Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!ists!yunexus!gall From: gall@yunexus.UUCP (Norm Gall) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: talk.philosophy.objectivism Message-ID: <6682@yunexus.UUCP> Date: 19 Jan 90 00:40:55 GMT References: <1990Jan13.140242.14111@twwells.com> Reply-To: gall@yunexus.UUCP Organization: York University Department of Philosophy Lines: 31 bfu@ifi.uio.no (Thomas Gramstad) writes: | >From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) | >Date: 16 Jan 90 15:28:55 GMT | >Rand's work has never been philosophy, despite the claims of a few | >people who don't read philosophy. It has always been political in | >nature. | The Ayn Rand Society, an organization for professional philosophers | who are objectivists, is member of the American Philosophical Association. | I am sure that APA would be interested in the information you apparently | have, which they seem to have missed, as to why objectivism is not a | philosophy. Mr. Maroney's statement is still borne out given that the Ayn Rand Society is a _political_ philosophical society, by and large,--and most members of the Society are not 'professional philosophers', as you intimate, but political theorists. The term philosopher is bantered about quite loosely, but 'professional philosopher' should not. nrg -- York University | "Philosophers who make the general claim that a Department of Philosophy | rule simply 'reduces to' its formulations Toronto, Ontario, Canada | are using Occam's razor to cut the throat _________________________| of common sense.' - R. Harris