BA (Hons. 2/1, Philosophy with subsid. History,  The University of Nottingham, 1963.

PGCE, English and History method, The University of Hull, 1968

Teaching English at Kettering Grammar School, 1968-1972

M.Ed. Part-time research thesis on 'Emotion and Education with special reference to D.H. Lawrence', University of Leicester in 1973.

Lecturer in philosophy of education and also religious studies at Loughborough College of Education, 1972 to 1977.

BD Hons. 2/1, external, King's College, University of London, 1976.

Senior Lecturer in Education at Sokoto College of Education in Nigeria, 1980-2.

Ph.D. external, with a thesis on 'Transcendence and Immanence in the Philosophy of Michael Polanyi and Christian Theism', King's College, University of London, 1982.

Senior Lecturer, Philosophy of Education, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad, 1984-8.

Part-time Tutor in philosophy, School of Continuing Education, University of Nottingham, 1988-2002.

 

Publications

A. Books

1. Polanyi, in Thinkers of Our Time, The Claridge Press, London, 1991; 88 pages.

2. Transcendence and Immanence in the Philosophy of Michael Polanyi and Christian Theism, Edwin Mellen Press, Rutherford Studies in Contemporary Theology Vol. 5, 1992; vi + 196 pages.

3. The Education of Autonomous Man, Avebury Philosophy Series, Academic Publishing Group, 1992; vi + 88 pages.

4. The Structure of Value, Avebury Philosophy Series, Ashgate Publishing Group, 1993; vi + 162 pages.

5. (Ed) Science, Economics and Philosophy: Selected articles by Michael Polanyi, Transaction, Rutgers NJ, 1997; viii + 396 pp.

6. Beyond Liberalism: A Study in the political thought of F.A. Hayek and Michael Polanyi(with an appendix on Aurel Kolnai); Transaction, Rutgers NJ, 1998; x + 268 pp.

7. Ed. with Struan Jacobs: Emotion, Reason and Tradition: Essays on the Social, Political and EconomicThought of Michael Polanyi, Guildford, Ashgate, 2005, 174 pp.

8. The Necessity of God: Ontological Claims Revisited, Transaction Publishers, Rutgers NJ 2008; viii + 97 pp.

9. Ethics as Scales of Forms, Newcastle on Tyne, Cambridge Scholars, 2014; vi + 202 pp.

10. Ed. Freedom, Authority and Economics: EssaysonMichael Polanyi's Politics and Economics, Willmington, DE, Vernon Press, 2016, xvi + 167 pp.

Translation:Juan Manuel Burgos, Introducción al personalism, Madrid, Ediciones Palabra, 2012, as Introduction to Personalism, Washington, DC, Catholic Universities Press, 2017 (pending).

11. Eds. Angela Botez, R.T. Allen, Henrieta Anisoara Serban: Lucian Blaga:Selected Philosophical Extracts, Willmington. DE, Vernon Press, 2018..

B. Contributions to books

1. 'The ambiguities of self-expression' in (ed). Willmore, F., Design Education in Craft and Technology, London, Batsford, 1976, pp. 6-10.

2. 'Leisure: the meaning of life and the nature of philosophy' in The Philosophy of Leisure- ed. Winnifrith and Barrett, Macmillan, 1989, pp. 20-33).

3. 'Michael Polanyi' in The Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, 1998.

4. 'Knowing how and knowing that: a Polanyian perspective', in Neuweg, Georg Hans (Ed.): Wissen - Können - Reflexion. Ausgewählte Verhältnisbestimmungen. Innsbruck, Wien: Studienverlag, 2000.

5. Interview in: Botez, Angela: Filosofi Britanici: La Sfarsitul Secolului al XX-lea, Merc SerV, Bucharest, 2000.

6. 'Stiintele cognitive si cunoastererea personala' ('Cognitive science and personal knowledge') in Filosofie si Stiinte Cognitve, ed. G.G. Constandache, Matrix Rom, Bucharest, Romania, 2002, pp. 151-7.

7. 'The rehabilitation of emotion', in Struan Jacobs and R.T. Allen (eds): Emotion, Reason and Tradition: Essays on the Social, Political and EconomicThought of Michael Polanyi, Guildford, Ashgate, 2005, pp. 41-53.

8. 'Michael Polanyi' (Dictionary of Liberal Thought, ed. D. Black and E. Randall, London, Politico's, 2007.)

9. With Giorgio Baruchello, 'Responsibility versus Reductionism: western world-views, and attitudes to nature, in relation to life-support systems', in eds. UNESCO Encyclopaedia of Life-Support Systems.

10. 'The dialectic of assimilation and adaptation revisited', in Critical Conversations, ed. Murray Rae, Eugene, OR, Pickwick Publications, 2012, pp. 32-55.

11. 'Emotion, commitment and autonomy', in ed T. Margitay, Knowing and Being: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Michael Polanyi, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Cambridge Scholars, 2010, pp. 185-191.

12. 'Introduction: Michael Polanyi and his political and economic writing' and 'A Polanyian account of the relations between politics and economics', in ed. R.T. Allen, Freedom, Authority and Economics: Essays on Michael Polanyi's Politics and Economics.

13. 'Vicarious Atonement' in Vol. IV Christian Approaches to Forgiveness, of The Philosophy of Forgiveness, Willmington, DE, Vernon Press, 2019, pp. 179-187.

14. 'The philosophy of Michael Polanyi and some Contemporary Attitudes to Life and Death', in ed. C. Tandy, Ann Arbor, MI, Contemporary Attitudes to Life and Death,

15. 'Why personalism needs "the dismal science"',The Person at the Crossroads, eds. James Beauregard, Giusy Gallo, Claudia Stancati , DE., Vernon Press, 2020.

C. Articles in Journals

1. 'The aesthetic experience again', British Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. 10., No. 4, Oct. 1970, pp. 344-9.

2. 'On not understanding prayer', Sophia Australia, Oct. 1971.

3. 'Religion, emotion and education', Proceedings of the Philosophy of Education Society, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1973, pp. 181-94.

4. 'Self-realization, religion and contradiction in Ethical Studies', Idealistic Studies(USA) Vol. 1V No. 3, Sept. 1974, pp. 28

5. 'Civil society and the state as objects of aesthetic appreciation', British Journal of AestheticsVol. 16, No. 3, Summer 1976, pp. 237-42.

6. 'Education as initiation into cosmology and way', Learning for LivingVol. 16, Autumn 1976, pp. 13-8.

7. 'Neutral against faith', Spectrum, Vol. 9 No. 1, Sept. 1976, pp. 12-4.

8. 'Craft as a liberal education', Studies in Design Education and CraftVol. 9, No. 1, Winter 1976, pp. 220-4.

9. 'Defensor Ludorum', Bulletin of P.E.Vol. XIII, No. 1, Jan 1977.

10. 'The intellectualist heresy', SpectrumVol. 10, No. 2, Jan. 1978, pp. 7-8.

11. 'The philosophy of Michael Polanyi and its significance for education', Journal of Philosophy of EducationVol 12, 1978, pp. 167-177.

12. 'Supererogation revisited', Sophia(Australia), 20, July 1981, pp. 5-11.

13. 'Plato's theory of popular education', Sokoto Journal of Education(Nigeria) No. 1, Feb. 1982, pp. 19-25.

14. 'Rational autonomy: the destruction of freedom', Journal of Philosophy of EducationVol.16, No. 2, 1982, pp. 119-207.

15. 'Absolute presuppositions and tacit knowing', ConviviumNo. 17, Oct. 1983, pp. 5-11.

16. 'Polanyi and the reality of God' (review article), Convivium No. 17, Oct. 1983, pp. 25-30.

17. 'Rorty and the scope of non-justificatory philosophy (I)', ConviviumNo. 20, Mar. 1985, pp. 23-6.

18. 'Rorty and the scope of non-justificatory philosophy (II)', ConviviumNo. 21, Oct. 1985, pp. 32-6.

19. 'Markets, corporativism and endowments', Higher Education NewsletterNo. 10, Dec. 1985, pp. 44-5.

20. 'The reality of responses to fiction', British Journal of AestheticsVol. 26, No.1, Winter 1986, pp. 64-8.

21. 'Uncritical theory and phenomenology', Journal of the British Society for PhenomenologyVol. 18 No. 1, Jan. 1987, pp. 62-73.

22. 'Because I say so! Some limitations on the rationalisation of authority', Journal of Philosophy of Education, Vol. 21, No. 1, 1987, pp. 15-24.

23. 'Idealism, theism and education: some footnotes to Gordon and White', Journal of Philosophy of Education, Vol. 21, No. 2, 1987, pp. 283-6.

24. 'The question of "special providences"', Theology, Vol. XC, No. 3, Nov. 1987, pp. 441-6.

25. 'Polanyi and Truth', Convivium, 25, Oct. 1987, pp. 48-54.

26. '"I'll say it again": a reply to Mr Mackenzie', Journal of Philosophy of Education, Vol. 22, No. 1, 1988, pp. 113-4.

27. 'Michael Polanyi as a Conservative thinker', The Salisbury Review, Vol. 6. No. 4, June 1988, pp. 44-8.

28. 'When loyalty no harm meant', Review of Metaphysics(USA), 43, Dec. 1989, pp. 281-94.

29. 'Metaphysics in Education', J. of Philosophy of Education, Vol. 23 No.2, 1989, pp. 159-69.

30. 'The arousal and expression of emotion in music', Brit. J. of Aesthetics, Vol. 30, No. 1, Jan. 1990, pp. 57-61.

31. 'The strategies of self-deception', Irish Philosophical J., Vol. 7, 1990, pp. 1-11.

32. 'Governance by emotion', Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol. 22 No. 2, May 1991, pp. 15-30.

33. Review of eds. Smith and Nyiri, Practical Knowledge: Outlines of a Theory of Tradition and Skills, Tradition and Discovery, Vol. XVII No.s 1 & 2, 1990-1, pp. 36-8 (USA).

34. 'The meaning of life and education', Journal of Philosophy of Education, Vol. 25 No. 1, 1991, pp. 47-57.

35. 'Passivity and the rationality of emotion', The Modern Schoolman, Vol. LXVIII No. 4, May 1991, pp. 321-30. (USA)

36. 'Reductionism in education', Paideusis, Vol. 5, No. 1, Autumn 1991, pp. 20-35 (Canada).

37. 'The limits of contract' Polanyiana, Vol. 2 No.s 1 & 2 (combined), Spring & Summer 1922, pp. 90-8 (Hungary).

38. 'The categories of value', J. of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 6 No. 4, 1992, pp. 277-300 (USA).

39. 'Flew, Marx and Gnosticism', Philosophy, Vol. 68, 1993, pp. 94-8.

40. 'Christian thinking about education', Spectrum, Vol. 25 No. 1, Spring 1993, pp. 17-24.

41. 'Mounce and Collingwood on art and craft', Brit. J. of Aesthetics, Vol. 33 No. 2, April 1993.

42. 'Polanyi's overcoming of the dichotomy of fact and value', 8,000 wds, Polanyiana, Vol. 5 No. 2, 1996, pp .5-20 (Hungary).

43. 'Michael Polanyi and acceptance of situation', Revue Roumaine de Philosophie, Vol. 40, No's 1-2, 1996, pp. 179-93. (Romania).

44. 'Some notes on Michael Polanyi and Lucian Blaga', Revue Roumaine de Philosophie, Vol. 40, No's 1-2, 1996, pp. 195-96. (Romania).

Also as:

'Câteva note asupra lui Michael Polanyi si Lucian Blaga', Revista de filosophie, Vol. 43, No's 1-2, 1996, pp. 151-3 (Romania).

45. 'On presupposing and presuppositions', Appraisal, Vol. 1 Supp. Issue 1997, pp. 3-8.

46. 'The cognitive functions of emotion', Appraisal, Vol. 3 No. 1, March 2000, pp. 38-47.

47. 'Polanyi and Tacit Integration' (in Chinese: English original available from myself), in New Philosophy(China)

48. 'Prolegomena to the Study of Culture' (Collingwood and Lucian Blaga), La Revue Roumaine de Philosophie,

49. 'Art as a Scale of Forms', Brit. J. of Aesthetics, Oct. 2008.

50. 'The unity of the person', The Pluralist, Vol. 4 No., Oct. 2009, 77-84.
51. 'Raymond Tallis and the alleged necessity of a body for personal identity', Appraisal, Vol. 7 No. 4, Oct. 2009, 34-7.
52. 'Philosophy as the Articulation of Presuppositions', Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, 22:1, 2016, pp. 41–61.
53. 'The personalist philosophy of Michael Polanyi', Quién (Spain), Vol. 1 No. 4, 2016,
54. 'The real significance of metaphor: Lucian Blaga and Michael Polanyi', Rivista Italiana di Filosophia del Linguaggio, Vol. 11 No. 2, 2017.
55. 'Personal existence, human and divine, as self-differentiation',
56 . 'The personalist ethics of W.R. Sorely', Appraisal, Vol. 11, No. 4, Spring 2018, pp. 39-44.

57.  'The tacit dimensions of normative rules', Phenomenology and Mind, Italy, No. 17, 2019, 70-8.

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