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    Preface
    Tradition and Discovery 21 (3): 2-2. 1994.
    Bertrand Russell
  •  119
    Preface
    Tradition and Discovery 22 (2): 2-2. 1995.
    Bertrand Russell
  •  111
    Preface
    Tradition and Discovery 24 (3): 2-2. 1997.
    Bertrand Russell
  •  43
    Preface
    Tradition and Discovery 22 (3): 2-2. 1995.
  •  40
    Preface
    Tradition and Discovery 24 (3): 2-2. 1997.
  •  47
    Preface
    Tradition and Discovery 35 (3): 2-2. 2008.
    Continental Philosophy
  •  26
    Preface
    Tradition and Discovery 21 (3): 2-2. 1994.
  •  25
    Preface
    Tradition and Discovery 35 (3): 2-2. 2008.
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    Preface
    Tradition and Discovery 33 (2): 2-2. 2006.
  •  48
    Preface
    Tradition and Discovery 24 (3): 2-2. 1997.
    Continental Philosophy
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    Preface
    Tradition and Discovery 33 (3): 2-2. 2006.
  •  43
    Science, Faith and Society and Polanyi’s Metaphysical Account
    In Péter Hartl (ed.), Science, Faith, Society: New Essays on the Philosophy of Michael Polanyi, Springer Verlag. pp. 69-99. 2024.
    This essay focuses attention on Polanyi’s 1946 book Science, Faith and Society as an early constructive philosophical effort to rehabilitate belief and show that it is integral to science. Particularly important is the opening chapter “Science and Reality,” which is Polanyi’s inaugural gambit directly to address the question about the nature of science in metaphysical terms. Polanyi’s metaphysical account of science affirms that fundamental beliefs of scientists, although largely not articulable…Read more
  •  36
    Notes on Polanyi’s 1954 Lecture, “Rules of Rightness”
    Tradition and Discovery 49 (1): 14-20. 2023.
    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.
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    Giles Scott-Smith and Charlotte Lerg eds. Campaigning Culture and the Global Cold War: The Journals of the Congress for Cultural Freedom (review)
    Tradition and Discovery 49 (1): 46-48. 2023.
  • Michael Polanyi's post-critical vision of science and society
    In Péter Hartl & Adam Tamas Tuboly (eds.), Science, Freedom, Democracy, Routledge. 2021.
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    William H. Poteat
    Tradition and Discovery 36 (2): 40-42. 2009.
    I here introduce a set of essays on William H. Poteat by quoting in full a 1968 letter from Poteat to Marjorie Grene. Poteat articulates reasons he cannot collaborate with Grene in editing the volume of Polanyi essays that was eventually published as Knowing and Being: Essays by Michael Polanyi in 1969.
    Continental Philosophy
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    On Reuniting Poetry and Science
    with David Schenck
    Tradition and Discovery 27 (3): 16-18. 2000.
    This essay is an obituary notice for Elizabeth Sewell, a long-time friend of Michael Polanyi and a well-known poet, novelist and critic.
    Continental PhilosophyAestheticsPoetry
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    Vintage Marjorie Grene (review)
    Tradition and Discovery 27 (1): 33-45. 2000.
    These reflections summarize major themes in Marjorie Grene’s A Philosophical Testament. I also highlight Grene’s comments on her many years of work with Polanyi and try to draw out some connections between Grene’s thought and that of Polanyi.
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    Working Backwards (review)
    Tradition and Discovery 26 (1): 30-31. 1999.
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    The spectrum of meaning-polanyian perspectives on science and religion
    Zygon 17 (1): 3-8. 1982.
    Science and Religion
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    Untamed Hospitality (review)
    Tradition and Discovery 36 (1): 72-74. 2009.
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    The Sacred Depths of Nature and Ursula Goodenough’s Religious Naturalism (review)
    Tradition and Discovery 28 (3): 29-41. 2001.
    This review essay summarizes major themes in Ursula Goodenough’s The Sacred Depths of Nature and in several of her recent shorter publications. I describe her religious naturalism and her effort to craft a global ethic grounded in her penetrating account of nature. I suggest several parallels between Goodenough’s “deep” account of nature and Michael Polanyi’s ideas.
    Continental PhilosophyScience and Religion
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    The Real As Meaningful
    Tradition and Discovery 26 (3): 42-50. 1999.
    This essay examines Michael Polanyi’s comments about “reality” over a forty year career and argues that there are many nuances. However, Polanyi is a peculiar kind of philosophical realist, a participative realist. There are polyvalent and a bodily aspects of Polanyi’s realism. Against Walter Gulick’s criticisms of Polanyi, I contend that a strong distinction between reality and meaning is not warranted.
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    The Moot Papers, Faith, Freedom and Society, 1938-1947 (review)
    Tradition and Discovery 36 (3): 69-71. 2009.
    Freedom and Liberty
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    The Problem of Meaning and Borgmann's Realist Response
    Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 6 (1): 33-47. 2002.
    Philosophy of Technology, Misc
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    “Tihamér Margitay on Polanyi’s Ontology
    Tradition and Discovery 39 (2): 9-9. 2012.
    This issue of Tradition & Discovery includes (1) six responses to Tihamér Margitay’s recent criticisms of Polanyi’s hierarchical ontology as well as (2) Margitay’s responses to his critics. This is a brief introduction to this special issue.
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    The Fluid Word
    Thought: Fordham University Quarterly 63 (4): 413-428. 1988.
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    The Journal Humanitas as an Incubator of Polanyi’s Ideas
    Tradition and Discovery 48 (1): 39-51. 2022.
    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.
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    The Grammar of Consciousness (review)
    Tradition and Discovery 23 (2): 40-44. 1996.
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    Towards a Personal Knowledge of Economic History
    Tradition and Discovery 21 (3): 34-35. 1994.
    Philosophy of History