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Mickey Mantle and Ted Williams Hitting a Baseball

2019; Philosophy Documentation Center; Volume: 45; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5840/traddisc201945323

2154-1566

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Sports, Gender, and Society

This paper interprets the batting styles of Mickey Mantle and Ted Williams utilizing key concepts of the Michael Polanyi Reader. In doing so it demonstrates the thoughtful organization of Polanyi’s work in the Reader, on the one hand, and the explanatory and descriptive power of Polanyi’s thought about practices on the other. Key Polanyi concepts utilized in this paper include: indwelling, the specifiable and the unspecifiable, connoisseurship, a-critical and critical judgment, knowledge and knowing as action, understanding, and commitment with its personal and universal poles.