55 Articles tagged with: Epistemology

• Still Waiting, with Ayn Rand, for America To Become “Intellectually Polarized”

  Has the United States become truly and thoroughly “polarized”? Two camps (very broadly speaking) face each other with extreme positions, implacable in their intent to defeat the other, incapable of tolerance for the opposing view, and screamin… Read Article

• 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’s best in the world, including innovations from Toyota that are helping the visually impaired. 

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• Sanger and Rand: Concrete-Bound America

  PJ Media recently posted an amusing quiz asking readers to guess which of 16 quotations were from Ayn Rand and which were from Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger.

  The quotes reveal that Sanger was a racist and eugenicist for whom … Read Article

• Interpreting the Constitution

  How does one determine the meaning of a 200+ year-old document? Does it mean what it was understood to mean in the 18th century? Or what it is understood to mean today? Or what the morally best reading would be?

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• Toward An Objectivist Feminism

  Objectivism has the potential for a dynamic relationship with feminism, which can ground, challenge, and ultimately sharpen each school’s arguments toward the ultimate ends of both freedom and flourishing for women (and all human beings). A ne… Read Article

• The Epistemology of Perception

  Perception is the foundation of knowledge and the source of everything we know. Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature, acquisition, and validation of knowledge. To make the connection between perception and the rest of… Read Article

• Objectivity: Metaphysical and Epistemological

  Atlas Summit 2014 -- What does it mean to be objective? David Kelley discusses the relation of the objective, the intrinsic, and the subjective. He discusses objectivity both in a metaphysical and in an epistemological sense. And he shows why obje… Read Article

• David Kelley on Ayn Rand and the Rebirth of Liberty

  In this lecture, which was given at the International Society for Individual Liberty's 1991 conference, David Kelley talks about Ayn Rand's contribution to the free-market individualist movement. He says that as Aristotle defined metaphysical in… Read Article

• Objectivity toward Obama

  Forbes.com has posted an opinion piece by Kerri Toloczko with the damning title “ How Obama's Jus

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• Ayn Rand vs. Friedrich Hayek on Abstraction

  Ayn Rand and Friedrich Hayek were notable 20th century advocates of capitalism. They were two of the most important theorists of the free society and defenders of the free society. Both of them based their political views, in part… Read Article

• Classic Kelley treatise now republished online

  September 19, 2012 -- We're very pleased to announce that David Kelley's classic treatise on epistemology, The Evidence of the Senses: A Realist Theory of Perception , is now available on Amazon.com.

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• Objectivity as a Weapon

  May 2003 -- On March 21, 2003, sophisticated weapons were assaulting the Baathist regime in Baghdad. And so was a simple one: the truth.

  One such strike occurred that day at about 1321 "Zulu" time (that is, Greenwich Mean Time).… Read Article

• The Epistemology of Insider Trading

  The “Law Blog” column of the Wall Street Journal had a troubling article last week. Its headline said: “What, Precisely, is Inside Info? Legal Issue Arises in Raj Trial.” This refers, of course, to the current trial of Raj Rajaratnam, th… Read Article

• Nietzsche's Metaphysics and Epistemology

  This commentary is part of The Atlas Society's 2000 online "CyberSeminar" entitled " Nietzsche and Objectivism ." 

  It is no easy task trying to understand what Nietzsche’s views on metaphysics and epistemology are. Beyond getting pas… Read Article

• Review of Richard Rorty's "Solidarity or Objectivity?" and "The Contingency of Language"

  This commentary is part of The Atlas Society's 1999 online "CyberSeminar" entitled " The Continental Origins of Postmodernism ."

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• Foucault's Sexuality

  This commentary is part of The Atlas Society's 1999 online "CyberSeminar" entitled " The Continental Origins of Postmodernism ."

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• Response by William Dale and Others

  This commentary is part of The Atlas Society's 1999 online "CyberSeminar" entitled " The Continental Origins of Postmodernism ."

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• What is the Objectivist View of Free Will?

  Question: What Is the Objectivist view of free will?

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• Foundations Study Guide: Epistemology

  Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that investigates the basic nature of knowledge, including its sources and validation. Epistemology is concerned with the basic relationship between man's mind and reality, and with the basic operations of … Read Article

• Why Should One Act on Principle?

  A person of "principle" is commonly thought to be one who cleaves to his moral ideals and shuns "expediency" and compromise. Objectivism , by contrast, holds that principles, when properly understood, are extremely expedient because a person who… Read Article