Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!tank!rwt1 From: rwt1@tank.uchicago.edu (the saint) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: talk.philosophy.objectivism Summary: ARS not political. Keywords: Objectivism, Rand, APA Message-ID: <7316@tank.uchicago.edu> Date: 19 Jan 90 23:57:04 GMT References: <1990Jan13.140242.14111@twwells.com> <6682@yunexus.UUCP> Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 28 In article <6682@yunexus.UUCP> gall@yunexus.UUCP writes: >bfu@ifi.uio.no (Thomas Gramstad) writes: >| 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 first paper presented at the ARS was on the nature of sense-perception. The second was on the nature of goal-directed action. You are no doubt aware that these topics are not simply political theory. Also, both papers were presented by professional philosophers whose main field is not politics. There are a number of people who are going to have to get used to the fact that Objectivism is a serious philosophy that is here to stay, whether they like it or not. -Robert Tracinski -rwt1@tank.uchicago.edu