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Objectivism and the corruption of rationality :

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0595267335

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9780595267330

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b788595

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Objectivism and the corruption of rationality :

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[Book]

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a critique of Ayn Rand's epistemology /

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Scott Ryan.

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Lincoln, NE :

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Writers Club Press,

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©2003.

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xiv, 416 pages ;

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23 cm

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-416).

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Axioms and concepts: Objectivism and the a priori ; Are "axiomatic concepts" concepts? ; Implicit reliance on a priori insight ; "Stolen concepts" and the absolute presuppositions of thought ; More fear of religion ; What does Rand mean by " concept"? ; Still more implicit idealism -- The correspondence theory of truth: Rand's theory of truth ; Correspondence or not? ; Association with "external realism" ; Does correspondence preclude coherence? ; Rand's inconsistent "external realism" -- The "primary of existence" vs. the "primacy of consciousness": The rationality of theism ; Rand's fundamental dichotomy ; Atheism as Rand's philosophical motivation ; "Existence exists" ; A false dichotomy and a presumption of materialism ; Disconnecting mind from reality -- Values and volition: the objectivist ethics: Idolizing autonomy ; Rand's theory of value ; Objectivism's subjectivist ethic ; Ethical axioms? ; Moral obligations not arising from the "choice to live" ; One's life as one's "highest value" ; "Egoism vs. altruism" as a false dichotomy ; Dueling axioms ; Unchosen obligations and their grounding in an ideal common end ; Rand on capitalism, liberty, and the "common man" -- The tale of the self-preceding man: The emergence of consciousness from matter? ; Objectivism and dehumanizing ; The illusion of a moral standard ; "Man qua man": deriving "is" from "ought" ; Humans and subhumans ; Misconceiving justice ; The sanction of the victim -- Afterword -- Appendix: Theism, rationalism, and objective idealism.

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Why critique Ayn Rand's epistemology?: Why bother? ; A minimal idealism ; Fear of religion ; Rand the idealist? -- The (genuine) problem of universals: What is a "universal" ; Scenes from a "workshop" -- The optical illusion of objectivism: Rand the nominalist? ; Rand's statement of the problem ; Is there a "third way"? ; Rand the realist? ; The unclearness of her intent ; A failure of introspection ; Rand's antireligious motivation -- Sensation, perception, and the tabula rasa mind: Rand's non-account of sensation vs. perception ; Peikoff's problematic account ; Two objectivist counterarguments ; Improving the objectivist account ; How does a blank slate learn to preceive? ; Implicit idealism, explicit empiricism -- The mind's activity in concept-formation: Universals, units, and natural kinds: Why Rand's concern about the mind's "activity"? ; Roy Wood Sellars: logical conceptualist and ontological nominalist ; Knowledge without universals? ; Perceiving things as "units" ; Are "kinds" real or not? ; "Innovations" or failures? -- Rand's theory of measurement-omission: A realistic resemblance theory ; Perceiving commensurability? ; Apprehending logical relations ; Measurement without measurements? ; Sense and reference, idea and object -- Concepts, propositions, and truth: Truth: a matter of propositions ; "Invalid" concepts: from where? ; Rand the idealist vs. Rand the empiricist (again) ; Contextually absolute knowledge ; Objectivism and pragmatism -- Universals, particulars, and direct realism: Is Rand a direct realist? ; Direct awareness of entities ; An entity is its attributes ; Universals and particularity ; The collapse of objectivism's perceptual realism -- Two views of reason: Rand's view of reason ; Blanshard's view of reason ; Objectivism's deflationary account of necessity ; Necessity in causation ; Nondeterministic causation and the principle of sufficient reason -- Objectivism and explanation ; Straw-man determinism.

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Rand, Ayn-- Philosophy.

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Objectivism (Philosophy)

Objectivism (Philosophy)

Philosophy.

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Ryan, Scott.

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