{"title":"Rand on the Atonement","authors":"Wollen","doi":"10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.21.1.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.21.1.0031","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81957868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rejoinder to George Lyons","authors":"Bissell","doi":"10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.21.1.0126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.21.1.0126","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88841315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluating the Effectiveness of Artificial Intelligence Systems in Intelligence Analysis","authors":"Ish, Daniel, Ettinger, Jared, Ferris, Christopher","doi":"10.7249/rr-a464-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7249/rr-a464-1","url":null,"abstract":"The U.S. military and intelligence community are interested in developing and deploying artificial intelligence (AI) systems to support intelligence analysis. The authors develop methods for assessing the impact AI systems are likely to have on intelligence missions that they support.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147909158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Man Who Would Be Galt","authors":"Dennis C. Hardin","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.2.0161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.2.0161","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:In 1958, Nathaniel Branden founded what would become the Nathaniel Branden Institute and launched the Objectivist movement through a course of twenty lectures he called \"The Basic Principles of Objectivism.\" In 2009, that lecture series became a book and an important historical record. This review captures the essence of those lectures while also taking a close look at Branden's philosophical odyssey. It attempts to recount whether and how far the man whom Ayn Rand saw as the living image of John Galt distanced himself from the guidance he had once given in the years after NBI closed its doors forever.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"161 - 300"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46748481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Perfectionist Turn","authors":"D. Gordon","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.2.0447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.2.0447","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:In The Perfectionist Turn, Den Uyl and Rasmussen argue for an ethics of responsibility and oppose the prevailing ethics of respect. Political philosophy must be \"tethered\" ontologically, and arguments such as Moore's open question argument that would, if correct, show that tethering is not possible do not succeed.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"447 - 451"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44984561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eudaimon in the Rough: Perfecting Rand's Egoism","authors":"Roger E. Bissell","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.2.0452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.2.0452","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:The author argues that Rand's ethical theory is much closer in essence to the eudaimonist, self-perfectionist perspectives of Aristotle and the neo-Aristotelians, Douglas Den Uyl and Douglas Rasmussen, than to the \"selfish,\" egoistic ethics many assume to be her basic position. He discusses Rand's anti-hedonist and pro-rational selfishness positions as corollaries of man's life as the standard of moral value, as well as Rand's point that treating either happiness or personal benefit as the standard of moral value is a reversal of cause and effect. He also identifies the oppressive negativism in Rand's discussion of the seven canonical Objectivist virtues.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"452 - 478"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48465914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Goddess of the Republic","authors":"Alec Mouhibian","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.2.0400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.2.0400","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Isabel Paterson is the founding godmother of the libertarian movement, known best for her book The God of the Machine, which Ayn Rand credited for having done \"for capitalism what the Bible did for Christianity.\" Often overlooked is her twenty-five-year career as a literary columnist for the New York Herald Tribune. Culture and Liberty: Writings of Isabel Paterson, edited by Stephen Cox, presents a selection of those columns along with private letters and other essays. They are a treasure. Paterson's critical performances show us a systematic yet unpredictable mind at work—a model not only of the first but also of any future libertarian worthy of the name.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"400 - 409"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41356900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ayn Rand and Christianity: The Virtuous Parallels","authors":"Amos Wollen","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.2.0442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.2.0442","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Mark David Henderson's book, The Soul of Atlas, defends the view that there is more common ground than is usually believed between Christianity and Objectivism. Despite some minor aesthetic difficulties, the book is well written, making it easily accessible as an introductory text to the Christian/Objectivist debate. After making some minor recommendations as to how the book could have been improved, the author concludes that The Soul of Atlas's place in the Objectivist literature is one of a \"conversation starter,\" not a \"groundbreaking\" work of Christian/Objectivist synthesis.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"442 - 446"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47200714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Something That Used to Be Objectivism: Barbara Branden's Psycho-Epistemology","authors":"R. Campbell","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.2.0301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.2.0301","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Think as If Your Life Depends on It puts Barbara Branden's lectures on the Principles of Efficient Thinking in print at last, along with three later lectures. In Roger Bissell's excellent transcription, the ten lectures introduce readers to psycho-epistemology (the psychology of methods of thinking), the difference between directed and undirected thinking, the role of the subconscious in problem-solving, common faults in thinking, and motivational issues that interfere with thinking. Her contributions were effectively erased from Objectivism after the Nathaniel Branden Institute closed; the original lectures were the most significant part of the Objectivist corpus that remained to be recovered.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"301 - 327"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48125908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}