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Welcome
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.
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 Secretary 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
Vol. 8, No.s 3 & 4, printed version, featuring Max Scheler, usual price £4 each; plus CD of all previous issues, Vol. 1 No. 1 to Vol. 8 No. 2, usual price £5; Total £13 plus p&p
NB: Please see above for our range of interests and for instructions on format and submission. 1. For Vol. 9, No.s 1 & 2 (March and October 2012): Articles of up to 10,000 words. Preference will be given to original treatments of topics Please submit full versions if possible or Summaries of 400 wds as soon as possible. 2. For the new Student Supplement (for March 2013): Articles of up to 4000 words are invited from undergraduate and postgraduate students in British and Irish universities and colleges. About 10-12 articles will be published, and the successful authors will each receive a free subscription for the download version of Appraisal Vol. 9 (March 2012-October 2013), worth £10. Please submit a summary of 300 words by March 31st 2012, and full versions of the invited articles are to be sent by June 30th 2012.
Chairman and Editor of Appraisal: Dr R.T. Allen; 20
Ulverscroft Rd, Loughborough, LE11 3PU; Secretary: Mr Mark Arnold, secretary@spcps.org.uk Treasurer: treasurer@spcps.org.uk Librarian: Mr David Britton, librarian@spcps.org.uk Assistant Editors: Contents: Dr Simon Smith (Model College of Busines and Science,
Muscat, Oman)
Prof. Klaus Allerbeck, Faculty of Social Sciences, J-W Goethe
University, Frankfürt-am-Main, Germany
The Pluralist, 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. |
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