The Polanyi Society will hold its annual meeting November 6-7, 2009 in conjunction with the AAR annual meeting in Montreal. To attend either or both of the sessions of the the Polanyi Society annual meeting, it is not necessary to register for the AAR meeting. For additional information about the AAR meeting, go to the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting site:

http://www.aarweb.org/meetings/Annual_Meeting/Current_Meeting/default.asp

Materials available for downloading are highlighted. Additional materials are expected in the first week of November.

Friday, 6 November 2009 Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel-Chaudière room

9:00-11:00 pm Panel: "Toward a Polanyian Science of the Virtues"

Walt Gulick, Montana State University, Billings
Paul Lewis, Mercer University
Diane Yeager, Georgetown University

Saturday, 7 November 2009 La Centre Sheraton Hotel -Hémon room

8:00 to 9:00 am A Celebration of The Tacit Dimension

Light breakfast
Reflections on The Tacit Dimension
Phil Mullins, Missouri Western State University
Wally Mead, Illinois State University

9:15 to 10:10 am "Of One Mind? Merleau-Ponty and Polanyi on the Reduction of Mind to Body"

Florentien Verhage and Charles Lowney, Washington and Lee University
Response: David Rutledge, Furman University

10:20 to 11:15 am "Is the Pope Catholic? Polanyian Reflections on Continuity and Authority"

John Apczynski, St. Bonaventure University
Response: Joe Kroger, St. Michael's College

11:15 to 11:30 am Business Meeting