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Michael Polanyi

Author : Mark T. Mitchell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1684516811
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book Michael Polanyi written by Mark T. Mitchell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The polymath Michael Polanyi first made his mark as a physical chemist, but his interests gradually shifted to economics, politics, and philosophy, in which field he would ultimately propose a revolutionary theory of knowledge that grew out of his firsthand experience with both the scientific method and political totalitarianism. In this sixth entry in ISI Books’ Library of Modern Thinkers’ series, Mark T. Mitchell reveals how Polanyi came to recognize that the roots of the modern political and spiritual crisis lay in an errant conception of knowledge that served to foreclose any possibility of making meaningful statements about truth, goodness, or beauty. Polanyi’s theory of knowledge as ineluctably personal but also grounded in reality is not merely of historical interest, writes Mitchell, for it proposes an attractive alternative for anyone who would reject both the hubris of modern rationalism and the ultimately nihilistic implications of academic postmodernism.

Meaning

Author : Michael Polanyi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226672956
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Meaning written by Michael Polanyi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published very shortly before his death in February 1976, Meaning is the culmination of Michael Polanyi's philosophic endeavors. With the assistance of Harry Prosch, Polanyi goes beyond his earlier critique of scientific "objectivity" to investigate meaning as founded upon the imaginative and creative faculties. Establishing that science is an inherently normative form of knowledge and that society gives meaning to science instead of being given the "truth" by science, Polanyi contends here that the foundation of meaning is the creative imagination. Largely through metaphorical expression in poetry, art, myth, and religion, the imagination is used to synthesize the otherwise chaotic and disparate elements of life. To Polanyi these integrations stand with those of science as equally valid modes of knowledge. He hopes this view of the foundation of meaning will restore validity to the traditional ideas that were undercut by modern science. Polanyi also outlines the general conditions of a free society that encourage varied approaches to truth, and includes an illuminating discussion of how to restore, to modern minds, the possibility for the acceptance of religion.

The Tacit Dimension

Author : Michael Polanyi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226672980
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book The Tacit Dimension written by Michael Polanyi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Tacit Dimension" argues that tacit knowledge -tradition, inherited practices, implied values, and prejudgments- is a crucial part of scientific knowledge. This volume challenges the assumption that skepticism, rather than established belief, lies at the heart of scientific discovery.

Michael Polanyi and His Generation

Author : Mary Jo Nye
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226610659
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Michael Polanyi and His Generation written by Mary Jo Nye and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Personal Knowledge

Author : Michael Polanyi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134746091
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Personal Knowledge written by Michael Polanyi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Science, Faith and Society

Author : Michael Polanyi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022616344X
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Science, Faith and Society written by Michael Polanyi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its concern with science as an essentially human enterprise, Science, Faith and Society makes an original and challenging contribution to the philosophy of science. On its appearance in 1946 the book quickly became the focus of controversy. Polanyi aims to show that science must be understood as a community of inquirers held together by a common faith; science, he argues, is not the use of "scientific method" but rather consists in a discipline imposed by scientists on themselves in the interests of discovering an objective, impersonal truth. That such truth exists and can be found is part of the scientists' faith. Polanyi maintains that both authoritarianism and scepticism, attacking this faith, are attacking science itself.

Personal Knowledge

Author : Michael Polanyi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Personal Knowledge written by Michael Polanyi and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Economic Thought of Michael Polanyi

Author : Gábor Biró
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000094251
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economic Thought of Michael Polanyi written by Gábor Biró and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Polanyi is most famous for his work in chemistry and the philosophy of science, but in the 1930s and 1940s he made an important contribution to economics. Drawing on rich archival materials on Polanyi and his correspondents, Gábor Biró explores their competing worldviews and their struggles to popularise their visions of the economy, economic expertise and democracy. Special focus is given to Polanyi’s pioneering economics film and postmodern ideas. This volume will be of interest to advanced students and researchers of the history of economics, philosophy of science, and science and technology studies.

The Logic of Liberty

Author : Michael Polanyi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113623201X
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book The Logic of Liberty written by Michael Polanyi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume XI of eighteen in the Political Sociology Series and looks at the rejections and rejoinders of the logic of liberty, originally published in 1951.

Everyman Revived

Author : Lady Drusilla Scott
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802840790
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Everyman Revived written by Lady Drusilla Scott and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been done in a way and in a style that makes for very easy reading and understanding, even by those who have not been familiar with the deep changes going on in science. This is a fine piece of communication to the wider public and will be widely received.-The Reverend Professor T.F. Torrance.

Contact with Reality

Author : Esther Lightcap Meek
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498239838
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Contact with Reality written by Esther Lightcap Meek and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-05-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is knowledge discovered, or just invented? Can we ever get outside ourselves to know how reality is in itself, independent of us? Philosophical realism raises the question whether in our knowing we connect with an independent reality--or only connect with our own mental constructs. Far from being a silly parlor game, the question impacts our lives concretely and deeply. Modern Western culture has been infected with antirealism and the doubt, skepticism, subjectivism, relativism, and atheism that attends it--not to mention distrust and arbitrary (mis)use of reality. Premier scientist-turned-philosopher Michael Polanyi stepped aside from research to offer an innovative account of knowing that takes its cue from how discovery actually happens. Polanyi defied the antirealism of the twentieth century, sounding a ringing note of hope in his repeated claim that in discovery, we know we have made contact with reality because "we have a sense of the possibility of indeterminate future manifestations." And that sense marks contact with reality, because it is the way reality is: abundant, generous, and fraught with as-yet-unnameable possibilities. This book examines that distinctive claim, contrasting it to the wider philosophical discussions regarding realism and antirealism in the recent decades. It shows why Polanyi's outlook is superior, and why that matters, not just to scientific discoverers, but to us all.

Charles Taylor, Michael Polanyi and the Critique of Modernity

Author : Charles W. Lowney II
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331963898X
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Charles Taylor, Michael Polanyi and the Critique of Modernity written by Charles W. Lowney II and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a timely, compelling, multidisciplinary critique of the largely tacit set of assumptions funding Modernity in the West. A partnership between Michael Polanyi and Charles Taylor's thought promises to cast the errors of the past in a new light, to graciously show how these errors can be amended, and to provide a specific cartography of how we can responsibly and meaningfully explore new possibilities for ethics, political society, and religion in a post-modern modernity.

The Logic of Personal Knowledge

Author : Polanyi Festschrift Committee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317440226
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Logic of Personal Knowledge written by Polanyi Festschrift Committee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1961. Michael Polanyi was a polymath who influenced economics and the sciences as well as philosophy. His wide-ranging research in physical science is as well-known as his work on freedom and knowledge and his arguments against positivism and reductionism. This collection of essays written for him touches on all aspects of his influence but rotates around his published lectures Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy. The contributors address four areas – The Scientist as Knower, Historical Perspectives, The Knowledge of Society and the Knowledge of Living Things.

The study of man

Author : Michael Polanyi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781614276562
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (765 download)

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Download or read book The study of man written by Michael Polanyi and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2014 Reprint of 1959 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Michael Polanyi (1891-1976) was an eminent theorist across the fields of philosophy, physical chemistry and economics. Elected to the Royal Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, his contributions to research in the social sciences, and his theories on positivism and knowledge, are of critical academic importance. The three lectures included in this comprehensive volume, first published in 1959, argue for Polanyi's principle of 'tacit knowing' as a fundamental component of knowledge. They were intended to accompany Polanyi's earlier work, "Personal Knowledge," and as a tribute to the philosophical and educational work of Lord A. D. Lindsay.

Society, Economics, and Philosophy

Author : Michael Polanyi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351489097
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Society, Economics, and Philosophy written by Michael Polanyi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Society, Economics and Philosophy represents the full range of Polanyi's interests outside of his scientific work: economics, politics, society, philosophy of science, religion and positivist obstacles to it, and art. Polanyi's principal ideas are contained in three essays: on the scientific revolution, the creative imagination and the mind-body relation. Precisely because of Polanyi's work in the physical sciences, his writings have a unique dimension not found in other advocates of the market and too infrequently found even in philosophers of science.Polanyi was a powerful critic of totalitarianism and of the deficiencies of the usual defenses of freedom which helped to prepare the way for it. Freedom, he argued, can be based only upon truth and dedication to transcendent ideals, not upon skepticism, utilitarianism and the liberty of doing merely as one pleases. At a time when easy slogans about socialism were dominant in intellectual circles, epitomized by Sidney and Beatrice Webb, and when calls for the central planning of scientific research were made by such as J.D. Bernal, Polanyi exposed their errors and showed that science can flourish only in a free society.More radically than even von Mises and Hayek, Polanyi showed that an industrial economy can operate only polycentrically, that central planning is logically impossible, and that what was called by that name in the Soviet Union was in reality no such thing. Likewise, scientific research can proceed, not by a central plan, but only by the spontaneous self-adjustment of separate initiatives to discover a common reality. Against the positivism dominant within philosophy of science, he argued that the notion of reality must be restored and made central. Yet physical sciences, he also argued, are only one branch of science, and the sciences of life and mind are logically richer and more complex and cannot be reduced to the former, nor mind to body or to computers, nor art to its ph

Michael Polanyi

Author : William Taussig Scott
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Michael Polanyi written by William Taussig Scott and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Polanyi was a towering figure of European intellectual life in the mid 20th century. First an acclaimed physical chemist, after World War II he became a celebrated philosopher and contributed to many other fields of study, including matters as diverse as patent law, aesthetics & theology.

The Tacit Dimension

Author : Lara Schrijver
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9462702713
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book The Tacit Dimension written by Lara Schrijver and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In architecture, tacit knowledge plays a substantial role in both the design process and its reception. The essays in this book explore the tacit dimension of architecture in its aesthetic, material, cultural, design-based, and reflexive understanding of what we build. Tacit knowledge, described in 1966 by Michael Polanyi as what we ‘can know but cannot tell’, often denotes knowledge that escapes quantifiable dimensions of research. Much of architecture’s knowledge resides beneath the surface, in nonverbal instruments such as drawings and models that articulate the spatial imagination of the design process. Awareness of the tacit dimension helps to understand the many facets of the spaces we inhabit, from the ideas of the architect to the more hidden assumptions of our cultures. Beginning in the studio, where students are guided into becoming architects, the book follows a path through the tacit knowledge present in materials, conceptual structures, and the design process, revealing how the tacit dimension leads to craftsmanship and the situated knowledge of architecture-in-the-world. Contributors: Tom Avermaete (ETH Zürich), Margitta Buchert (Leibniz-Universität Hannover), Christoph Grafe (Bergische Universität Wuppertal), Mari Lending (The Oslo School of Architecture and Design), Angelika Schnell (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna), Eireen Schreurs (Delft University of Technology), Lara Schrijver (University of Antwerp)