About Myself

Academic Qualifications:

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

M.Ed. (research) ‘Emotion and Education with special reference to D.H. Lawrence', University of Leicester (part-time) 1973

BD (Hons. 2/1) (external), University of London, 1976

Ph.D. ‘Transcendence and Immanence in the Philosophy of Michael Polanyi and Christian Theism', (external), University of London, 1982

Teaching Posts in Higher Education:

Lecturer, Education and Religious Studies, Loughborough College of Education, 1972-77

Senior Lecturer, Education, Sokoto College of Education, Nigeria, 1980-2

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

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

Now I am retired.

The Necessity of God: Ontological Claims Revisited, Transaction Publishers, Rutgers (NJ USA), 2008.

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

Beyond Liberalism: A study of the political thought of F.A. Hayek and Michael Polanyi, with an appendix on Aurel Kolnai, Transaction Publishers, Rutgers (NJ USA), 1998.

(ed.) Michael Polanyi: Selected Articles on Society, Economics and Philosophy, with Introduction, Annotated Bibliography and summaries of articles not otherwise reprinted, Transaction Publishers, Rutgers (NJ USA), 1997; viii + 395 pages.

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

Transcendence and Immanence in the Philosophy of Michael Polanyi and Christian Theism, Lewiston (NY, USA), Edwin Mellen for Rutherford House (Edinburgh), Contemporary Theology Vol. 5, 1992; vi + 196 pages.

The Education of Autonomous Man (Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Froebel, Marx, Nietzsche, contemporary philosophers and schemes of education, Sartre, Helvetius and B.F.Skinner), vi + 88 pages, Avebury Series in Philosophy, Ashgate Publishing, 1992

Polanyi in the series Thinkers of Our Time, London, Claridge Press, 1990; 88 pages.

B. Articles

'The Unity of the Person', The Pluralist (USA), Oct. 2008,

'Art as Scales of Forms', Brit. J. of Aesthetics, Oct. 2008.

'Implications of the Political Aspects of Personal Knowledge', Tradition and Discovery (USA), Vol. XXXIV 2007-8 No. 3.

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

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

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

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

'Polanyi and the Rehabilitation of Emotion', in Ed. with Struan Jacobs: Emotion, Reason and Tradition: Essays on the Social, Political and Economic Thought of Michael Polanyi, Guildford, Ashgate, 2005, pp. 41-53.

'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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'Mounce and Collingwood on art and craft', British J. of Aesthetics, Vol. 33 No. 2, April 1993, pp.173-6.

'Flew, Marx and Gnosticism', Philosophy, Vol.68 No.263, Jan. 1993, pp.94-8.

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

'The limits of contract', Polanyiana, Vol. 2 No;s 1 & 2 combined, Spring & Summer 1992, pp.90-8 (Hungary).

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

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

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

'Governance by emotion', J. of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol. 22, No. 2, May 1991, pp.15-29.

'The strategies of self-deception', Irish Philosophical J., Vol. 7, 1990, pp. 160-170.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'Uncritical theory and phenomenology', J. of the British Society for Phenomenology Vol. 18 No. 1, Jan. 1987, pp.62-73.

'The reality of responses to fiction', British J. of Aesthetics Vol. 26, No.1, Winter 1986, pp.64-8.

'Rational autonomy: the destruction of freedom', J. of Philosophy of Education Vol.16, No. 2, 1982, pp.119-207.

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

'The philosophy of Michael Polanyi and its significance for education', J. of Philosophy of Education Vol 12, 1978, pp.167-177.

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

'Civil society and the state as objects of aesthetic appreciation', British J. of Aesthetics Vol. 16, No. 3, Summer 1976, pp.237-42.

'Self-realization, religion and contradiction in Ethical Studies', Idealistic Studies (USA), Vol. IV No. 3, Sept 1974, pp.276-85.

'Religion, emotion and education', J. of Philosophy of Education, Vol. 7, No.2, 1973, pp.181-94.

'On not understanding prayer', Sophia (Australia) Oct. 1971.

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

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I have almost completed a book, Ethics as a Scale of Forms, which applies Collingwood's scheme of scales of form to the aspects or levels of the person as moral agent -- consequences of individual and types of actions, individual situations, types of actions (laws), intentions and virtues, the person himself as a unique 'value-essence' (Scheler) -- and to the 'isms' which single one of these as the sole concern of ethics. I show that each except the last is incoherent in its own terms and presupposes the next one above, while, except for the first, each also requires the one below in and through which to express, enact and effect itself. In doing so the dichotomy of 'deontological' versus 'axiological' ethics (the good person versus the good for persons) is shown to be false, for each requires the other. But at the top of each scale they coincide, ceteris paribus, for, as a rightly ordered stream of love the good person is also engaged in what will most fulfil us.

I have also two papers in hand, the one applying scales of forms to an extended version of the forms of history knowledge, and the other arguing that it is not the human body which individuates us but the unique (though embodied) person that each one of us is.