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Charles Taylor, Michael Polanyi  

and the Critique of Modernity




Charles W. Lowney II 

Editor


Charles Taylor, 

Michael Polanyi 

and the Critique of 

Modernity

Pluralist and Emergentist Directions



Editor

Charles W. Lowney II

Hollins University

Roanoke, VA, USA

ISBN 978-3-319-63897-3  

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cknowledgements



We would like to thank the Polanyi Society, especially Walter Gulick, 

David Rutledge, Phil Mullins, Andrew Grosso, Paul Lewis other mem-

bers who reviewed submissions for the 2014 Annual Meeting and helped 

to make this book possible. We also thank David James Stewart for help 

in preparing the manuscript for submission to Palgrave Macmillan.

Chapter 


4

, “The Projects of Michael Polanyi and Charles Taylor” by 

John V. Apczynski was originally published in Tradition & Discovery: The 

Polanyi Society Periodical, 41: 1 (2014).

Chapter 


5

, “Authenticity and the Reconciliation of Modernity” by 

Charles Lowney was originally published in the Pluralist 4: 1 (2009).

The epilogue chapter, by Charles Lowney, has an abridged  version 

published under the title “Robust Moral Reasoning: Pluralist or 

Emergent?” in Tradition & Discovery 43: 3 (2017).




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ontents



1   Introduction: What a Better Epistemology Can Do  

for Moral Philosophy       

 1

Charles W. Lowney II 



Part I  An Epistemological Revolution

2   Converging Roads Around Dilemmas of Modernity          15

Charles Taylor



3   Dialogue, Discovery, and an Open Future        

 27


Charles Taylor

Part II  Projects, Possibilities, and Challenges

4   The Projects of Michael Polanyi and Charles Taylor          53

John V. Apczynski



5   Authenticity and the Reconciliation of Modernity         71

Charles W. Lowney II 




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     CONTENTS



6   “Transcendence” in A Secular Age and Enchanted (Un)

Naturalism        

 93


David James Stewart

Part III  Toward a New Modernity: Taylor and Polanyi  

in Conversation

7   Polanyi’s Revolutionary Imaginary        

 119


Jon Fennell

8   Overcoming the Scientistic Imaginary        

 143


Charles W. Lowney II 

9   On Emergent Ethics, Becoming Authentic, and  

Finding Common Ground        

 169


Charles W. Lowney II 

10   Taylor and Polanyi on Moral Sources and Social Systems   189

D.M. Yeager



11   The Importance of Engagement        

 215


Charles Taylor, Jon Fennell, Charles W. Lowney II  and  

D.M. Yeager



12   Epilogue: Robust Realism: Pluralist or Emergent? 

 235


Charles W. Lowney II 

Index 

 271



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About the Editor

Charles W. Lowney II is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hollins 

University, Roanoke, Virginia, USA. He received his masters at Boston 

College and his doctorate at Boston University. His research involves 

understanding tacit knowing (in epistemology) and emergent being (in 

metaphysics), and in developing what he calls “emergentist ethics” (in 

moral philosophy). Some of his publications include, “Ineffable, Tacit, 

Explicable, Explicit: Qualifying Knowledge in the Age of ‘Intelligent’ 

Machines” (Tradition and Discovery, 38:1, 2011,18–37), “Rethinking 

the Machine Metaphor since Descartes: The Irreducibility of Bodies

Minds and Meanings” (Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 31:3, 

2011, 179–192), and “Morality: Emergentist Ethics and Virtue For 

Itself ”  (TAD, 36:3, 2010, 52–65).



Contributors

John V. Apczynski Professor Emeritus of theology at St. Bonaventure 

University in New York, works in the area of contemporary religious 

thought. He has used insights based on Polanyi’s theory of personal knowl-

edge to retrieve important features of the Catholic intellectual heritage in 

order to address issues arising from scientific and secular  assumptions.



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     EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS



Jon Fennell is Professor Emeritus at Hillsdale College in Michigan, 

USA. Author of essays on figures ranging from Rousseau to Rorty and 

Leo Strauss to C.S. Lewis, he has in recent years published numerous 

studies on the thought of Polanyi. Professor Fennell has a special interest 

in the intellectual space where philosophy, politics, and education jointly 

intersect. At the center of his variegated endeavors is a persistent interest 

in what must be understood, and therefore taught, in order to preserve 

the political and moral order of which we are both heirs and stewards.



David James Stewart is an American philosopher, theologian, and ama-

teur baseball player. He earned a Ph.D. in theology from Luther Seminary 

in 2016, where his dissertation on Hegel’s speculative philosophy and 

Hawking’s quantum cosmology was awarded with distinction. Past work 

includes publications on the thought of Carl Jung (Zygon, 2014) and 

Michael Polanyi (Tradition & Discovery, 2015). His current research 

deals with the relationship of science and theology, the infinitude of the 

universe, and the origins of self-conscious subjectivity. Stewart is Assistant 

Professor of Theology at St. Catherine University in Minneapolis, MN.

Charles Taylor is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at McGill 

University, Montreal, Canada. He is the winner of the Templeton Prize 

in 2007, and the Kyoto prize in 2008. His many books include the now 

classic  Sources of Self (1989), and Varieties of Religion Today: William 



James Revisited (2002), Modern Social Imaginaries (2004) and A Secular 

Age (2007), all of which were products of his 1998–1999 Gifford 

Lectures, “Living in a Secular Age.” His work spans across epistemology, 

ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of the person, social and political philos-

ophy, intellectual history, and the philosophy of language. 



D.M. Yeager holds the Thomas J. Healey, C’64, Family Distinguished 

Professorship in Ethical Studies at Georgetown University, Washington 

DC, USA. Since earning her doctorate at Duke University under 

William H. Poteat, D.M. Yeager has been teaching courses in ethics and 

philosophical theology. Her articles have appeared in such journals as 

Tradition and Discovery, the Journal of Religion, the Journal of Religious 

Ethics, and the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. She has served as 

the general editor of two scholarly journals, and in 2018, she will assume 

the presidency of the Society of Christian Ethics.



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Press, 2007.



DC 

Dilemmas and Connections: Selected Essays. Cambridge, MA and London:  

 

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.



EA 

The Ethics of Authenticity. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard    

 

University Press, 1991; published in Canada as The Malaise of Modernity.



MSI  Modern Social Imaginaries. Durham and London: Duke University Press,  

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PA 

Philosophical Arguments. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,  

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RR 

——— and Hubert Dreyfus. Retrieving Realism. Cambridge, MA:   

 

Harvard University Press, 2015.



SS 

Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity. Cambridge and  

 

New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.



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ichAel

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KB 


Knowing and Being. Edited by Marjorie Grene. Chicago: University of  

 

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——— and Harry Prosch. Meaning. Chicago: University of Chicago  

 

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PK 

Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy. Chicago:    

 

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SFS 

Science, Faith and Society. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1964.


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     ABBREVIATIONS

SM 

The Study of Man. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972 [1959].

TD 


The Tacit Dimension. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1966.

Document Outline

  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Editor and Contributors

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