Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Tabel of Contents; Acknowledgements; PRELUDE; 1. The Hungary of Michael Polanyi; PART ONE: THE SCIENTIST AS KNOWER; 2. An Index to Michael Polanyi's Contributions to Science; 3. Polanyi's Contribution to the Physics of Metals; 4. Rates of Reaction; 5. The Size and Shape of Molecules, as a Factor in their Biological Activity; PART TWO: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES; 6. Kepler and the Psychology of Discovery; 7. The Scientists and the English Civil War; 8. Vibrating Strings and Arbitrary Functions
9. The Controversy on Freedom in Science in the Nineteenth CenturyPART THREE: THE KNOWLEDGE OF SOCIETY; 10. Max Weber and Michael Polanyi; 11. Centre and Periphery; 12. The Republic of Science; 13. Machiavelli and the Profanation of Politics; 14. Applied Economics: The Application of What?; 15. Some Notes on 'Philosophy of History' and the Problems of Human Society; 16. Law-Courts and Dreams; PART FOUR: THE KNOWLEDGE OF LIVING THINGS; 17. The Logic of Biology; 18. Origin of Life on Earth and Elsewhere; 19. The Probability of the Existence of a Self-Reproducing Unit; Bibliography
