This year's annual meeting will be in San Diego, CA on November 16 and 17, 2007. The program is printed below. Papers will be available for downloading by late October.The Polanyi Society annual meeting will again this year will be an "Additional Meeting" held in conjunction with the annual meetings of the American Academy of Religion . For information, go to the AAR/SBL web site: http://www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/default.asp. It is not necessary to register for the AAR/SBL meetings in order to attend the Polanyi Society annual meeting.

Jere Moorman, Presiding

4:00 William Coulson, Center for Studies of the Person, San Diego, "On Having Misread Polanyi's Theory of Personal Knowledge"

5:15 William Kelleher, La Canada, CA, "Consciousness as Pure Self-Reflection in the Writings of Michael Polanyi"

Respondents:
Phil Mullins, Missouri Western State University,"A Response to William Kelleher’s 'Consciousness as Pure Self-Reflection in the Writings of Michael Polanyi'"
Diane Yeager, Georgetown University"Science, Society, and the Act of Understanding: A Response to William Kelleher’s 'Consciousness as Pure Self-Reflection in the Writings of Michael Polanyi'"

Theme: How Tillich's Recently Retrieved Paper, "Participation and Knowledge: Problems of an Ontology of Cognition," Engages Polanyi's Thought

Papers by Tillich and Polanyi Available for Downloading

9:00 Walter Gulick, MSU-Billings, Presiding

Co-Presenters:

Durwood Foster, Pacific School of Religion,"Michael And Paulus: A Dynamic Uncoordinated Duo"
German Translation of Passages in Durwood Foster's "Michael and Paulus: A Dynamic Uncoordinated Duo"

Richard Gelwick, Bangor Theological Seminary,"The Christian Encounter Of Paul Tillich And Michael Polanyi"

Respondents:
Donald Musser, Stetson University, "Response to Foster, Gelwick, and Russell"

11:15 Polanyi Society Annual Business Meeting:
Walter Mead, Illinois State University, Presiding