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Science, Faith and Society and Polanyi’s Metaphysical AccountIn 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
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4Giles 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.
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5Notes 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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Michael Polanyi's post-critical vision of science and societyIn Péter Hartl & Adam Tamas Tuboly (eds.), Science, Freedom, Democracy, Routledge. 2021.
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48On Reuniting Poetry and Science: A Memoir of Elizabeth Sewell, 1919-2001Tradition 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.
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31William H. PoteatTradition 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
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21William H. Poteat: An Oblique IntroductionTradition 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
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5Working Backwards: Instrumental Analysis As a Policy Discovery Procedure (review)Tradition and Discovery 26 (1): 30-31. 1999.
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55Vintage Marjorie Grene: A Review Essay on A Philosophical TestamentTradition and Discovery 27 (1): 33. 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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35Vintage Marjorie GreneTradition 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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2Untamed Hospitality: Welcoming God and Other Strangers (review)Tradition and Discovery 36 (1): 72-74. 2009.
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46The 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.
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30The Real As MeaningfulTradition 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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52The Moot Papers, Faith, Freedom and Society, 1938-1947 (review)Tradition and Discovery 36 (3): 69-71. 2009.
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13The Problem of Meaning and Borgmann's Realist ResponseTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 6 (1): 33-47. 2002.
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28The Problem of Meaning and Borgmann's Realist Response (review)Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 6 (1): 33-47. 2002.
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3The Journal Humanitas as an Incubator of Polanyi’s IdeasTradition 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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37“Tihamér Margitay on Polanyi’s OntologyTradition 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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53Society, Economics and Philosophy: Selected Papers (review)Tradition and Discovery 25 (3): 33-36. 1998.
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63Religion, Science and Democracy: A Disputational Friendship by Lisa L. Stenmark (review)Tradition and Discovery 40 (3): 52-54. 2013.
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