The Logic of Personal knowledge
Subtitle: essays presented to Michael Polanyi on his seventieth birthday, 11th March 1961.
Publisher: Routledge & Paul
Published: 1961
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Polanyi, Michael, 1891-; Polanyi, Michael, 1891-; Science.; Social sciences.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: The Hungary of Michael Polanyi, by P. Ignotus.; title: An index to Michael Polanyi's contributions to science, by J. Polanyi.; title: Polanyi's contribution to the physics of metals, by E. Schmid.; title: Rates of reaction, by H. Eyring.; title: The size and shape of molecules, as a factor in their biological activity, by E. D. Bergmann.; title: Kepler and the psychology of discovery, by A. Koestler.; title: The scientists and the English Civil War, by C. V. Wedgwood.; title: Vibrating strings and arbitrary functions, by J. R. Ravetz.; title: The controversy on freedom in science in the nineteenth century, by J. R. Baker.; title: Max Weber and Michael Polanyi, by R. Aron.; title: Centre and periphery, by E. A. Shils.; title: The republic of science, by B. de Jouvenel.; title: Machiavelli and the profanation of politics, by I. Kristol.; title: Applied economics: the application of what? By E. Devons.; title: Some notes on "philosophy of history" and the problems of human society, by D. M. MacKinnon.; title: Law-courts and dreams, by E. Sewell.; title: The logic of biology, by M. Grene.; title: Origin of life on earth and elsewhere, by M. Calvin.; title: The probability of the existence of a self-reproducing unit, by E. P. Wigner.; title: Bibliography: Scientific papers, books, and film by Michael Polanyi (p. 239-[248])