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245Technologies and Species Transitions: Polanyi, on a Path to Posthumanity?Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 31 (3): 225-235. 2011.Polanyi and Transhumanism both place technologies in pivotal roles in bringing about Homo sapiens ’ species transitions. The question is asked whether Polanyi’s emphasis on the role of technology in Homo sapiens’ rise out of mute beasthood indicates that he might have been inclined to embrace the Transhumanist vision of Homo sapiens’ technological evolution into a postbiological, techno-cyber species. To answer this question, some of the core commitments of both Transhumanism and Polanyi’s postc…Read more
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184The Body Comes All the Way UpInternational Philosophical Quarterly 34 (2): 215-227. 1994.A critique of two eliminative positions in philosophy of mind in the light of Michael Polanyi's account of mind: Rorty's disappearance theory and Churchland's eliminative materialism.
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165Willem B. Drees, religion, science and naturalism (cambridge: Cambridge university press, 1996) pp. 314, £40.00 (US $59.95) (review)Religious Studies 33 (1): 121-130. 1997.
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144Of Mind and MeaningTradition and Discovery 20 (2): 28-42. 1993.This paper examine’s Jerry Fodor’s attempt to naturalize the human mind by encompassing it within a new mechanistic ontology. It then explores Polanyi’s view of mind’s embodiment and meaning’s emergence in an effort to uncover some fundamental incoherencies in Fodor’s naturalization project.
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142Polanyi on Language and the Human Way of Being Bodily Mindful in the WorldTradition and Discovery 30 (1): 5-18. 2003.Using the ideas of Clifford Geertz, Adolf Portmann, Charles Taylor, and others, I seek to develop and expand Polanyi’s account of language and its role in our human way of being bodily mindful in the world. The expansion of Polanyi’s ideas on language in the evolutionary rise of Homo sapiens and in the moral and mental development of the child does two things that I believe are important: (1) obviates the need to appeal to an incorporeal thinking substance - i.e., dualism - to ground the reality…Read more
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96Polanyi in the Face of TranshumanismTradition and Discovery 35 (1): 33-45. 2008.This essay gives a brief overview of Transhumanism and explores a few of its central ideas in the light of Polanyi’s views about embodiment, Marxism, and reality’s hierarchal order, concluding that although Polanyi would likely appreciate the possibilities of cyborgic augmentation that feature in the Transhumanist route to the posthuman, he would utterly repudiate its metaphysics of disembodied intelligence and its underlying technological determinism
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76Transhumanism, technology, and the future: Posthumanity emerging or sub-humanity descending?Appraisal 7 (3). 2009.
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67What Technology Wants (review)Tradition and Discovery 37 (3): 71-74. 2010.A review of Kelly's book WHAT TECHNOLOGY WANTS.
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51"Review of" Plato's Camera: How the Physical Brain Captures a Landscape of Abstract Universals (review)Essays in Philosophy 14 (2): 296-302. 2013.
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16Restoration of Reason: The Eclipse and Recovery of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. By Montague Brown (review)Heythrop Journal 50 (3): 528-530. 2009.
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16Kierkegaard's Romantic Legacy: Two Theories of the Self. By Anoop Gupta (review)Heythrop Journal 48 (4): 660-661. 2007.
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4Review of Plato’s Camera: How the Physical Brain Captures a Landscape of Abstract Universals, by Paul M. Churchland (review)Essays in Philosophy 14 (2): 296-302. 2013.
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