Personal Knowledge Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy

Name: Personal Knowledge Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy
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ISBN: 9780226672885

ISBN-10: 0226672883

ISBN-13: 9780226672885

Edition: 1974 (Reprint)

Authors: Michael Polanyi

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In this work the distinguished physical chemist and philosopher, Michael Polanyi, demonstrates that the scientist's personal participation in his knowledge, in both its discovery and its validation, is an indispensable part of science itself. Even in the exact sciences, "knowing" is an art, of which the skill of the knower, guided by his personal commitment and his passionate sense of increasing contact with reality, is a logically necessary part. In the biological and social sciences this becomes even more evident. The tendency to make knowledge impersonal in our culture has split fact from value, science from humanity. Polanyi wishes to substitute for the objective, impersonal ideal of…

Book details

List price: $22.50
Copyright year: 1974
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/15/1974
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 442
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.43" long x 1.09" tall
Weight: 1.144



Preface


Acknowledgments



The Art of Knowing



Objectivity



Probability



Order



Skills



The Tacit Component



Articulation



Intellectual Passions



Conviviality



The Justification of Personal Knowledge



The Logic of Affirmation



The Critique of Doubt



Commitment



Knowing and Being



The Logic of Achievement



Knowing Life



The Rise of Man


Index