Contact with reality : Michael Polanyi's realism and why it matters

Part 1. Early consideration of contact with reality

Personal knowledge

The structure of knowledge

Scientific discovery

Polanyi's realism

The reality statement

Contact with reality

Criteria of reality

Polanyi and contemporary realist issues (I.): Progress

Polanyi and contemporary realist issues (II): Truth, in particular correspondence

Polanyi and contemporary realism

Grounding Polanyi's realism: Merleau-Ponty

Part 2. Re-Calling contact with reality

Polanyi and Retrieving realism

The Current Conversation: The difference Polanyi would make

Recovering reality