Can Toyota and Reason Overcome Blindness?
If you’ve shut your eyes at the ugly spectacle of political and cultural decline around you, look in the right direction and you’ll see what
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If you’ve shut your eyes at the ugly spectacle of political and cultural decline around you, look in the right direction and you’ll see what
PJ Media recently posted an amusing quiz asking readers to guess which of 16 quotations were from Ayn Rand and which were from Planned Paren
We're very pleased to announce that David Kelley's ground-breaking treatise on epistemology, The Evidence of the Senses: A Realist Theory
At our 2001 Summer Seminar Dr. David Ross offered this engaging overview of one of Ayn Rand 's most important contributions to philosophy...
Perception is the foundation of knowledge and the source of everything we know. Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that studies the...
What does it mean to be objective? David Kelley discusses the relation of the objective, the intrinsic, and the subjective. He discusses
Thanksgiving evening at home — snow on the ground outside, the hum of the dishwasher in the kitchen, half-eaten pies on the counter. The ...
Our knowledge of the world, and our ability to act in it, depends on our grasp of causal relationships among things—the ways they act and...
Our knowledge of the world, and our ability to act in it, depends on our grasp of causal relationships among things—the ways they act and in
We're very pleased to announce that David Kelley's classic treatise on epistemology, The Evidence of the Senses: A Realist Theory of Percept
Induction is the formation of general knowledge from particular evidence. It is induction if you burn your hand once and thereafter always..
It is no easy task trying to understand what Nietzsche’s views on metaphysics and epistemology are. Beyond getting past Nietzsche’s manner..
Richard Rorty’s “Objectivity or Solidarity” is a case study in the use of false alternatives for rhetorical gain. The essay begins by
As I understand it, Foucault is one of the widely recognized creators of Postmodernism. He was influenced by Hegel and Nietzsche, and he
Your argument is correct. But I will elaborate a little to make clear the Objectivist view.....
Induction is the process of reaching general conclusions from particular facts. It is contrasted in logic with deduction, which is the proce
Question: How does Objectivism define and classify sexual desire and lust? It seems they do not actually flow from convictions, but instead
We are integrated beings of mind and body. Simply put, this means that one's mental functions are the product of an organ (which turns out
Objectivism views emotions as the result and reflection of an individual's value judgments. Our emotional reactions to events, people and o
I think you are asking to what extent it is right to embrace and follow teachings that are in some aspect known to be false. Examples would