On Friday, 27 September, the "Theoretical Philosophy" working group, led by Prof. Dr Sebastian Luft, is holding a full-day workshop on Michael Polanyi (1891-1976). The Hungarian-British scientist and philosopher is best known in the German-speaking world for the concept of implicit knowledge, which he coined. After an outstanding scientific career in which he conducted cutting-edge scientific research in Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s with researchers such as Haber, Planck, Einstein and Schrödinger, Polanyi turned to philosophy. His main philosophical work was published in 1958 under the title "Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy". "The work represents a great synthesis of his previous experiences in science and his entire scientific and general knowledge into a philosophy that should be able to justify free science. Polanyi draws on a great wealth of scientific examples in order to then view them from a reflexive philosophical perspective and in this way demonstrate the scientific process as it really is," says Luft.
"The specific reason for the workshop is the fact that Polanyi's "Opus magnum" has now been published in German translation. In this workshop, we want to use Joachim Schulte's translation to work through selected sections of this work, which has now become a classic of the 20th century, and thus gain an insight into Michael Polanyi's overall philosophical concept, which was based on the scientific knowledge of the 20th century," says Luft.
Registration is requested at sebastian.luft@upb.de. Information on the venue, accommodation and travel arrangements will be communicated to participants shortly.
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