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 Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 4:34 pm
Hello Randites!
I am becoming more and more convinced with Rand with the more time I spend thinking about it. However, I do not have a good knowledge of objectivist epistemology. I know about anticonceptual mentality, but that's about it.
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Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 7:49 pm
What kind of stuff in epistemology were you curious about? smile There's a non-fiction book of stuff she wrote on epistemology and there's also a good basic discussion of epistemology in general from the Objectivist position and how it builds off metaphysics (as in, "the nature of existence" not as in some of the other ways I've heard that word used, often with religious meanings) in the book by Peikoff called Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand. I'm currently reading that book, it is based off a lecture series he gave in her life time which she approved of as, until and unless she did one herself, the one fairly general overall account of her philosophic standpoint that she approved of. (Though as Peikoff himself says in the intro, since the book was changed a little from the lectures in the process of making them into a book due to thinking in some cases he could now better clarify some things in how he conveys the ideas, he does say if you are concerned something might not be adding up in the book, feel free to wonder if his updates have made some kind of error in the process and go back and look at the original lectures instead before assuming something was Rand's error which may have been his error.)
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Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 9:48 am
As the above person stated, OPAR would be a great place to go for Epistemology... as well as pretty much everything else about Objectivism. I'm reading it at the moment as well.
The only problem for me is that I can never remember what epistemology and metaphysics mean. >.>;
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Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:32 pm
Oh hey. I'm in the middle of OPAR presently too. I'm looking forward to reading ITOE (Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology) too. It looks like it will be fun, in part because I find epistemology interesting and in part because I hear so much about it being the hardest work in the Objectivist literature. XD I had a funny problem for a long time where even looking up the definitions I couldn't tell epistemology and metaphysics apart, it just didn't compute to me how you could truly detach thinking from reality. Hah. But now I get that epistemology is the study of how thought works and metaphysics is the study of the nature of reality. I can separate them easier when I think of epistemology as being about studying the "how" more than the content, that it will tell you if doing the "how" rightly or wrongly is leading to the content being right or wrong.
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