Advanced Seminar Presentations Are Published

The Advanced Seminar in Objectivist Studies aims to cultivate new scholarly writing on Objectivism for publication, and the public is already beginning to see results from the exciting seminars of recent years. The Spring 2002 issue of The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies (Vol. 3, No. 2), will feature two Advanced Seminar products. Michael Huemer's "Is Benevolent Egoism Coherent?" is a critique and reconstruction of Ayn Rand's ethics and was the subject of spirited debate at the 2001 seminar. Robert Campbell's "Goals, Values, and the Implicit," presented at the 2000 seminar, integrates Rand's conception of implicit knowledge with other psychological models to create a theory of levels of tacit and explicit knowledge. Huemer, who will be speaking at TOC's summer seminar in Los Angeles this year, is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder; Campbell is a professor of psychology at Clemson University.