EPISODE · Mar 19, 2024 · 26 MIN
Popper and Kuhn’s star rose. Michael Polanyi’s slid. Why?
from Uncomfortable Collisions with Reality · host Nicholas Gruen
Most of us have heard of the idea that, for a proposition to be scientific, it must be falsifiable — an idea associated with Karl Popper. And Thomas Kuhn's idea of 'paradigms' slid into the language following the publication of his book "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions". In this podcast, I argue that Polanyi should be as well known as Kuhn (Kuhn seems to have got his core idea of the incommensurability of paradigms from Polanyi). And Polanyi scholar Martin Turkis and I ask why that is. I think the answer is also related to another somewhat surprising phenomenon. A remarkably large number of those studying Polanyi today have a particular interest in religion. Though religion was very important to Polanyi, he only mentioned it as a parting thought at the end of his major publications. The corresponding video is here.
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Popper and Kuhn’s star rose. Michael Polanyi’s slid. Why?
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