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Faith in science: What can we learn from Michael Polanyi?

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In this paper we revisit Michael Polanyi’s overall contribution to the understanding of tacit knowledge and its implications in philosophy of science with a focus on experimental research in social sciences. We first review and discuss Polanyi’s references to experiments in general. An extensive number of these experiments are summarised in tabular form in the Appendix, distinguishing between experiments on the phenomenon of tacit knowledge, discussed in Subsection 2.1, and experiments on the epistemological implications of tacit knowledge, discussed in Subsection 2.2. Secondly, we discuss tacit knowledge as a confounding factor and limitation to replicability in social science experiments (Subsection 3.1) and tacit knowledge as a phenomenon to be elicitated through controlled variation in experimental design (Subsection 3.2). In the concluding section, we call for rejuvenation of the study of social epistemology and the social construction of science, suggested to start with Polanyi and his generation, where attention now should be directed to social science rather than hard science as in the past.
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halshs-03909394, version 1 (21-12-2022)

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Agnès Festré, Stein Østbye. Faith in science: What can we learn from Michael Polanyi?. Springer. Science, Faith, Society: new essays on the philosophy of Michael Polanyi (Peter Hartl and Gabor Biro, eds.), inPress, Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind and Action. ⟨halshs-03909394⟩

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