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Essays and Lectures by Michael Polanyi

Letter: "The Value of the Inexact" (1936)

"The Stability Of Beliefs " (1952)

"Persons" (1954)

"The Republic of Science: Its Political and Economic Theory" (1962)

Duke Lectures (1964)
(1) “The Metaphysical Reach of Science”
(2) “The Structure of Tacit Knowing”
(3) “Commitment to Science”
(4) “The Emergence of Man”
(5) “Thought in Society”

"The Structure of Consciousness" (1965)

"The Body-Mind Relation" (1968)

"On Body and Mind" (1969)

"Transcendence And Self-Transcendence" (1970)

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McEnerney Lectures (1962)
(1) “The Destruction of Reality”
(2) “The Realm of the Unspoken”
(3) “The Vindication of Reality”
(4) “A Society of Explorers”

Dialogue Between Michael Polanyi and Carl Rogers (1966) Click on this MP3 file to play; right click to save to desktop

Text of Dialogue Between Michael Polanyi and Carl Rogers

Links to Polanyi Essays on Other Sites

"Scientific Beliefs" (1950)

"Scientific Outlook: Its Sickness and Cure" (1957)

"Problem Solving " (1957)

"Science and Technology " (Section 8 of the Chapter “Intellectual Passions,” pp. 174-184 from Personal Knowledge [1958])

"Faith and Reason" (1961)

"Science: Academic and Industrial" (1961)

"Tacit Knowing: Its Bearing on Some Problems of Philosophy " (1962)

"My Time with X-Rays and Crystals" (1962)

"Science and Reality" (1967)

"Life’s Irreducible Structure" (1968)


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