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Author Nye, Mary Jo.

Title Michael Polanyi and His Generation : Origins of the Social Construction of Science
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (429 pages)
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
Summary In Michael Polanyi and His Generation, Mary Jo Nye investigates the role that Michael Polanyi and several of his contemporaries played in the emergence of the social turn in the philosophy of science. This turn involved seeing science as a socially based enterprise that does not rely on empiricism and reason alone but on social communities, behavioral norms, and personal commitments. Nye argues that the roots of the social turn are to be found in the scientific culture and political events of Europe in the 1930s, when scientific intellectuals struggled to defend the universal status of scientific knowledge and to justify public support for science in an era of economic catastrophe, Stalinism and Fascism, and increased demands for applications of science to industry and social welfare. At the center of this struggle was Polanyi, who Nye contends was one of the first advocates of this new conception of science. Nye reconstructs Polanyi's scientific and political milieus in Budapest, Berlin, and Manchester from the 1910s to the 1950s and explains how he and other natural scientists and social scientists of his generation--including J.D. Bernal, Ludwik Fleck, Karl Mannheim, and Robert K. Merton--and the next, such as Thomas Kuhn, forged a politically charged philosophy of science, one that newly emphasized the social construction of science
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-392) and index
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Subject Polanyi, Michael, 1891-1976 -- Influence
Polanyi, Michael, 1891-1976 -- Friends and associates
SUBJECT Polanyi, Michael, 1891-1976 fast
Polanyi, Michael 1891-1976 gnd
Polanyi, Michael. idszbz
Polanyi, Michael, 1891-1976 -- influenser. sao
Polanyi, Michael. (DE-588c)4103185-4. swd
Subject Jewish scientists -- Hungary -- Intellectual life
Jewish scientists -- Germany -- Intellectual life
Science -- Philosophy -- History -- 20th century
Science -- Social aspects.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Friendship
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Science -- Philosophy
Science -- Social aspects
Wissenschaftsphilosophie
Wissenschaftler.
Geistesleben.
Philosophie.
Wissenschaft.
Kultur.
Freundschaft.
Judiska vetenskapsmän -- intellektuellt liv -- Ungern -- 1900-talet.
Judiska vetenskapsmän -- intellektuellt liv -- Tyskland -- 1900-talet.
Vetenskapsteori -- historia -- 1900-talet.
Germany
Hungary
Juden.
Ungarn.
Deutschland.
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011003356
ISBN 9780226610658
0226610659
1283268035
9781283268035
9786613268037
6613268038