Welcome
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 conferences, 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.
APPRAISAL
Appraisal is published in March and October each year 4 issues (2 yrs) constituting 1 volume.
To see the contents of the current issue, please go to Contents
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 writing an article please see the Style Sheet and e-mail us for the Appraisal Master Sheet (rtf).
For subscriptions please go to Subscriptions
To see the contents of all previous issues pleas go to Previous Issues
For all enquiries and submissions, please contact: Dr R.T. Allen, 20 Ulverscroft Rd, Loughborough, LE11 3PU, England; or email.
FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES
Leavis at York
A one-day conference will take place at the University of York on 16 October this year aimed at a revaluation of the later work of F. R. Leavis, one of the major intellectual figures of the 20th century. This last phase, in which Leavis frequently adduced an affinity between his own work and that of Michael Polanyi and the late Marjorie Grene, is especially associated with York, where Leavis held a visiting professorship for ten years following his retirement from Cambridge.
The conference follows on from one held at Downing College Cambridge last year at which Leavis’s concept of the ‘anti-philosophical’ and heuristic nature of literary art was discussed and at which a number of philosophers and critics, including Simon Blackburn, Michael Tanner and Stefan Collini, explored Leavis’s own contribution to thought.
On the evening before the conference the renovated Langwith College library at York will be re-named The F. R. Leavis Room in memory of his distinguished presence at the University.
For further details please contact the convenor, Dr Chris Joyce, at:
chris.joyce.1969@pem.cam.ac.uk
Editorial Board:
Editor: Dr R.T. Allen;
Other Members:
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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