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Saturday, May 30, 2009

Objectivism & Politics, Part 13

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An Objectivist fairy tale. In previous posts, I have brought forth compelling evidence for the the view that neither "reason" nor...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Objectivism & Politics, Part 12

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Influence of sentiment on thinking In the last several “Objectivism and Politics” posts, compelling reasons have been provided for regardin...
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Saturday, May 23, 2009

Objectivism & Politics, Part 11

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Philosophy as derivation 2: Rand’s Ethics. In my last “Objectivism and Politics” post , I quoted Pareto’s devastating analysis of Kant’s fa...
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Friday, May 22, 2009

Valliant: Surrounded by Conspiracy!

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Updating our recent chucklesome expose of James S. Valliant's obsessive self-promotional sockpuppetry on Wikipedia, he is now claiming ...
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Take The Atlas Shrugged Pledge!

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This is the ARI's latest attempt to plug Atlas's (actually largely irrelevant) message into the economic events still unfolding. Int...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Author of His Own Misfortune

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Long time readers of this blog will be familiar with the strange case of James S. Valliant, former public prosecutor and author of the serio...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Objectivism & Politics, Part 10

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Philosophy as derivation 1: Kant’s Ethics. In my last “Objectivism and Politics” post , I introduced Pareto’s theory of residues and deriva...
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Monday, May 18, 2009

Cause and Effect

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Conservative writer David Frum demonstrates he understands cause and effect: A federal bank takeover is a bad thing obviously. I wonder tho...

Harry Binswanger Talks To Glenn Beck

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A public appearance from the ARI's Harry Binswanger. Not that common an event. His media training (which he mentions in his latest email...
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Friday, May 15, 2009

Objectivism's "Cultural Change" Project

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Objectivists often say that their project is to change the culture of the Western world (and the non-West) so it will become more accepting ...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Objectivism & Politics, Part 9

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Residues and Derivatives “Philosophy shapes a nation’s political system,” insisted Leonard Peikoff. This view assumes that ideas, theories,...
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Friday, May 08, 2009

Is "Concept Formation" Empirically Testable?

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Rand's theory of Concept Formation is fundamental to her entire philosophy - and indeed with characteristic hubris she implies that it i...
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Objectivism & Politics, Part 8

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A digression on methodology. Vilfredo Pareto identified two types of theories: what he called “logico-experimental” theories, founded on “ ...
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009

The Limits of Logic

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Let’s examine those syllogisms I presented in the last post and find out which are valid and which are not: Syllogism A: No Gox box when in...
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Saturday, May 02, 2009

Testing One's Ability to Think Logically

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In The Objectivist [Feb, 1971] we find Leonard Peikoff making the following assertion about logic: Logic is man’s method of reaching conclu...
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Friday, May 01, 2009

Who Wrote This?

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Roderick T Long over at The Austro-Athenian Empire asks us to guess the mystery author: "That idea of hardships being good for charact...
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Thursday, April 30, 2009

Objectivism & Politics, Part 7

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Politics and the non-rational 3: the is-ought gap revisited. In the last Objectivism and Politics post, I noted two problems with the view...
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Sunday, April 26, 2009

Objectivism & Politics, Part 6

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Politics and the non-rational 2: constructivism. In the last "Objectivism and Politics" post I introduced the concept of non-log...
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Friday, April 24, 2009

Taking Ideas Seriously Pt 2: Peikoff's "The Ominous Parallels"

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Objectivists claim to "take ideas seriously," yet are notorious for bad arguments and worse scholarship. Regular ARCHNblog contrib...
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