Boydstun

 

Existence, We

 

Kant versus Rand: Much No to Walsh and Miller

 

Foundational Frames: Descartes and Rand

 

Universals and Measurement

 

& other principal writings

 

Premium Posts

 

Beauty - Francis Kovach

 

There is and I Am

 

Your Love of Existence

 

Thought's Living Existence

 

Mysticism - Kant and Rand

Reason / Intuition / Feeling

 

Soul, Structure, Struggle

 

From Integrity to Calculus

Integration in Rand - from integrity to calculus to Piaget, Montessori, and Helmholtz

 

Dewey and Peikoff on Kant's Responsibility

 

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Philosophy of Perception
– Sensory Qualities: Their Relation to Sensory System and World
– Primary/Secondary Qualities
– Perception and Objectivity (& Supplement)

Logic

– Origin of 'A is A' Formula
– Why Be Logical?
– Epistemology and Logic

Change and Causality

– Induction and Causality
– Causal Power of Attributes
– Inhering, yet Causing
– Rand's Law of Causality without Uniqueness
– Identity to Causality / Meyerson / Ockham
– Ontology of Time
– Gradients and Drivers
– Types of Cause

Mathematics in Science
– Functions of Mathematical Description in Astronomy and Optics, Illustrations from Antiquity
– Angular Momentum and Causation
– Rainbows –
—Aristotle
—Ibn Sahl
—Ibn al-Haytham / Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi / Kamal al-Din al-Farisi / Roger Bacon
—Theodoric of Freiberg A, B

Scientific Cosmology
– Copernican Revolution and Significance
– Universe as a Concrete
– Totality Referent
– General Relativity and Cosmology – a, b
– Einstein Online
– Total Angular Momentum of Universe
– By Microwave and Radio
– Endless Existence – a, b
– Roger Penrose – Cycles of Time

Rational Egoism
– Function of Mind
– Function of Ethics
– Supported Choice to Live
– Desire to Value
– Altruism
– Sacrifice
– Value Out There
– Visibility, Benevolence, and Egoism – a, b

Ayn Rand
– Original, True, Important
– Blok
– Universals
– Objectivist Label – a, b

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My earliest writings were in the 1980's -- Political and moral philosophy, all published in the magazine Nomos.

 

The Moral Value of Liberty (1984)

 

Review of The Evolution of Cooperation (1985)

 

Rights, Games, and Self-Realization (1988)

Introduction / Part 1 - Rights against Personal Injury for Two in Isolation / Part 2 - Imperfect Rights in Land / Part 3 - The Just State / Freedom