Science, faith and society, Nanjing University Press
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2020-04-09
Science, faith and society
Translated by Michael Polanyi and Wang Jinghua
Nanjing University Press
This book is composed of two representative works by Polanyi, an outstanding British scientist and philosopher. It embodies his famous cognitive theory and philosophy of science with human nature. In this book, Polanyi criticizes the scientific view of positivism, points out that scientists' scientific belief, scientific intuition and internal creativity are the premise of scientific research, and emphasizes that scientists' conscience is an indispensable spiritual element in scientific career. Its theory has caused a fundamental change of modern epistemology.
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