113 research outputs found
Ronald Polansky, Aristotle’s De anima
No full textLefebvre René. Ronald Polansky, Aristotle’s De anima. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Troisième série, tome 109, n°1, 2011. pp. 176-177
The Modern Aristotle: Michael Polanyi’s Search for Truth against Nihilism
No full textDavid Hoinski and Ronald Polansky’s “The Modern Aristotle: Michael Polanyi’s Search for Truth against Nihilism” shows how the general tendencies of contemporary philosophy of science disclose a return to the Aristotelian emphasis on both the formation of dispositions to know and the role of the mind in theoretical science. Focusing on a comparison of Michael Polanyi and Aristotle, Hoinski and Polansky investigate to what degree Aristotelian thought retains its purchase on reality in the face of the changes wrought by modern science. Polanyi’s approach relies on several Aristotelian assumptions, including the naturalness of the human desire to know, the institutional and personal basis for the accumulation of knowledge, and the endorsement of realism against objectivism. Hoinski and Polansky emphasize the promise of Polanyi’s neo-Aristotelian framework, which argues that science is won through reflection on reality.</p
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