Resources by/on Polanyi and Grene

Polanyi in MP3
"In 1999, MARS HILL AUDIO produced a two-and-one-half-hour long audio documentary about Polanyi's life and work, called Tacit Knowing, Truthful Knowing: The Life and Thought of Michael Polanyi. For years, it was available only on audiocassette, and more recently, on MP3 CD. This MARS HILL AUDIO Report is one of a number of products which have just been released for distribution as downloadable audio (information about that Report is on this page). The download (which costs $9.00) is formatted to facilitate easy transfer to conventional audio CDs." More information at this link.

For people who want to read more of the work of Marjorie Grene, the following are some links to essays provided by Phil Mullins, editor of Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical.

Why read Marjorie Grene? Grene, the first female philosopher to be inducted into the prestigious Library of Living Philosophers, is a first-rate philosopher, whose work is probably the best philosophical reading there is. A Polanyian and much more, Grene devoted much effort to assisting Polanyi with the writing of Personal Knowledge. She was the philosopher that he wasn’t. Last reason for reading Grene: she was my teacher and on my dissertation committee.

Mullins writes: “There are a number of Grene articles online at http://members.shaw.ca/competitivenessofnations/6.%20Alpha%20List.htm. This website really has an incredible collection of essays, including a number of Polanyi essays that there are links to from the Polanyi website. But there are also the Grene articles and a very good article by Bill Scott on Polanyi and Ryle. Take a look at the long list.”

Also: “I just ran across a dynamite article about her work, an article that is 20 years old written by a teacher I had as an undergraduate: http://www.culturaleconomics.atfreeweb.com/Anno/Compton Marjorie Grene and the Phenomenon of Life PSA 1984.htm.

And: “By the way, I now have Polanyi's McEnerney Lectures posted on the Polanyi web site so you can advise any interested students of this: http://www.missouriwestern.edu/orgs/polanyi/essays.htm. All they have to have is way to play this.  This 1962 lecture series is a forerunner of Tacit Dimension.”

Here is another piece by Grene which is her 1976 going back over the ground of Personal Knowledge, especially with a view to clarifying the distinction between Polanyi’s “personal” and subjectivity: http://www.missouriwestern.edu/orgs/polanyi/TAD%20WEB%20ARCHIVE/TAD22-3/TAD22-3-fnl-pg6-16-pdf.pdf.

By the way, considering joining the Polanyi Society. We’re planning a special conference in 2008 to commemorate the 50^th anniversary of the publication of Personal Knowledge. http://www.missouriwestern.edu/orgs/polanyi/.