The Polanyi Society
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| ID | 5651563 |
|---|---|
| NOME | The Polanyi Society |
| PRENOMES | The Polanyi |
| SOBRENOME | Society |
| ASSINATURA | SOCIETY T P |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 178 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 178 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Blasting the Post-Critical Out of the Continuum of Cold War Political Economy
This article aims to complicate the economic and political terrain on which debates within Polanyi Studies take place, arguing that imprecise terminology and an ossified set of Cold War concepts erect dubious and simplistic dichotomies (e.g., liberal/conservative, markets/planning, freedom/totalitarianism, etc.) that are not up to the task of appropriately navigating contemporary political economy. The essay accomplishes this task by offering cou…
Further Thoughts on Guide to Personal Knowledge
The two Hungarian authors of Guide to Personal Knowledge are in general agreement with the assessments of their work offered by David Alker and Alessio Tartaro. However, they contend that Jon Fennell’s criticism of their writing style, while sometimes accurate, nevertheless derives from an expected level of precision from non-native speakers of English that is unnecessary when the language is used as a lingua franca. Moreover, they suggest that u…
A Further Word on Likert-Scales Inspired by “Rules of Rightness”
This brief commentary treats Polanyi’s newly found lecture, “Rules of Rightness,” as an occasion to revisit some earlier claims I made about the use of rating scales in social science research. It serves as something of an interim report on an ongoing inquiry into what an effective response to social science would look like from a Polanyian perspective
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
J. Bradford DeLong. Slouching Towards Utopia
My Interest in Polanyi, His Links with Other Thinkers and His Problems
In this interview, C. P. Goodman invites British Polanyi scholar Richard T. Allen to reflect on his interest in Polanyi’s philosophical ideas and share what he believes is valuable in his thought
Rawls’s Political Liberalism from an Emergentist Perspective
John Rawls’s political liberalism is supported and better understood via Michael Polanyi’s tacit and emergent structures. Rawls claims the political is “freestanding” and “neutral” relative to comprehensive moral doctrines and metaphysical assumptions. Polanyian critics of Rawls emphasize the personal nature of our political commitments and Polanyi’s metaphysical realism. They also claim tacit knowing makes Rawls’s “veil of ignorance” impossible…
Notes on Polanyi’s Interest in Heidegger
This essay makes use of a variety of archival materials in the Michael Polanyi Papers to show that Polanyi’s comment linking his account of “indwelling” and Heidegger’s “being-in-the-world” (in his 1964 “Preface to the Torchbook Edition” of Personal Knowledge) was a carefully considered, thoughtful philosophical claim. Materials from both before and after the writing of this Torchbook Preface make clear that Polanyi was seriously exploring connec…
Polanyi’s Razor
Veil of ignorance theories suggest that an appraiser can be (i) completely (focally) aware of and (ii) completely ignorant about the appraisal she is making. This paper argues that Michael Polanyi rejected both of these premises and that he was developing an antithesis to the veil of ignorance model in his concept of tacit knowing. Rather counterintuitively, the latter concept did not refer to one but three kinds of appraisal: making a knowledge …
Deciphering Humanity
Polanyi is widely known for his development of personal knowledge, but he was also keenly interested in what can be called, personal existence. The historical backdrop of reviving, the once dead language of, Egyptian Hieroglyphics provides valuable insights into Polanyi’s critique of objectivism and deciphering a human ontology. From applying physiognostic to telegnostic information to understanding static and dynamic meaning, Polanyi’s philoso…
“Rules of Rightness” and the Evolutionary Emergence of Purpose
Michael Polanyi’s essay “Rules of Rightness” argues that for living beings, both machine-like embodied processes and informal purposeful operations are guided by standards of proper functioning. This article traces the origins of rules of rightness back to the concomitant rise of life and purpose in the universe. Thereby the deterministic control of all things by the laws of physics and chemistry is broken. Powered by an independent active princ…
Rules of Rightness
This is a recently discovered 1954 Polanyi lecture that was part of a lost eight-part series in Chicago. It develops Polanyi’s interest in unformalized personal participation in knowledge. The lecture discusses how normative “rules of rightness” work and Polanyi expands these ideas later in PK
A Philosophy for Our Time? A Comment on Paksi and Héder’s Guide to Personal Knowledge
The guide to the philosophical text is itself a philosophical genre.Commentaries on major philosophical texts already existed in ancient Greece (see, for example, Alexander of Aphrodisias's commentaries on Aristotle), and even today guides to major works in the history of philosophy are an essential tool in philosophy courses.But why write a guide to a philosophical text?What is the relationship between the text and the guide?Philosophical guides…
Matteo Bortolini, A Joyfully Serious Man
Reflections on Guide to Personal Knowledge
Jon Lieff. The Secret Language of Cells
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
Kristina Höök. Designing with the Body
Polanyi and Kahneman and on Judging and Deciding
Similarities between what Michael Polanyi and Daniel Kahneman wrote about the acts of judging and deciding are partly the result of taking seriously the findings of Gestalt psychology. Both men treat acts of judging and deciding as analogous to acts of perceiving. This similarity is the reason that the differences between Kahneman and Polanyi are mostly complementary, rather than contradictory. Among the things Polanyians can contribute to the in…
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
Michael Polanyi and Bessel A. van der Kolk on the Healing Power of Metaphor
In this essay, I contend that Polanyi’s view of metaphor as outlined in Meaning (1975), has important heuristic implications for understanding the way metaphor functions in trauma therapy. I also contend that in his seminal book on trauma, The Body Keeps the Score (2014), Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., although he rarely uses the term, relies on metaphor as a vital element in his treatment of trauma victims. Analysis of Van der Kolk’s practice furthe…
Susan Bredlau. The Other in Perception
The Personal as Postcritical and Theopoetic
Exploring Polanyi on religion in Personal Knowledge and Meaning as mystical, metaphoric, and mythic as well as ritual and belief, I seek to clarify the meaning of the personal through a lens combining postcritical and theopoetic perspectives. Stanley Hopper’s theopoetic similarly criticizes, and seeks unconscious depths beneath, modern dualism, deepening Polanyi’s discussion of the religious efficacy of figural language. The personal for Polanyi …
Zachary D. Carter. The Price of Peace
Könnerschaft und implizites Wissen
Science, Religion and Polanyi’s Comprehensive Realism
Polanyians on Realism
God, Contemporary Science and Metaphysics
Confronting the Minotaur
On Reading Part IV of Personal Knowledge
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…
Divine Revelation and Human Practice
Re-Visiting Personal Being
Information on Polanyi Society Electronic Discussion List
The Search for Meaning
News and Notes
Respect and Empathy in the Social Scicnce Writings of Michael Polanyi
Fall and Winter 2008 Polanyi Society Meetings
The Heart of Judgment
Andrew Grosso on Polanyi as a Resource for Christian Theology
Polanyi in the Face of Transhumanism
“Visual Presentation Of Social Matters” as a Foundational Text of Michael Polanyi’s Thought
This essay introduces Michael Polanyi’s 1936 lecture, “Visual Presentation of Social Matters,” which is an important document sketching Polanyi’s analysis of the need for education in economics. It led eventually to the creation of Polanyi’s 1940 film, Unemployment and Money, and Polanyi’s career change from chemistry to economics and philosophy. The lecture outlines Polanyi’s program to develop visual symbols that can be used in film to promote …
Visual Presentations of Social Matters” and Later Changes in Polanyi’s Social Theory
In a 1936 lecture, Polanyi claimed too much for the efficacy of visual presentations of relations among economic things. His 1945 book, Full Employment and Free Trade was the last of his major publications in which he used many diagrams to illustrate his points. In that book, he stated his objective of trying to popularize the economic theory of John Maynard Keynes. But after 1945, he seems to have stopped trying to help people understand Keynesi…
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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…
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Volition, Cognition and Action
Who Was Michael Polanyi
Full appreciation of Bill Poteat’s work requires an understanding of Michael Polanyi. This essay briefly recounts Polanyi’s biography, then describes central features of his thought, especially the centrality of discovery, commitment, and tacit knowing. It then reports on Poteat’s own summary of Polanyi’s thought in his major work, Polanyian Meditations. While this paper may seem unnecessary to readers of Tradition & Discovery, there are actually…
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