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POLANYI SOCIETY 2015 ANNUAL MEETING PROGRAM

The three sessions of the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Polanyi Society will be held in Atlanta, Georgia on November 20 and 21. The times and locations for sessions are included below. When papers or respondent comments on papers are available, they are posted and can be downloaded through the link to the title.

Friday, Nov. 20, 4:00-6:00 p.m., Atlanta Room 5, Sheraton Downtown (AAR Program Book listing P20-221)

Short, focused presentations from the following individuals:

Matt Sandwisch, Baylor University, “Connections between Michael Polanyi and Virtue Epistemology”

Adam Johnson, Fort Mill, SC, "Created to Know: A Comparison of the Epistemologies of Michael Polanyi and Francis Schaeffer"

Stan Scott, University of Maine, Presque Isle, "The Tacit Dimension in Biblical Metaphor: 'The Kingdom'"

Robert Hyatt, Whittier NC, “Polanyian Philosophical Resources for Mental Health Professionals Dealing with Trauma Related Pathologies.” Part 1: "Polanyian Poetics: Facts of the Imagination."

Francesco Poggiani, Pennsylvania State University, "Polanyi and Peirce on Truth and Responsibility"

Saturday, Nov. 21, 9:00-11:30 a.m., 309, Hilton Downtown (AAR Program Book listing P21-110)

Symposium on Thomas Pfau’s Minding the Modern, with Martin X. Moleski, S.J., and Philip A. Rolnick. Pfau will reply to respondents before the session is opened for general discussion. At 11:15, there will be a Polanyi Society business meeting.

Thomas Pfau, Duke University, "Tradition and Hermeneutical Practice"

Martin X. Moleski, S.J, Canisius College, "Restoring Faith in Reason: Thomas Pfau’s Defense of Humanistic Inquiry"

Philip A. Rolnick, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota, "Person and Its Constellated Corollaries: Conversing with Thomas Pfau, Minding the Modern"

Saturday, Nov. 21, 8:00-10:00 p.m., Harris Room, Hyatt Regency (AAR Program Book listing P21-408)

Walter Mead, “Theological Implications of Polanyi’s Philosophy of Knowing”

David Rutledge, “Response to Mead”

Jon Fennell, Hillsdale College, “Polanyi’s ‘Illumination’: Aristotelian Induction or Peircean Abduction?”

Kyle Takaki, “Response to Fennell”

Lucila Crena, “A Polanyian Witness in an Age of Mistrust: A Majority World Perspective”