Michael Polanyi and his generation : origins of the social construction of science / Mary Jo Nye.

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Nye, Mary Jo

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TextPublication details: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2011.Description: xxi, 405 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780226103174

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DDC classification:

192 NYE 22

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.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-392) and index.

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