News on the website of The Polanyi Society

- Phil Mullins and Walter Gulick praise Walter B. Mead, who died 8th August, 2018. Mead was president of The Polanyi Society, co-director of the William Poteat conference, and a devoted scholar of the thought of Michael Polanyi and William Poteat
- Phil Mullins and Marty Moleski, S. J. praise Ann Herbert Scott, who died at 16th July, 2018.She was the widow of the original Polanyi-biographer, William Taussig Scott. Ann Scott and her husband got in touch with Michael Polanyi, and his wife, Magda, in the 1960s. With selfless and tiredless work, she supported her husband's research and the publication of one of the best Polanyi-biographies, Michael Polanyi: Scientist and Philosopher (2005). With her death she left a generous donation to the Polanyi Society Endowment Fund.
- Two new Polanyi articles have been published on the website with the permission of John C. Polanyi (The Authority of the Free Society (1949); On the Modern Mind (1965)
- The two interviews of Ray Wilken with Michael Polanyi (5-6th April, 1966; 24-25th April, 1967) has been recently published
- There is also a new repository of journals having an interest (special issue or section) in Polanyi's thought
Details in the News an Notes section of the online only version of the 2018 October issue of Tradition & Discovery.

Tradition & Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical

Volume XLIV Number 3 October 2018

Contents:

- David James Stewart: Getting in Touch with Polanyi's Realism: An Examination of Esther Meek's Contact with Reality
- Mihály Héder: Being Real and Contact with Reality
- Kyle Takaki: Reality Crisscrossed
- Andrew Grosso: Participation in Reality: Both Discovery and Invention
- Esther Lightcap Meek: The Fundamental Question of Reality: A Response to My Interlocutors
- David Nikkel: Personhood in a Poteatian, Post-Critical Vein
- Richard C. Prust: Polanyi for Humanists: An Appreciation of the Work of William H. Poteat

Tradition & Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical

Volume XLIV Number 2 July 2018

Contents:

- Matthew B. Crawford: Teachesr and Students
- Paul Lewis: The Organ Maker's Shop, Erotic Attention, Teaching, and Trust
- Collin D. Barnes: Comments on Matthew Crawford's The World Beyond Your Head
- Richard Moodey: Convivial Craft-Work and the Fiduciary Program
- Milton R. Scarborough: Mapping Poteat on the Buddha and Zen
- Jon Fennell:"Balance of Mind": Polanyi's Response to the Second Apple and the Modern Predicament

Tradition & Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical

Volume XLIV Number 1 February 2018

Contents:

- Dale Cannon: On William H. Poteat; Introduction to Poteat and Polanyi III
- David Nikkel: Curing Dualistic, Disembodied Patterns of Thinking in the Academy
- Murray Jardine: The Political Implications of William H. Poteat's Philosophy
- Elon G. (Jerry) Eidenier: Six Poems
- Mihály Héder and Daniel Paksi: Non-Human Knowledge According to Michael Polanyi
- Notes on Contributors
- Submissions and Style Guide
- Polanyi Society Information

The Polanyi Society Annual Meeting 2017

The annual meeting of the Polanyi Society is November 17 and 18, 2017 in Boston. There are two sessions on November 17 with six papers on a variety of topics, and, on November 18, there is a six-hour workshop “Trade, Employment, and Public Policy: Polanyi Then and Now” at nearby MIT. This event focuses on Michael Polanyi’s Full Employment and Free Trade (1945), his economics education film and his work as an economist. The workshop, organized by Anne McCants (MIT) and Eduardo Beira (MIT Portugal Program and IN+, Portugal), will include discussion of seven papers as well as a graduate student panel discussion. Most of the papers for the November 17 sessions and the workshop are now posted; others should be added in early November. Information about the annual meeting (e.g., the program sessions with links to papers) is available on the Polanyi Society web site (http://polanyisociety.org ) under the link for 2017 Annual Meeting Program.There you will also find times and locations for sessions and the workshop as well as directions for reaching MIT Building E51 where the workshop is to be held. There is a link to the American edition of Full Employment and Free Trade and a link to Polanyi’s film, “Unemployment and Money. The Principles Involved.” There is also a YouTube link that can be used to follow the workshop online in real time.

Anyone interested in attending any component of the annual meeting is welcome; it is not necessary to register. Anyone interested is also invited to participate in the June 6-9, 2018 Polanyi Society conference (“Michael Polanyi and the Post-Critical Turn”) at Nashotah, WI. Information about this conference and a call for papers appeared on the Polanyi discussion list at the end of October. If you are not on the Polanyi Society e-mail list and wish to be, please send directly to me an e-mail request. Those on the list receive three times each year a Table of Contents e-mail (with links to articles) when each new issue of Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Journal is posted online, as well as a few notices such as this one with information about upcoming annual meetings and conferences.

Phil Mullins
mullins@missouriwestern.edu

New book on Polanyi

Judit Szapor:

A világhírű Polányiak. Egy elfeledett család regényes története

Judit Szapor's (professor of McGill university) new book on Polanyi has been recently published in Hungarian. The book is a timely revisit of her The Hungarian Pocahontas: The Life and Times of Laura Polanyi Stricker (2005) with plehtora of new materials and messages, written in a remarkably engaging style. This book is not only for those having a scholarly interest in the Polanyi-family, but also for those seeking early histories of feminism and experimental pedagogy in the early nineteenth-century.

Trade, Employment and Public Policy: Polanyi Then and Now workshop

co-organized by The Polanyi Society and the MIT

18th November 2017

Struan Jacobs (Deakin University): Projects of social betterment: Michael Polanyi's economic film contrasted to Otto Neurarth's isotype system
Nilanjan Raghunath (Singapore University of Technology and Design): Reaching Full employment in the digital economy - lessons learnt from Polanyi
Anne McCants (MIT): What might a moral economics look like? Lessons from Adam Smith and Michael Polanyi
Walter Gulick (Montana State University Bilings): Michael and Karl Polanyi: Politico-Economic Point, Counterpoint - Is Rapproachment Possible?
Gábor István Bíró (Budapest University of Technology and Economics): Projecting the Light of Democracy: Michael Polanyi's Efforts to Save Liberalism via an Economics Film
Eric Stayton (MIT): Labor, Land and Computation
Jordan Howell (Harvard): Sharing the Economy: Antoine Lavoisier and Michael Polanyi on Intelligence
Jamie Wong (MIT): In dialogue with Polanyi on the "on demand" economy - a case with Uber drivers in Boston
J. Michael Wahlen (MIT): Polanyi, Science and Salesmanship
Marta Felis-Rota (Autonomous University of Madrid): Michael Polanyi's "Full Employment and Free Trade" in the Context of the Second World War
Eduardo Beira (MIT Portugal program): Experimentation in economics (1930's and 40's): producing a film to learn in order to write a book
Agnes Festré (University Nice Sophia Antipolis): Michael Polanyi's economics: A strange rapproachment between Hayek and Keynes

Tradition & Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical

Volume XLIII Number 3 October 2017

Contents:

- Engagements with Retrieving Realism by Herbert Dreyfuss and Charles Taylor
- John V. Apczynski: A Polanyian Epistemology Manqué: Reflections of Retrieving Realism
- Esther L. Meek: Contact with Reality: Comparing Michael Polanyi and Dreyfuss and Taylor, Retrieving Realism
- David W. Rutledge: Dreyfuss, Taylor, and Polanyi's Prescience
- Charles Lowney: Robust Moral Realism: Pluralist or Emergent?
- Review: Andrew Grosso: Charles Taylor, The Language Animal: the Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity
- Dale Cannon: Christian Smith: To Flourish or Destruct: A Personalist Theory of Human Goods and Motivation
- News and Notes
- Notes on Contributors
- Submissions and Style Guide
- Polanyi Society Information

9th Workshop on Emergence

Call for Papers is open to all topics related to emergence/reduction.

Venue: BUTE.
Date: 15th December 2017.
Application with title and short abstract to paksi.daniel@filozofia.bme.hu
Deadline:15th November 2017.

Bíró Gábor István doktori védése

Bíró Gábor István kollégánk 2017. Augusztus 22-én sikeresen megvédte Projecting the Light of Democracy: Michael Polanyi's Efforts to Save Liberalism via an Economics Film, 1933-1948 című doktori disszertációját. Az értekezés a tudománytanulmányok eszköztárával vizsgálja hogyan kapcsolódtak össze Polányi Mihály gazdasági gondolkodásában a tudás, vizuális (re)prezentáció, hatalom és demokrácia kérdéskörök az Egyesült Királyságba érkezését követő két évtizedben. Az értekezésről hamarosan interjú jelenik meg testvérlapunkban, a Tradition & Discovery-ben.