Michael Polanyi

The Tacit Dimension

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Suitable for students and scholars, this title challenges the assumption that skepticism, rather than established belief, lies at the heart of scientific discovery.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 202mm x 134mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 160g
• ISBN-13: 9780226672984
• ISBN-10: 0226672980
• Artikelnr.: 21409224

Autorenporträt

Michael Polanyi (1891-1976) was a Hungarian-British chemist and philosopher, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He is the author of many books, including Science, Faith and Society and Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy, both published by the University of Chicago Press. Amartya Sen, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998, is the Lamont University Professor at Harvard University.