Michael Polanyi and His Generation : Origins of the Social Construction of Science.

Michael Polanyi and His Generation : Origins of the Social Construction of Science.

In Michael Polanyi and His Generation, Mary Jo Nye investigates the role that Michael Polanyi and several of his contemporaries played in the emergence of the social turn in the philosophy of science. This turn involved seeing science as a socially based enterprise that does not rely on empiricism a...

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Main Author: Nye, Mary Jo
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Polanyi, Michael, > 1891-1976 > Influence.
Polanyi, Michael, > 1891-1976 > Friends and associates.
Polanyi, Michael, > 1891-1976
Polanyi, Michael > 1891-1976
Polanyi, Michael.
Polanyi, Michael, > 1891-1976 > influenser.
1900-1999
Jewish scientists > Hungary > Intellectual life.
Jewish scientists > Germany > Intellectual life.
Science > Philosophy > History > 20th century.
Science > Social aspects.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
Friendship
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Science > Philosophy
Science > Social aspects
Wissenschaftsphilosophie
Wissenschaftler.
Geistesleben.
Philosophie.
Wissenschaft.
Kultur.
Freundschaft.
Judiska vetenskapsmän > intellektuellt liv > Ungern > 1900-talet.
Judiska vetenskapsmän > intellektuellt liv > Tyskland > 1900-talet.
Vetenskapsteori > historia > 1900-talet.
Germany
Hungary
Juden.
Ungarn.
Deutschland.
Electronic books.
History
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Scientific culture in Europe and the refugee generation
  • Germany and Weimar Berlin as the City of Science
  • Origins of a social perspective: doing physical chemistry in Weimar Berlin
  • Chemical dynamics and social dynamics in Berlin and Manchester
  • Liberalism and the economic foundations of the "Republic of Science"
  • Scientific freedom and the social functions of science
  • Political foundations of the philosophies of science of Popper, Kuhn, and Polanyi
  • Personal knowledge: argument, audiences, and sociological engagement
  • Epilogue: SSK, scientific constructivism, and the paradoxical legacy of Polanyi and the 1930s generation.

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