Mary Jo Nye and the Social Construction of Science
Congratulations to Mary Jo Nye (Emerita Horning Professor in the Humanities) on the publication of her long-awaited study of Michael Polanyi, the celebrated scientist, philosopher, and critic of positivism. The title is Michael Polanyi and his Generation: Origins of the Social Construction of Science (Chicago, 2011). The book has already gained widespread acclaim, including a […]
Reflection: Bohr’s Copenhagen Interpretation and Heidegger’s Fundamental Ontology
by Mason Tattersall* My project lies within the history of problems. This denotes a methodological approach within historiographic practice, rather than a field of inquiry or a specific subject matter. The history of problems proceeds to examine a given issue in its historical manifestations with the hope thereby of coming to a further understanding […]
