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The Metaphysics of Michael Polanyi

Toward a Post-Critical Platonism

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  1. Martin E. Turkis II

    1. San Francisco, USA

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  • Show how Polanyi's Platonic vision bridges the gap between speculative metaphysics and scientific practice
  • Contends that Polanyi is a Platonist due to his affirmation of the ontological status of abstract objects
  • Develops Polanyi’s unsystematic metaphysics into a coherent, post-critical Platonism

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Martin E. Turkis II
    Pages 1-6

  3. Michael Polanyi and the Post-Critical Approach to Philosophy

    • Martin E. Turkis II
    Pages 7-50

  4. Polanyi’s Copernican Realism: Content, Reception, and Relation to Three Contemporary Realisms

    • Martin E. Turkis II
    Pages 51-110

  5. From Epistemology to Metaphysics

    • Martin E. Turkis II
    Pages 111-155

  6. The Material and the Immaterial in a Post-Critical Platonist Metaphysics

    • Martin E. Turkis II
    Pages 157-200

  7. Aristotle, Plato, and Polanyi on Access to Forms

    • Martin E. Turkis II
    Pages 201-220

  8. Post-Critical Platonism

    • Martin E. Turkis II
    Pages 221-243

  9. Conclusion

    • Martin E. Turkis II
    Pages 245-253

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 255-259
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About this book

This book tells the story of how the Platonic vision of Michael Polanyi – the Hungarian-British chemist and philosopher – bridges the gap between speculative metaphysics and scientific practice, thus making sense of the broad swathe of human experience in a phenomenologically satisfying fashion. The central proposal is that Polanyi is a Platonist due to his affirmation of the ontological status of abstract objects, with particular focus placed on the question of uninstantiated universals. The book engages contemporary, speculative realists from both continental and analytic traditions as it introduces Polanyi’s influential epistemology and unpacks the fascinating metaphysics implied thereby. It then proceeds to develop Polanyi’s rather unsystematic metaphysics into a coherent, post-critical Platonism which incorporates his well-known theory of tacit knowledge, thus achieving something akin to the ancient Neoplatonic synthesis of Plato and Aristotle in our contemporary, scientificcontext.


Reviews

“A provocative interpretation of such Polanyian ideas as fields, ordering principles, and comprehensive entities which re-energize Plato’s notion of the Forms.”—Walter Gulick, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Humanities and Religious Studies, Montana State University Billings


“Some of the most intellectually exciting work in Polanyi studies. It promises to have an important impact beyond most all that has gone before. It makes plain how Polanyi fits into the history of metaphysics and it enables us to see beyond Polanyi's own shortcomings and lacunae qua philosopher, resolving many of the long-standing controversies among Polanyi scholars.”
—Dale Cannon, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy & Religious Studies, Western Oregon University 

Authors and Affiliations

  • San Francisco, USA

    Martin E. Turkis II

About the author

Martin E. Turkis II is a philosopher, teacher, and musician residing in San Francisco. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy with honors from the University of Navarra. His interests include political economy, virtue ethics, and philosophy of education. He is an associate editor of the journal Tradition and Discovery.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Metaphysics of Michael Polanyi

  • Book Subtitle: Toward a Post-Critical Platonism

  • Authors: Martin E. Turkis II

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41211-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41210-3Published: 11 February 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41213-4Due: 13 March 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-41211-0Published: 10 February 2024

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 259

  • Topics: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science

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