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- Title: Emergence and Reduction in the Philosophy of Michael Polanyi (PT I) (Report)
- Author : Appraisal
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
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Preface The problems of emergence and reduction play a key role in the philosophy of Michael Polanyi. However, his approach to the topic is very special and unique, and it needs a textual analysis in detail. On the basis of his concept of emergence, the world cannot be divided simply into emergent and non-emergent entities, because he deals with the concept of emergence both epistemologically (conceptually) and ontologically (existentially). However, epistemological emergence does not follow from his famous theory of 'tacit knowing' (section 4 and 5) which in his theory determines the structure of our cognition but from his theory of 'tacit knowledge' (section 1, 3 and 5) which determines the structure of our knowledge. Expressed differently in Polanyi's terms, the conceptually (epistemologically) emergent entities can be defined as 'test-tube' type 'boundary conditions'. The theory of boundary conditions is, in turn, his third and crucial theory for understanding his concept of emergence, because this one determines the structure of the 'comprehensive entities'. This concept can be used to mark the existentially emergent entities that can be defined as 'machine type' boundary conditions. Important to note that Polanyi is interested in this kind of emergence mainly (1), one that cannot be understood on the basis of his theory of tacit knowing and knowledge, so I will investigate his non well-known theory of boundary conditions in detail (section 1-3).