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608Michael Polanyi and Karl MannheimTradition and Discovery 32 (1): 20-43. 2005.This essay reviews historical records that set forth the discussions and interaction of Michael Polanyi and Karl Mannheim/rom 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. Theyalso reveal the different perspectives these thinkers took about freedom and the historical context of ideas. Records of J.H. Oldham’s discussion group “the Moot” suggest that these and other differences in philosophy wer…Read more
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282Peirce's abduction and Polanyi's tacit knowingJournal of Speculative Philosophy 16 (3): 198-224. 2002.
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144Marjorie Grene and Personal KnowledgeTradition and Discovery 37 (2): 20-44. 2010.This essay pulls together from myriad sources the record of Marjorie Grene’s early collaboration with Michael Polanyi as well as her interesting, changing commentary on Polanyi’s philosophical perspective and particularly that articulated in Personal Knowledge. It provides an account of the conflicting perspectives of Grene and Harry Prosch, who collaborated in publishing Polanyi’s last work, Meaning.
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124Michael Polanyi and Charles Sanders PeirceTradition and Discovery 38 (3): 7-12. 2011.This brief essay introduces David Agler, Vincent Colapietro, and Robert Innis, who provide the major essays in this special issue of Tradition and Discovery devoted to putting together Michael Polanyi and Charles Sanders Peirce. It also provides an historiographical comment, suggesting that the two references to Peirce in Polanyi’s writing are quite puzzling and likely imply that Polanyi’s collaborators, rather than Polanyi, took an interest in similarities between the thought of Peirce and Pola…Read more
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124Historical and Textual Notes on H. Richard Niebuhr and Michael PolanyiTradition and Discovery 24 (1): 20-31. 1997.This essay discusses historical data that help establish the time at which the Christian theologian and moral philosopher H. Richard Niebuhr became acquainted with Michael Polanyi’s thought. It also briefly examines the ways in which Polanyi’s philosophical ideas are used in the late publications of Niebuhr.
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98Michael Polanyi, Scientist and PhilosopherTradition and Discovery 32 (3): 8-11. 2005.This short essay describes the long process of producing the 2005 biography of Michael Polanyi.
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97Michael Polanyi and Karl Popper: the fraying of a long-standing acquaintanceTradition and Discovery 38 (2): 61-93. 2011.
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83Harry Prosch 1917-2005Tradition and Discovery 32 (2): 6-7. 2005.This is an obituary notice for Harry Prosch, the American philosopher who collaborated with Michael Polanyi to publish Meaning in 1975
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80Murray Jardines’s Post-Critical Political TheoryTradition and Discovery 37 (3): 28-38. 2010.This review essay discusses Murray Jardine’s argument in Speech and Political Practice, Recovering the Place of Human Responsibility, showing how the author skillfully draws on the thought of Michael Polanyi, William Poteat and Alaisdair MacIntyre. Jardine offers a sharp critique of contemporary culture and politics as well as political theory. He develops the idea of place, drawing attention to the acritical reliance upon context in human speech acts; this motif he argues can be a component of …Read more
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77Remembering Charles McCoyTradition and Discovery 29 (2): 8-11. 2002.This essay is an obituary notice for Charles S. McCoy, who introduced many to Polanyi’s ideas and made creative use of Polanyi’in his scholarship
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75Compound and Complex Entities: Polanyi's Principle of Marginal Control and Its Application in EthicsTradition and Discovery 14 (1): 9-20. 1986.
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72Polanyian Footnotes to “From Biology to Consciousness to Morality”Tradition and Discovery 30 (3): 22-30. 2003.This brief response to Goodenough and Deacon’s essay “From Biology to Consciousness to Morality” sets forth Michael Polanyi’s criticism of evolutionary ideas of his day. It analyzes Polanyi’s approach to biology and suggests there are affinities with the provocative evolutionary sketch Goodenough and Deacon provide of the development of the human capacity for moral experience
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