Harbinger of disorder

Harbinger of disorder

Mark Mitchell on Michael Polanyi’s recognition of the dangerous dead-end of materialistic reductionism
The personal element in all knowing

The personal element in all knowing

Mark Mitchell connects key aspects of Michael Polanyi’s conception of knowledge with Matthew Crawford’s insistence that real knowing involves more than technique. (34 minutes)
Making contact with reality

Making contact with reality

FROM VOL. 139
Esther Lightcap Meek discusses the realism of philosopher and chemist Michael Polanyi. (23 minutes)
Knowing the world through the body

Knowing the world through the body

FROM VOL. 76
Professor Martin X. Moleski explains why Michael Polanyi (1891-1976) left his career in science to become a philosopher. (16 minutes)
Steward of knowledge vs. autonomous knower

Steward of knowledge vs. autonomous knower

FROM VOL. 66
Esther Lightcap Meek challenges the modernist view of knowledge, which prefers the figure of the autonomous knower to the figure of a steward of knowledge acquired in part from others. (15 minutes)
The collaboration of bodies and minds

The collaboration of bodies and minds

F. C. Copleston on Aquinas’s confidence in the embodied nature of knowledge
Wonder, being, skepticism, and reason

Wonder, being, skepticism, and reason

FROM VOL. 135
Matthew Levering talks about the long and rich tradition of reasoning about God. (23 minutes)
The need to recollect ourselves as whole persons

The need to recollect ourselves as whole persons

In this 2016 lecture, John F. Crosby explores key personalist insights found in the thinking of John Henry Newman and Romano Guardini. (60 minutes)
"A sign of contradiction"

“A sign of contradiction”

In this lecture, Daniel Gibbons compares and contrasts understandings of sacramental poetics proposed by Augustine, Aquinas, and Sydney. (36 minutes)
Nature’s intelligibility

Nature’s intelligibility

In this lecture, Christopher Blum argues that scientists need to regain a full appreciation of nature’s intelligibility, as they are apt to lose sight of reality due to the reductionism produced by their theories. (31 minutes)
Submission to mathematical truth

Submission to mathematical truth

In this lecture, Carlo Lancellotti argues that integration of the moral, cognitive, and aesthetic aspects of mathematics is needed in a robust liberal arts mathematics curriculum. (25 minutes)
Embodied knowledge

Embodied knowledge

FROM VOL. 121
James K. A. Smith advocates for a return to some pre-modern conceptualizations of the human body. (18 minutes)
Touch’d with a coal from heav’n

Touch’d with a coal from heav’n

Daniel Ritchie finds in the poetry of William Cowper (1731–1800) an anticipation of Michael Polanyi’s epistemology
How we know the world

How we know the world

Daniel Ritchie argues that poet and hymnodist William Cowper was ahead of his time in critiquing the Enlightenment's reductionist view of knowledge. (16 minutes)
William Cowper: Reconciling the Heart with the Head

William Cowper: Reconciling the Heart with the Head

Daniel E. Ritchie discusses the life and work of poet William Cowper (1731–1800), comparing his commitment to understanding reality through personal knowledge, intuition, and rigorous contemplation with the thought of Michael Polanyi. (43 minutes)
Approaches to knowing

Approaches to knowing

FROM VOL. 104
Daniel Ritchie describes how many of the figures he studies in his new book emphasize the significance of human experience, enculturation, and contingency to human knowledge. (21 minutes)
The integration of theoretical and mythic intelligence

The integration of theoretical and mythic intelligence

FROM VOL. 156
William C. Hackett discusses the relationships between philosophy and theology, and of both to the meaning embedded in myth. (29 minutes)
Universities as the hosts of reciprocating speech

Universities as the hosts of reciprocating speech

Robert Jenson on how the Christian understanding of Truth in a personal Word shaped the Western university
The ecstasy of the act of knowing

The ecstasy of the act of knowing

Theologian Paul Griffiths situates our creaturely knowing within the framework of the relation between God and Creation
On The Abolition of Man

On The Abolition of Man

FROM VOL. 154
Michael Ward explains why The Abolition of Man is one of Lewis’s most important but also most difficult books. (36 minutes)