Michael Polanyi and his generation [electronic resource] : origins of the social construction of science / Mary Jo Nye.

By: Nye, Mary JoContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011Description: xxi, 405 p. : ill., portsISBN: 9780226610658 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Polanyi, Michael, 1891-1976 -- Influence | Polanyi, Michael, 1891-1976 -- Friends and associates | Jewish scientists -- Hungary -- Intellectual life | Jewish scientists -- Germany -- Intellectual life | Science -- Philosophy -- History -- 20th century | Science -- Social aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 192 LOC classification: B945.P584 | N94 2011Online resources: Click to View
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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