean-Paul Gagnon is challenging us to do so. However, drawing on Francis Bacon's analogous project for natural science, Sandra Leonie Field wonders whether a database of adjectives is indeed the best method of reaching this goal

Sandra Leonie Field

Assistant Professor of Humanities, Yale-NUS College, Singapore

Potentia: Hobbes and Spinoza on Power and Popular Politics
Oxford University Press, 2020

Sandra's research topics include early modern European political philosophy; democratic theory; and concepts of power.

She has also written on non-Western philosophy.

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