Nicholas Dykes' critique of Popper, linked by the poster Ian, while not as bad as most such Rand-inspired criticisms, does have its sha...

Guest blogger Neil Parille of Objectiblog has mail. My copy of The Ayn Rand Bookstore 2008 Catalog arrived the other day. The ARB is owned...

Intuition and tacit knowledge, part 2. In the last Cognitive Revolution post , I introduced Oakeshott's two forms of knowledge, the tec...

"The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One s...

The Ayn Rand Institute's Dave Harriman's "Fundamentals of Physical Science" 120hr DVD course from the Van Damme Academy p...

Original guitar hero Julian Bream lays it down.

In comments on the previous thread, Ellen Stuttle very kindly provides us with a lengthy extract from Rand's "Art And Cognition....

In the "Concepts In a Hat" thread, commenter Jonathan notes that Rand is talking through her hat in some of her pronouncements on ...

No, not a droll putdown of Rand's epistemological disarray, but apparently an Objectivist party game - I suppose the New Intellectual e...

Intuition and tacit knowledge, part 1. In the next series of Cognitive Revolution posts, I am going to discuss what I regard as Rand's ...

Over at Mises.org we find Patrick M. O'Neil's detailed breakdown of Objectivist ethics, and despite Rand's claims to the contra...

Here at the ARCHNblog we welcome another entrant to the small but merrily growing band of sites critical of Objectivism. "Meg's Mar...

Yes, Leonard Peikoff has the answer to this centuries-old problem. And it can be yours too for just US$205 and 13hrs of your time. "Th...

Guest blogger Neil Parille from Objectiblog tots up the books advancing Objectivism beyond Ayn Rand's original works. In 1967, Ayn Rand...

In which the ARCHNblog takes a regular look at the products of Rand's aesthetic theories.

Emotion and reason. The so-called "high-reason" view of thinking, which insists that reason must be free of emotion, has not weat...

"As far as I'm concerned, the problem of universals is not really a problem at all. It is simply one of those manufactured problems...

"Among the things that can drive a thinker to despair is the knowledge that the illogical is necessary for man and that much good comes...

Guest blogger Neil Parille from Objectiblog takes a two-part look at Rand's typical standards of argument. In the first part of this p...

Emotions as tools of cognition. "Emotions are not tools of cognition," states Rand in For the New Intellectual . Is this view in ...