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Michael Polanyi and his generation : origins of the social construction of science
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- Creator
- Mary Jo Nye
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011
- Physical Details
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- xxi, 405 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0226610632, 9786613268037, 9780226610634, 9781283268035, 9780226610658, 1283268035, 0226610659
- OCLC
- ocn700468494, ocn753480170
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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