Knowing and Being

Name: Knowing and Being
Price: 8.33 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780226672854

ISBN-10: 0226672859

ISBN-13: 9780226672854

Edition: 1973

Authors: Michael Polanyi, Marjorie Grene

List price: $34.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Sell

Get cash fast!

Buy new: $34.72

Marketplace

5 new & used from $8.33

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Because of the difficulty posed by the contrast between the search for truth and truth itself, Michael Polanyi believes that we must alter the foundation of epistemology to include as essential to the very nature of mind, the kind of groping that constitutes the recognition of a problem. This collection of essays, assembled by Marjorie Grene, exemplifies the development of Polanyi's theory of knowledge which was first presented in Science, Faith, and Society and later systematized in Personal Knowledge. nbsp; Polanyi believes that the dilemma of the modern mind arises from the peculiar relation between the positivist claim for total objectivity in scientific knowledge and the…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 1973
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/15/1969
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English