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    Michael Polanyi on Social Order
    Tradition and Discovery 47 (2): 4-6. 2021.
    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, as well as the events leading up to it? (3) What…Read more
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    Preface
    Tradition and Discovery 19 (1): 2-2. 1992.
    Continental Philosophy
  •  14
    Problems and Possibilities of Global Techno-Scientific Culture (review)
    with Sheldon Richmond
    Tradition and Discovery 47 (2): 46-52. 2021.
    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.
    Continental Philosophy
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    Preface
    Tradition and Discovery 20 (3): 2-2. 1993.
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    Polanyi and Grene on Merleau-Ponty
    Tradition and Discovery 48 (3): 15-32. 2022.
    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 Walsh’s and F. S. Rothchild’s neurophysiological ideas…Read more
    Continental Philosophy
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    Susan Bredlau. The Other in Perception: A Phenomenological Account of Our Experience of Other Persons (review)
    Tradition and Discovery 48 (3): 33-36. 2022.
    Continental Philosophy
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    My Lengthy Involvement with Polanyi’s Thought
    with Walter Gulick
    Tradition and Discovery 48 (2): 36-45. 2022.
    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?
    Continental Philosophy
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    Filip Jaroš and Jiří Klouda, eds. Adolf Portmann: A Thinker of Self-Expressive Life (review)
    Tradition and Discovery 48 (2): 50-51. 2022.
    Continental Philosophy
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    Karl Polanyi, For a New West: Essays, 1919-1958. (Giorgio Resta and Mariavittoria Catanzariti, eds.) (review)
    Tradition and Discovery 47 (1): 31-33. 2021.
    Continental Philosophy
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    Polanyi and the Study Group for the Unity of Knowledge
    with Gus Breytspraak
    Tradition and Discovery 46 (3): 4-27. 2020.
    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 underlay both the SGFCU and the early SGUK programs…Read more
    Continental Philosophy
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    Paul G. Tyson, De-Fragmenting Modernity: Reintegrating Knowledge with Wisdom, Belief with Truth, and Reality with Being (review)
    Tradition and Discovery 46 (2): 57-60. 2020.
    Continental Philosophy
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    The Context of Michael Polanyi’s “What to Believe”
    Tradition and Discovery 46 (2): 4-20. 2020.
    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 the mid-forties to the early fifties when Polanyi…Read more
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    Michael Polanyi’s Approach to Biological Systems and Contemporary Biosemiotics
    Tradition and Discovery 43 (1): 6-31. 2017.
    Using the writing of Eliseo Fernandez and Jesper Hoffmeyer, this essay introduces important ideas in the emerging interdisciplinary field known as “biosemiotics.” Later discussion summarizes Michael Polanyi’s criticisms of the Modern Synthesis and his alternative constructive philosophical account of life, evolution and biological study, suggesting areas of overlap with contemporary biosemiotics.
    Continental Philosophy
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    Comments on Polanyi’s “Visual Presentation of Social Matters”
    Tradition and Discovery 41 (2): 35-44. 2014.
    In this brief essay, I discuss some interesting elements of Michael Polanyi’s provocative 1936 lecture outlining the potential of diagramatic film to transform social thinking about the economic order. A few years later, Polanyi more carefully and convincingly returns to some themes identified here, as he articulates his criticisms of and recon­struction of liberalism.
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    Preface
    Tradition and Discovery 37 (2): 2-2. 2010.
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    Moodey on Shils, Polanyi and Tradition
    Tradition and Discovery 39 (3): 29-37. 2012.
    This is a brief response to Richard Moodey’s analysis of views of tradition found in the thought of Edward Shils and Michael Polanyi.
    Continental Philosophy
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    Preface
    Tradition and Discovery 36 (2): 2-2. 2009.
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    Preface
    Tradition and Discovery 23 (3): 2-2. 1996.
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    Preface
    Tradition and Discovery 34 (1): 2-2. 2007.
    Continental Philosophy
  •  7
    Preface
    Tradition and Discovery 27 (3): 2-2. 2000.
  •  28
    Preface
    Tradition and Discovery 34 (3): 2-2. 2007.
    Continental Philosophy
  •  14
    Preface
    Tradition and Discovery 27 (2): 2-2. 2000.
    Continental Philosophy
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    Emotion, Reason and Tradition (review)
    Tradition and Discovery 32 (2): 53-59. 2005.
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    Preface
    Tradition and Discovery 32 (3): 2-2. 2005.
  • Preface
    Tradition and Discovery 32 (2): 2-2. 2005.
    Continental Philosophy
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    Preface
    Tradition and Discovery 31 (2): 2-2. 2004.
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    Preface
    Tradition and Discovery 29 (3): 2-2. 2002.
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    Preface
    Tradition and Discovery 29 (2): 2-2. 2002.
    Continental Philosophy
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    Preface
    Tradition and Discovery 28 (2): 2-2. 2001.
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    Preface
    Tradition and Discovery 33 (1): 2-2. 2006.
    Social and Political PhilosophyContinental Philosophy