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Leonid

I'm living outside of USA and cannot pay by check. Is it possible to pay by credit card? Can you supply contact numbers or e-mail address to arrange payment and mailing?

Leonid asked yesterday how one can obtain Objectivity in hardcopy. Visit this site: http://www.bomis.com/objectivity/. Click on Prices and follow the directions. Be sure to include your name and mailing address.

 All issues are still available in their original hardcopy.

Your site is excellent. I'm making my way through it bit by bit and am finding it a very helpful resource. Thankyou!

Kenny,

Thanks for adding your photo. Sorry to be so long in responding to your note. I was out of pocket a few days.

All of the articles in Objectivity are at a widely accessible level of philosophical discussion. They are as accessible as the philosophy writings of Ayn Rand. No special prior study of philosophy is required to absorb these essays and remarks.

I think the quickest way to decide what to check out in the journal is to scan down the CONTENTS sector, where subsection headings of the essays and titles of the remarks are listed. A fuller guide to what is covered in the essays is in the ABSTRACTS. When the SUBJECT INDEX is complete, you will have available a way of seeing all the topics treated in the journal and all the locations of a given topic accross the entire journal. This will be a very fine-grained conceptual index.

As you might expect, the philosophical views of the various writers on a given topic in Objectivity are different from one another. Let me tell you all a little more of the orientation of this journal.

When I created Objectivity, I had not intended to make an Objectivist journal. I had intended for it to be open to writers who wanted to discuss Rand's philosophical ideas, but the journal was open to contributions from anyone who prized rationality, objectivity, and modern science. As it worked out, a great many of the contributors were friendly to some of Rand's ideas, and they wanted to discuss them.

One thing the journal contains is science education. That is on purpose. Discussions in this journal move freely back and forth between science and philosophy. (I mean standard science, nothing kooky, nothing reactionary.) Integration between these disciplines permeates the journal.

Another educational feature of the journal is the history of philosophy. I think that is a great way to learn philosophy. Actually, I have found that the further reaches of science are also more accessible when learned in their historical development. There is some history of science in Objectivity.

I hope you will find the journal enjoyable and a resource of information and reasoning in the coming years. Keep reaching.

Oh, I almost forgot. You may have gotten the impression that there is no political philosophy in Objectivity. That is correct, and that was by design. My first degree (1971) was in physics, and I had minored in philosophy. I was a political activist for fifteen years after graduation, and I studied a great deal of social and political philosophy during those years and even up to launching this journal (1990). But I missed all the other areas of philosophy to which I had awakened back in undergraduate days. Outside academia there were plenty of magazines and journals devoted to politics, and those that started out with a more inclusive range of topics were soon overrun by the single topic of politics. So with Objectivity I created a haven, outside academia, for serious discussion of philosophy in areas not primarily social. It turned out that others had been longing for such a forum.

I will visit the site over Easter. However, I am not a philosopher and would be grateful for any additional information or guidance.