Rand was fond of dividing the intellectual world between the Aristotleans and the Platonists, as if everyone, fundamentally, falls into one ...

Since I regularly attack orthodox Objectivists for failing to demonstrate any intellectual curiosity or rigor, it's only fair to point a...

A series of handy short summaries of the main arguments of ARCHN for those unfamiliar with the book. For more detail, you can read ARCHN onl...

When examing any philosophy or ideological belief system that oversteps important realities, it is important to distinguish between the form...

In a series of posts, I have attempted to infer some of the intellectual sources of key concepts in Rand's Objectivist philosophy. The p...

"Most philosophers did not intend to invalidate conceptual knowledge, but its defenders did more to destroy it than did its enemies. Th...

"Anti-concept" = any vague, confusing or poorly defined term. Which would include the term "anti-concept" itself. More ...

Where did Rand pick up the notion that Kant's philosophical aim was to destroy reason to make way for faith and mysticism? Given that Ra...

Following Greg Nyquist's discussion of the roots of Leonard Peikoff's "The Ominous Parallels", regular commenter Dragonfly...

As elucidated in an earlier posting, it had become fairly common during the thirties and forties to blame the rise of German statism on Germ...

A series of handy short summaries of the main arguments of ARCHN for those unfamiliar with the book. For more detail, you can read ARCHN onl...

A series of handy short summaries of the main arguments of ARCHN for those unfamiliar with the book. For more detail, you can read ARCHN onl...

"For the most part, (Rand's) theory of essence is merely a justification for arbitrarily ignoring any characteristics found in real...

"Conceptual Common Denominator" = a similarity The "Conceptual Common Denominator" or "CCD" is surely one of...

Chris Sciabarra has tried to dredge up the Russian influence on Rand, but little has been done to illuminate the conservative influence. Alt...

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

In the next issue of the Journal of Ayn Rand Studies , there will be a symposium of sorts discussing the relation between Rand and Nietzsche...

ARCHN 's chapter on Rand's morality thoroughly explores its various fallacies, especially Nyquist's thoughtfully argued sub-chap...

Those who wish to read Fred Seddon's reply to my response to his original review of my book are advised to locate a copy of the Fall 200...

The following is my response to Fred Seddon's review of my book Ayn Rand Contra Human Nature . The point of this response was not merely...