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Friday June 13

8:00 Registration Opens--Regis Hall, Loyola University, Lakeside Campus

8:30-2:30 Trip to University of Chicago Library, Department of Special Collections for a visit to the Polanyi Archives.

3:00-4:30 Concurrent sessions with conference participants' papers

Session 1

Phil Mullins, "Marjorie Grene on Personal Knowledge"

Esther Meek, "Marjorie Grene Fifty Years Later: Stopping Short of Personhood"

Session 2

Chris Mulherin, "A Rose by Any Other Name? Personal Knowledge and Hermeneutics"

Craig Scandrett-Leatherman, "Anthropology, Polanyi, and Afropentecostal Ritual: Toward a Scientific, Personal and Social Epistemology of Participation"

4:45-6:15 Concurrent sessions with conference participants' papers

Session 1

Phil Rolnick, "Wittgenstein and Polanyi On The Concept Of The Person"

Diane Yeager, "Intellect, Hope, and Cupidity"

Session 2

Eduardo Echeverria, "Why Is Polanyi's Post-Critical Philosophy Not Post-Modernist?"

David Rutledge, "Individual and Community in a Convivial Order, or Polanyian Optimism"

6:30-7:15 Dinner

8:00-9:00 Plenary Address: Richard T. Allen, "Political Implications of Commitment,"

Richard T. Allen is: editor of Society, Economics and Philosophy: Selected Papers of Michael Polanyi; co-editor of Emotion, Reason and Tradition, Essays on the Social, Political and Economic Thought of Michael Polanyi; author of Thinkers of our Time: Polanyi and Beyond Liberalism: The Political Thought of F.A. Hayek and Michael Polanyi; editor of Appraisal: A Journal of Constructive and Post-Critical Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Studies.

Post Plenary: Social Time

Saturday June 14

7:00-8:00 Breakfast

8:30-10:00 Concurrent sessions with conference participants' papers

Session 1

Walter Gulick, "How Susanne Langer's Thought Can Augment Polanyi's Philosophy"

Charles Lowney, "The Tacit in Frege: A Defense of Michael Polanyi's Thought from within Analytic Philosophy"

Session 2

Bob Doede, "The Promise and Peril of Transhumanism: A Post-Critical Assessment"

Aaron Milavec, "Polanyi's 'Cosmic Field'-Prophetic Faith or Religious Folly?"

10:00-10:15 Coffee break

10:15-11:45 Concurrent sessions with conference participants' papers

Session 1

Keith Morgan, "Does Polanyi's Tacit Knowledge Dimension Exist?"

Jere Moorman, "Hazardous Commitment in Organizational Leadership"

Session 2

Stephen Henry, "How Can Personal Knowledge Improve Decision Making in Clinical Medicine?"

Andrew Meszaros and Catherine Quatman, "Tacit Knowledge and the Deception of Human Movement"

11:45-12:45 Lunch

1:00-2:00 Plenary Address/Performance: David A. Peck, "Backstage: Magic, Mentorship and Tradition"

David A. Peck is a philosopher some of whose work treated Polanyi as well as a public speaker and licensed electrician who has been performing as a sleight of hand magician for over twenty-five years.

2:15-3:45 Concurrent sessions with conference participants' papers

Session 1

Fuat Oguz, "Economists on Polanyi and Tacit Knowledge: Do We Really Mean What We Say?"

Eric Howard, "A Joint Pursuit: The Unique Epistemic Project of Friedrich Hayek and Michael Polanyi"

Session 2

Emmanuel Dissake , "Polanyi and Popper on Scientific Objectivity: From a Critical to a Postcritical Philosophy of Science?"

Kiernan Cashell, "Making Tacit Knowing Explicit: William Poteat's Adaptation of Polanyi's Post-Critical Method"

3:45 - 4:15 Coffee break

4:15 - 6:15 "William Poteat and Michael Polanyi: An Ongoing Dialogue"

Walter Mead (Moderator)
Gus Breytspraak
Dale Cannon
Ron Hall
Robert Osborn
James Stines
Diane Yeager
(Highlighted name links to panel remarks)

6:30 Social Time

7 p.m. Banquet

Plenary Address: Richard Gelwick, "Fifty Years of Discovering Polanyi, Personal Knowledge and the Polanyi Society"

Richard Gelwick is Professor Emeritus, University of New England, author of The Way of Discovery, the first introduction to Polanyi's philosophy, compiler of the first bibliography of Polanyi's non- scientific writing, and, former General Coordinator of the Polanyi Society and editor of Tradition and Discovery

Post Plenary: Social Time

Sunday, June 15

7:00-8:00 Breakfast

8:30-10:00 Concurrent sessions with conference participants' papers

Session 1

Richard Haney, "The Tacit Dimension Applied to Understanding Christian Mission as Translation"

Samantha Clark, "Knowledge and Piety: Michael Polanyi, Alasdair MacIntyre, and the Epistemological Crisis of Evangelicalism"

Session 2

Bill Kelleher, "Empathy as Method in the Social Science Writings of Michael Polanyi"

David Hiles, "Putting Heidegger Polanyi Popper in the Same Frame"

10: 00 Coffee break

10:15-11:45 Concurrent sessions with conference participants' papers

Session 1

Koen Swinkels, "From Republic to Market: An Austro-Libertarian Analysis of Michael Polanyi's 'The Republic of Science'"

Ted Brown, "Polanyi and the Concept of Well-ordered Science"

Session 2

John Apczynski, "The Relevance of Personal Knowledge: Reflections on the Practices of Some Contemporary Philosophers"

12:00 Lunch