'I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell', writes Michael Polanyi, whose work paved the way for the likes of Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper. "The Tacit Dimension", originally published in 1967, argues that such tacit knowledge - tradition, inh[...]

In Michael Polanyi and His Generation, Mary Jo Nye investigates the role that Michael Polanyi and several of his contemporaries played in the emergence of the social turn in the philosophy of science. This turn involved seeing science as a socially based enterprise that does not rely on empiricism a[...]

Asserts that scientific knowledge is a synthesis of personal experience, moral judgement, and empirical findings.[...]

In this text, the author argues that organisations -- or governments -- based solely on the methods of science threaten to foreclose a full human knowledge of the mysteries of existence and therefore pose a direct threat not only to academic freedom but also to social and political liberty.[...]

This book provides a timely, compelling, multidisciplinary critique of the largely tacit set of assumptions funding Modernity in the West. A partnership between Michael Polanyi and Charles Taylor's thought promises to cast the errors of the past in a new light, to graciously show how these errors [...]

Endelig foreligger denne klassiker fra 1966 på dansk. Den appellerer til alle, der interesserer sig for, hvad viden er, og hvordan vi tilegner os den.

Polanyi introducerer i denne bog begrebet tavs viden, som peger på, at vi kan vide mere, end vi kan redegøre for. Den tavse vide[...]