Marilynne Robinson was on Krista Tippett’s On Being this Sunday, with physicist and professor Marcelo Gleiser, talking about the limits of knowing, and the much-hyped and far-lacking polarities drawn between God and Science. In their conversation, Robinson and Gleiser have some beautiful points about the untrue egotism of scientific “knowing,” and the differences between descriptive knowledge and explanatory knowledge.
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Heard this forum too. SO good!
Just realized..
Marilynne Robinson would totally be into Michael Polanyi’s epistemology. Wonder if she is? (Wish she had a BLoG she updated frequently .. 🙂
I envision her loving that he was a world-class scientist turned philosopher who fought against logical positivism/scientific detachment starting WW1 and beyond:
https://marshillaudio.org/catalog/tacit-knowing-truthful-knowing
..especially at 34 minutes on disc 2 on the concept of indwelling. (There is a bodily root to all knowledge.)
The scientist turned theologian Thomas Torrance loved him. Wish more scientists studied Polanyi..