Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | about this site michael polanyi and tacit knowledge (14 Feb 2004) Central to Michael Polanyi's thinking was the belief that creative acts (especially acts of discovery) are shot-through or charged with strong personal feelings and commitments (hence the title of his most famous work Personal Knowledge). Arguing against the then dominant position that science was somehow value-free, Michael Polanyi sought to bring into creative tension a concern with reasoned and critical interrogation with other, more 'tacit', forms of knowing. Article URL: http://www.infed.org/thinkers/polanyi.htm Read 92 more articles from findability.org sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Announcing OK/Cancel Forums This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy