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Ayn Rand is banned from /r/philosophy (imgur.com)

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[–]Anarcho_Capitalist [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Its good to ban things we disagree with. Banning is a key component to advanced philosophical thought.

Kids, philosophy is not about learning, growing, communicating, or thinking. Philosophy is simply a vehicle to advance, and confirm ones bias. We use philosophy as a way to browbeat others into submission. Once they are fearful of dissent the next step is to slowly purge those with the most independent though and cut off the rest of the group from their dissent. Third we poison the well. It is best our group only hear about those who disagree and their ideas from us. This way we can shape their ideas in ways that are easily destroyed. I believe this is called stawmaning. Now that we have a group with information only coming from withing we create group think. The individuals in the group will soon learn to parrot our talking points and agenda. They will bristle at new ideas, and defend our opinion violently but without cause as any dissent is now an attack on their ego.

Now you know.

[–]Jamesshrugged[S] [スコア非表示]  (26子コメント)

http://imgur.com/a/OU4Zz

I posted the Playboy Interview with Ayn Rand over at /r/philosophy and was soon notified that it had been removed for violating rule 2: philosophical topics only.

I asked for clarification and I was told that Ayn Rand was an author, not a philosopher. I also asked if Ayn Rand posts were not allowed despite her lengthy article describing her as such in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and mod /u/Really Nicole replied

Did I studder?

Edit: Another moderator has also replied, again arguing for banning Ayn Rand from /r/philosophy http://imgur.com/hxWt7aO

[–]brokedown [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

Studder?

Is that like a cow with a lisp?

[–]PluviusReddit [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

mod /u/Really Nicole replied Did I studder?

What a coward.

[–]darthhayek [スコア非表示]  (19子コメント)

I bet that guy's not really a professor.

[–]Western_World [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Typical of /r/philosophy. I made similar experiences there. It's full of people who are opposed to Rand in a very irrational way.

[–]max225 [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Next they'll be banning Nietzche because his work is too "artistic".

[–]DopeAnon [スコア非表示]  (5子コメント)

Is there a specific reason Rynd isn't considered a philosopher? I'm pretty ignorant, but I would think we are all philosophers, and somedo it as a profession, calling, or way of life. It seems very close-minded to strip her of that title, based on being an author, when everything I found on a Google search says otherwise. Sounds like there's an agenda.

[–]phuckHipsters [スコア非表示]  (2子コメント)

Sounds like there's an agenda

There is very much an agenda. It's why I quit my philosophy program 3/4's of the way through and switched to a STEM degree.

Among philosophers in academia, she is not only not considered a philosopher, she is vilified. Admitting that you are an Objectivist is akin to admitting that you are in the Klan as far as most modern academics are concerned.

I was once told that my infatuation with her would fade as I grew up.

That infatuation has not faded as I've since gone to work in the real world and I am not an academic in some philosophy department somewhere.

[–]DrMichaelHardy [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

The following professors of philosophy will tell you that Ayn Rand was an important philosopher: Lisa Dolling (head of the honors program in theology at St. John's University in New York) Tibor Machan, (Stanford University. See his home page at [2].) Douglas Den Uyl (Bellarmine University, Louisville, Kentucky) Douglas Rasmussen (St. John's University, New York) Eric Mack (Tulane University) Aeon Skoble (Bridgewater State College, Massachusetts) Tara Smith (University of Texas at Austin) Lester Hunt (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Randall Dipert (C.S. Peirce Professor of American Philosophy, SUNY Buffalo) Roderick Long (Auburn University) Slavoj Zizek (The European Graduate School) Michael Huemer (University of Colorado, Boulder) Jonathan Jacobs (University of Pennsylvania) Wayne Davis (Chair of the Philosophy Department, Georgetown University) Stephen Parrish (Concordia University, Ann Arbor, Michigan) Stephen R. C. Hicks (Rockford College, Illinois) Fred Seddon (University of Pittsburgh? (I'm not sure of this affiliation -- more later)) Allan Gotthelf, (University of Pittsburgh), (who is also Secretary of the Ayn Rand Society, an official 'group' of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association). Andrew Bernstein, (Duke University (I'm not sure this one is up to date)) Gary Hull, (Duke University). Carrie-Ann Biondi, (Marymount Manhattan College).

[–]ViktorV [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Going through economics, this was the same.

Except in econ (at least those following the chicago school of economics), she is honored.

Though everyone else uses the term objectivist as a pejorative. I consider it a commendation if someone uses it on me.

[–]Jamesshrugged[S] [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

That's what I thought when I gave them the link to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the mod said "did I studder?"

[–]Jamesshrugged[S] [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

I really have no idea... especially given the degree to which her ideas are taught in colleges.

[–]brandon_rockwell [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

This page is awesome. I thought I was the only one who was stupefied by the irrational slant towards Ayn Rand. I like to find intellectual pearls in systems of philosophy that I can use to make my life more brilliant, and she is, for me, the most intellectually enlightening philosopher I have read. I find no ill will, only more life, in her words.

[–]Ghostjoke [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Wow...

[–]Mello-Fello [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

This is the equivalent of book-burning the the Internet age. Pathetic.

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[–]DrMichaelHardy [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

The following professors of philosophy will tell you that Ayn Rand was an important philosopher : Lisa Dolling (head of the honors program in theology at St. John's University in New York)

Tibor Machan, (Stanford University. See his home page at [2].)

Douglas Den Uyl (Bellarmine University, Louisville, Kentucky)

Douglas Rasmussen (St. John's University, New York)

Eric Mack (Tulane University)

Aeon Skoble (Bridgewater State College, Massachusetts)

Tara Smith (University of Texas at Austin)

Lester Hunt (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Randall Dipert (C.S. Peirce Professor of American Philosophy, SUNY Buffalo)

Roderick Long (Auburn University)

Slavoj Zizek (The European Graduate School)

Michael Huemer (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Jonathan Jacobs (University of Pennsylvania)

Wayne Davis (Chair of the Philosophy Department, Georgetown University)

Stephen Parrish (Concordia University, Ann Arbor, Michigan)

Stephen R. C. Hicks (Rockford College, Illinois)

Fred Seddon (University of Pittsburgh? (I'm not sure of this affiliation -- more later))

Allan Gotthelf, (University of Pittsburgh), (who is also Secretary of the Ayn Rand Society, an official 'group' of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association).

Andrew Bernstein, (Duke University (I'm not sure this one is up to date))

Gary Hull, (Duke University)

Carrie-Ann Biondi, (Marymount Manhattan College)

Chris Sciabarra, a scholar at New York University, has told me that Ayn Rand has been discussed in the following scholarly sources:

Philosophical Books

Review of Metaphysics

The Monist

The Personalist

Social Philosophy and Policy

Catholic World

American Journal of Economics and Sociology

Germano-Salavica: Canadian Journal of Germanic and Slavic Comparative and Interdisciplinary Studies

College English

University of Windsor Review

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, and Practice, Impact of Science on Society

Journal of Popular Culture

Cycnos

Aristos

Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy

The Occasional Review

Reason Papers

Critical Review

Journal of Libertarian Studies

The Humanist

Commentary

Nomos

English Journal

Journal of Thought

Journal of Philosophical Research

New University Thought

Journal of Business Ethics

Library Journal

Choice

Journal of Canadian Studies

Social Justice Review

Teaching Philosophy

Resources for American Literary Study

Policy Review

Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Encyclopedia of Ethics

Encyclopedia of Libertarianism

Encyclopedia of New York State

American Authors and Books

American Novelists of Today

Encyclopedia of World Literature

Contemporary Authors

Contemporary Literary Criticism

Contemporary Novelists

A Handbook of American Literature

Contemporary Women Philosophers

Oxford Companion to American Literature

Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature

Twentieth Century Authors

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy