Ayn Rand Article in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Miscellaneous Topics
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I just saw that about a month or two ago, SEP added this article!:

Ayn Rand

This has been in the works for some time, I think as long as a year ago there was a promise on the website of adding this article. Note that SEP is a highly regarded collection of topic-specialized articles, written by prominent modern philosophers. So what they say about her is probably going to rouse Objectivist ire.

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Note the acknowledgments:

Thanks to Larry Abrams, David Kelley , Harry Kitchen, Eric Mack, Doug Rasmussen, William Thomas, and an anonymous SEP referee for helpful comments and to Chris Sciabarra for helpful references.

The authors are Neera Badhwar and Roderick T. Long,neither of whom I am familiar with, and both of whom have tangential interest in Rand, though I don’t think either are actually Objectivists.

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There’s a thread on this already actually here: http://forum.ObjectivismOnline.com/index.php?showtopic=19673

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Roderick Long is an objectivist turned libertarian. He says he’s still a Aristotelian/Wittgenstienian, and still has many agreements with Rand.

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Oh well, mods can remove the topic, then. Still, I’m surprised at the largely non-negative reaction to the article.

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Are you against the article because of something in particular that you read, or simply because it says “David Kelley” and “Chris Sciabarra” at the bottom?

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I’m not against the article.