Cyberseminar Archive

The Cyberseminar in Objectivist Studies has been held in certain years as time and resources allow. The Cyberseminar is not a typical email list. Participants read substantial technical works and write formal essays in addition to normal email give-and-take. The purpose of the Cyberseminar is to train scholars in the Objectivist philosophic method and in technical issues that develop Objectivism in relation to academic philosophy. Participants are expected to contribute regularly to the Cyberseminar, and to possess both a systematic grasp of Objectivism and the potential to engage in scholarship concerning it.

In the 1999-2000 academic year, Professor Stephen Hicks of Rockford College was a Senior Fellow at the Objectivist Center and served as the resident faculty member leading Cyberseminars on postmodern thought and on Friedrich Nietzsche. The Archives of both these Cyberseminars are available below.

• Fall 1999 Cyberseminar: The Continental Origins of Postmodernism
  
  
• Spring 2000 Cyberseminar: Nietzsche and Objectivism

Each Cyberseminar is organized according to a syllabus composed of several discussions (each lasting three or four weeks) focussed around essays written about an assigned reading. There are formal commentaries assigned for each essay. Each archive is organized with the lead essays for each section of the syllabus and the comments on them identified. Follow-on posts typically follow the essays to which they refer. Distinct threads of discussion are identified by separate links. So start by looking over the syllabus in either archive, then dive in to the topics that interest you.