Welcome

The  Society for Post-Critical and Personalist Studies (SPCPS) was formed in 2004, and took over the publication of Appraisal (first published in 1996).

The Society aims to promote interest in, and further application of, the personalist way of thinking in philosophy and other disciplines. It takes a special, but not exclusive, interest in the work of Michael Polanyi.

It publishes a journal, Appraisal, and organises conferences. All individual members receive the Society's journal Appraisal and likewise all individual subscribers to Appraisal will become members of the SPCPS.

 Michael Polanyi, FRS

APPRAISAL

Appraisal is published in March and October each year, 4 issues (2 yrs) constituting 1 volume.

Appraisal welcomes articles dealing with current issues in philosophy, other disciplines and life at large, from  a largely personalist perspective. It also welcomes discussions of previous published articles. From time to time it publishes re-appraisals of 20th C. thinkers of a personalist orientatitation.

All articles will be subject to blind review. Before writing an article please see the Style Sheet and e-mail us for the Appraisal Master Sheet (rtf). All submissions should be sent to the Submissions Editor, submissions

To see the contents of the current and all previous issues, please go to Current and Previous Issues

For subscriptions and purchase of a CD of all previous volumes, please go to Subscriptions&Payments

Offficers of the SPCPS

Chairman and Editor of Appraisal: Dr R.T. Allen; 20 Ulverscroft, Loughborough, LE11 3PU;
editor@spcps.org.uk

Secretary: Mr Mark Arnold, secretary@spcps.org.uk

Treasurer: treasurer@spcps.org.uk

Librarian: Mr David Britton, librarian@spcps.org.uk

Conference Organiser: Dr Simon Smith

Assistant Editors: 

Contents: Dr Simon Smith (Dept of Philosophy, U. of Southampton)
Submissions: Mr Mark Arnold, submissions
Typesetting: Mr Colin Burch

Editorial Advisors:

Prof. Klaus Allerbeck, Faculty of Social Sciences, J-W Goethe University, Frankfürt-am-Main, Germany
Prof. Giorgio Baruchello Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, University of Akureyri, Akureyri, Iceland
Dr Angela Botez, Institute of Philosophy, Romanian Academy of Sciences, Bucharest, Romania
Dr R.J. Brownhill, Haslemere (formerly at the Dept of Educational Studies, University of Surrey, Guildford)
Mr Gene Callahan, Cardiff and New York
Dr Éva Gábor, Dept of Philosophy, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary
Dr Wendy Hamblet, Dept of University Studies, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC                                                                                                                                       Dr David Lamb, Dept of Biomedical Science & Bioethics, University of Birmingham
Dr Tihamér Margitay Dept of Philosophy and History of Science, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary
Dr Endre Nagy, Dept of Social Policy, SemmelweisUniversity, Budapest, Hungary
Dr Henrieta Seban, Institute of Politics and International Relations, Romanian Academy of Sciences, Bucharest, Romania
The Rev'd Julian Ward, Nantwich, Cheshire (formerly at Regents Theological College, U. of Manchester)
Dr Norman Wetherick, Edinburgh (formerly at the Dept of Psychology, University of Aberdeen)

Indexing: Appraisal is indexed in The British Humanities Index and The Philosophers' Index.

Latest issues of the following journals:

The Pluralist, Prospettiva Persona, Revista Portugesa de Filosofie, La Revue Roumaine de Philososofie, Romanian Review of Political Sciences and International Relations

Other Links, especially to societies, journals, etc. interested in Michael Polanyi.