A commenter on this thread reminds us of ARIan Harry Binswanger's odd requirement for joining his email list: The HBL Loyalty Oath I ha...

Apropos of Greg's recent series examining the subconscious or "hardwired" part of human nature, YahooNews reports further evi...

Cognitive Unconscious. Rand wanted to believe that every aspect of cognition and willing could be controlled, directly or indirectly, by t...

Guest poster Neil Parille from Objectiblog tells the tale of Ayn Rand's odd reaction to a famous prank at the 1974 Academy Awards. Obje...

While cleaning up some comments spam I came across this brief note that may have been lost in the flurry. In this post Greg criticised a pa...

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...

Given the recent discussion it seems apropos to re-run Greg Nyquist's Journal of Ayn Rand Studies article - which was a reply to Fred S...

The debate over at www.richarddawkins.net vs "The Passion of Ayn Rand's Critics" author Jim Valliant now appears to be over, ...

Behavioral Genetics. From the modular theory of the mind, we proceed to behavioral genetics. It is here that the first really serious chal...

Starting in the 1950s, the sciences of mind, brain, genes, and evolution began forming a new understanding of human nature, based on an ever...

Discovered dissing "Ayn Rand Contra Human Nature" over at at Richard Dawkins' site (registration required), James Valliant, a...

Special guest poster Neil Parille from Objectiblog takes at look at the difficulties of Rand's view of compromise: Ayn Rand is often a...

Contra Rand, there are some times when you've got to let your whims rule. For no other conscious purpose other than a joyful racket unt...

A naturalist view of emotions is one that accords with the best scientific evidence and harmonizes with the view that human beings are larg...

Dr Leonard Peikoff now personally answers your philosophical questions via podcast. Regular ARCHNblog readers who may be interested in toss...

The most critical part of Rand's view of man is her theory of emotion. Upon its validity rests not merely her vision of the "ideal...

As part of our "Atlas Shrugged" 50th Anniversary discussions, we present one of the most controversial passages from Ayn Rand'...

As the ARCHNblog's "Atlas Shrugged" 50th Anniversary critique-athon continues, we link to a perceptive essay by Thomas F. Ber...

Ayn Rand, "For The New Intellectual: : "Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, th...

With the 50th anniversary of the publication of Atlas Shrugged well upon us, several internet postings of the adulatory sycophantic fustian...