Primacy of existence versus primacy of consciousness. Rand’s explicates her views on this issue as follows : The primacy of existence (of r...

Seddon’s defense of Rand’s free will. In Fred Seddon’s review of my book Ayn Rand Contra Human Nature , we find the following curious asser...

Objectivist argument for free will. According to Objectivism, free will is “axiomatic,” which means (1) it’s “self-evident,” “fundamentally...

Objectivist theory of free will vs. the facts of reality. In the last two posts I have documented how the Objectivist metaphysics has helpe...

In a new, special edition of his Intellectual Activist newsletter, former Orthodox Objectivist and Ayn Rand Institute member Robert Tracinsk...

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...