LEADER 04120nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910817403303321 005 20240514031428.0 010 $a1-283-26803-5 010 $a9786613268037 010 $a0-226-61065-9 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226610658 035 $a(CKB)2550000000045267 035 $a(EBL)767538 035 $a(OCoLC)753480170 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000539117 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12242558 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000539117 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10568193 035 $a(PQKB)11013228 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000155571 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC767538 035 $a(DE-B1597)523340 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226610658 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL767538 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10496527 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL326803 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000045267 100 $a20110126d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMichael Polanyi and his generation $eorigins of the social construction of science /$fMary Jo Nye 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago ;$aLondon $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (429 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-61063-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aScientific 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. 330 $aIn 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 1930's, 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 1910's to the 1950's 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. 606 $aJewish scientists$zHungary$xIntellectual life 606 $aJewish scientists$zGermany$xIntellectual life 606 $aScience$xPhilosophy$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aScience$xSocial aspects 615 0$aJewish scientists$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aJewish scientists$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aScience$xPhilosophy$xHistory 615 0$aScience$xSocial aspects. 676 $a192 686 $aAK 26600$qHBZ$2rvk 700 $aNye$b Mary Jo$046951 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817403303321 996 $aMichael Polanyi and his generation$94122858 997 $aUNINA