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Michael Polanyi and the politics of science studies

Mary Jo Nye: Michael Polanyi and his generation: Origins of the social construction of science. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2011, 428pp, $45.00 HB, $30.00 PB

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  1. Nye acknowledges but does not take a clear for or against position on Steve Fuller’s argument about Kuhn’s enmeshment in Cold War ideology: see pp. 249–250.

  2. Collins and Evans are critical of the way that “too often, science’s spokespersons have claimed to be the custodians of universal truths” (Collins and Evans 2007: 8).

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Thorpe, C. Michael Polanyi and the politics of science studies. Metascience 23, 399–405 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-013-9848-5

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