Michael Polanyi and the Current Situation, Gummersbach, Germany, July 28-31, 2011.

Programme:

Thurs 28th
Afternoon: Assemble
19.30 Wecome and Session 1: ‘An outline of Polanyi`s work in politics and economics’, Dr Richard Allen

Friday 29th
09.00 Session 2: ‘Freedom’ (1): 'Polanyi and liberty: the Hungarian background’, Prof. Dr Endre Nagy, Semmelweis University, Budapest
11.00 Session 3: 'Freedom’ (2): 'Polanyi and public liberty’, Prof. Dr Mullins, Missouri Western State University
14:00 Session 4: 'The organisation of science in Polanyi`s day and now’, Dr Klaus-Ulbricht Neumann, Loughborough University
16.00 Session 5: ‘Polanyi on general and specific authority in science and society’, Dr Simon Smith, Kingston College, London
19.30 Session 6: ‘The from-to structure of political and economic thinking’, Prof. Dr Richard Moodey, Gannon University, Erie, PA.

Saturday 30th
9.00 Session 7: 'Moral inversion’ (1): Its political aspects’, Viktor Genk, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
11.00 Session 8: Session 8: 'Moral inversion (2): Its social aspects’, Prof. Tihamér Margitay, Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
16.00 Session 9: ‘Polanyi and the sociology of economic life’, Dr Richard Moodey
19.30 Session 10: ’30 years working with Polanyi', Prof. Dr Klaus R. Allerbeck, Frankfurt University.

Sunday 31st
9.00 Session 10: ‘Some cultural and economic boundary conditions of politics’, Dr Richard Allen
11.00 Session 11: General discussion with panel of all the speakers.
12.30 Closure and Departure

http://www.spcps.org.uk/gummers.html

"Reconsidering Polanyi," Department of Philosophy and History of Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, June 26-28, 2008.

Polanyi, the philosopher, is mostly known as a theorist of knowledge. His philosophy proceeds from the analysis of knowing to address many important topics including ontology, social theory, theory of the person, and the study of the practical dimensions of science. His theory of knowledge rests on ethical, social and existential pillars beside his Gestalt-based theory of cognition. On the 50th anniversary of the publication of his masterpiece, Personal Knowledge, the aim of the conference is the reappraisal of this perplexingly rich, highly original and refreshingly unconventional philosophy in the light of the current intellectual milieu as well as from historical perspectives. The conference is open to contextual, historical, and analytical approaches including - but not limited to - the following list of topics: - Personal knowledge in light of social and historical epistemology - Tacit knowledge and the new results of cognitive psychology - Reappraising Polanyi's The Logic of Liberty - The cognitive functions of emotions - Polanyi on the production and management of knowledge - Postcritical and postmodern perspectives - Embodiment and tacit knowing - Polanyi and the concept of emergence - Polanyi and understanding technology .

The programme may be found here: http://www.polanyi.bme.hu/conference/prog.php.