Tuesday Course Descriptions
Each day of the Seminar provides you a choice of sessions designed to
meet your own interests and level of knowledge.
Psychological Visibility
William Wilkinson, MA
What is
psychological visibility? Why do we feel it is so important? Why is it
so elusive? William Wilkinson will show what light we can shed on
these questions by combining philosophical and
psychological perspectives.
Privacy Rights
Ed Hudgins, PhD
Privacy rights function as important safeguards to liberty in a free
society. Unfortunately, the wall between the public and private
realm is being eroded as governments have launched more and
more assaults on privacy. Ed Hudgins will examine privacy rights and
the assaults against them, and suggest strategies that support
liberty. Dr. Hudgins served as senior economist to the Joint
Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, and is director of
regulatory studies at the Cato Institute.
Objectivism is Child's Play!
Hannelore Bugby and the staff of
Camp Indecon
Drawing on the success of Camp Indecon—a
summer camp that teaches children how to think for themselves—
founder Hannelore Bugby and her associates show how they convey
basic Objectivist principles to young people just starting to form
their views of the world. Ms. Bugby is a longtime Objectivist
and entrepreneur.
The Intellectual Foundations of American
Constitutionalism (two sessions)
David Mayer, PhD
 The
understanding of government's proper function—the protection of
individual rights—is "a very recent achievement," Ayn Rand wrote
"It dates from the Founding Fathers of the American Revolution."
The founders, however, derived their notions of limited,
constitutional government from the English radical Whig tradition,
which was a century old at the time the U.S. Constitution was
drafted. David Mayer will identify the leading thinkers in the
radical Whig tradition and show how their ideas influenced America's
Founding Fathers. Dr. Mayer is professor of law at
Capital University and the author of The Constitutional Thought of
Thomas Jefferson.
20th Century American Music
Douglas Wagoner
Though it is
commonplace to dismiss the art music of the 20th Century as
mere noise because of some well-known and highly questionable works
and artistic movements, Douglas Wagoner will uncover some of the
serious American composers that deserve our attention and praise.
Mr. Wagoner is assistant conductor of the Brookline Symphony
Orchestra.
Children's Rights
Francisco Villalobos
Ayn Rand based the
need for rights on the needs of a conceptual consciousness. How
then do rights apply to children? Francisco Villalobos will argue
that rights principles can be meaningfully applied to children.
Mr. Villalobos is a graduate student in philosophy and
has lectured for the Student Colloquium at the C.U.N.Y. Graduate
Center and U.C. Berkeley's DeCal program.
Responsibility and Happiness (two sessions)
Nell Robinson,
MA
Responsibility can be a liberating force in one's life and is an
important element in the pursuit of happiness. This workshop
will expand the boundaries of responsibility, look at what it means
to be 100% responsible for what happens in our lives, and discuss
how to be responsible in the face of seemingly insurmountable
obstacles. Participants will also examine relationships between
responsibility, fault, blame, truth, and choice. This course is limited
to 35 participants, first come, first served. See registration
form.
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