Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to boydstun. My certainty that you were at the 1992 ARS/APA meeting has now greatly diminished. You’re right, George’s paper was first published in Objectivity, and soon thereafter in JARS. The last time I saw George was, I believe…

Of note on history of my paper: https://www.objectivistliving.com/forums/topic/9043-prof-george-walsh-on-rand-and-kant/#comment-107274 Walsh’s paper, whose right to print, Irfan, you obtained for Carolyn Ray to publish in her attempted continuati…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Irfan, I was not at that ARS session, but I had those papers, and in 2010, I wrote and posted online a large paper on George’s paper. It is no longer online. But here it is. (Page citations are to the JARS issue of the …

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. “CIRCE” is an acronym for “Center for Independent Research on Classical Education.” A secondary acronym is “Consulting and Integrated Resources for Classical Educators.” How about “Clickbait Intended to Reel…

In reply to djr. The website of the Circe institute was disappointingly devoid of any references to, much less photos of, its namesake. Just hard to see how Odysseus would have been waylaid on some remote island for any of this. LikeLike

Relevant reading: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/buckley-gamay/620811/ LikeLike

Thanks for posting this, Stephen. I so far have only had a chance to take a glance at them, but a relevant bit of news: Carrie-Ann Biondi tells me that Reason Papers is publishing the exchange between George Walsh and Fred Miller on Rand on Kant that w…

In 1975 Rand composed an essay she titled “From the Horse’s Mouth.” She had been reading a book by Friedrich Paulsen (1846–1908) titled Immanuel Kant: His Life and Doctrines, published in 1898 and translated from German to English in 1902. The horse Ra…

I have completed a ten-part essay titled “Rand and I contra Kant”. It addresses almost all of Ayn Rand’s representations and criticisms of Kant’s philosophy, all of my criticisms of Rand in those writings, and some of my criticisms of Kant. This serial essay is posted here: https://forum.objectivismonline.com/index.php?/topic/36888-rand-and-i-contra-kant/ I’ll post here the tenth part (~J~)…