- Description
- 1 online resource (xxi, 405 p.) : ill.
- Uniform Title
- Michael Polanyi and his generation (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Michael Polanyi and his generation (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-392) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2011003356
- OCLC
- ssj0000539117
- Author
Nye, Mary Jo.
- Title
Michael Polanyi and his generation [electronic resource] : origins of the social construction of science / Mary Jo Nye.
- Imprint
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2011.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-392) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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