One of the great contributions of the profession of medicine to the twentieth century is Michael Polanyi’s philosophy of knowing yet the medical contribution of Polanyi is barely noticed. Most authors, including myself, commenting on Polanyi’s polymath character note that Polanyi began his scientific career in medicine but early Polanyi turned to physical chemistry. Except for the interesting h...

Parameters from single-component isotherm models were used in multicomponent isotherm models to predict the aqueous phase sorption of trichloroethylene (TCE) in the presence of tetrachloroethylene (PCE) in four zeolites, Tenax, and three natural solids. The Langmuir, the Polanyi-Dubinin, and the Freundlich or the Langmuir-Freundlich isotherm models were used to simulate single-component sorptio...

Both Polanyi and many of his interpreters saw the implications of tacit knowing for restoring the Augustinian principle that faith precedes understanding. Polanyi’s contribution to the rediscovery of the essential role of faith in the achievement of knowledge has, however, had a limited impact in science, philosophy, and in Christian theology. Polanyi’s epistemological contribution, nevertheles...

[Michael Polanyi's "The Body-Mind Relation" was a paper delivered at a 1966 conference sponsored by the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute, the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences and the University of California, San Diego .. The conference and the book that grew out of it, Man and the Sciences of Man, edited by William R. Coulson and Carl R. Rogers (Columbus, Ohio: Charles E. Merrill Pu...

El término embeddedness, introducido por Karl Polanyi, se ha consolidado como una idea básica y constitutiva de la Nueva Sociología Económica (NSE). Sin embargo, asimilación este concepto introdujo diferencias significativas en relación a su significado original. Esta recepción creativa no siempre fue explicitada torno ella edificaron diferentes interpretaciones. En trabajo intentará contribuir...

As discussões acerca da epistemologia do conhecimento são bastante antigas e percorrem áreas das Ciências Saúde até as Sociais Aplicadas. Nela temos uma figura importante: Michael Polanyi, propondo perspectiva harmoniosa para a criação conhecimento, rompendo o ideal de objetividade absoluto herdado Revolução Científica século XVIII. A pesquisa qualiquanti utiliza como coleta dados os documentos...

We can know more than we tell. In this paper discuss how Polanyi applied his tacit knowledge concept to approach creativity. As a first step, Polanyi’s epistemological position is briefly discussed. Then conceptualisation of presented, followed by discussion relates creativity in general and science particular. argue that not only was theoretician on creativity, but also very creative educator ...