Polanyi, Michael
A physician and physical chemist who became a philosopher in middle age, Michael Polanyi (1891–1976) was born in Budapest, Hungary on March 12, the youngest child in a liberal ...
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Michael Polanyi (1891-1976), a medical doctor, physical chemist, social thinker, and philosopher, made his most important contribution in the area of humanizing scientific inquiry. He proposed a new t...
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A question that runs through much of Michael Polanyi's writing is: "Why did we destroy Europe"" Why did the nineteenth century with its reforming zeal, with its immensely high ambitions for the improv...
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