About the Society

General Information

The Polanyi Society is a scholarly professional organization formed in the early seventies; its objective is to promote exchange among persons interested in the thought of Michael Polanyi.

The Polanyi Society is legally an independently incorporated US IRS non-profit 501C3 organization governed by its Board of Directors.

The Society merged in 1994-1995 with Convivium, a United Kingdom counterpart to the Polanyi Society.

Membership is open to all who are interested in the thought of Michael Polanyi.

Michael Polanyi

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Polanyi Society Membership

Although TAD is an open access journal available to anyone, the Polanyi Society does invite those interested in the journal and Polanyi Society programs to become Polanyi Society members ($35/year; $15 students/year). For additional membership information or to renew membership, please go to the membership page.

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Journal

The Society publishes Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Journal (TAD), a digital, open access periodical that is archived on the Polanyi Society website.

The most recent copy of the journal as well as volumes going back to 1972 are available in the digital archives and can be electronically searched. The indices for materials published can also be electronically searched.

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More than 800 people across the world receive a Table of Contents e-mail (with links to articles and reviews) when new issues of TAD are posted online (currently three times each year. If you wish to be added to this TAD Table of Contents e-mail list, send a request, using you e-mail system, to webmaster@polanyisociety.org or hit the above GET UPDATES button and complete the system e-mail form that comes up. Send direct inquiries to Matt Sandwisch (msandwisch@gmail.com) or Craig Wickstrom (cwickstrom@gmail.com).

Meetings

Meetings, whether in person or online, are devoted to presentation and discussion of scholarly papers on topics to which Polanyi’s work continues to be relevant. They may also feature invited speakers. Papers may come from any academic discipline or area of professional practice.

Calls for papers, programs (including papers for advance reading) and recordings of sessions (when recorded) are posted on the Society website.

Some support is available for younger scholars attending or making presentations at in-person meetings [add link—see copy below].