Objectivism & the paranormal. The assumption that “paranormal” events are unreal or impossible may be convenient and prudent in daily l...

Objectivism & Physics. David Hume once remarked that, while errors in religion might be dangerous, those in philosophy are “only ridicu...

Logic and reality. Chris Sciabarra sums up the Objectivist position on this issue better than any Objectivist: Like Aristotle, Rand believe...

Causality. In the Logical Structure of Objectivism , David Kelley makes the following observation: Notice that neither [the axiom of existe...

Neil Parille gives us the lowdown on the latest bustup in Randland. The latest Objectischism is underway. Schisms, excommunications, denun...

Rand’s axioms: Identity . Ayn Rand explicates this "axiom" as follows: To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the noth...

Rand’s axioms: Consciousness and the discovery of other minds . When Rand declared "one exists possessing consciousness, consciousness ...

Rand’s axioms: one exists possessing consciousness . While no sensible person would deny that physiologically normal individuals "posse...

Rand’s axioms: Existence exists . Now lets examine the Objectivist axioms, beginning with the axiom of existence. The Objectivist axioms ar...

The National Review's Jason Lee Steorts makes a good catch - and perhaps finds the underlying inspiration for Whittaker Chambers' i...

Memory and the Objectivist Axioms. Rand defined in axiom as “a statement that identifies the base of knowledge and of any further statement...

Nothing is self-evident. Central to the Objectivist metaphysics is the notion that there are certain premises or “axioms” that are “self-ev...

Objectivism’s revolt against representationalism. David Kelley describes representationalism as follows : [Representationalism] is the vie...

Basic presuppositions of realism. Realism is the view that physical objects exist independently of being perceived (that is to say, physica...

The awesome $5m movie of Rand's epic Atlas Shrugged has wrapped . Below, fitness equipment entrepreneur and first time movie producer J...

I haven't been paying much attention to the latest burgeoning Objecto-schism regarding the proposed mosque near - well, four blocks away...

Preliminaries. What on earth is all this nonsense that goes under the name “metaphysics”? Rand defined metaphysics as “the study of existen...