In Anon's most recent reply, he focuses largely on the issue of explaining why "the concepts we need to learn first are just the on...

An anonymous poster has provided to reply to my previous attack on the Objectivist hiearchy of knowledge, as advanced by Van Damme in her p...

The Objectivist theory of education, as I have noted before, is one of the least objectionable theories in all of Randian inspired philosoph...

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

Over Objectiblog way, Neil Parille makes another sharp-eyed catch.

The 'mind/body' (or perhaps better called the 'mind/brain') problem is perhaps the toughest problem in all philosophy. Once ...

For those who may regard the whole controversy of Founders College and its links to ARI to be trivial, consider the actual tuition fees: Tu...

Two new faculty hires at Founders College; predictably both are Objectivists, and A.R.I. fans. The first is self-styled " rogue psych...

A handy, ongoing list of fact-free beliefs about Ayn Rand's intellectual achievements. Rand is widely believed by her followers to have ...

As anyone capable of unbiased judgment can readily perceive, Dr. Garmong has not in fact answered the questions posed to him by ARCHN blog, ...

Over the last two months, ARCHNblog has been covering what appeared to be the overtly Objectivist (and Ayn Rand Institute) orientation of t...

Due to travel and work commitments posting will be a little light for a couple of weeks.

No, this is not a joke.

Rand's leftward views on human nature and historical change have already been discussed. What of her leftward views of politics and econ...

"There is a hereditary selective advantage to membership in a powerful group united by devout belief and purpose. Even when individuals...

Because of her uncompromising espousal of individualism and capitalism, Rand is usually identified with the right, rather than the left. Ind...

What makes the Founder's reading list so curious, is not so much the inclusion of books Rand liked, but the inclusion of books Rand did...

Founders College ad in the Christian Science Monitor online: Compare and contrast this with Founders College Professor Robert Garmong's ...

The principals at the controversial new Founders College have been at considerable pains to deny any ongoing Objectivist connection to, and...

Under the name "Friscodog" an ARCHNblog commenter - presumably Founders College Philosophy Professor Robert Garmong - makes the f...