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

Rand's arguments against innate predispositions . As far as I can make out, Rand made two arguments against innate predispositions: (1) ...

Incest Avoidance. The psychologist Jonathan Haidt often confronts participants in his lab experiments with the following scenario: Julie ...

Naturalistic Romanticism. Rand introduces one other category of hybrid Romanticism in addition to Byronism, as explained in the following p...

"Byronic" Romanticism. With Rand's division of free will into two parts, one pertaining to consciousness and the other to exi...

Volition, consciousness, and existence. Rand's contention that Romanticism is a "volition-orientated" school of art offers a ...

Seddon’s defense of Rand’s free will. In Fred Seddon’s review of my book Ayn Rand Contra Human Nature , we find the following curious asser...

Objectivist argument for free will. According to Objectivism, free will is “axiomatic,” which means (1) it’s “self-evident,” “fundamentally...

Objectivist theory of free will vs. the facts of reality. In the last two posts I have documented how the Objectivist metaphysics has helpe...

For nearly every critic of Objectivism there is usually one or two things in Rand’s philosophy that he finds particularly objectionable. For...

Politics of Human Nature 1: human rationality. The achievement of Objectivism’s political goals rest on the assumption that most human bein...

The intense interest on this blog in the question of free will has persuaded me to interrupt my series on the Cognitive Revolution and Objec...