Michael Polanyi and his generation origins of the social construction of science
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Michael Polanyi and his generation origins of the social construction of science
Author:
Nye, Mary Jo.
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Publication Information:
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
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xxi, 405 p. : ill., ports.
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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