Objectivism -- Which areas still need work?

Constantly? I can't remember ever hearing this. Getting back to the topic:

Objectivism, as Rand left it, needed to earn a place among the grownups - to engage formal, technical, professional philosophy, spell out its arguments and place itself in the history of the field. Most (or all) of the people who are doing something about this belong to the American Philosophical Association's Ayn Rand Society (www.aynrandsociety.org). A full membership requires membership in the APA, not a good buy unless you're an academic or a grad student, but you can join the boosters' club and get their papers once year for $30.

Peter

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Tuesday, August 23, 2005 - 11:57am

Peter -- So is this the ARI version of JARS? Previously I was unaware of this group. Have they brought up any interesting questions or solutions that you can share with us?

- Jason

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Tuesday, August 23, 2005 - 12:24pm

Actually the Ayn Rand Society has no affiliation with ARI. It's an organization primarily for academics, part of the APA - the same APA that Rand denounced in The Chickens' Homecoming. Of their current steering committee, Lennox, Miller and Hunt are not in the ARI sphere of influence. Each year they make a point of inviting one speaker who isn't an Objectivist at all. This year's it's Cooper.

ARS meetings are about the only time Peikoff loyalists will be seen in public with the enemy. I understand that they sit on one side of the room and everybody else on the other.

Peter

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Tuesday, August 23, 2005 - 12:29pm

To answer Jason's other question: to see what questions they've brought up, look at the Past Programs section of their site.

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Wednesday, August 31, 2005 - 4:55pm