Summer Seminar 1994
Rationality
The 1994 Summer Seminar in Philosophy was held at the Oberlin
College in Oberlin, Ohio from July 9-16. The topic was "Rationality" and 80
people participated in the Seminar.
Table of Contents
- David Kelley, Is certainty possible?: an analysis of
the nature and standards of certainty appropriate to a contextual theory of knowledge.
- David Ross, The cognitive basis of real numbers: the
application of the Objectivist theory of concepts to concepts of continuous measurement.
- Kenneth Livingston, Are there psychological limits to
rationality?: a summary and critique of current psychological research.
- Roderick Long, The Aristotelian conception of rationality:
reason as a source of theoretical and practical knowledge; similarities and differences
with Objectivism.
- David Schmidtz, Beyond instrumental rationality: why
ends as well as means can be rationally chosen.
- Irfan Khawaja, The rationality of principled action:
how and why man's rational nature makes acting on principle necessary by the standard of
man's life qua man, with particular attention to the relationship between biological
teleology and rationality as an evolutionary adaptation.
- Stephen Hicks, Virtue in business: what do the
principles of honesty and justice require in the sometimes nasty world of office politics?
- Mario Rizzo, Politico-economic pragmatism and the decline
of laissez- faire liberalism: why the success of liberalism depends on strict
adherence to principle, with special reference to the works of John Stuart Mill, Herbert
Spencer, and John Maynard Keynes.
- Larry Sechrest, Is Hayek's 'extended order' rational?:
an analysis of differences between Hayek's epistemological and ethical premises and those
of Objectivism.
- Kenneth McLaughlin, Economic rationality as a tool for
understanding objectively irrational behavior: the relation between descriptive and
prescriptive concepts of rationality applied to drug addiction, altruism, racism, and
other topics.
- Tibor Machan, Rationality in economics and ethics:
instrumental rationality vs. the ethics of rational egoism.
(in alphabetical order)
Stephen Hicks is a professor of philosophy at Rockford
College
David Kelley is the executive director of the
Institute for Objectivist Studies.
Irfan Khawaja is a graduate student in philosophy at
Notre Dame University.
Kenneth Livingston is a professor of psychology at
Vassar College.
Roderick Long is a professor of philosophy at
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Tibor Machan is a professor of philosophy at Auburn
University.
Kenneth McLaughlin is a professor of economics at
University of Rochester.
Mario Rizzo is a professor of economics at New York
University.
David Ross is a research mathematician at Eastman
Kodak Research Labs.
Larry Sechrest is a professor of economics at Sul Ross
State University.
David Schmidtz is a professor of philosophy at Yale
University
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