Ben Bayer, "director of content" over at ARI, wrote an article back in May of 2022 arguing that "vaccine refusers" (i.e...

Rand's epistemology constitutes the most intimidating part of the Objectivist philosophy. Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology is a...

Conclusion . Many years ago someone handed me a copy of Rand's Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology and said, "This will help y...

Measurement Omission 2: In my last post , I introduced Merlin Jetton's  criticism of Rand's measurement omission theory . In this p...

Measurement Omission 1 . Having finished our slow, tedious slog through Peikoff's essay on the Analytic-Sythethic Dichotomy, we can retu...

Analytic-Synthetic Dichotomy 3: Definitional Arguments. One of the principle philosophical vices of Objectivism is a mania for rationalizin...

Definitions: Introduction. The heart and soul of Rand's Introduction to Objectivism Epistemology is the chapter on definitions. I have...

Fallacious Presumptions: The validity of knowledge depends on "proper" concept formation. Rand assumes that the "validity...

Fallacious Presumptions: Rand's implicit theory of mind. Although Rand never developed a complete theory of mind, an implicit theory of...

Fallacious Presumptions: the facts upon which epistemology is based are discoverable through introspection. Early on in her Introduction to...

Fallacious Presumptions: over-emphasizing how one attains knowledge. In his book on logic, John Stuart Mill asserted the following: "...

Fallacious Presumptions: Active Consciousness.   In my last post, I discussed what I described as the primary fallacy behind the Objectivi...

The primary fallacy behind the Objectivist Epistemology. Since human cognition (mostly) operates below the threshold of consciousness, the ...

According to Rand, the Objectivist Ethics "holds that the rational interests of men do not clash—that there is no conflict of interests...

Metaphysical presuppositions 2. Objectivism rejects what Peikoff labels eclectic theories of history—i.e., those theories that assume the ...

Metaphysical presuppositions 1. In the Epilgue to Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand , we find the following curious assertion: Philos...

In comments in one of our "Understanding Objectivist Jargon" entries on the so-called "Conceptual Common Denominator" , ...

"...every discipline, as long as it used the Aristotelian method of definition, has remained arrested in a state of empty verbiage and ...

Rand's "Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology" is easily the worst thing she ever wrote. Rambling despite its brevity, almo...

Here's a quick thought for the weekend: "A philosophy that rejects the monism of idealism or materialism does not thereby become ...