What We Do:

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Whose Liberalism? Which Individualism?: Review of Colin Bird's The Myth of Liberal Individualism
Author: Irfan Khawaja, Subject: Ethics, Politics, Type: Academic, Book Reviews, Graduate, Journal Reprint, Size: 84 K, Date: 2001-8-29

Churchland Debunked, Commonsense Psychology Vindicated
Author: Will Wilkinson, Subject: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Epistemology, Logic, Philosophy of Mind, Psychology, Type: Academic, Graduate, Size: 32 K, Date: 2001-8-28

Propositions
Author: Carolyn Ray, Subject: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Epistemology, Linguistics, Logic, Method, Type: Academic, Annual Meeting, Draft, Size: 54 K, Date: 2001-7-11

A Lockean Theory of Agency and Rights
Author: Bryan Register, Subject: Ethics, Modern Philosophy, Politics, Type: Academic, Course Essay, Graduate, Size: 57 K, Date: 2001-6-6

Self, Knowledge, and Self-Knowledge in Aristotle
Author: Bryan Register, Subject: Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, Psychology, Type: Academic, Course Essay, Graduate, Size: 40 K, Date: 2001-6-6

The Universality and Employment of Concepts
Author: Bryan Register, Subject: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Psychology, Type: Academic, Graduate, Journal Reprint, Size: 88 K, Date: 2001-6-6

Commentary on Tom Radcliffe and Carolyn Ray's A Conceptualist Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Author: David Ward, Subject: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Method, Philosophy of Science, Physics, Type: Academic, Annual Meeting, Commentary, Draft, Size: 18 K, Date: 2001-5-16

Objectivity and the Proof of Egoism
Author: Robert Hartford, Subject: Ethics, Method, Type: Academic, Annual Meeting, Draft, Size: 23 K, Date: 2001-5-15

Individualism and the Vitality of Community Life
Author: Tibor Machan, Subject: American Culture, Ethics, Politics, Sociology, Communitarianism, Type: Academic, Annual Meeting, Draft, Size: 36 K, Date: 2001-5-3

A Conceptualist Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Author: Tom Radcliffe, Carolyn Ray, Subject: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Physics, Type: Academic, Annual Meeting, Draft, Size: 48 K, Date: 2001-4-30

Understanding Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) From An Objectivist Perspective
Author: Andrew Breese, Subject: Linguistics, Method, Philosophy of Mind, Psychology, Self Esteem, Sociology, Type: Academic, Annual Meeting, Draft, Life On Earth, Size: 23 K, Date: 2001-4-29

Transcripts of the First Online Conference
Author: Bryan Register, Ted O'Connor, Matt Zwolinski, Bryan Register, Chris Sciabarra, Irfan Khawaja, Agnes Koos, Subject: Epistemology, Ethics, Metaphysics, Politics, Type: Academic, Commentary, Draft, Informal, Online Conference, Size: 6 K, Date: 2001-4-21

Enduring Aristotle’s Dialectic: The Discipline of Non-Contradiction
Author: Jamie Mellway, Subject: Ancient Philosophy, Epistemology, Logic, Method, Type: Academic, Annual Meeting, Draft, Undergraduate, Size: 20 K, Date: 2001-4-20

Feminism, Pornography, and Censorship
Author: David Ward, Subject: American Culture, Ethics, Feminism, Psychology, Self Esteem, Sociology, Type: Academic, Annual Meeting, Size: 29 K, Date: 2001-4-11

Valuing in Games and Life
Author: Ted O'Connor, Subject: Ethics, Politics, Sociology, Psychology, Economics, Type: Academic, Annual Meeting, Undergraduate, Size: 12 K, Date: 2001-4-8

Eudaimonia in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Author: Carolyn Ray, Subject: Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, Type: Academic, Commentary, Course Essay, Graduate, Size: 30 K, Date: 2001-3-5

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Author: John Locke, Subject: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Type: Academic, Book, Size: 6 K, Date: 2001-3-2

Metaphysics
Author: Aristotle, Subject: Ancient Philosophy, Metaphysics, Type: Academic, Book, Size: 0 K, Date: 2001-2-28

Economic Man, Minimal Benevolence, and the Inadequacy of the Preference Satisfaction Theory of Well-Being
Author: Neil Haddow, Subject: Ethics, economics, Type: Academic, Graduate, Size: 49 K, Date: 2001-2-27

Distorted Memories Cause Problems for Locke's Self-Same Theory of Personal Identity
Author: Luis Concepcion, Subject: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Modern Philosophy, Type: Academic, Course Essay, Undergraduate, Size: 13 K, Date: 2001-2-27

Value and Science
Author: Agnes Koos, Subject: Epistemology, Ethics, Sociology, Type: Academic, Draft, Online Conference, Size: 52 K, Date: 2001-2-27

The Form of Experience: The Transcendental Analogy
Author: Jamie Mellway, Subject: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Method, Logic, Type: Academic, Commentary, Course Essay, Undergraduate, Size: 28 K, Date: 2001-2-16

Entities, Concepts, and Propositions: A Computational Approach
Author: Ted O'Connor, Subject: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Computer Science, Type: Academic, Online Conference, Undergraduate, Size: 40 K, Date: 2001-2-11

Force and Flourishing in the Objectivist Political Philosophy
Author: Matt Zwolinski, Subject: Politics, Type: Academic, Graduate, Online Conference, Size: 37 K, Date: 2001-2-11

Direct Reference and the Export Gambit
Author: Will Wilkinson, Subject: Epistemology, Type: Academic, Graduate, Size: 89 K, Date: 2001-1-31

What is Poetry?
Author: Tom Radcliffe, Subject: Aesthetics, Type: Academic, Informal, Size: 17 K, Date: 2001-1-28

Arguments Against Gender Neutral Language: Comment on Ray's "Are Women Men?"
Author: Tom Radcliffe, Subject: Feminism, Politics, Type: Academic, Commentary, Annual Meeting, Size: 33 K, Date: 2001-1-21

Friendship in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Author: Carolyn Ray, Subject: Ethics, Self Esteem, Ancient Philosophy, Type: Academic, Size: 74 K, Date: 2001-1-01

Reality, Context, and Intentionality: Response to Tom Radcliffe
Author: Michelle Fram-Cohen, Subject: Linguistics, Type: Academic, Commentary, Size: 7 K, Date: 2000-11-30

Facts, Concepts, and Truth
Author: Bryan Register, Subject: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Type: Academic, Online Conference, Size: 0 K, Date: 2000-11-26

Spatiotemporal Continuity: Comments on Chapter 8 of Ray's Identity and Universals
Author: David Ward, Subject: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Type: Academic, Annual Meeting, Commentary, Size: 26 K, Date: 2000-11-25

Affirmative Action
Author: David Ward, Subject: Ethics, Feminism, Politics, Type: Academic, Size: 38 K, Date: 2000-11-24

Fictional Entities: Comment on Radcliffe?s ?Inside the Edge
Author: David Ward, Subject: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Type: Academic, Annual Meeting, Commentary, Size: 29 K, Date: 2000-11-24

Sentence Completion in Counseling: Enhancing Self-Esteem
Author: Walter Foddis, Subject: Psychology, Self Esteem, Type: Academic, Annual Meeting, Size: 43 K, Date: 2000-11-22

On Ideas As Such: Short Commentary on a Selection from The Critique of Pure Reason, Transcendental Dialectic
Author: Jamie Mellway, Subject: Epistemology, Type: Academic, Annual Meeting, Commentary, Course Essay, Undergraduate, Size: 40 K, Date: 2000-11-22

On Translation: A Response to Michelle Fram-Cohen
Author: Tom Radcliffe, Subject: Aesthetics, Linguistics, Philosophy of Mind, Type: Academic, Commentary, Annual Meeting, Size: 19 K, Date: 2000-11-4

Differential Synthetic Geometry: a Possible Foundation for a Theory of Gravity
Author: Craig Spencer, Subject: Physics, Mathematics, Type: Academic, Master's Thesis, Size: 2 K, Date: 2000-9-25

Toward A Logically Consistent Kind of Ethical Egoism
Author: Neil Haddow, Subject: Ethics, Type: Academic, Size: 97 K, Date: 2000-9-6

Reality, Language, Translation: What Makes Translation Possible
Author: Michelle Fram-Cohen, Subject: Linguistics, Type: Academic, Size: 59 K, Date: 2000-8-31

Exam
Author: Jamie Mellway, Subject: Medieval Philosophy, Type: Academic, Size: 29 K, Date: 2000-8-28

Know Thyself
Author: Jamie Mellway, Subject: Medieval Philosophy, Type: Academic, Size: 30 K, Date: 2000-8-28

Troubles with Moral Twin Earth
Author: Neil Haddow, Subject: Ethics, Type: Academic, Master's Thesis, Size: 74 K, Date: 2000-8-23

Problems with the Theory of Elementary Waves: Conceptualism, Realism, and Experimental Reality
Author: Tom Radcliffe, Subject: Physics, Type: Academic, Size: 22 K, Date: 2000-8-22

Comments on Tara Smith'sViable Values
Author: Irfan Khawaja, Subject: Ethics, Type: Academic, Online Conference, Size: 99 K, Date: 2000-8-15

Foundationalism: A Direct Realist and Developmental Account
Author: Stephen Hicks, Subject: Epistemology, Type: Academic, Ph.D. Thesis, Size: 1 K, Date: 2000-8-12

Epistemic Circularity: An Essay on the Problem of Meta-Justification
Author: Larry Sanger, Subject: Epistemology, Type: Academic, Ph.D. Thesis, Size: 1461 K, Date: 2000-8-12

Opening Remarks for Analytic's discussion of "Edges, Entities, and Existence"
Author: Carolyn Ray, Subject: Epistemology, Type: Academic, Size: 15 K, Date: 2000-8-7

Egoism in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Author: Carolyn Ray, Subject: Ethics, Ancient Philosophy, Type: Academic, Graduate, Course Essay, Size: 1 K, Date: 2000-8-5

Reid Against the Theory of Ideas
Author: Bryan Register, Subject: Epistemology, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 13 K , Date: 2000-7-24

Connative Terms, Common Natures, and Intuitive and Abstract Cognition
Author: Jamie Mellway, Subject: Medieval Philosophy, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Course Essay, Size: 36 K, Date: 2000-8-6

Inside the Edge: Justified Reification of Actions
Author: Tom Radcliffe, Subject: Epistemology, Type: Academic, Size: 1 K, Date: 2000-8-6

Augustine's City of God Book XIX.3-18, 24-8
Author: Jamie Mellway, Subject: Medieval Philosophy, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Course Essay, Size: 26 K, Date: 2000-8-6

Edges, Entities, and Existence: An Epistemological Excursion
Author: Carolyn Ray, Tom Radcliffe, Subject: Epistemology, Type: Academic, Draft, Size: 1 K, Date: 2000-8-6

Rethinking Kelley's Essence of Objectivism
Author: Dave Saum, Subject: Epistemology, Type: Academic, Size: 25 K, Date: 1999-7-1

The Logic and Validity of Emotional Appeal in Classical Greek Rhetorical Theory
Author: Bryan Register, Subject: Epistemology, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Bachelor's Thesis, Size: 288 K, Date: 1999-5-1

The Ontology of Causality in Aristotle
Author: Bryan Register, Subject: Metaphysics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Course Essay, Size: 29 K, Date: 1999-5-1

Aristotle on Substance
Author: Bryan Register, Subject: Metaphysics, Type: Academic, Size: 19 K, Date: 1998-12-1

Structure of The Defense
Author: Bryan Register, Subject: Literary Analysis, Type: Academic, Size: 19 K, Date: 1998-12-1

Identity and Universals: A Conceptualist Approach to Logical, Metaphysical, and Epistemological Problems of Contemporary Identity Theory
Author: Carolyn Ray, Subject: Metaphysics, Type: Academic, Graduate, Ph.D. Thesis, Size: 396 K, Date: 1998-11-11

Wittgenstein's Investigations (Section 79)
Author: Bryan Register, Subject: Epistemology, Type: Academic, Size: 23 K, Date: 1998-8-1

What is a Language Game?
Author: Bryan Register, Subject: Epistemology, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 11 K, Date: 1998-8-1

Wittgenstein's Investigations (Section 120)
Author: Bryan Register, Subject: Epistemology, Type: Academic, Size: 12 K, Date: 1998-8-1

Complementarity: Content, Context and Critique
Author: Bryan Register, Subject: Philosophy of Science, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 71 K, Date: 1997-12-1

What Does Searle Say About Performatives?
Author: Bryan Register, Subject: Epistemology, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 8 K, Date: 1997-12-1

Rethinking the Essence of Objectivism
Author: Dave Saum, Subject: Epistemology, Type: Academic, Draft, Size: 25 K, Date: 1997-10-16

Discourse on Metaphysics
Author: Bryan Register, Subject: Metaphysics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 7 K, Date: 1997-5-1

Lenin v Freud on War and Aggression
Author: Bryan Register, Subject: Politics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 16 K, Date: 1997-5-1

The Moral Worth of Happiness
Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Ethics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 8 K, Date: 1997-4-22

The Bias of Impartialism
Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Ethics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 9 K, Date: 1997-4-04

Barthes and Beauvoir on Stasis and History
Author: Bryan Register, Subject: Philosophy of History, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 17 K, Date: 1997-4-1

Kafka v Zamyatin on Oppression and Tyranny
Author: Bryan Register, Subject: Politics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 16 K, Date: 1997-4-1

Between Instinct and Habit: The Role of Dispositions in Moral Decision-Making
Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Ethics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 114 K, Date: 1997-3-10

Virtue as the Mean
Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Ethics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 7 K, Date: 1997-2-21

Instinct and Habit: Connections between Nietzschean and Aristotelian Acquired Dispositions
Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Ethics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 16 K, Date: 1996-12-16

The Analytic-Synthetic Distinction: A Critique And An Alternative Hypothesis
Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Epistemology, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 22 K, Date: 1996-5-9

Putting the Sex Back into Gender: A Tentative Theory Of Femininity And Sexuality
Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Feminism, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 21 K, Date: 1996-5-6

Representationalism and Perceptual Error
Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Epistemology, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 41 K, Date: 1995-5-12

Can Kant's Ethics Survive His Metaphysics?
Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Metaphysics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 16 K, Date: 1995-5-05

Aristotle on Responsibility
Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Ethics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 19 K, Date: 1995-5-1

The Problem of Self-Referentiality in Marx's Historical Materialism
Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Philosophy of History, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 9 K, Date: 1995-4-5

Kant's Copernican Turn
Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Metaphysics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 9 K, Date: 1995-2-8

Affirmative Action and Sexual Favors
Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Politics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 5 K, Date: 1994-12-16

The Danger of Animal Rights
Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Politics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 12 K, Date: 1994-12-6

Is Altruism Benevolent?
Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Ethics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 9 K, Date: 1994-12-5

The Roots of Dictatorship and Freedom
Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Politics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 10 K, Date: 1994-12-4

Undermining Ethics through Duty
Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Ethics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 12 K, Date: 1994-11-11