Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ficc!jeffd From: jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: sci.philosophy.objectivism Summary: Popularity != correctness Message-ID: Date: 24 Jan 90 21:16:14 GMT References: <8284@portia.Stanford.EDU> <6534@yunexus.UUCP> Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation Lines: 27 In article <6534@yunexus.UUCP>, gall@yunexus.UUCP (Norm Gall) writes: > harris@portia.Stanford.EDU (Joe Harris) writes: > > | The revolution which Ayn Rand created in philosophy was primarily > | epistemological, not political or ethical. > Well, let's nip this in the bud. Ayn Rand's 'revolution in > philosophy' has had practically no effect at all in 20th century > epistemology and of 50 philosophy departments in North America if > there are 10 philosophers doing serious work in her epistemology, I'd > be surprised. I suspect there are at least that many, since it seems that more than that many are seeing print with their views on the subject, both pro and wrong. {|8^)] But that's not relevant. Whether *any* work is correct or valuable cannot be judged by how popular it is. After all, only a minority of people in the British Empire in 1776 approved of The Declaration of Independence! Jeff Daiell -- If a hungry man has water, and a thirsty man has bread, Then if they trade, be not dismayed, they both come out ahead. -- Don Paarlberg