Reviews - Otto Neurath. Foundations of the social sciences. International encyclopedia of unified science, vol. 2, no. 1. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago1944, iii + 51 pp.

1944 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 100-101
Author(s):  
Morton G. White
Author(s):  
Phil Mullins

This essay examines the thirty-year personal and intellectual friendship of Edward Shils and Michael Polanyi. Shils identifies Polanyi as one of his three important mentors; he is aware of and often involved in many Polanyi projects after the mid-forties and absorbs elements of Polanyi’s developing post-critical philosophical perspective. Shils helped Polanyi better understand the social sciences and he was a trusted friend whose scholarly writing apparently inspired Polanyi; Shils was also a capable younger figure on whom Polanyi often relied to organize endeavours such as Polanyi’s long term affiliation with the University of Chicago.


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