在我們2001年的夏季研討會上,大衛·羅斯博士對安·蘭德對哲學最重要的貢獻之一進行了引人入勝的概述:客觀的、主觀的、內在的三分法。今天,客觀性受到來自許多方面的攻擊,但什麼是客觀性?哪些觀點與之相反?
In forming her philosophy of objectivism, Ayn Rand insightfully identified instrinsicism and subjectivism as the two essential philosophical approaches that stand against the objective approach. Using examples from cinema, biology, ethics, and the culinary arts, Dr. Ross presents the basics of instrinsicism and subjectivism, both as philosophical approaches and as thinking styles. And he demonstrates how this distinction is useful in identifying philosophical and psycho-epistemological errors as well as in elucidating the nature of objectivity itself.
Listen to Part 2 of The Intrinsic, the Subjective, and the Objective
David Ross received his PhD in mathematics from New York University and presently is a professor in the Center for Applied and Computational Mathematics at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Dr. Ross conducts research in computational physics and mathematical biology. He was previously a mathematician at Kodak Research Labs. He is the author of Mathematical Models and Photographic Science, he holds several patents, and has been a frequent lecturer at Atlas Society conferences.