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Objectivity Archive

SOLO Posts Most Significant

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~SOLO Science~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Space, Rotation, Relativity 

Sight of Superlative Achievement 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~General Forum~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Existence-Is-Identity Axioms 

Quantum Logic 

Kant's Mystical Plato 

Perceptual Observation (in the thread "Belief and Knowledge" - Chris Cathcart)

Critical Belief (in preceding thread)

Plato-Rand Note (in the thread "Kant/Plato" - Chris Cathcart)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Objectivism Q&A~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Difference of Moral and Esthetic Value 

All that Exists 

Dependency of Change and Entity 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Education Forum~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ayn Rand Society

 

 

Formal Education

BS in Physics – University of Oklahoma

BS in Mechanical Engineering – Illinois Institute of Technology

Graduate Studies in Physics and in Philosophy – University of Chicago

 

Published Writings

Epistemology & Metaphysics

“Capturing Concepts”  (Objectivity 1990)

“Induction on Identity”  (Objectivity 1991)

“Volitional Synapses”  (Objectivity 1994–96)

“Universals and Measurement”  (Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 2004)

Philosophy of Physics

“Chaos”  (Objectivity 1994)

“Space, Rotation, Relativity”  (Objectivity 1995–98)

Ethics & Social Philosophy

“Review of Epstein’s A Theory of Strict Liability”  (Illinois Libertarian 1981)

“Political Liberty and Property Rights (contra Rothbard)”  (Illinois Libertarian 1983)

“Innocent Threats and Abortion”  (Nomos 1983)

“The Moral Value of Liberty”  (Nomos 1984)

“Review of Richards’ Sex, Drugs, Death, and the Law”  (Nomos 1984)

“Comment on Potts’ ‘Ayn Rand on Happiness’”  (The Objectivist Scholar 1985)

“Review of Axelrod’s The Evolution of Cooperation”  (Nomos 1985)

“Is Nuclear War Inevitable?”  (Nomos 1985)

“Review of Levy’s Emergence of a Free Press”  (Nomos 1986)

“Review of Lebow’s Nuclear Crisis Management”  (Nomos 1988)

“Rights, Games, and Self-Realization”  (Nomos 1988–89)

“Human Rights as Game Strategies”  (Nomos 1994 [1989])