SPCPS

The Society for Post-Critical and Personalist Studies

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

The Society aims to promote interest in, and further application of, the work of Michael Polanyi and similar thinkers, by publishing a journal, organising conference, and other activities.

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


Next Conference:
Joint with the John Macmurray Fellowship
PERSONS AND AGENCY
Sat. April 18th 2009, 10.30-4.30, Oxford
conference details

The SPCPS will be represented at the 10th International Conference on the Study of Persons
Derby Hall, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham
Mon. Aug. 6th to Fri. Aug. 10th
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Editor: Dr R.T. Allen, 20 Ulverscroft Rd, Loughborough, Leics. LE11 3PU, England
E-mail: Editor, Appraisal
OFFICERS FOR 2006-7

President: Dr Chris Goodman
Chairman, Conference Organiser and Editor of Appraisal: Dr Richard Allen
Librarian: Mr David Britton
Other Committee Member: Dr Norman Wetherick

More about Michael Polanyi

APPRAISAL

Appraisal welcomes articles, discussion items and book reviews, on all aspects of philosophy and on the application of philosophical ideas to other areas of thought and practice.
All articles will be subject to blind review.

Before submitting an article please see the StyleSheet

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

Editorial Advisers
  • Prof. Klaus Allerbeck, Faculty of Social Sciences, J-W Goethe University, Frankfürt-am-Main, Germany
  • Dr 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)
  • Dr Éva Gábor, Dept of Philosophy, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary
  • Dr Wendy Hamblet Depart 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, Janus Pannonius University, Pécs, Hungary
  • 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.

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JOURNALS RECEIVED

For those who can read French, German, Italian Portuguese or Spanish, the Contents pages of recently received issues of Prospettiva Persona, La Revue Roumaine de Philosophie and Revista Portuguesa de Filosofie, are displayed here.