Seminars
Tuesday 26 March 2024
Conference on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Polanyi
Bruno Lemaitre, Global Health Institute, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Lemaitre
Wrote a book on Michael Polanyi
Books by Polanyi
- Personal Knowledge
- The Tacit Dimension
- Science, Faith and Society
Tacit: unspecifiable and implicit aspects of knowledge, accepted incritically e.g. riding a bike, playing the piano, but also reading, writing, speaking a language
- Michael Polanyi, the scientist who wanted to re-enchant the world
Theory of personal knowledge Polanyi anti-reductionism
Standard model of Science : objectivism
Moral inversion: immoral actions are justified by the moral good they serve (e.g. Nazism, Stalinism)
Maybe to connect with Carlo Rovelli's work on the nature of time and the nature of knowledge
In 1993, in collaboration with Alain Connes, Rovelli proposed a solution to this problem called the thermal time hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, time emerges only in a thermodynamic or statistical context. If this is correct, the flow of time is not fundamental, deriving from the incompleteness of knowledge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Rovelli
Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions after listening Polanyi's lectures
Personal knowledge is NOT subjectivism
- realism: there is an external reality outside of us
- submission to shared standards (responsability) e.g apply the scientific method
- intersubjectivity:
- universal intent:
Polanyi's anti-reductionism
Notion of emergence
Concept of dual control.
Polanyi's is post-critical philosophy.