Reconsidering Michael Polanyi S Philosophy

Author : Stefania Ruzsits Jha
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002-03-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780822977339

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Reconsidering Michael Polanyi’s Philosophy by Stefania Ruzsits Jha Pdf

The chemist and philosopher Michael Polanyi (1891–1976) was one of the first twentieth-century scientists to propose a program to resolve the internal conflict of the modern Enlightenment: scientific detachment and moral nihilism with humanist values. Stefania Jha’s intellectual biography places Polanyi in the context of his time and culture, analyzes his key philosophical ideas, and explicates the application—and at times misappropriation—of his work. Polanyi’s method was not laid out in his published works, and his vocabulary tends to make his writings difficult to understand. By exposing the structure of his theory of tacit knowing, and by tracing the growth of his thinking, Jha shows how the various elements of his thought are integrated. Through examination of his philosophical roots in Kant and the complexity of his evolving thought, she counteracts the popular notion that Polanyi’s philosophy stands apart from the western philosophic tradition. Jha’s deep analysis makes Polanyi’s shift of focus from science to philosophy more intelligible, his philosophy more approachable, and the causes he championed—such as the freedom of science and cultural freedom—more understandable. Applying his notion of tacit knowing in practical directions, Jha seeks to bring the study of Polanyi’s philosophy out of the specialists’ enclave and into such fields as ethics and clinical medicine.

Author : Tihamér Margitay
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443820899

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Knowing and Being by Tihamér Margitay Pdf

Michael Polanyi is one of the most inspiring and original thinkers in the 20th century. He launched a new and independent philosophical tradition and fertilized many intellectual areas from cognitive psychology to management sciences. Polanyi’s systematic thoughts span over many areas of philosophy, yet his most fruitful ideas, the fundamentals of his system are contributions to epistemology and ontology. His theory of tacit knowledge, his critique of both the objectivist and the subjectivist views of knowledge, his concept of emergence, and his theory of spontaneous order and coordination—just to mention a few—are probably the most important and most well-known. Polanyi also gave us a new picture about science in which scientist’s personal participation guided by his cognitive and moral commitment, passions and trust, is an essential part of knowledge itself, in both its discovery and its validation. This volume focuses on these epistemological and ontological issues. Thirteen critical essays analyze, interpret and develop further Polanyi’s ideas in the two parts of the book: Knowing and Being. Most of these papers address Polanyian themes in a comparative way, in dialogue with other major traditions illuminating both sides and helping to re-evaluate Polanyi in broader philosophical context. The title of this book also refers to a seminal collection of papers of Michael Polanyi (edited by Marjori Grene in 1969), Knowing and Being.

Author : Jeffrey Kane
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039918268

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Beyond Empiricism by Jeffrey Kane Pdf

Beyond Empiricism: Michael Polanyi Reconsidered systemati- cally presents Michael Polanyi's concepts of modern science and the modern scientist. Professor Kane argues thar despite all attempts to establish empirical parameters, Polanyi is correct in his assertion that science rises upon metaphysical bedrock. Kane then establishes parallels between the structure of scientific validity and the scientist himself where the «non-empirical» aspects of the former are reflected in the «non-explicit» elements of the latter. Polanyi's concepts of imagination and intuition are refined and their inter- action in the process of discovery is explained. A variety of practical implications for the scientific and especially educational communities is offered.

Author : Michael Polanyi
Publisher : Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000254750

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Knowing and Being by Michael Polanyi Pdf

Author : Mark T. Mitchell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781684516810

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Michael Polanyi by Mark T. Mitchell Pdf

The polymath Michael Polanyi first made his mark as a physical chemist, but his interests gradually shifted to economics, politics, and philosophy, in which field he would ultimately propose a revolutionary theory of knowledge that grew out of his firsthand experience with both the scientific method and political totalitarianism. In this sixth entry in ISI Books’ Library of Modern Thinkers’ series, Mark T. Mitchell reveals how Polanyi came to recognize that the roots of the modern political and spiritual crisis lay in an errant conception of knowledge that served to foreclose any possibility of making meaningful statements about truth, goodness, or beauty. Polanyi’s theory of knowledge as ineluctably personal but also grounded in reality is not merely of historical interest, writes Mitchell, for it proposes an attractive alternative for anyone who would reject both the hubris of modern rationalism and the ultimately nihilistic implications of academic postmodernism.

Author : Mary Jo Nye
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226103174

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Michael Polanyi and His Generation by Mary Jo Nye Pdf

Describes Michael Polanyi's role in the way the philosophy of science was seen as a social enterprise, not relying entirely on empiricism and reason alone.

Author : Michael Polanyi,Amartya Sen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226672984

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The Tacit Dimension by Michael Polanyi,Amartya Sen Pdf

"The Tacit Dimension" argues that tacit knowledge -tradition, inherited practices, implied values, and prejudgments- is a crucial part of scientific knowledge. This volume challenges the assumption that skepticism, rather than established belief, lies at the heart of scientific discovery.

Author : Péter Hartl
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031512285

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Science, Faith, Society: New Essays on the Philosophy of Michael Polanyi by Péter Hartl Pdf

Author : Michael Polanyi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351489096

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Society, Economics, and Philosophy by Michael Polanyi Pdf

Society, Economics and Philosophy represents the full range of Polanyi's interests outside of his scientific work: economics, politics, society, philosophy of science, religion and positivist obstacles to it, and art. Polanyi's principal ideas are contained in three essays: on the scientific revolution, the creative imagination and the mind-body relation. Precisely because of Polanyi's work in the physical sciences, his writings have a unique dimension not found in other advocates of the market and too infrequently found even in philosophers of science.Polanyi was a powerful critic of totalitarianism and of the deficiencies of the usual defenses of freedom which helped to prepare the way for it. Freedom, he argued, can be based only upon truth and dedication to transcendent ideals, not upon skepticism, utilitarianism and the liberty of doing merely as one pleases. At a time when easy slogans about socialism were dominant in intellectual circles, epitomized by Sidney and Beatrice Webb, and when calls for the central planning of scientific research were made by such as J.D. Bernal, Polanyi exposed their errors and showed that science can flourish only in a free society.More radically than even von Mises and Hayek, Polanyi showed that an industrial economy can operate only polycentrically, that central planning is logically impossible, and that what was called by that name in the Soviet Union was in reality no such thing. Likewise, scientific research can proceed, not by a central plan, but only by the spontaneous self-adjustment of separate initiatives to discover a common reality. Against the positivism dominant within philosophy of science, he argued that the notion of reality must be restored and made central. Yet physical sciences, he also argued, are only one branch of science, and the sciences of life and mind are logically richer and more complex and cannot be reduced to the former, nor mind to body or to computers, nor art to its ph

Author : Jerry H. Gill
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791493274

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The Tacit Mode by Jerry H. Gill Pdf

The Tacit Mode exposes and explores the central insights in Michael Polanyi's major works. It focuses on his epistemological insights concerning tacit knowing, and explores their ramifications for philosophy, science, art, language, political theory, and religion. The notion of tacit knowledge reconstructs the modern concept of objectivity while avoiding the self-stultifying effects of "deconstructivist" postmodernism and puts Polanyi on the cutting edge of contemporary philosophy.

Author : Richard Gelwick
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781592446872

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The Way of Discovery by Richard Gelwick Pdf

This book offers the first full exploration of the religious, ethical, and social dimensions of Michael Polanyi's philosophy, and its implications for the crisis of modern culture. Michael Polanyi developed a new way of understanding the process of discovering scientific knowledge - a theory which can alter our notions of ourselves and of existence. In 'The Way of Discovery', Richard Gelwick, a former student of the renowned scientist-turned-philosopher, presents us with a comprehensive and documented introduction to Polanyi's theory of knowledge. Michael Polanyi was born in Budapest in 1891. After a distinguished career as a physical chemist, he turned to philosophy, religion, and social sciences, becoming, by the time of his death in 1976, one of the greatest scientist-philosophers of our century. Polanyi maintained that three centuries of belief in scientific detachment had produced a crisis of culture. Working from his own experience as a scientist, and with an insight from Gestalt psychology, Polanyi asserted that objective scientific knowledge is at bottom personal knowledge - that scientists and artists establish meaning in basically the same way. His ideas call for a new way of thinking and pose a new frontier of thought, a new image of humanity

Author : Tihamér Margitay
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : 1443820628

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Knowing and Being by Tihamér Margitay Pdf

Michael Polanyi is one of the most inspiring and original thinkers in the 20th century. He launched a new and independent philosophical tradition and fertilized many intellectual areas from cognitive psychology to management sciences. Polanyiâ (TM)s systematic thoughts span over many areas of philosophy, yet his most fruitful ideas, the fundamentals of his system are contributions to epistemology and ontology. His theory of tacit knowledge, his critique of both the objectivist and the subjectivist views of knowledge, his concept of emergence, and his theory of spontaneous order and coordinationâ "just to mention a fewâ "are probably the most important and most well-known. Polanyi also gave us a new picture about science in which scientistâ (TM)s personal participation guided by his cognitive and moral commitment, passions and trust, is an essential part of knowledge itself, in both its discovery and its validation. This volume focuses on these epistemological and ontological issues. Thirteen critical essays analyze, interpret and develop further Polanyiâ (TM)s ideas in the two parts of the book: Knowing and Being. Most of these papers address Polanyian themes in a comparative way, in dialogue with other major traditions illuminating both sides and helping to re-evaluate Polanyi in broader philosophical context. The title of this book also refers to a seminal collection of papers of Michael Polanyi (edited by Marjori Grene in 1969), Knowing and Being.

Author : Harry Prosch
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0887062776

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Michael Polanyi by Harry Prosch Pdf

Michael Polanyi was an eminent physical chemist, economist, and philosopher. This book explains how the many diverse topics that concerned him belong together as essential elements in his effort to play physician to "the sickness of the modern mind." Using both published and unpublished writings, Prosch critically evaluates Polanyi's efforts and examines the value of his work as philosophy. The book contains a complete bibliography of Polanyi's humanistic publications and all of his earlier works.

Author : Esther Lightcap Meek
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498239837

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Contact with Reality by Esther Lightcap Meek Pdf

Is knowledge discovered, or just invented? Can we ever get outside ourselves to know how reality is in itself, independent of us? Philosophical realism raises the question whether in our knowing we connect with an independent reality--or only connect with our own mental constructs. Far from being a silly parlor game, the question impacts our lives concretely and deeply. Modern Western culture has been infected with antirealism and the doubt, skepticism, subjectivism, relativism, and atheism that attends it--not to mention distrust and arbitrary (mis)use of reality. Premier scientist-turned-philosopher Michael Polanyi stepped aside from research to offer an innovative account of knowing that takes its cue from how discovery actually happens. Polanyi defied the antirealism of the twentieth century, sounding a ringing note of hope in his repeated claim that in discovery, we know we have made contact with reality because "we have a sense of the possibility of indeterminate future manifestations." And that sense marks contact with reality, because it is the way reality is: abundant, generous, and fraught with as-yet-unnameable possibilities. This book examines that distinctive claim, contrasting it to the wider philosophical discussions regarding realism and antirealism in the recent decades. It shows why Polanyi's outlook is superior, and why that matters, not just to scientific discoverers, but to us all.

Author : J. Robert Thompson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000827255

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The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Implicit Cognition by J. Robert Thompson Pdf

Humans think of ourselves as acting according to reasons that we can typically articulate and acknowledge, though we may be reluctant to do so. Yet some of our actions do not fit this mold—they seem to arise from motives and thoughts that appear outside of our control and our self-awareness. Rather than treating such cases as outliers, theorists now treat significant parts of the mind as operating implicitly or ‘behind the scenes’. Mental faculties like reasoning, language, and memory seem to involve this sort of implicit cognition, and many of the structures we use to understand one another seem infused with biases, perceptions, and stereotypes that have implicit features. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Implicit Cognition is an outstanding guide and reference source to this important topic. Composed of more than thirty chapters by an international team of contributors, the Handbook is divided into eight clear parts: Defining Features? Identifying Implicitness Among Cognate Notions The Nature and Limits of Implicit Processing Ways of Perceiving, Knowing, Believing Language Agency and Control Social Cognition Memory Learning and Reasoning. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Implicit Cognition is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of psychology, moral psychology, and philosophy of mind, and will also be of interest to those in related disciplines such as psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics.