Michael Polanyi and His Generation: Origins of the Social Construction of Science
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Main Author: Nye, Mary Jo (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2011
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Item Description: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 and reason alone but on social communities, behavioral norms, and personal commitments. Nye argues that the roots of the social turn are to be found in the scientific culture and political events of Europe in the 1930s, when scientific intellectuals struggled to defend the universal status of scienti
Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Scientific Culture in Europe and the Refugee Generation; 2. Germany and Weimar Berlin as the City of Science; 3. Origins of a Social Perspective: Doing Physical Chemistry in Weimar Berlin; 4. Chemical Dynamics and Social Dynamics in Berlin and Manchester; 5. Liberalism and the Economic Foundations of the "Republic of Science"; 6. Scientific Freedom and the Social Functions of Science; 7. Political Foundations of the Philosophies of Science of Popper, Kuhn, and Polanyi; 8. Personal Knowledge: Argument, Audiences, and Sociological Engagement
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-392) and index
Physical Description:429 pages
ISBN:9780226610658
0226610659
1283268035
9781283268035
9780226610634
0226610632

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