“Definitions preserve ... the logical order of their hierarchical interdependence.” This touches on the Objectivist contention that knowled...

“To live, man must hold three things as the supreme and ruling values of his life: Reason—Purpose—Self-esteem.” It is not surprising that n...

“Reason is man’s only means of grasping reality and of acquiring knowledge.” The first difficulty we must confront is trying to entangle wha...

New York Magazine offers us extracts from the user profiles on the Objectivist dating site The Atlasphere. While this is a fun idea, it...

“Man’s values control his subconscious emotional mechanism that functions like a computer adding up his desires, his experiences, his fulfil...

Bill Bartley is a philosopher who deserves to be better known. In this essay, Rationality Versus The Theory of Rationality (with some openin...

“An emotion that clashes with your reason is only the carcass of that stale thinking which you forbade your mind to revise.” How on earth d...

The Chronicle of Higher Education writes an obituary for that strange Objectivist creation known as Founders College. With its occluded ori...

The conscious mind “programs” the subconscious mind. Rand's view is that the conscious mind serves as a kind of gate keeper for what ge...

“Emotions are not tools of cognition.” Rand elaborates as follows: An emotion as such tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that...

Emotions are automatized value judgments. "Emotions are the result of your value judgments," Rand declared in her Playboy Intervie...

A young Objectivist offers a profound philosophical appraisal of the ARCHNblog and its authors. Even better, he's on a boat! (hat tip Be...

Edwin A. Locke is a professor of organisational psychology, with a large number of articles and books to his credit over a lengthy career. H...

Human beings have no innate tendencies. Instead of providing evidence for this assertion, Rand and her followers merely provides a couple o...

Man is a being of self-made soul. Rand explains this assertion as follows : "The use or misuse of his cognitive faculty determines a m...

Michael Prescott: "[Neil Parille's summary] has much in common with the work of Kremlinologists back in the days of the USSR....

Neil Parille details the labyrinthine politics of the latest Objectischism, so you don't have to: Two months ago I gave the lowdow...

Introduction. What is the biggest problem with Ayn Rand? A fairly convincing argument could be made that Rand’s biggest problem was her lac...

A Rand fan drives 12,328 miles t o declare her awesomeness on the face of the earth.