Carl Phillips (Phil) Mullins
Professor of Humanities
History, Philosophy and
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Education
Ph. D. (1976) Theology and Art, Graduate Theological Union,
Dissertation: "Hermeneutical and Aesthetic Applications of the Thought of
Michael Polanyi"
M. Div. (1972) Pacific
M.A. (1971) Theology,
Thesis: "The Reader and Literature: An Essay on the Process of
Perception"
A.B. (1969) English,
Awards/Competitive Fellowships
2003
1996 Missouri Governor's Award for Excellence in Teaching
1994 NEH Institute: "Rethinking Technology: Philosophical Reflections
on Technology Since World War II"
Professors Carl Mitcham and
1994 Jesse Lee Myers Award for Teaching Excellence,
1993 NEH Humanities Study Grant: "
1992 NEH Summer Institute: "Telling Tales--Humanities Approaches to the
Study of Folk Narrative"
Madison, WI
1991
1990 NEH Summer Seminar: "Narrative and Synthesis in Medieval Book
Illumination"
1987 NEH Summer Institute: "A Teacher's Workshop on the Introductory
Course in Religious Studies"
Graduate Theological Union
1985 NEH "Travel to Collections" Grant
Polanyi Archives, Regenstein Library
1983 NEH Summer Seminar: "Collective and Corporate Responsibility"
1969 National "Trial Year" Seminary Fellowship-Rockefeller Brothers Fund for Theological Education
Recent and Current Professional Society Responsibilities
Editor,
Tradition & Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical, since 6/91.
Webmaster for Polanyi Society since inception in 1997
Co-Chair, “Polanyi’s Post-Critical Thought and The
Rebirth of Meaning” Conference, Loyola University, Chicago, June 8-10,
2001
Co-Chair, “Personal Knowledge
at Fifty” Conference, Loyola University, Chicago. June 13-16, 2008
Publications
“Polanyi on Agency and Some Links to Macmurray,”
forthcoming in Appraisal: A Journal of Constructive
and Post-Critical Philosophy and Interdiscipinary
Studies.
“Michael Polanyi's Use of Gestalt Psychology,” forthcoming in Polanyiana: The Periodical of the Michael Polanyi Liberal Philosophical Association.
"Michael Polanyi (1891-1976)" with Phil Rolnick,
The Science and Religion Primer. Heidi
A. Campbell and Heather Looy (eds.).
"On Reading Polanyi and
"Faith, Tradition and Dynamic Order: Michael Polanyi's Liberal Ideas from 1941-1951," with Struan Jacobs, History of European Ideas (Vol. 34, No. 1) March 2008: 120-131.
"Remembering Doug Adams," with Allen Dyer, Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical (Vol. XXIV, No. 2) 2007-2008: 9-10.
"Response to 'Epistemology and Knowledge-Management in Business,'" Appraisal: A Journal of Constructive and Post-Critical Philosophy and Interdiscipinary Studies (Vol.6., No. 3) March 2007: 13-15.
"Comprehension and the 'Comprehensive Entity': Polanyi's Theory of Tacit Knowing and Its Metaphysical Implications" in Chinese, New Philosophy (n. 2, 2006) issue guest edited by Yu Zhenhua. Published in English in Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical (Vol. XXXIII, No. 3) 2006-2007: 26-43.
"Michael Polanyi, Scientist and Philosopher: The Making of the Biography," Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical (Vol. XXXII, No. 3) 2005-2006: 8-11.
"T.S. Eliot's Idea of the Clerisy, and Its Discussion by Karl Mannheim
and Michael Polanyi in the Context of J. H. Oldham's Moot," with Struan Jacobs, Journal of Classical Sociology, vol.
6, no. 2 (2006):147-156. See also accompanying 1944 papers from Eliot,
"Harry Prosch 1917-2005," Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical (Vol. XXXII, No. 2) 2005-2006: 6-7.
"Harry
Prosch: A Memorial Re-Appraisal of the Meaning
Controversy," with Marty Moleski, S. J., Tradition
and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical (Vol. XXXII, No. 2)
2005-2006: 8-24.
"Michael
Polanyi and Karl Mannheim," with Struan
Jacobs, Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical (Vol.
XXXII, No. 1) 2005-2006: 20-43.
"Michael Polanyi." Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and
Ethics . Carl Mitcham (ed.)
"Bible
Study, Critical Thinking and Post-Critical Thought: Cultural
Considerations," Critical Thinking and the Bible in the Age of the
New Media, Charles M.Ess (ed.).
"Polanyi on Science Policy," Polanyiana: The Periodical of the Michael Polanyi Liberal Philosophical Association. (Vol. 12, No. 1-2) 2003: 159-178.
"Polanyian Footnotes to 'From Biology To Consciousness To Morality'," Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical (Vol. XXX, No. 3) 2003-2004: 22-30.
Michael Polanyi on Teilhard de Chardin," Appraisal: A Journal of Constructive and Post-Critical Philosophy and Interdiscipinary Studies (Vol. 4., No. 4) October 2003: 195-200.
"Remembering Charles McCoy," Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical (Vol. XXIX, No. 2) 2002-2003: 8-11.
"Introduction: Getting a Grip on Holding On to Reality," Techné: Journal of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (Vol. 6, No. 1) Fall 2002: 2-9. Guest Editor of issue on theme Albert Borgmann's Holding On to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium.
"The
Problem of Meaning and Borgmann's Realist
Response," Techné: Journal
of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (Vol. 6, No. 1) Fall 2002: 46-68.
"On Persons and Knowledge: Marjorie Grene and
Michael Polanyi," The Philosophy of Marjorie Grene,
Randall E. Auxier and Lewis E. Hahn (eds.). Library
of Living Philosophers, Vol. XXIX.
"Peirce's Abduction and Polanyi's Tacit Integration," Journal
of Speculative Philosophy (Vol. 16, No. 3) 2002: 198-224.
"The
Sacred Depths of Nature and Ursula Goodenough's
Religious Naturalism," Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society
Periodical (Vol. XXVIII, No. 3) 2001-2002: 29-41.
"The
'Post-Critical' Symbol and the 'Post-Critical' Elements of Polanyi's
Thought," Polanyiana: The
Periodical of the Michael Polanyi Liberal Philosophical Association (Vol. 10,
No. 1-2) 2001: 77-90.
"On
Reuniting Poetry and Science: A Memoir of Elizabeth Sewell, 1919-2001,"
with David Schenck, Tradition and Discovery: The
Polanyi Society Periodical (Vol. XXVII, No. 3) 2000-2001: 16-18.
"Vintage Marjorie Grene: A Review Essay on A Philosophical Testament," Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical (Vol. XXVII, No. 1) 2000-2001: 33-45.
"The Real As Meaningful," Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical (Vol. XXVI, No. 3) 1999-2000: 42-50.
"Obituary for William T. Scott," with Marty Moleski, Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical (Vol. XXV, No. 3 ) 1998-99: 5-9.
"Introduction," Listening: Journal of Religion and Culture (Vol. 34, No. 2) Spring 1999: 83-86. Guest Editor of issue on theme "Computers, Culture and Religion."
"Making Religious Meaning in Electronic Culture," Listening: Journal of Religion and Culture (Vol. 34, No. 2) Spring 1999: 117-131.
"Electronic Hermeneutics." Dictionary of Biblical
Interpretation. John A. Hayes (ed.).
"Permutations of Post-Critical Thinking: Themes in Charles McCoy's Life and Thought," Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical (Vol. XXIV No. 3) 1997-98: 4-14.
"Introductory
Essay and Bibliography on Michael Polanyi" written for "Gospel
and Culture" web site in
"Polanyi's
Participative Realism," Polanyiana:
The Periodical of the Michael Polanyi Liberal Philosophical Association
(Vol. 6, No. 2) 1997: 5-21.
"Historical and Textual Notes on H. Richard Niebuhr and Michael Polanyi," Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical (Vol. XXIV No. 1) 1997-98: 20-31.
"Michael
Polanyi and J. H. Oldham: In Praise of Friendship," Appraisal: A
Journal of Constructive and Post-Critical Philosophy and Interdiscipinary
Studies (Vol. 1 No. 4) October 1997: 179-189.
"More on Macmurray and Polanyi," Appraisal:
A Journal of Constructive and Post-Critical Philosophy and Interdiscipinary
Studies (Vol. 1 No. 4) October 1997: 202-203.
"Media Ecology and the New Literacy: Notes on an Electronic Hermeneutic."
From One Medium to Another: Basic Issues for Communicating the Scriptures in
New Media. Paul A. Soukup and Robert Hodgson
(eds.).
"Imagining the Bible in Electronic Culture" Religion & Education (vol. 23, no. 1) May, 1996: 38-45.
"Sacred Text in the
"Narrative, Interpretation and Persuasion: Polanyian Notes on Selfhood," The Personalist Forum (vol. 9, no. 2) Fall 1993: 109-132.
"Religious Meaning in Polanyi's Personal Knowledge," Polanyiana: The Periodical of the Michael Polanyi Liberal Philosophical Association (vol. 2, no. 4/vol.3, no.1) 1992/1993: 75-83.
"Some Others: Review Essay--Resources for Multicultural Perspectives in Humanities Courses," Interdiscipinary Humanities (vol. X, no. 2) Spring 1993: 39-44.
"Electronic Culture,"
"Mormonism: Catholic, Protestant, Different?," with Martin Johnson, Review of Religious Research (vol. 34, no. 1) 1992: 51-62.
"New Images of Text, Text-Making and Text-Reading," Humanities Education (vol. viii, no. 1) Winter 1991: 4-10.
"Sacred Text in an Electronic Age," Biblical Theology Bulletin (vol. 20) Fall 1990: 99-106.
"Community Competence in Religious Congregations," with Martin Johnson, American Journal of Community Psychology (vol. 18, no. 2) 1990: 259-277.
"Moral Communities: Religious and Secular," with Martin Johnson, Journal of Community Psychology (vol. 18, no. 2) April 1990: 153-166.
"Sacred Text As Holy Writ," Explorations (vol. 8, no. 1) Fall, 1989: 15-25.
"Recovering the Veridical: Implications of Michael Polanyi's Thought
for Literary Studies," The
"The Fluid Word: Word Processing and Its Mental Habits," Thought (vol. LXII, no. 251) December, 1988: 413-428.
"Cognitive Development In The Introductory Course: The Pedagogue's Typological Imagination," Teacher-Learning Issues (no. 62) Spring 1988: 3-10.
"Compound and Complex Entities: Polanyi's Principle of Marginal Control and Its Application in Ethics," Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical (vol. xiv, no. 1) Fall 1986: 9-19.
"Moral and Non-Moral Values?," Organizational Ethics Newsletter (vol. iii, no. 4), October, 1985.
"Narrative Images," Explorations (vol. 3, no. 3) January, 1985: 19-26.
"Nascent Ritual and the Real," Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical (vol. xi, no. 2), Winter 1983: 4-10.
"Conscience, Tacit Knowing and the Art of Judgment: Implications of Polanyi's Thought for Moral Reflection," with Doug Adams, Soundings (vol. LXVI, no. 1), Summer 1983: 34-45.
"The Spectrum of Meaning: Polanyian Perspectives on Science and Religion," Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science (vol. 17, no. 1), March, 1982: 3-8.
"Institutionalizing Corporate Social Responsibility," with Fred
Twining and Jim Donahue,
"Social Value Systems Analysis"
"Social Values in the Corporate Policy Process"
"The Social Issue Life Cycle"
"A Corporate Social Information System"
"A Participative Style of Management"
"Meaning with the Arts," with Doug Adams, Studia Mystica (vol. 1, no. 2), Summer 1978: 28-48.
Political Reform in California: Evaluation and Perspective, edited
with Art Lippow and Tom Leatherwood,
Ethics For A Crowded World (contributing author, 150 page workbook on
ethics and global resource issues),
Reviews and Review Notes (41) in Computers & Composition, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Religious Studies Review, Religion and Life, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, Christian Scholars Review, Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical, and Humanities Education.