Phil Mullins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3894423 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phil Mullins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phil |
| FAMILY NAME | Mullins |
| SIGNATURE | MULLINS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Missouri Western State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Notes on Polanyi’s 1954 Lecture, “Rules of Rightness”
This short essay provides some historical notes helpful for understanding what Polanyi first called “rules of rightness” in his 1954 University of Chicago series of lecturess
The Journal Humanitas as an Incubator of Polanyi’s Ideas
Michael Polanyi, along with colleagues at University of Manchester, worked to produce the journal Humanitas, A University Quarterly for two years just after the end of World War II. This essay outlines how Polanyi’s two articles in Humanitas and other work on the journal reflect Polanyi’s developing philosophical perspective
My Lengthy Involvement with Polanyi’s Thought
In this interview, Phil Mullins asks Walter Gulick about what originally attracted him to Polanyi’s thought. What aspects has he felt might be improved and/or further developed? What is the ongoing import of Polanyi’s accomplishments, and where does the Polanyi Society go from here
Jakob von Uexküll
Susan Bredlau. The Other in Perception
Polanyi and Grene on Merleau-Ponty
This historically oriented essay treats Michael Polanyi and Marjorie Grene’s discussions of Maurice Merleau-Ponty in their correspondence in the 1960s. It traces Grene’s growing enthusiasm for Merleau-Ponty and notes both Polanyi’s criticism and praise for Merleau-Ponty’s perspective in relation to his account of tacit knowing. The essay also comments on Polanyi’s criticism of Gilbert Ryle and his effort to align his perspective with Francis Wals…
Problems and Possibilities of Global Techno-Scientific Culture
In this interview, Phil Mullins questions Sheldon Richmond about the main ideas developed in his 2020 book A Way Through the Global Techno-Scientific Culture
Karl Polanyi, For a New West
Michael Polanyi on Social Order
In response to the events of January 6 and the second impeachment trial, which made clear the fragility of democracy in the USA, several scholars whose work has appeared in this journal comment on one or more of the following questions: (1) What causes, epistemic and/or social, might Polanyi see as contributing to the incivility, rancor, and division that now characterize American politics? (2) What would Polanyi say about the events of January 6…
Polanyi and the Study Group for the Unity of Knowledge
The Ford Foundation funded not only the important 1965 and 1966 Bowdoin College interdisciplinary conferences of the Study Group on Foundations of Cultural Unity (SGFCU), but also the many later conferences from 1967-1972 of the SGFCU successor group, the Study Group for the Unity of Knowledge (SGUK). Michael Polanyi chaired the group making these grant proposals and his cultural criticisms and his constructive post-critical philosophical ideas u…
The Context of Michael Polanyi’s “What to Believe”
This essay contextualizes Polanyi’s 1947 talk, “What to Believe.” After reviewing connections that probably led to Polanyi’s invitation to make this presentation at the Student Christian Movement conference in Manchester, I comment on Polanyi’s effort to compare the connection between understanding, believing and belonging in science, Christianity and “civic morality.” The main ideas in this talk should be viewed in relation to other writing from…
Paul G. Tyson, De-Fragmenting Modernity
Interview with Gábor István Bíró
This interview with Gábor István Bíró reviews topics explored in his 2017 Budapest University of Technology and Economics dissertation on Polanyi’s work in economics education and on his diagrammatic film
Michael Polanyi’s Approach to Biological Systems and Contemporary Biosemiotics
Gatherings in Biosemiotics
Anthropological Materials in the Making of Michael Polanyi’s Metascience
Anthropological discussions were important for Michael Polanyi in the middle phase of his intellectual career, in which he articulated in some detail his understanding of science, culture and society. This middle period commenced with his 1946 Riddell Memorial Lectures at Durham University in early 1946, published as Science, Faith and Society later that year, and extended through the publication of Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Phi…
Friedrich Hayek and Michael Polanyi in Correspondence
Friedrich Hayek and Michael Polanyi corresponded with each other for the best part of thirty years. They had shared interests that included science, social science, economics, epistemology, history of ideas and political philosophy. Studying their correspondence and related writings, this article shows that Hayek and Polanyi were committed Liberals but with different understandings of liberty, the forces that endanger liberty, and the policies re…
William H. Poteat and Michael Polanyi
This essay provides a timeline charting contact between Michael Polanyi and William H. Poteat. We trace the contours of the intimate, multifaceted, and mutually influential friendship of Polanyi and Poteat which developed over more than twenty years. This historical record of contacts between Michael Polanyi and William H. Poteat portrays their close, multifaceted, and mutually influential relationship. There were more contacts and a deeper relat…
Michael Polanyi's Early Liberal Vision
Michael Polanyi articulates a vision of social order in his early nonscientific writing published from the late thirties to the early fifties. This vision draws upon Polanyi's experience as a Hungarian émigré who became a top scientist after World War I in Germany but then later fled to Great Britain where he confronted the Marxist-inspired “planned” science movement in the late thirties and early forties. Polanyi's account of what he calls “libe…
Michael Polanyi's Thought and Political Philosophy
This brief essay provides a few particulars about Michael Polanyi's life, showing how his philosophical interests and ideas are deeply grounded in his own experience as a European who lived through much of the twentieth century. It introduces the four essays on Polanyi's political thought that follow
Michael Polanyi and His Generation, Origins of the Social Construction of Science
Relations between Karl Popper and Michael Polanyi
Faith, tradition, and dynamic order
In his writings between 1941 and 1951, Michael Polanyi developed a distinctive view of liberal social and political life. Planned organizations are a part of all modern societies, according to Polanyi, but in liberal modernity he highlighted dynamic social orders whose agents freely adjust their efforts in light of the initiatives and accomplishments of their peers. Liberal society itself is the most extensive of dynamic orders, with the market e…
T.S. Eliot’s Idea of the Clerisy, and its Discussion by Karl Mannheim and Michael Polanyi in the Context of J.H. Oldham’s Moot
In 1938, Joseph Oldham, a leading British Christian ecumenist, formed a discussion group that came to be known as the Moot. The Moot met in a retreat setting for several long weekends each year until early 1947, its discussions carefully organized and convened by Oldham. More than anything else, the discussions of the Moot revolved around the topic of order and, more particularly, around the problem of how order might be restored in British socie…
Michael Polanyi and Karl Mannheim
n\t\t\t\t\tThis essay reviews historical records that set forth the discussions and interaction of Michael Polanyi and Karl Mannheim from 1944 until Mannheim’s death early in 1947. The letters describe Polanyi’s effort to assemble a book to be published in a series edited by Manneheim. They also reveal the different perspectives these thinkers took about freedom and the historical context of ideas. Records of J.H. Oldham’s discussion group “the M…
Mormonism
Community competence in religious congregations
Friedrich Hayek and Michael Polanyi in Correspondence
Friedrich Hayek and Michael Polanyi corresponded with each other for the best part of thirty years. They had shared interests that included science, social science, economics, epistemology, history of ideas and political philosophy. Studying their correspondence and related writings, this article shows that Hayek and Polanyi were committed Liberals but with different understandings of liberty, the forces that endanger liberty, and the policies re…
Michael Polanyi's Early Liberal Vision
Michael Polanyi articulates a vision of social order in his early nonscientific writing published from the late thirties to the early fifties. This vision draws upon Polanyi's experience as a Hungarian émigré who became a top scientist after World War I in Germany but then later fled to Great Britain where he confronted the Marxist-inspired “planned” science movement in the late thirties and early forties. Polanyi's account of what he calls “libe…
Relations between Karl Popper and Michael Polanyi
Faith, tradition, and dynamic order
In his writings between 1941 and 1951, Michael Polanyi developed a distinctive view of liberal social and political life. Planned organizations are a part of all modern societies, according to Polanyi, but in liberal modernity he highlighted dynamic social orders whose agents freely adjust their efforts in light of the initiatives and accomplishments of their peers. Liberal society itself is the most extensive of dynamic orders, with the market e…
Ethics
Journal Article ETHICS Get access Finite Resources and the Human Future. Edited by IAN G. BARBOUR. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1976. 192 pages. $4.75. L.C. No. 76-3864. PHIL MULLINS PHIL MULLINS Center for Ethics and Social Policy Graduate Theological Union Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLV, Issue 2, June 1977, Page 267, https://doi.org/10.1…
Report On November 9 Polanyi Consultation
Aar 1983
Polanyi Society at AAR
Report on AAR-PS Negotiations
Book Notices
Journal Article Book Notices Get access Government Intervention in Religious Affairs. Edited by Dean M. Kelley. Pilgrim Press, 1982. 216 pages. $9.95. Phil Mullins Phil Mullins Missouri Western State Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LII, Issue 1, March 1984, Pages 177-a–177, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LII.1.177-a Published: 01 March 1984
Book Notices
Journal Article Book Notices Get access Power and Authority in the Catholic Church. Cardinal Cody in Chicago. Charles W. Dahm in collaboration with Robert Ghelardi. University of Notre Dame Press, 1981. 334 pages. $18.95. Phil Mullins Phil Mullins Missouri Western State Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LII, Issue 1, March 1984, Pages 177-b–177, https://doi…
The Fluid Word
Community competence in religious congregations
Moral communities
This article considers the extent to which community groups (social/service clubs, professional organizations, churches, etc.) constitute “moral communities” (relatively coherent social networks which create and support meaningful human relationships by fostering common attitudes, values, and practices). It investigates the relationship between belonging to such a group and feelings of “mass society” (alienation, moral fragmentation, disengagemen…
Mormonism
Michael Polanyi and Karl Mannheim
n\t\t\t\t\tThis essay reviews historical records that set forth the discussions and interaction of Michael Polanyi and Karl Mannheim from 1944 until Mannheim’s death early in 1947. The letters describe Polanyi’s effort to assemble a book to be published in a series edited by Manneheim. They also reveal the different perspectives these thinkers took about freedom and the historical context of ideas. Records of J.H. Oldham’s discussion group “the M…
T.S. Eliot’s Idea of the Clerisy, and its Discussion by Karl Mannheim and Michael Polanyi in the Context of J.H. Oldham’s Moot
In 1938, Joseph Oldham, a leading British Christian ecumenist, formed a discussion group that came to be known as the Moot. The Moot met in a retreat setting for several long weekends each year until early 1947, its discussions carefully organized and convened by Oldham. More than anything else, the discussions of the Moot revolved around the topic of order and, more particularly, around the problem of how order might be restored in British socie…
Faith, tradition, and dynamic order
In his writings between 1941 and 1951, Michael Polanyi developed a distinctive view of liberal social and political life. Planned organizations are a part of all modern societies, according to Polanyi, but in liberal modernity he highlighted dynamic social orders whose agents freely adjust their efforts in light of the initiatives and accomplishments of their peers. Liberal society itself is the most extensive of dynamic orders, with the market e…
Relations between Karl Popper and Michael Polanyi
Michael Polanyi and His Generation, Origins of the Social Construction of Science
Michael Polanyi's Early Liberal Vision
Michael Polanyi articulates a vision of social order in his early nonscientific writing published from the late thirties to the early fifties. This vision draws upon Polanyi's experience as a Hungarian émigré who became a top scientist after World War I in Germany but then later fled to Great Britain where he confronted the Marxist-inspired “planned” science movement in the late thirties and early forties. Polanyi's account of what he calls “libe…
Michael Polanyi's Thought and Political Philosophy
This brief essay provides a few particulars about Michael Polanyi's life, showing how his philosophical interests and ideas are deeply grounded in his own experience as a European who lived through much of the twentieth century. It introduces the four essays on Polanyi's political thought that follow
William H. Poteat and Michael Polanyi
This essay provides a timeline charting contact between Michael Polanyi and William H. Poteat. We trace the contours of the intimate, multifaceted, and mutually influential friendship of Polanyi and Poteat which developed over more than twenty years. This historical record of contacts between Michael Polanyi and William H. Poteat portrays their close, multifaceted, and mutually influential relationship. There were more contacts and a deeper relat…
Friedrich Hayek and Michael Polanyi in Correspondence
Friedrich Hayek and Michael Polanyi corresponded with each other for the best part of thirty years. They had shared interests that included science, social science, economics, epistemology, history of ideas and political philosophy. Studying their correspondence and related writings, this article shows that Hayek and Polanyi were committed Liberals but with different understandings of liberty, the forces that endanger liberty, and the policies re…
Michael Polanyi’s Approach to Biological Systems and Contemporary Biosemiotics
Gatherings in Biosemiotics
Anthropological Materials in the Making of Michael Polanyi’s Metascience
Anthropological discussions were important for Michael Polanyi in the middle phase of his intellectual career, in which he articulated in some detail his understanding of science, culture and society. This middle period commenced with his 1946 Riddell Memorial Lectures at Durham University in early 1946, published as Science, Faith and Society later that year, and extended through the publication of Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Phi…
Interview with Gábor István Bíró
This interview with Gábor István Bíró reviews topics explored in his 2017 Budapest University of Technology and Economics dissertation on Polanyi’s work in economics education and on his diagrammatic film
Polanyi and the Study Group for the Unity of Knowledge
The Ford Foundation funded not only the important 1965 and 1966 Bowdoin College interdisciplinary conferences of the Study Group on Foundations of Cultural Unity (SGFCU), but also the many later conferences from 1967-1972 of the SGFCU successor group, the Study Group for the Unity of Knowledge (SGUK). Michael Polanyi chaired the group making these grant proposals and his cultural criticisms and his constructive post-critical philosophical ideas u…
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