Category: Personalism

New Article

My ‘Second Reply to Phillip Ferreira’ is now available in the new issue of the philosophical journal The Pluralist. It is a reply to Ferreira’s article ‘On the Imperviousness of Persons: A Reply to Jan Olof Bengtsson’ in the same issue, which, in turn, is a reply to my ‘Reply to Phillip Ferreira’ in the issue of The Pluralist devoted to my book The Worldview of Personalism, a reply to Ferreira’s essay on the book, ‘Absolute and Personal Idealism’, in that issue. In other words, this is a long and ongoing discussion. Shorter versions of both of Ferreira’s articles have also been presented as papers at conferences which I too have attended and where I have commented briefly on them.

New Article

My article ‘The Challenge of Impersonalism: A Reformulation’ is now available in Appraisal,  the journal of the Society for Post-Critical and Personalist Studies.

The society “aims to promote interest in, and further application of, the work of Michael Polanyi and similar thinkers”.

The journal is edited by Richard Allen, who is best known for After Liberalism: The Political Thought of F. A. Hayek and Michael Polanyi (1998), a formidable critical study of liberalism, but is also the author of Transcendence and Immanence in the Philosophy of Michael Polanyi and Christian Theism, The Structure of Value, and, most recently, The Necessity of God, a restatement of the ontological argument. Allen is also the organizer of SPCPS’s excellent annual conference at the University of Nottingham.

10th International Conference on Persons

The 10th International Conference on Persons at the University of Nottingham last week was a success – probably the best of the five Conferences on Persons I have this far attended. Not least the banquet in the stripped-down-classicist Trent building from 1929 (seen in this picture at a distance, from the park) with a well-preserved interior, was delightful. The success is mainly attributable to the local organizer, my friend Dr R. T. Allen, the author of Beyond Liberalism, and, most recently, The Necessity of God. I knew he would do it well, since I had been at two of his Appraisal – or SPCPS (Society for Post-Critical and Personalist Studies) – conferences at the same place. Many old friends were there, but also many who came for the first time.