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Objectivist Logic

Harry Binswanger

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49 Lessons

60h 23m

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49 Lessons

60h 23m

Level

ARU

Completed 0%

Description

Ayn Rand embraced Aristotelian logic but took it much further. This course, through lectures and homework exercises, reviews the three most important ideas of Aristotelian logic and then focuses on the new principles of proper thinking developed by Ayn Rand. Topics will include: concept-formation, axioms, the syllogism, the need for and rules of proper definition, hierarchy, context-holding, thinking in principles, thinking in examples, and logical fallacies from equivocation to the stolen concept.

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Harry Binswanger

Harry Binswanger received his doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University in 1973 and has taught philosophy at Hunter College, the New School for Social Research and the University of Texas at Austin. Since 1994 he has taught courses on Ayn Rand’s philosophic system, ethics and epistemology at the Objectivist Academic Center. Dr. Binswanger is the author of How We Know, a book on the theory of knowledge. His previous books are The Biological Basis of Teleological Concepts and The Ayn Rand Lexicon. He is coeditor of the second expanded edition of Ayn Rand’s Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology. He is a regular speaker at universities on Ayn Rand’s philosophy. A senior contributor at RealClearMarkets, he has also appeared on TV shows hosted by Glenn Beck, Geraldo Rivera and Judge Anthony Napolitano, as well as in two documentary films about Ayn Rand. He also moderates and writes for an email list on Objectivism and its application to today’s issues at www.hbletter.com. He has been a member of the Ayn Rand Institute’s board of directors since the organization’s inception. In Ayn Rand’s last years, Dr. Binswanger became her associate and friend.

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Objectivist Logic

Description

Curriculum

Class 1.1

Class 1.2

Class 1.2 – Open Office Hours

Class 2.1

Class 2.2

Class 2.2 – Open Office Hour

Class 3.1

Class 3.2

Class 3.2 – Open Office Hour

Class 4.1

Class 4.2

Class 4.2 – Open Office Hour

Class 5.1

Class 5.2

Class 5.2 – Open Office Hour

Class 6.1

Class 6.2

Class 6.2 – Open Office Hour

Class 7.1

Class 7.2

Class 7.2 – Open Office Hour

Class 8.1

Class 8.2

Class 8.2 – Open Office Hour

Class 9.1

Class 9.2

Class 9.2 – Open Office Hour

Class 10.1

Class 10.2

Class 10.2 – Open Office Hour

Class 11.1

Class 11.2

Class 11.2 – Open Office Hour

Week 12 – Open Office Hour

Class 13.1

Class 13.2

Class 13.2 – Open Office Hour

Class 14.1

Class 14.2

Class 14.2 – Open Office Hour

Class 15.1

Class 15.2

Class 15.2 – Open Office Hour

Class 16.1

Class 16.2

Class 16.2 – Open Office Hour

Class 17.1

Class 17.2

Class 17.2 – Open Office Hour

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