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Paradoxical Roots of “Social Construction”
David Kaiser reviews Michael Polanyi and His Generation: Origins of the Social Construction of Science by Mary Jo Nye. Fifteen years ago, scientists, historians, and sociologists traded salvos in what...
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Shapin on Polanyi
Shapin’s London Review of Books review of Michael Polanyi and His Generation: Origins of the Social Construction of Science by Mary Jo Nye. (Both Hayek and Oakeshott are mentioned by Shapin). Michael...
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Kuhn’s Evolutionary Social Epistemology
Here’s a review of K. Brad Wray’s Kuhn’s Evolutionary Social Epistemology. (Wray, by the way, has been a strong contributor to EPISTEME). It’s also worth checking out Alexander Bird’s entry on Kuhn for...
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CFP: Cosmos + Taxis
The interdisciplinary journal Cosmos + Taxis is issuing a call for papers for its second conference on spontaneous orders, to be held at the Rochester Institute of Technology from May 8 to May 9, 2015....
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Tacit Knowledge Meets Analytic Kantianism
The very excellent Stephen Turner on tacit knowledge in the latest issue of Tradition & Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical.
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Dorothy Emmet
I was reminded by a most prolific chum of mine about Dorothy Emmet who so kindly agreed to my coming up to Cambridge to ostensibly chat to her about Bosanquet. This was in 1990 when she was 86. Taking...
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The Significance of Shils
The very excellent Stephen Turner on Edward Shils. Check out Shils’ classic book Tradition.
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Friedrich Hayek and Michael Polanyi in Correspondence
Friedrich Hayek and Michael Polanyi corresponded with each other for the best part of thirty years. They had shared interests that included science, social science, economics, epistemology, history of...
View ArticleUnderstanding Cryptocurrencies with Stigmergy
This from Alexander Blum writing in the HuffPost. We already have markets, the republic of science (Polanyi), urban design (Jacobs) and much more besides, spontaneous orders that embody these worthy...
View ArticlePOLYCENTRICITY: Studies in Institutional Diversity and Voluntary Governance
Led by the very excellent Lenore Ealy and Paul Dragos Aligica and backed up with a top-notch board, I want to bring your attention to this new series. Full details of the call for submissions can be...
View ArticleChanging knowledge in the early economic thought of Michael Polanyi
Gábor István Bíró in the Journal of Evolutionary Economics. Economicsevolutionary economicsexpertiseFriedrich HayekkeynesMichael Polanyipolitical economyTacit knowledgethe sensory order
View ArticleTradition v. Rationalism
Shortly to be released. Eric VoegelinFriedrich HayekGene CallahanGilbert Rylelee trepanierLudwig WittgensteinMichael OakeshottMichael PolanyirationalismTradition
View ArticleThe calling of social thought: Rediscovering the work of Edward Shils
As someone who is a big fan of Shils I’m very much looking forward to this. edward shilsideologyLiberal educationMichael OakeshottMichael PolanyiSocial theorySociologyStephen TurnerTradition
View ArticleTaleb the Philosopher
Since I’m deeply in Boëthius mode for my forthcoming edited book of essays on A Confederacy of Dunces, this invocation of Boëthius and Taleb grabbed me. Here is Joshua Hochschild’s review of Taleb’s...
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