Questions tagged [polanyi]

Michael Polanyi (1891-1976) was a Hungarian-British scientist and philosopher. He opposed a positivist account of science and advocated that there are several levels to reality. He distinguished between tacit and explicit knowledge.

Survey articles and organizations on Michael Polanyi include:

Wikipedia contributors. (2019, April 16). Michael Polanyi. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 19:51, May 14, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Polanyi&oldid=892674680
The Polanyi Society's webpage is http://polanyisociety.org/.
The Michael Polanyi Liberal Philosophical Association website is http://www.polanyi.bme.hu/periodical/period.php?lang=en.

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Is Polanyi's critique of physicalist view of the mind flawed?

In Personal Knowledge chapter 11 Polanyi elaborates his critique of the "physico-chemical investigations of a machine" by carefully dividing reasons and causes as types of explanations: Since rules of rightness cannot account for failures, and…

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asked Aug 14 '20 at 08:24

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Is there any supporter of Michael Polanyi's criticism of scientific objectivism?

I just found out about Michael Polanyi and his ideas fascinate me. One of those, is his criticism of objectivism in science, which he historically links to Galileo. Historically, he mainly goes against Laplace. Polanyi blames the over-objectivism…

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asked Feb 11 '18 at 15:56

Yechiam Weiss

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Ethical values according to Polanyi

What role do (ethical) values have in science according to Polanyi and Kuhn? How does Polanyi define tacit knowledge and what view would Popper and Kuhn have on tacit knowledge?

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asked Jun 21 '17 at 17:31

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Is Polanyi's conception of personal knowledge accepted?

In Michael Polanyi's Personal Knowledge, the "personal" is defined with: This distinction [of personal and subjective] establishes the conception of the personal, which is neither subjective nor objective. In so far as the personal submits to…

epistemology subjectivity polanyi

asked Aug 12 '20 at 11:37

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What are points of disagreement between Gabriel Marcel and Michael Polanyi?

I see similarities between Gabriel Marcel's distinction between problem and mystery and Michael Polanyi's distinction between explicit and tacit knowledge. However, I suspect that similarity may be only on the surface. Is there any paper that…

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asked May 14 '19 at 19:41

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