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Bibliography
(restricted to publications in English)

I. Works by Michael Polanyi

The following list of Michael Polanyi’s publications includes all of his book and other works
from which quotations or excerpts have been taken in this Anthology. The list is organized
chronologically in terms of the date the work was first published. Not included in this list are
quotations from unpublished material contained in the Polanyi Papers housed in the Regenstein
Library of the University of Chicago Department of Special Collections. A special issue of
Tradition and Discovery (XXIII:1, 1996-1997) contains a guide to the materials
(correspondence, manuscripts, notes, etc.) contained in the Polanyi Papers. The guide is still
reliable up through folder 47, but 13 additional boxes have been added to the collection. The
Karl Polanyi Institute at Concordia University in Montreal also contains a significant number of
letters by Michael Polanyi.

Atomic Reactions. London: Williams & Norgate, 1932.

USSR Economics. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1935.
“The Value of the Inexact,” The Philosophy of Science 13 (April 1936), 233-234 [reprinted in
Tradition and Discovery 18:3 (1992), 35-36].
The Contempt of Freedom: The Russian Experiment and After. London: Watts, 1940 [reprinted
by New York: Arno Press, 1975].
“The Growth of Thought in Society,” Economica 8 (November, 1941), 421-456.
“Science – Its Reality and Freedom,” The Nineteenth Century and After 135 (February 1944),
78-83.
Full Employment and Free Trade. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1945 [2nd ed., New
York: Macmillan Co., 1948].
Science, Faith and Society. Chicago: Phoenix Books of University of Chicago Press, 1964
[originally published by London: Oxford University Press, 1946].
The Logic of Liberty: Reflections and Rejoinders. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1998 [originally
published by Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951].
“The Stability of Beliefs,” The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 3 (November 1952),
217-232.
“Scientific Outlook – Its Sickness and Cure,” Science 125 (March 15, 1957), 480-484.
Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy. New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1964
[originally published by Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958 with a revised edition
in 1962].
The Study of Man. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1959.
“Lecompte du Noüy Foundation Award to Michael Polanyi,” acceptance speech. The Christian
Scholar 43 (March 1960), 57-58.
“Science and Religion: Separate Dimensions or Common Ground?” Philosophy Today 7:1
(Spring 1963), 4-14.
“The Scientific Revolution,” in Hugh C. White, Jr., ed., Christians in a Technological Era. New
York: Seabury Press, 1964, 25-45.
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The Tacit Dimension. With a new Foreword by Amartya Sen. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 2009 [originally published by Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966 and in an Anchor
paperback, 1967].
“Logic and Psychology,” The American Psychologist 23:1 (January 1968), 27-43.
“A Conversation with Michael Polanyi.” Interview by Mary Harrington Hall. Psychology Today
1 (May 1968), 20-25, 65-67.
“The Body-Mind Relation,” in William R. Coulson and Carl R. Rogers, eds., Man and the
Science of Man. Columbus, OH: Charles E. Merrill Publishing Co., 1968, 85-102.
Knowing and Being. Ed. with an introduction by Marjorie Grene. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1969.
“Science and Man,” Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine 63 (September 1970), 969-
976.
Scientific Thought and Social Reality: Essays by Michael Polanyi. Fred Schwartz, ed.
Psychological Issues VIII:4, Monograph 32. New York: International Universities Press,
1974.
Meaning. Co-author with Polanyi: Harry Prosch. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975.
“Polanyi, Michael,” in John Wakeman, ed., World Authors 1950-1970. New York: H. W.
Wilson, Co., 1975, 1151-1153.
Society, Economics, and Philosophy: Selected Papers. Ed. with an introduction by R. T. Allen.
New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1997.
“The Lecture Series: Meaning, Lost and Regained,” Polanyiana 15:1-2 (2006), 69-160. These
are the texts of Polanyi’s lectures on meaning, delivered at the University of Texas and the
University of Chicago in the first half of 1969. These lectures served in altered form as a
basis for Polanyi and Prosch, Meaning. The materials are found in Boxes 39 and 40 of the
Polanyi Papers at the University of Chicago Library, Department of Special Collections.

II. Bibliographies of Michael Polanyi’s publications

The following works jointly contain a bibliography of (virtually) all of Michael Polanyi’s
publications:
Harry Prosch. Michael Polanyi: A Critical Exposition. Albany: State University of New York
Press, 1986, 320-346.
Scott, William Taussig and Martin X. Moleski, S.J. Michael Polanyi: Scientist and Philosopher.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2005, 327-350.

The following work lists 218 scientific papers Polanyi published from 1910 to 1949:
Polanyi, John. “Scientific Papers by Michael Polanyi,” in The Logic of Personal Knowledge:
Essays Presented to Michael Polanyi on His Seventieth Birthday. Glencoe, IL: The Free
Press, 1961, 239-248.

The following bibliographies focus on Polanyi’s social and philosophical publications, largely as
published after 1935:
Allen, R.T., ed. Society, Economics & Philosophy: Selected Paper by Michael Polanyi. New
Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1997, 361-372. Allen traces the several
publications of some of Polanyi’s papers and provides summaries of Polanyi’s papers that
are not available in republished form on pp. 373-389.
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Gelwick, Richard L. “A Bibliography of Michael Polanyi’s Social and Philosophical Writings,”

in Thomas A. Langford and William H. Poteat, eds., Intellect and Hope: Essays in the
Thought of Michael Polanyi. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1968, 432-446. A list of
critical reviews of Polanyi’s thought is included.

The following bibliography bears special notice. It lists not only Polanyi’s works, but also
includes in separate categories works about Polanyi and works that make some use of
Polanyi’s thought. The Bibliography in the present work, Recovering Truths, while far, far
more limited than Poirier’s bibliography, is structured in much the same way. It also, of
course, includes a number of works published after Poirier’s bibliography:
Poirier, Maben W. A Classified and Partially Annotated Bibliography of all Forms of
Publications, Sound Recordings, Internet Documents, etc., by and about the Anglo-
Hungarian Philosopher of Science Michael Polanyi. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press,
2002.

III. Works (books, journal issues) principally devoted to interpreting Polanyi’s thought

Books (plus audio report, significant review articles)

Allen, R. T. Thinkers of Our Time: Polanyi. London: The Claridge Press, 1990.
Apczynski, John V., Doers of the Word: Toward a Foundational Theology Based on the Thought
of Michael Polanyi. AAR Dissertation Series 18. Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1977.
Gelwick, Richard. The Way of Discovery: An Introduction to the Thought of Michael Polanyi.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1977 [reissued by Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2004].
Gill, Jerry H. The Tacit Mode: Michael Polanyi’s Postmodern Philosophy. Albany: State
University of New York Press, 2000.
Hodgkin, R. A. and Eugene P. Wigner. “Michael Polanyi, 1891-1976.” Biographical Memoirs of
Fellows of the Royal Society 23 (1977), 421-448.
Jacobs, Struan and R. T. Allen, eds. Emotion, Reason and Tradition: Essays on the Social,
Political and Economic Thought of Michael Polanyi. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing
Co., 2005.
Jha, Stefania Ruzsits. Reconsidering Michael Polanyi’s Philosophy. Pittsburgh: University of
Pittsburgh Press, 2002.
Kane, Jeffrey. Beyond Empiricism: Michael Polanyi Reconsidered. New York: Peter Lang, 1984.
Langford, Thomas A. and William H. Poteat, eds. Intellect and Hope: Essays in the Thought of
Michael Polanyi. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1968.
Long, David W. Body Knowledge: A Path to Wholeness (The Philosophy of Michael Polanyi).
Bloomington, IN: Xlibris, 2011.
Margitay, Tihamér, ed. Knowing and Being in the Intersection of Philosophical Traditions:
Reconsidering Polanyi. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010.
Mattson, Craig E. “Thinking Aloud in Public: Michael Polanyi as Public Intellectual.” Christian
Scholar’s Review 36:1, 77-86. A review of five books dealing with Polanyi’s thought.
Mitchell, Mark T. Michael Polanyi: The Art of Knowing. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2006.
Mullins, Phil. “On Reading Polanyi and Reading about Polanyi’s Philosophical Perspective:
Notes on Secondary Sources.” The Political Science Reviewer 37 (2008), 158-240.
Reviews six of the books listed here that are designed to introduce Polanyi’s thought.
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Prosch, Harry. Michael Polanyi: A Critical Exposition. Albany: State University of New York
Press, 1986.
Sanders, Andy F. Michael Polanyi’s Post-Critical Epistemology: A Reconstruction of Some
Aspects of ‘Tacit Knowing.’ Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1988.
Scott, Drusilla. Everyman Revived: The Common Sense of Michael Polanyi. Foreword by Lesslie
Newbigin. Lewes, Sussex, UK: The Book Guild Limited, 1985 [reprinted Grand Rapids,
MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1995].
Scott, Drusilla. Michael Polanyi. London: SPCK Publishing, 1996.
Witmer, Andrew, ed. Tacit Knowing, Truthful Knowing: The Life and Thought of Michael
Polanyi. Charlottesville, VA: Mars Hill Audio Report, 1999.

Journals
Tradition & Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical publishes a variety of articles and
reviews devoted to all aspects of Polanyi’s thought (although a preponderance of the
articles deal with philosophy or religion). It began as a newsletter in 1972 and matured
under the editorship of Richard Gelwick. Phil Mullins assumed the editorship in 1991, and
since then the journal has appeared three times each year. All past issues are available to
the public through the Polanyi Society web site (www.polanyisociety.org).
Polanyiana: The Periodical of the Michael Polanyi Liberal Philosophical Association is a
journal, founded in 1992, that publishes articles related to Polanyi (and occasionally to
Polanyi’s associates like Arthur Koestler and Eugene Wigner) in Hungarian and English.
Based at the University of Technology and Economics in Budapest, the journal has
included more articles on Polanyi the scientist than the other two journals specializing in
Polanyi studies. Its archive is also available now to the public on the world wide web.
Appraisal: The Journal of the Society for Post-Critical and Personalist Studies is published
twice a year in Great Britain under the editorship of R. T. Allen. As the journal’s subtitle
suggests, the articles are not exclusively devoted to Polanyi, but rather encompass a fairly
wide range of interests and thinkers, among whom Polanyi is the most frequently cited
author.

In addition to the journals that regularly publish articles on Polanyi or related post-critical
thought, the following four issues of journals are among those that have been devoted
entirely, or nearly so, to Polanyi’s thought:
The Personalist Forum 9:2 (Fall 1993): “Polanyi on the Person,” David Rutledge, guest editor.
The Political Science Reviewer: An Annual Review of Scholarship 37 (2008): “A Symposium on
Michael Polanyi,” Walter B. Mead, guest editor.
Pre/Text: An Inter-Disciplinary Journal of Rhetoric 2:1-2 (Spring-Fall 1981), Sam Watson,
guest editor.
Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science 17:1 (March 1982), “Science and Religion in the Thought
of Michael Polanyi,” Phil Mullins, convener.

IV. Works whose authors make some significant use of Polanyi’s thought

The literature that makes some use of Polanyi’s thought is quite vast. The works listed here are
illustrative of this richness, but they should be regarded as representative of the available
literature in three senses: (1) an all too fallible attempt has been made to include at least one
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work by authors who have been most influenced by and make explicit use of Polanyi, (2) a
gesture has been made toward including at least one article from the many areas about which
Polanyi wrote or to which his thought has been applied, and (3) typically only two or three
representative journal articles and/or books by authors making extensive use of Polanyi’s
writings are included here. Articles from the three journals specializing in Polanyian thought are
usually only listed insofar as they suggest the range of subjects Polanyi or Polanyians address; a
wide range of provocative articles, not listed here, can quite easily be found in these journals.

A. Works providing historical and cultural context for understanding Polanyi

Calvin, Melvin. “Memories of Michael Polanyi in Manchester.” Tradition and Discovery 18:2
((1991-1992), 40-42.
Cesarani, David. Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind. New York: The Free Press, 1998.
Clements, Keith. Moot Papers. London: Continuum, 2010.
Coleman, Peter. The Liberal Conspiracy: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Struggle
for the Mind of Postwar Europe. New York: The Free Press, 1989.
Congdon, Lee. Exile and Social Thought: Hungarian Intellectuals in Germany and Austria,
1919-1933. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991.
Congdon, Lee. Seeing Red: Hungarian Intellectuals in Exile and the Challenge of Communism.
DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001.
Fitzpatrick, Joseph. Philosophical Encounters: Lonergan and the Analytic Tradition. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 2005.
Frank, Tibor. “Cohorting, Networking, Bonding: Michael Polanyi in Exile.” Polanyiana 10:1-2
(2002), 108-126.
Frank, Tibor. Double Exile: Migrations of Jewish-Hungarian Professionals through Germany to
the United States, 1919-1945. New York: Peter Lang, 2008.
Gábor, Éva. “Michael Polanyi and the Liberal Philosophical Tradition in Hungary.” Tradition
and Discovery 25:2 (1998-1999), 5-10.
Ignotus, Paul, et.al. The Logic of Personal Knowledge: Essays Presented to Michael Polanyi on
His Seventieth Birthday. Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1961. The essay by Ignotus focuses
especially on the Hungarian cultural context in which Polanyi matured.
Nagy, Endre J. “After Brotherhood’s Golden Age: Karl and Michael Polanyi” in Kenneth
McRobbie, ed., Humanity, Society and Commitment: On Karl Polanyi. Montreal: Black
Rose Books, 1994, 81-112.
Nye, Mary Jo. “Historical Sources of Science-as-Social-Practice: Michael Polanyi’s Berlin.”
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 37:2 (March 2007), 409-434.
Scammell, Michael, Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth Century
Skeptic. New York: Random House, 2009.
Tyson, Ruel. “From Salon to Institute: Convivial Spaces in the Intellectual Life of Michael
Polanyi.” Tradition and Discovery 32:3 (2005-2006), 19-22.
Scott, William Taussig and Martin X. Moleski, S.J. Michael Polanyi: Scientist and Philosopher.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Vesér, Erzsébet. “The Polanyi Family” in Kari Polanyi-Levitt, ed., The Life and Work of Karl
Polanyi. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1990, 18-25.

B. Philosophy
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a) Works illuminating Polanyi’s philosophy in relation to other philosophers

Agler, David W. “Polanyi and Peirce on the Critical Method.” Tradition and Discovery 38:3
(2011-2012), 13-30.
Flett, John. “Alasdair MacIntyre’s Tradition-Constituted Enquiry in Polanyian Perspective.”
Tradition and Discovery 26:2 (1999-2000), 6-20.
Gábor, Éva, ed. with the assistance of Dézsö Banki and R. T. Allen. Selected Correspondence
(1911-1946) of Karl Mannheim, Scientist, Philosopher, and Sociologist. Lampeter, Wales:
Edwin Mellen Press, 2003.
Gill, Jerry H. Deep Postmodernism: Whitehead, Wittgenstein, Merleau-Ponty and Polanyi.
Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2010.
Grene, Marjorie. “Intellectual Biography” in Randall E. Auxier and Lewis Edwin Hahn, eds.,
The Philosophy of Marjorie Grene. Library of Living Philosophers, vol. 29. Chicago: Open
Court, 2002, 3-28.
Gulick, Walter B. “An Unlikely Synthesis: What Kant Can Contribute to a Polanyian Theory of
Selfhood.” The Personalist Forum 9:2 (Fall, 1993), 81-107.
Gulick, Walter B. “Who Are the Persons of Michael Polanyi’s Personal Knowledge and John
Macmurray’s Persons in Relation?” Appraisal 7:3 (March, 2009), 3-10.
Hall, Ronald L. Word and Spirit: A Kierkegaardian Critique of the Modern Age. Bloomington,
In: Indiana University Press, 1993.
Hidegkuti, Béla. “Arthur Koestler and Michael Polanyi: Two Hungarian Minds in Partnership in
Britain.” Polanyiana 4:4 (Winter 1995), 8-81.
Innis, Robert E. Consciousness and the Play of Signs. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University
Press, 1994.
Innis, Robert E. Pragmatism and the Forms of Sense: Language, Perception, Technics.
University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2002.
Innis, Robert E. Susanne Langer in Focus. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2009.
Jacobs, Struan. “Tradition in a Free Society: The Fideism of Michael Polanyi and the
Rationalism of Karl Popper.” Tradition and Discovery 36:2 (2009-2010), 8-25.
Lowney, Charles W. “Seeing, Saying and Being the Gestalt: Continuing Investigations on
Wittgenstein and Polanyi on the Concept of the Person.” Appraisal 7:1 (March, 2008), 21-
38.
Lowney, Charles W. “The Tacit in Frege.” Polanyiana 17:1-2 (2008), 19-37.
Moleski, Martin X. “Polanyi vs. Kuhn: Worldviews Apart.” Tradition and Discovery 33:2 (2006-
2007), 8-24 [with response by Richard Henry Schmitt].
Mullins, Phil. “On Persons and Knowledge: Marjorie Grene and Michael Polanyi” in Randall E.
Auxier and Lewis Edwin Hahn, eds., The Philosophy of Marjorie Grene. Library of Living
Philosophers, vol. 29. Chicago: Open Court, 2002, 30-61 [followed by Grene’s “Reply to
Phil Mullins,” 61-62].
Rothfork, John. “Postmodern Ethics: Richard Rorty and Michael Polanyi.” Southern Humanities
Review 29:1 (1995), 15-48.
Scott, William T. “Tacit Knowing and the Concept of Mind.” The Philosophical Quarterly 21,
no. 82 (January, 1971), 22-35 [Ryle and Polanyi].
Tiles, J. E. “On Deafness in the Mind’s Ear: John Dewey and Michael Polanyi.” Tradition and
Discovery 18:3 (1991-1992), 9-16.
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Webb, Eugene. Philosophers of Consciousness: Polanyi, Lonergan, Voegelin, Girard,

Kierkegaard. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1988.
Yu, Zhenhua. “’Being-in-the-World’ in a Polanyian Perspective” in Margitay, Tihamér, ed.
Knowing and Being in the Intersection of Philosophical Traditions: Reconsidering Polanyi.
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010, 50-67.
Yu, Zhenhua. “Kant’s Notion of Judgment from the Perspective of the Theory of Tacit
Knowing.” Tradition and Discovery 31:1 (2004-2005), 24-35.
Yu, Zhenjua. “Tacit Knowledge: A Wittgensteinian Approach.” Tradition and Discovery 33:3
(2006-2007), 9-25.

b) Works utilizing Polanyi’s thought in tacit knowing, ontology, ethics and related areas

Botwinick, Aryeh. Skepticism and Political Participation. Philadelphia: Temple University

Press, 1990.
Cannon, Dale. “Construing Polanyi’s Tacit Knowing as Knowing by Acquaintance Rather than
Knowing by Representation: Some Implications.” Tradition and Discovery 29:2 (2002-
2003), 26-43.
Clayton, Philip. “Emergence, Supervenience, and Personal Knowledge.” Tradition and
Discovery 29:3 (2002-2003), 8-19 with “Emergence: A Reply to My Critics,” 48-51.
Clayton, Philip. Mind & Emergence: From Quantum to Consciousness. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2004.
Collins, Harry. Tacit and Explicit Knowledge. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Crunkleton, Martha A. “Polanyi, Feminist Issues and Epistemology.” Tradition and Discovery
15:2 (1987-1988), 5-11.
Dodwell, Peter. Brave New Mind: A Thoughtful Inquiry in to the Nature and Meaning of Mental
Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Doede, Robert P. “Polanyi in the Face of Transhumanism” Tradition and Discovery 35:1 (2008-
2009), 33-45.
Gelwick, Richard. “Michael Polanyi and the Philosophy of Medicine.” Tradition and Discovery
18:3 (1992), 21-29.
Gelwick, Richard. “Michael Polanyi’s Daring Epistemology and the Hunger for Teleology.”
Zygon 40:1 (March 2005), 63-76.
Goodenough, Ursula and Terrence Deacon, “From Biology to Consciousness to Morality.”
Tradition and Discovery 30:3 (2003-2004), 6-21 [critiques by Mullins and Yeager].
Gourlay, Stephen. “Knowing as Semiosis: Steps towards a Reconceptualization of ‘Tacit
Knowledge’” in Hardimos Tsoukas and Nikolaos Mylonopoulos, eds. Organizations as
Knowledge Systems: Knowledge, Learning and Dynamic Capabilities. New York: Palgrave
MacMillan, 2004, 86-105.
Grene, Marjorie. “Tacit Knowing: Grounds for a Revolution in Philosophy.” Journal of the
British Society for Phenomenology 8:3 (October 1977), 164-171.
Grene, Marjorie. “The Personal and the Subjective.” Polanyiana 2:4/3:1 (1992), 43-55.
Grene, Marjorie. A Philosophical Testament. Chicago: Open Court, 1995.
Hall, James A. “Polanyi and Jungian Psychology: Dream-ego and Waking-ego.” Journal of
Analytical Psychology 27 (1982), 239-254.
Haught, John F. and D. M. Yeager. “Polanyi’s Finalism.” Zygon 32:4 (December 1997), 543-
566.
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Henry, Stephen G. “Polanyi’s Tacit Knowing and the Relevance of Epistemology to Clinical
Medicine.” Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 16:2 (2010), 292-297.
Hopsicker, Peter. “Polanyi’s ‘From-To’ Knowing and His Contribution to the Phenomenology of
Skilled Motor Behavior.” Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 36:1 (2009), 76-87.
Jacobs, Struan. “Two Sources of Michael Polanyi’s Prototypical Notion of Incommensurability:
Evans-Pritchard on Azande Witchcraft and St Augustine on Conversion.” History of the
Human Sciences 16:2 (2003), 57-76.
Kennedy, Terence. “Michael Polanyi and ‘Modern Moral Rationalism.’” Polanyiana 17:1-2
(2008), 59-72.
Leder, Drew. The Absent Body. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
Lewis, Paul. “Polanyian Reflections on Embodiment, the Human Genome Initiative and
Theological Anthropology.” Tradition and Discovery 23:2 (1996-1997), 5-14.
MacIntyre, Alasdair. The Tasks of Philosophy. Selected Essays, Vol. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2006.
McCoy, Charles. “Ethics for the Post-Critical Era: Perspectives from the Thought of Michael
Polanyi.” Tradition and Discovery 29:1 (2002-2003), 6-21.
Milavec, Aaron. “How Acts of Discovery Transform Our Tacit Knowing Powers in Both
Scientific and Religious Inquiry.” Zygon 41:2 (June 2006), 465-486.
Miller, Kent D. “Simon and Polanyi on Rationality and Knowledge.” Organizational Studies
29:7 (2008), 933-955.
Moss, Edward. The Grammar of Consciousness: An Exploration of Tacit Knowing. New York:
St. Martin’s Press, 1995.
Naugle, David K. Worldview: The History of a Concept. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans
Publishing Co., 2002.
Nightingale, Paul. “If Nelson and Winter Are Only Half Right about Tacit Knowledge, Which
Half? A Searlean Critique of ‘Codification.’” Industrial and Corporate Change 12:2
(2003), 149-183.
Nyiri, J. C. “Tradition and Practical Knowledge” in J. C. Nyiri and Barry Smith, eds., Practical
Knowledge: Outlines of a Theory of Traditions and Skills. London: Croom Helm, 1987.
Peck, David. Practical Action: Polanyi, Hacking, Heidegger and the Tacit Dimension.
Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM Verlag, 2008.
Poteat, William H. A Philosophical Daybook: Post-Critical Investigations. Columbia, MO:
University of Missouri Press, 1990.
Poteat, William H. Polanyian Meditations: In Search of a Post-Critical Logic. Durham, NC:
Duke University Press, 1985.
Prosch, Harry. “Cooling the Modern Mind: Polanyi’s Mission.” Skidmore College Faculty
Research Lecture, 1971.
Reber, Arthur S. Implicit Learning and Tacit Knowledge: An Essay on the Cognitive
Unconscious. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Rogers, Carl. Dialogues: Conversations with Martin Buber, Paul Tillich, B. F. Skinner, Gregory
Bateson, Michael Polanyi, Rollo May, and Others. Howard Kirschenbaum and Valerie
Land Henderson, eds. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989.
Rolnick, Phil. “Polanyi’s Progress: Transcendence, Universality, and Teleology.” Tradition and
Discovery 19:2 (1993), 13-31.
Rutledge, David W. “‘Conquer or Die?’ Intellectual Controversy and Personal Knowledge.”
Tradition and Discovery 29:2 (2002-2003), 12-25.
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Sanders, Andy F. “Tacit Knowing – Between Modernism and Postmodernism: A Problem of

Coherence.” Tradition and Discovery 18:2 (1991-1992), 15-21.
Scarborough, Milton. Comparative Theories of Nonduality: The Search for a Middle Way. New
York: Continuum, 2009.
Scott, William T. “A Bridge from Science to Religion Based on Polanyi’s Theory of
Knowledge.” Zygon 5:1 (March 1970), 41-62.
Taylor, Charles. Philosophical Arguments. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Yeager, Diane. “Confronting the Minotaur: Moral Inversion and Polanyi’s Moral Philosophy.”
Tradition and Discovery 29:1 (2002-2003), 22-48.

C. Religion and Theology

Allen, R. T. Transcendence and Immanence in the Philosophy of Michael Polanyi and Christian
Theism. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992.
Avis, Paul. God and the Creative Imagination: Metaphor, Symbol and Myth in Religion and
Theology. New York: Routledge, 1999.
Baker, Doug P. Covenant and Community: Our Role as the Image of God. Eugene: Wipf &
Stock, 2008.
Barbour, Ian G. Religion and Science: Historical and Contemporary Issues.
HarperSanFrancisco, 1997.
Cannon, Dale W. Six Ways of Being Religious: A Framework for Comparative Studies of
Religion. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishers, 1995.
Clark, Tony. Divine Revelation and Human Practice: Responsive and Imaginative Participation.
Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2008.
Clarke, W. Norris. “Is a Natural Theology Still Possible Today?” in Robert John Russell, et. al.,
eds., Physics, Philosophy and Theology: A Common Quest for Understanding. Vatican
Observatory. Distributed by Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988.
Colapietro, Vincent M. “The Critical Appropriation of Our Intellectual Tradition: Toward a
Dialogue between Polanyi and Lonergan.” Tradition and Discovery 17:1 & 2 (1990-1991),
29-43.
Crewdson, Joan. Christian Doctrine in the Light of Michael Polanyi’s Theory of Personal
Knowledge: A Personalist Theology. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1994.
Foster, Durwood. “Michael and Paulus: A Dynamic Uncoordinated Duo.” Tradition and
Discovery 35:3 (2008-2009), 21-39. [The Polanyi-Tillich meeting.]
Grant, Colin. “Dynamic Orthodoxy: A Polanyian Direction for Theology.” Studies in
Religion/Sciences Religeuses 17:4 (1988), 407-410.
Grosso, Andrew T. Personal Being: Polanyi, Ontology, and Christian Theology. New York:
Peter Lang Publishing, 2007.
Haught, John F. Deeper than Darwin: The Prospect for Religion in an Age of Evolution.
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2003.
Haught, John F. God after Darwin: A Theology of Evolution. Boulder, CO: Westview Press,
2000.
Jaeger, Lydia. Einstein, Polanyi, and the Laws of Nature. Philadelphia: Templeton Press, 2010.
Keiser, R. Melvin. “Inaugurating Postcritical Philosophy: A Polanyian Meditation on Creation
and Conversion in Augustine’s Confessions.” Zygon 22:3 (September 1987), 317-337.
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Kettle, David J. Western Culture in Gospel Context: Towards the Conversion of the West;
Theological Bearings for Mission and Spirituality. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2011.
Knepper, Paul. “Michael Polanyi and Jewish Identity.” Philosophy of the Social Sciences 35:3,
263-293.
Loder, James E. and W. Jim Neidhardt. The Knight’s Move: The Relational Logic of the Spirit in
Theology and Science. Colorado Springs, CO, 1992.
McGrath, Alister E. Thomas F. Torrance: An Intellectual Biography. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark,
2006.
Meek, Esther Lightcap. Longing to Know: The Philosophy of Knowledge for Ordinary People.
Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2003.
Meek, Esther. Loving to Know: Introducing Covenant Epistemology. Eugene, OR: Cascade
Books, 2011.
Moleski, Martin X. Personal Catholicism: The Theological Epistemologies of John Henry
Newman and Michael Polanyi. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press,
2000.
Newbigin, Lesslie. The Gospel in a Pluralist Society. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans
Publishing Co., 1989.
Newman, Elizabeth. Untamed Hospitality: Welcoming God and Other Strangers. Grand Rapids,
MI: Brazos Press, 2007.
Niebuhr, H. Richard. Faith on Earth: An Inquiry into the Structure of Human Faith. Richard R.
Niebuhr, ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.
Nikkel, David. Radical Embodiment. Pickwick Publications, 2005 [reprint: Eugene, OR: Wipf &
Stock Publishers, 2010].
Paul, Iain. Knowledge of God: Calvin, Einstein, and Polanyi. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic
Press, 1987.
Polkinghorne, John. “Divine Action: An Interview with John Polkinghorne.” Interview by
Lyndon S. Harris. Cross Currents 48:1 (Spring 1998).
Polkinghorne, John. Faith, Science and Understanding. New Haven: Yale University Press,
2000.
Rae, Murray A. Critical Conversations: Michael Polanyi and Christian Theology. Eugene, OR:
Pickwick Publications, 2012.
Reist, Benjamin. Processive Revelation. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox, 1992.
Rolnick, Philip A. Person, Grace, and God. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing
Co., 2007.
Scarborough, Milton. Myth and Modernity: Postcritical Reflections. Albany, NY: State
University of New York Press, 1994.
Stines, James W. “I Am the Way: Michael Polanyi’s Taoism.” Zygon 20:1 (March 1985), 59-77.
Thacker, Justin. Postmodernism and the Ethics of Theological Knowledge. Burlington, VT:
Ashgate Publishing Co., 2007.
Thompson, Alexander. Tradition and Authority in Science and Religion: With Reference to the
Thought of Michael Polanyi. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1987.
Torrance, Thomas F. Belief in Science and in Christian Life: The Relevance of Michael Polanyi’s
Thought for Christian Life and Faith. Edinburgh: Handsel Press, 1980.
Torrance, Thomas F. Theological and Natural Science. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock Publishers,
2002.
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Torrance, Thomas F. Transformation and Convergence in the Frame of Knowledge. Grand

Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1984. This work contains “The Place of
Michael Polanyi in the Modern Philosophy of Science.”
Weightman, Colin. Theology in a Polanyian Universe: The Theology of Thomas Torrance.
Lewiston, NY: Peter Lang Publishing, 1994.
Witham, Larry. The Measure of God: History’s Greatest Minds Wrestle with Reconciling
Science and Religion. HarperSanFrancisco, 2005. An overview of all the Gifford Lectures.

D. Science: Its History, Philosophy, and Practices

Agassi, Joseph. Science and Society. Dordrecht and Boston: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1981.
Arnhart, Larry. Darwinian Natural Right: The Biological Ethics of Human Nature. Albany, NY:
State University of New York Press, 1998.
Brown, Theodore L. Imperfect Oracle: The Epistemic and Moral Authority of Science.
University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009.
Brown, Theodore L. Making Truth: Metaphor in Science. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois
Press, 2003.
Cohen, Robert S. “Tacit, Social and Hopeful” in Marjorie Grene, ed., Interpretations of Life and
Mind: Essays around the Problem of Reduction. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971,
137-148.
Fehér, Márta. “Science and Liberalism.” Polanyiana 5:1 (1996), 47-62.
Friedrich, Bretislav, Dieter Hoffmann, & Jeremiah James. “One Hundred Years of the Fritz
Haber Institute.” Angewandte Chemie 123:43 (October 17, 2011), 10198-10225 (Wiley
Online Library).
Haack, Susan. Defending Science – Within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism. Amherst,
NY: Prometheus Books, 2003.
Hargittai, Istvan. The Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Holton, Gerald. “Michael Polanyi and the History of Science.” Tradition and Discovery 19:1
(1992-1993), 16-30.
Jha, Stefania. “Wigner’s ‘Polanyian Epistemology and the Measurement Problem: The Wigner-
Polanyi Dialog on Tacit Knowledge.” Physics in Perspective 13 (2011), 329-358.
Kuhn: “Interview of Michael Polanyi” by Thomas S. Kuhn on February 15, 1962 (Niels Bohr
Library and Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD, USA),
www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4831.html.
Margitay, Tihamér. “Indeterminacies by Polanyi.” Polanyiana 15:1-2 (2006), 41-55.
Mirowski, Philip. “On Playing the Economics Trump Card in the Philosophy of Science: Why It
Did Not Work for Michael Polanyi.” Philosophy of Science 64, Supplement (1997), S127-
S138.
Misiek, J., ed. The Problem of Rationality in Science and Its Philosophy: On Popper vs. Polanyi.
New York: Springer Publishing, 1994.
Mwamba, Tchafu. Michael Polanyi’s Philosophy of Science. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen
Press, 2001.
Nye, Mary Jo. From Chemical Philosophy to Theoretical Chemistry: Dynamics of Matter and
Dynamics of Disciplines, 1800-1950. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
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Nye, Mary Jo. Michael Polanyi and His Generation: Origins of the Social Construction of
Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Nye, Mary Jo. “Scientific Practice and Politics: A Preliminary Look at Blackett and Polanyi in
Manchester.” Polanyiana 5:2 (1996), 21-35.
Pinch, Trevor. “Does Science Undermine Science? Wittgenstein, Turing, and Polanyi as
Precursors for Science Studies and Science Wars” in Jay A. Labinger and Harry Collins,
eds., The One Culture? A Conversation about Science. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 2001.
Polanyi, John C. “Michael Polanyi the Scientist.” Polanyiana 12:1-2 (2003), 117-121.
Polya, G. How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method, 2nd ed. Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 1957. Polya does not employ Polanyi’s writings; rather this
work is listed because Polanyi was greatly influenced by Polya’s tacit notion of discovery.
Redner, Harry. The Ends of Science: An Essay in Scientific Authority. Boulder, CO: Westview
Press, 1987.
Scott, Michael T. “Michael Polanyi’s Creativity in Chemistry” in Rutherford Aris, et.al, eds.,
Springs of Scientific Creativity. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983.
Thorpe, Charles. “Community and Market in Michael Polanyi’s Philosophy of Science.” Modern
Intellectual History 6:1 (2009), 59-89.
Turner, Stephen. “Polanyi’s Political Theory of Science” in Struan Jacobs & R. T. Allen, eds.
Emotion, Tradition, Reason: Essays on the Social, Economic and Political Thought of
Michael Polanyi. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2005.
Van Pelt, James Clement. “Toward a Polanyian Critique of Technology: Attending from the
Indwelling of Tools to the Course of Technological Civilization.” Bulletin of Science,
Technology & Society 31:3 (2011), 236-246.
Wigner, Eugene P. The Recollections of Eugene P. Wigner as told to Andrew Szanton. New
York: Basic Books, 2003.
Ziman, John. Reliable Knowledge: An Exploration of the Grounds for Belief in Science.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979 [reprint 1991].

E. Social Issues: Business, Economics, Political Science, Sociology

Allen, R. T. Beyond Liberalism: The Political Thought of F. A. Hayek & Michael Polanyi. New
Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1998.
Allen, R. T., ed. Michael Polanyi: (Vor-) Denker des Liberalismus im 20. Jahrhundert.
Gummersbach, DE: Theodor Heuss Akademie, 2012 (articles are in English).
Ancori, B., Bureth A., and P. Cohendet. “The Economics of Knowledge: The Debate about
Codification and Tacit Knowledge.” Industrial and Corporate Change 9:2 (2000), 255-
283.
Argyris, Chris & Donald A. Schon. Theory in Practice: Increasing Professional Effectiveness.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1992.
Aron, Raymond. “Max Weber and Michael Polanyi.” The Logic of Personal Knowledge: Essays
Presented to Michael Polanyi on his Seventieth Birthday. Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1961,
99-115.
Austin, Victor Lee, Up with Authority: Why We Need Authority to Flourish as Human Beings.
London: T & T Clark International, 2010.
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Baumard, Philippe. Tacit Knowledge in Organizations. Samantha Wauchope, trans. Thousand

Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1999.
Bladel, John. “Against Polanyi-Centrism: Hayek and the Re-emergence of ‘Spontaneous
Order.’” Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 8:4 (Winter 2005), 15-30.
Campbell, Donald T. Methodology and Epistemology for Social Sciences: Selected Papers. E.
Samuel Overman, ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
Clune, Michael. American Literature and the Free Market. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2010.
Collins, Harry. “Bicycling on the Moon: Collective Tacit Knowledge and Somatic-limit Tacit
Knowledge.” Organizational Studies 28:2 (2007), 257-262.
Gertler, Meric S. “Tacit Knowledge and the Economic Geography of Context, or The
Undefinable Tacitness of Being (There).” Journal of Economic Geography 3 (2003), 75-
99.
Goodman, C. P. “Beyond Nihilism” in Struan Jacobs and R. T. Allen, eds. Emotion, Reason &
Tradition: Essays on the Social, Political and Economic Thought of Michael Polanyi.
Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2005.
Gulick, Walter. “Michael and Karl Polanyi: Conflict and Convergence.” The Political Science
Reviewer 37 (2008), 13-43.
Hayek, F. A. The Constitution of Liberty. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960.
Horvath, Joseph A., et.al. “Experience, Knowledge, and Military Leadership” in Robert J.
Sternberg and Joseph A. Horvath, eds. Tacit Knowledge in Professional Practice:
Researcher and Practitioner Perspectives. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,
1999.
Hull, Richard. “The Great Lie: Markets, Freedom and Knowledge” in Dieter Plehwe, Bernhard
Walpen, and Gisela Neunhöffer, eds. Neoliberal Hegenomy: A Global Critique. New York:
Routledge, 2006.
Jacobs, Struan. “Spontaneous Order: Michael Polanyi and Frederick Hayek.” Critical Review of
International Social and Political Philosophy 3:4 (2000), 49-67.
Jardine, Murray. The Making and Unmaking of Technological Society: How Christianity Can
Save Modernity from Itself. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2004.
Jones, Barbara and Bob Miller. Innovation Diffusion in the New Economy: The Tacit Dimension.
New York: Routledge, 2007.
McInerney, Claire R. and Ronald E. Day, eds. Rethinking Knowledge Management: From
Knowledge Objects to Knowledge Processes. Berlin: Springer, 2007.
Mead, Walter B. “A Symposium on the Relevance of Michael Polanyi’s Insights to a
Reformulated Understanding of Science, Technology & Society.” Bulletin of Science,
Technology & Society 31:3 (2011), 155-159.
Mead, Walter B. “The Importance of Michael Oakeshott for Polanyian Studies: With Reflections
on Oakeshott’s The Voice of Liberal Learning.” Tradition and Discovery 31:2 (2004-2005),
37-44.
Mirowski, Philip. The Effortless Economy of Science? Durham, NC: Duke University Press,
2004.
Musser, Donald W. “Polanyi and Tillich on History.” Tradition and Discovery 22:1 (1995-1996),
20-30.
Nagy, Paul. “Philosophy in a Different Voice: Michael Polanyi on Liberty and Liberalism.”
Tradition and Discovery 22:3 (1995-1996), 17-27.
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Nelson, Richard and Sidney Winter. An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 1982.
Nonaka, Ikujiro and Hirotaki Takeuchi. The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese
Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Phillips, D. C. Philosophy, Science, and Social Inquiry: Contemporary Methodological
Controversies in Social Science and Related Applied Fields of Research. Oxford:
Pergamon Press, 1987.
Pooley, Jefferson. “Edward Shils’ Turn against Karl Mannheim: The Central European
Connection.” The American Sociologist 38:4 (2007), 364-382.
Roberts, Paul Craig. Alienation and the Soviet Economy: The Collapse of the Socialist Era.
Revised edition. New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1990.
Roberts, Paul Craig. “Politics and Science: A Critique of Buchanan’s Assessment of Polanyi.”
Ethics 79:3 (April 1969), 235-241.
Roth, Guenther. “The Near-Death of Liberal Capitalism: Perceptions from the Weber to the
Polanyi Brothers.” Politics and Society 31:2 (2003), 263-282.
Shils, Edward. A Fragment of a Sociological Autobiography: The History of My Pursuit of a
Few Ideas. Steven Grosby, ed. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2006.
Shils, Edward. “On the Traditions of Intellectuals: Authority and Antinomianism According to
Michael Polanyi.” Tradition and Discovery 22:2 (1995-1996), 10-26.
Shils, Edward. Tradition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.
Thorpe, Charles. “Science Against Modernism: The Relevance of the Social Theory of Michael
Polanyi.” British Journal of Sociology 52:1 (2001), 19-35.
Turner, Stephen. The Social Theory of Practices: Tradition, Tacit Knowledge, and
Presuppositions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Vinti, Carlo. “Polanyi and the ‘Austrian School’” in Struan Jacobs and R. T. Allen, eds.,
Emotion, Reason and Tradition: Essays on the Social, Political and Economic Thought of
Michael Polanyi. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2005.
Waruingi, Macharia. Emergencing: How to Know the More That Others Can Know but Cannot
Tell. Minnetonka, MN: Global Health Care Systems, 2010.

F. The Arts, Humanities, and Education

Adams, Doug. Transcendence with the Human Body in Art: George Segal, Stephen De Staebler,
Jasper Johns, and Christo. New York: Crossroad, 1991.
Allen, R. T. “The Philosophy of Michael Polanyi and Its Significance for Education.” Journal of
Philosophy of Education 12 (1978), 167-177.
Baumgarten, Barbara Dee Bennett. Visual Art as Theology. New York: Peter Lang Publishing,
1995.
Brownhill, R. J. Education and the Nature of Knowledge. London: Croom Helm, 1983.
Broudy, Daniel. From Play to Poetics: Clearing a Vygotskyan Path to Prose. Newport, OR:
Waldport Press, 2008.
Bulterman-Bos, Jacquelien A. “Will a Clinical Approach Make Educational Research More
Relevant for Practice?” Educational Researcher 37:7 (2008), 412-420.
Clinchy, Blythe McVicker. “Pursued by Polanyi.” Tradition and Discovery 34:1 (2007-2008),
54-67.
De Clercq, R. “Aesthetic Ineffability.” Journal of Consciousness Studies 7:8-9 (2000), 87-98.
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Greene, Maxine. “The Problematic of the Humanities: Clues and Cues from Michael Polanyi.”
Tradition and Discovery 13:2 (1985-1986), 9-20.
Guthrie, Steven R. “The Wisdom of Song” in Jeremy S, Begbie and Steven R. Guthrie, eds.
Resonant Witness: Conversations between Music and Theology. Grand Rapids, MI:
Eerdmans, 2011.
Hung, David Wei Loong. “Activity, Apprenticeship, and Epistemological Appropriation:
Implications from the Writings of Michael Polanyi.” Educational Psychologist 34:4 (1999),
193-205.
Hodgkin, Robin A. Playing and Exploring: Education through the Discovery of Order. London:
Methuen, 1985.
Mullins, Phil and Struan Jacobs, “T. S. Eliot’s Idea of the Clerisy, and its Discussion by Karl
Mannheim and Michael Polanyi in the Context of J.H. Oldham’s Moot.” Journal of
Classical Sociology 6:2 (July, 2006), 147-156.
Palmer, Parker J. and Arthur Zadonc. The Heart of Higher Education: A Call to Renewal. San
Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2010.
Reese, Sam. “Polanyi’s Tacit Knowing and Music Education.” Journal of Aesthetic Education
14:1 (January 1980), 75-89.
Richmond, Sheldon Saul. Aesthetic Criteria: Gombrich and the Philosophies of Science of
Popper and Polanyi. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994.
Sargeant, M. Elizabeth. “Believing Is Not a Game: Peter Elbow’s Uneasy Debt to Michael
Polanyi” in Pat Belanoff, et. al., eds., Writing with Elbow. Logan, UT: University of Utah
Press, 2002.
Ver Straten-McSparran, Rebecca, “Polanyi’s Personal Knowledge and Watching Movies,” in
Robert K. Johnston, ed., Reframing Theology and Film: New Focus for an Emerging
Discipline. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2007.
Young, Michael F. D., Bringing Knowledge Back In: From Social Constructivism to Social
Realism in the Sociology of Education. New York: Taylor and Francis, 2008.