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1. Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical: Volume > 49 > Issue: 3
Editorial Board and Submissions Guide
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2. Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical: Volume > 49 > Issue: 3
Preface and Notes on Contributors
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3. Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical: Volume > 49 > Issue: 3
Martin Turkis Blasting the Post-Critical Out of the Continuum of Cold War Political Economy: Repositioning Polanyi’s Politics in the Twenty-first Century
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This article aims to complicate the economic and political terrain on which debates within Polanyi Studies take place, arguing that imprecise terminology and an ossified set of Cold War concepts erect dubious and simplistic dichotomies (e.g., liberal/conservative, markets/planning, freedom/totalitarianism, etc.) that are not up to the task of appropriately navigating contemporary political economy. The essay accomplishes this task by offering counterexamples to status quo assumptions in Polanyi Studies as well as by suggesting more nuanced avenues for future Polanyian exploration.
4. Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical: Volume > 49 > Issue: 3
Charles Lowney Rawls’s Political Liberalism from an Emergentist Perspective
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John Rawls’s political liberalism is supported and better understood via Michael Polanyi’s tacit and emergent structures. Rawls claims the political is “freestanding” and “neutral” relative to comprehensive moral doctrines and metaphysical assumptions. Polanyian critics of Rawls empha­size the personal nature of our political commitments and Polanyi’s metaphysical realism. They also claim tacit knowing makes Rawls’s “veil of ignorance” impossible. However, as an emergent social order, political liberalism is a joint comprehension of a plurality of competing traditions that operates as an upper-level control in a dual control system; it supports yet constrains individuals in traditions so they may mutually flourish under its umbrella. Emergent levels have their own rules of organization and hence possess a rationality that can function independently and neutrally relative to its subsidiaries and so is freestanding, as Rawls claims. Still, since this level is constituted by overlapping consensus and is not a modus vivendi, there is indeed personal commitment to political values, as Polanyi affirms. This continuity makes it difficult to disambiguate one’s comprehensive ethical understanding from one’s political understanding. But, as with counterfactual hypotheses in science, Polanyi could endorse the artifice of the veil. By occluding politically irrelevant facts we better access this shared level, and tacit convictions about political justice become explicit.
5. Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical: Volume > 49 > Issue: 3
Gábor István Bíró Polanyi’s Razor: The Tacit Antithesis of the Veil of Ignorance
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Veil of ignorance theories suggest that an appraiser can be (i) completely (focally) aware of and (ii) completely ignorant about the appraisal she is making. This paper argues that Michael Polanyi rejected both of these premises and that he was developing an antithesis to the veil of ignorance model in his concept of tacit knowing. Rather counterintuitively, the latter concept did not refer to one but three kinds of appraisal: making a knowledge claim, making an aesthetic evaluation, and making a moral judgement. This paper shows how the Polanyian concept of tacit knowing clashes with the veil of ignorance model in the case of this third kind of appraisal, making a moral judgement. The first part of the paper portrays how Polanyi’s Budapest years might have influenced his discovery of the tacit. The second part explores the evolution of the tacit knowing concept and identifies four stages in his relevant thought based on how he approached the tacit. The third part explains how the Polanyian concept of tacit knowing might be interpreted as a philosophical razor that is antithetical to the veil of ignorance model. The paper concludes by going into details about this antithetical relation and, by doing so, sharpening the razor.
6. Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical: Volume > 49 > Issue: 3
Eduardo Beira Notes on Polanyi’s Interest in Heidegger
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This essay makes use of a variety of archival materials in the Michael Polanyi Papers to show that Polanyi’s comment linking his account of “indwelling” and Heidegger’s “being-in-the-world” (in his 1964 “Preface to the Torchbook Edition” of Personal Knowledge) was a carefully considered, thoughtful philosophical claim. Materials from both before and after the writing of this Torchbook Preface make clear that Polanyi was seriously exploring connections between his emerging epistemic account and ideas developed by Heidegger as well as other modern thinkers who in the sixties often were dubbed “existentialists.”
7. Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical: Volume > 49 > Issue: 2
Paul Lewis Preface and Notes on Contributors
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forum on guide to personal knowledge
8. Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical: Volume > 49 > Issue: 2
Jon Fennell Comments on Guide to Personal Knowledge
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9. Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical: Volume > 49 > Issue: 2
David W. Agler Reflections on Guide to Personal Knowledge
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10. Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical: Volume > 49 > Issue: 2
Alessio Tartaro A Philosophy for Our Time? A Comment on Paksi and Héder’s Guide to Personal Knowledge
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11. Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical: Volume > 49 > Issue: 2
Daniel Paksi, Mihály Héder Further Thoughts on Guide to Personal Knowledge: Response to Our Reviewers
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The two Hungarian authors of Guide to Personal Knowledge are in general agreement with the assessments of their work offered by David Alker and Alessio Tartaro. However, they contend that Jon Fennell’s criticism of their writing style, while sometimes accurate, nevertheless derives from an expected level of precision from non-native speakers of English that is unnecessary when the language is used as a lingua franca. Moreover, they suggest that underlying Fennell’s complaints about language are differences in the interpretation of Polanyi’s philosophy.
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12. Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical: Volume > 49 > Issue: 2
Chris Mulherin Péter Hartl and Adam Tamas Tuboly (eds). Science, Freedom, Democracy
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13. Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical: Volume > 49 > Issue: 2
Martin Turkis J. Bradford DeLong. Slouching Towards Utopia
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14. Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical: Volume > 49 > Issue: 2
Peter Blum Matteo Bortolini, A Joyfully Serious Man: The Life of Robert Bellah
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15. Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical: Volume > 49 > Issue: 1
Paul Lewis Preface and Notes on Contributors
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forum on polanyi’s “rules of rightness”
16. Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical: Volume > 49 > Issue: 1
Michael Polanyi Rules of Rightness
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This is a recently discovered 1954 Polanyi lecture that was part of a lost eight-part series in Chicago. It develops Polanyi’s interest in unformalized personal participation in knowledge. The lecture discusses how normative “rules of rightness” work and Polanyi expands these ideas later in PK.
17. Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical: Volume > 49 > Issue: 1
Phil Mullins Notes on Polanyi’s 1954 Lecture, “Rules of Rightness”
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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
18. Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical: Volume > 49 > Issue: 1
Walter Gulick “Rules of Rightness” and the Evolutionary Emergence of Purpose
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Michael Polanyi’s essay “Rules of Rightness” argues that for living beings, both machine-like embodied processes and informal purposeful operations are guided by standards of proper func­tioning. This article traces the origins of rules of rightness back to the concomitant rise of life and purpose in the universe. Thereby the deterministic control of all things by the laws of physics and chemistry is broken. Powered by an independent active principle and guided by three inarticu­late modes of learning, life takes on increasingly complex expressions of purpose in evolutionary history. Along the way, purposeful informal operations make use of and often create contrivances that further the explosive telic growth of life.
19. Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical: Volume > 49 > Issue: 1
Collin D. Barnes A Further Word on Likert-Scales Inspired by “Rules of Rightness”
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This brief commentary treats Polanyi’s newly found lecture, “Rules of Rightness,” as an occasion to revisit some earlier claims I made about the use of rating scales in social science research. It serves as something of an interim report on an ongoing inquiry into what an effective response to social science would look like from a Polanyian perspective.
20. Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical: Volume > 49 > Issue: 1
Andy Steiger Deciphering Humanity: What Polanyi and the Rosetta Stone Can Teach Us About Being Human
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Polanyi is widely known for his development of personal knowledge, but he was also keenly inter­ested in what can be called, personal existence. The historical backdrop of reviving, the once dead language of, Egyptian Hieroglyphics provides valuable insights into Polanyi’s critique of objectiv­ism and deciphering a human ontology. From applying physiognostic to telegnostic information to understanding static and dynamic meaning, Polanyi’s philosophy of language and machines provides a wealth of vantage points from which to study who and what we are.