"Concepts" = condensations of human knowledge, which also simultaneously transcend all human knowledge. They can never be overthr...

Double helping this week: "Rand's account of the rise of statism in America indicates that she knew virtually nothing about how pol...

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

"Contextual absolute" = Oxymoron. Not in fact an 'absolute' at all. If you consider this sort of thing an epochal contrib...

"A is A" = i) Shorthand for the Law of Identity ii) Buzzphrase, the mere invocation of which is believed to validate any argument...

The title of Degutis' essay is a mouthful, to be sure, but it is an excellent piece -- quite the best in the entire issue Fall 2006 issu...

Amusingly in light of the embarrassing standards of debate Objectivists regularly demonstrate here, Greg Perkins over at Noodlefood enlighte...

"It's not that I can't respond to your challenge to show the fallacy in your book, it's that I decline to respond." - ...

"For Objectivists, the term reason is a sort of mystical entity whose purpose is to assure them that they are right." - Greg Nyqu...

...even though that critic, one Mr John Donohue, has point-blank refused to read "Ayn Rand Contra Human Nature"! Only in Objectiv...

"Social Metaphysician" = someone who cares what non-Objectivists think about them.

"Second-hander" = i) someone who thinks the opinions of others* has some value ii) someone who thinks the 250,000 years of human ...

An occasional series that translates Objectivist jargon into plain language. "Floating abstraction" = Buzz-phrase applied to any...

An occasional series that translates Objectivist jargon into plain language. "Concrete-bound" = Buzz-phrase applied to any practi...

"Now that Rand has passed from the scene, it will be interesting to observe whether any artists of genuine distinction ever emerge from...

Fred Seddon once again reinterprets Rand in light of philosophers Rand wouldn't have approved of. The philosopher this time is Nicholas ...

"...Objectivism is largely a rationalization of (Rand's) own preconceived, pet ideas. She nearly confesses as much in an interview ...

The Fall issue of JARS features a curious article entitled "Some Convergences and Divergences in the Realism of Charles Peirce and Ayn ...

Over at Amazon I've been parsing the 'review' of ARCHN by one "A Person." Interesting only as an example of the lengt...

The Fall 2006 Journal of Ayn Rand Studies commences with an article entitled "Demystifying Emotion: Introducing the Affect Theory of Si...