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Michael Polanyi: Scientist and Philosopher
by William Taussig Scott, Martin X. Moleski. 374 pgs.

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A Note on Names

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1: Early Years: 1891-1914

2: Coming of Age in the Great War: 1914-1919

3: Karlsruhe: 1919-1920

4: The Fiber Institute: 1920-1923

5: Institute for Physical Chemistry: 1923-1933

6: Physical Chemistry and Economics: 1933-1937

7: The Philosophy of Freedom: 1938-1947

8: Personal Knowledge: 1948-1959

9: Merton College, Oxford: 1959-1961

10: At the Wheel of the World: 1961-1971

11: The Last Years: 1971-1976

Epilogue, 293 Appendix: People Interviewed by William T Scott

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Bibliography of Works by Michael Polanyi

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Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy
by Michael Polanyi. 428 pgs.

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Polanyi, originally a chemist and chemical physicist is now widely acclaimed for his epistemology, which opposes the prevailing positivist approaches. His discussion of tacit knowledge has been influential in many fields.

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Acknowledgments

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Part One: The Art of Knowing

1: Objectivity

2: Probability

3: Order

4: Skills

Part Two: The Tacit Component

5: Articulation

6: Intellectual Passions

7: Conviviality

Part Three: The Justification of Personal Knowledge

8: The Logic of Affirmation

9: The Critique of Doubt

10: Commitment

Part Four: Knowing and Being

11: The Logic of Achievement

12: Knowing Life

13: The Rise of Man

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The Study of Man
by Michael Polanyi. 102 pgs.

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Lecture One: Understanding Ourselves

Lecture Two: The Calling of Man

Lecture Three: Understanding History

Bibliographical Note
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Michael Polanyi: A Critical Exposition
by Harry Prosch. 354 pgs.

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Michael Polanyi: A Critical Exposition

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Diagnosis

Chapter One: Indications of Malaise

Chapter Two: The Causes

Chapter Three: The Pathogenesis

Part II: Prescription

Chapter Four: A New Epistemology

Chapter Five: Indwelling

Chapter Six: Generalization

Chapter Seven: Discovery

Chapter Eight: Verification

Part III: Treatment

Chapter Nine: Ontological Hierarchies

Chapter Ten: Personal Participation

Chapter Eleven: The Arts

Chapter Twelve: Religion

Chapter Thirteen: The Free Society

Part IV: Evaluation

Chapter Fourteen: Rationale for an Evaluation

Chapter Fifteen: Can "From-To" Awareness Be Ubiquitous?

Chapter Sixteen: Is Epistemological Antireductionism Sufficient?

Chapter Seventeen: The Problem of Polanyi's Divarication

Chapter Eighteen: Polanyi Contra Torrance

Chapter Nineteen: Can Dualism Be Avoided?

Chapter Twenty: And Sub Specie Aeternitatis

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Bibliography of Michael Polanyi's Publications

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The Modeling of Mind: Computers and Intelligence (Chap. 11 "Experience and the Perception of Pattern" by Michael Polanyi)
by Kenneth M. Sayre, Frederick J. Crosson. 280 pgs.

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Part I: Introduction

Chapter 1: Modeling: Simulation and Replication

Chapter 2: Technological Models of the Nervous System

Part II: Mental Skills

Chapter 3: Experimental Music

Chapter 4: The Chess Machine

Chapter 5: Toward Mechanical Mathematics

Chapter 6: Remarks on Mechanical Mathematics

Part III: Perceptual Acts

Chapter 7: Sensation and Observation

Chapter 8: Human and Mechanical Recognition

Chapter 9: Stimulus Analysing Mechanisms

Chapter 10: On the Conceptual Consciousness

Chapter 11: Experience and the Perception of Pattern

Part IV: The Modeling of Mind

Chapter 12: Mindlike Behaviour in Artefacts

Chapter 13: The Mechanical Concept of Mind

Chapter 14 Minds, Machines and Gödel

Biographical Notes
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Activity, Apprenticeship, and Epistemological Appropriation: Implications from the Writings of Michael Polanyi, in Educational Psychologist
by David Wei Loong Hung. 13 pgs.

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Metaphors of Knowledge in Economics, in Review of Social Economy
by Wilfred Dolfsma. 20 pgs.

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Prematurity in Scientific Discovery: On Resistance and Neglect (Chap. 11 "Michael Polanyi's Theory of Surface Adsorption: How Premature?")
by Ernest B. Hook. 378 pgs.

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"In preparing this remarkable book, Ernest Hook persuaded an eminent group of scientists, historians, sociologists and philosophers to focus on the problem: why are some discoveries rejected at a particular time but later seen to be valid? The interaction of these experts did not produce agreement on 'prematurity' in science but something more valuable: a collection of fascinating papers, many of them based on new research and analysis, which sometimes forced the author to revise a previously-held opinion. The book should be enthusiastically welcomed by all readers who are interested in how science works."--Stephen G. Brush, co-author of "Physics, The Human Adventure: From copernicus to Einstein and Beyond
""Prematurity and Scientific Discovery contains interesting and insightful papers by numerous well-known scientists and scholars. It will be of wide interest, not only to science studies scholars but also to working scientists and to science-literate general readers."--Thomas Nickles, editor of "Scientific Discovery, Logic, and Rationality

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Part One: Introduction

Chapter One: A Background to Prematurity and Resistance to “discovery”

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Chapter Two: Prematurity in Scientific Discovery

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Part Two: Observer and Participant Accounts

Chapter Three: Prematurity, Nuclear Fission, and the Transuranium Actinide Elements

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Chapter Four: A Personal Perspective

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Chapter Five: The Timeliness of the Discoveries of the Three Modes of Gene Transfer in Bacteria

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Chapter Six: Forgetting and Neglect in Science

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Part Three: Historical Perspectives

Section A: Relatively Unproblematic Examples

Chapter Seven: Prematurity and Delay in the Prevention of Scurvy

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Chapter Eight: Prematurity and Resistance to Discovery in the Earth Sciences

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Chapter Nine: Implications of Their Reception for the Concept of Scientific Prematurity

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Chapter Ten: Interdisciplinary Dissonance and Prematurity Ida Noddack's Suggestion of Nuclear Fission

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Section B: Disputable Cases

Chapter Eleven: How Premature?

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Chapter Twelve: Prematurity and the Dynamics of Scientific Change

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Chapter Thirteen: Premature Discovery or Stillborn Theory?

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Chapter Fourteen: Possible Examples of Prematurity in Human Genetics

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Part Four: Natural Selection and Evolution from the Perspective of Prematurity

Chapter Fifteen: The Prematurity of Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection

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Chapter Sixteen: Prematurity, Evolutionary Biology, and the Historical Sciences

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Part Five: Perspectives from the Vantage Point of the Social Sciences

Chapter Seventeen: The Prematurity of “prematurity” in Political Science

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Chapter Eighteen: The Impact and Fate of Gunther Stent's Prematurity Thesis

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Chapter Nineteen: Premature Discovery is Failure of Intersection Among Social Worlds

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Part Six: Philosophical Perspectives

Chapter Twenty: Fleck, Kuhn, and Stent Loose Reflections on the Notion of Prematurity

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Chapter Twenty-One: The Concept of Prematurity and the Philosophy of Science

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Part Seven: Closing Considerations

Chapter Twenty-Two: Why Was Stent's Notion of Prematurity Itself So Premature?

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Chapter Twenty-Three: Reflections on Hull's Remarks

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Chapter Twenty-Four: Comments

Chapter Twenty-Five: In Defense of Prematurity in Scientific Discovery

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