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6A Symposium on the Relevance of Michael Polanyi’s Insights to a Reformulated Understanding of Science, Technology, and SocietyBulletin of Science, Technology and Society 31 (3): 155-159. 2011.This is intended as an introductory statement to the explorations undertaken in the essays that follow. The authors of these essays attempt to introduce the reader to some of the insights of Michael Polanyi and their implications for the reader who wishes to come to a greater understanding of modern technological society, which — for better or worse — has come to define his very existence. Arguably, no twentieth-century thinker has probed more deeply than Polanyi into the dynamics of scientific …Read more
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William B. Green and Madeline L'Engle , "Spirit and Light: Essays in Historical Theory" (review)The Thomist 42 (1): 160. 1978.
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40The Importance of Michael Oakeshott for Polanyian Studies: With Reflections on Oakeshott’s The Voice of Liberal LearningTradition and Discovery 31 (2): 37-44. 2004.Despite fundamental differences in the epistemologies presented by Oakeshott and Polanyi, there are some important areas of common concern which suggest further exploration. Focus here is on Oakeshott’s epistemological and disciplinary boundaries in his The Voice of Liberal Leaming.
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21An Introduction to Plato's Laws. By R. F. Stalley (review)Modern Schoolman 62 (3): 217-219. 1985.
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76Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogical Principle. By Tzvetan Todorov (review)Modern Schoolman 64 (1): 69-70. 1986.
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183William Poteat’s AnthropologyTradition and Discovery 21 (1): 33-44. 1994.Using the metaphor of a circle with its center, periphery, and radius, this essay explores William Poteat's understanding of the self, or "mindbody," in its dynamic and creative relation to the larger world, or cosmos, identifying the mindbody's prereflective radix with the "center," its boundary or point of interface with the larger world with the "periphery," and its dialectical evolution and articulation of a sense of coherence and meaning in terms of a pretensive and retrotensive "radius."
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8A Symposium EncounterTradition and Discovery 38 (2): 6-13. 2011.Participants have known Poteat as teacher or colleague or author over various periods of time and assess him according to these various relationships. Polanyi is given less attention largely because he has been less difficult to understand. Poteat’s approach is the more radical because he attempts to take the implications of Polanyi’s thinking further. Central to comprehending the nature of their differences are an understanding (1) of their different perceptions of transcendence and (2) of the …Read more
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118Murray Jardine on Christianity and Modern Technological SocietyTradition and Discovery 37 (3): 39-58. 2010.Murray Jardine’s The Making and Unmaking of Technological Society further develops several of the author’s political and economic concerns articulated in his earlier Speech and Political Practice. It probes the impact and implications of both Christianity and modern technology for our understanding of, and ability to cope with, problems that have become endemic to Western and, specifically, American culture. Jardine’s major continuing themes include: the importance to a well-formed self and soci…Read more
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30William Poteat’s AnthropologyTradition and Discovery 21 (1): 33-44. 1994.Using the metaphor of a circle with its center, periphery, and radius, this essay explores William Poteat's understanding of the self, or "mindbody," in its dynamic and creative relation to the larger world, or cosmos, identifying the mindbody's prereflective radix with the "center," its boundary or point of interface with the larger world with the "periphery," and its dialectical evolution and articulation of a sense of coherence and meaning in terms of a pretensive and retrotensive "radius."
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58A Symposium EncounterTradition and Discovery 38 (2): 6-13. 2008.Participants have known Poteat as teacher or colleague or author over various periods of time and assess him according to these various relationships. Polanyi is given less attention largely because he has been less difficult to understand. Poteat’s approach is the more radical because he attempts to take the implications of Polanyi’s thinking further. Central to comprehending the nature of their differences are an understanding (1) of their different perceptions of transcendence and (2) of the …Read more
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25Thinking About Social Thinking: The Philosophy of the Social Sciences. By Antony Flew (review)Modern Schoolman 65 (3): 211-212. 1988.
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56Morality and Politics in Modern Europe: The Harvard Lectures (review)Tradition and Discovery 31 (2): 47-48. 2004.
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