Michael Polanyi and his generation
Subtitle: origins of the social construction of science
By: Mary Jo Nye
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9780226610634
Subjects: Jewish scientists; Friends and associates; Social aspects; Intellectual life; Philosophy; Influence; Science; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-392) and index.
Table of contents: title: Scientific culture in Europe and the refugee generation; title: Germany and Weimar Berlin as the City of Science; title: Origins of a social perspective: doing physical chemistry in Weimar Berlin; title: Chemical dynamics and social dynamics in Berlin and Manchester; title: Liberalism and the economic foundations of the "Republic of Science"; title: Scientific freedom and the social functions of science; title: Political foundations of the philosophies of science of Popper, Kuhn, and Polanyi; title: Personal knowledge: argument, audiences, and sociological engagement; title: Epilogue: SSK, scientific constructivism, and the paradoxical legacy of Polanyi and the 1930s generation.