Fallacious Presumptions: The validity of knowledge depends on "proper" concept formation. Rand assumes that the "validity...

Fallacious Presumptions: Rand's implicit theory of mind. Although Rand never developed a complete theory of mind, an implicit theory of...

Fallacious Presumptions: the facts upon which epistemology is based are discoverable through introspection. Early on in her Introduction to...

Fallacious Presumptions: over-emphasizing how one attains knowledge. In his book on logic, John Stuart Mill asserted the following: "...

Fallacious Presumptions: Active Consciousness.   In my last post, I discussed what I described as the primary fallacy behind the Objectivi...

Successful banker and Ayn Rand Institute board member John Allison IV  has been appointed as the acting head of Cato following a n ugly pub...

The primary fallacy behind the Objectivist Epistemology. Since human cognition (mostly) operates below the threshold of consciousness, the ...

Introduction. Now we venture forth into the thorniest reaches of Rand's philosophy: the Objectivist Epistemology. Rand's epistemolo...

Human nature and politics. Rand's politics is not entirely free of the contagion of her view of man. Rand's so-called "philoso...

Human nature and ethics. Among Rand's more enlightened admirers, there is a tendency to simply ignore Rand's obvious cluelessness a...

Human Nature and epistemology. Some Objectivists, particularly of the non-orthodox variety, are willing to admit that Rand's theory of ...

Rand's arguments against innate predispositions . As far as I can make out, Rand made two arguments against innate predispositions: (1) ...

Reason becomes the thinking man's Hello magazine in this new piece devoted to energetically fluffing the Atlas Shrugged 2 movie. Am...

Atlas Shrugged Part 1 and human nature. With the threatened second version of Atlas Shrugged beginning production, I finally got around t...

"Atlas Shrugged Part 2", featuring an all new cast, has started shooting . This time it will work, really.

Gary Weiss' new tome, Ayn Rand Nation , looks to be the first critical examination of Rand from the Left that we've seen since Ellis...

Innate components of religion. Objectivism considers religion a mere execrescence of irrationality, a product of wrong premises misintregra...

Rationality within the limits of human nature . Rand regarded "reason" as the supreme virtue: "I am not primarily an advocate...

Human nature and "reason." Rand places enormous stress on individual conscious reasoning. "Reason" is her chief moral v...

Noted investigative journalist Gary Weiss , author of 2006's ahead-of-the-curve "Wall St Versus. America" , puts the spotlight...