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Polanyi gave the Gifford Lectures in 1951–52 at Aberdeen, and a revised version of his lectures were later published as Personal Knowledge (1958). In this book Polanyi claims that all knowledge claims (including those that derive from rules) rely on personal judgments. [13] He denies that a scientific method can yield truth mechanically. All ...
The term tacit knowing is attributed to Michael Polanyi's Personal Knowledge (1958). [2] In his later work, The Tacit Dimension (1966), Polanyi made the assertion that "we can know more than we can tell."
Polanyi's paradox, named in honour of the British-Hungarian philosopher Michael Polanyi, is the theory that human knowledge of how the world functions and of our own capability are, to a large extent, beyond our explicit understanding.
The Logic of Personal Knowledge: Essays Presented to Michael Polanyi on his Seventieth Birthday (London: Rutledge and Kegan Paul, 1961). Intellect and Hope: Essays on the Thought of Michael Polanyi, edited by Thomas A. Langford and William H. Poteat (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1968). Poteat is the author of three of the essays included ...
The phrase, "Post-Critical," Poteat drew directly from Michael Polanyi’s Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy (1958), but Poteat discovered that what Polanyi meant by it was substantially akin to shifts in thinking advocated under other names by other philosophical critics of modern intellectual culture—specifically ...
In its modern understanding, knowledge is made up of explicit knowledge, sometimes called skilled knowledge; and tacit or cognitive knowledge (sometimes known as "coping skills"), a category first identified by Michael Polanyi in 1958. [7] Explicit knowledge is the "what" of know-how: knowledge such as the professional or vocational skills that ...
Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy (1958) Clifton Fadiman (editor), Fantasia Mathematica (1958) Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (1958) Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty (1958) Raymond Williams, Culture and Society (1958)
Tacit knowledge, sometimes called cognitive knowledge or coping skills, is a category of knowledge first identified by Michael Polanyi in 1958, [5] described as the non-technical "how" of getting things done, what Edward de Bono calls "operacy" or the skill of action, and what Peter Drucker identifies in the use of the word techne (Greek for ...