Daniel Paksi is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics where he received his PhD in history and philosophy of science in 2010. His primary goal with Personal Reality is to establish a coherent concept of emergence based on Michael Polanyi's Personal Knowledge and Samuel Alexander's Space, Time, and Deity.
"Addressed to current controversy concerning the origin and
explanation of biological life and human culture, Hungarian
philosopher Daniel Paksi aims to establish a coherent,
scientifically grounded concept of evolutionary emergence as a more
viable alternative to both reductionist materialism(s) and
ontological dualism(s), providing a sounder conceptual foundation
for cultural meaning. Paksi's argument draws on
philosopher-scientist Michael Polanyi's Personal Knowledge and
Samuel Alexander's Space, Time, and Deity. Developed in dialogue
with previous efforts toward this goal, Paksi articulates a hopeful
intellectual vision for humankind in the twenty-first century."
--Dale Cannon, Western Oregon University
"This is a thorough examination of Neo-Darwinism's denial of the
reality and significance of emergence, using and developing Michael
Polanyi's and other philosophies plus more empirical detail,
followed by an account of the meaning and reality of the emergence
of genuinely new orders of existence and how they can be related by
the boundary conditions of a lower level being determined by the
next higher. Perhaps how emergence is itself possible is more open
than Paski allows."
--R. T. Allen, author, The Necessity of God
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