{"product_id":"concepts-and-their-role-in-knowledge-reflections-on-objectivist-epistemology-9780822967019","title":"Concepts and Their Role in Knowledge: Reflections on Objectivist Epistemology","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand (1905-1982) is a cultural phenomenon. Her books have sold more than twenty-eight million copies, and countless individuals speak of her writings as having significantly influenced their lives. Despite her popularity, Rand's philosophy of Objectivism has received little serious attention from academic philosophers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eConcepts and Their Role in Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e offers scholarly analysis of key elements of Ayn Rand's radically new approach to epistemology. The four essays, by contributors intimately familiar with this area of her work, discuss Rand's theory of concepts--including its new account of abstraction and essence--and its central role in her epistemology; how that view leads to a distinctive conception of the justification of knowledge; her realist account of perceptual awareness and its role in the acquisition of knowledge; and finally, the implications of that theory for understanding the growth of scientific knowledge. The volume concludes with critical commentary on the essays by distinguished philosophers with differing philosophical viewpoints and the author's responses to those commentaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the second book published in Ayn Rand Society Philosophical Studies, which was developed in conjunction with the Ayn Rand Society to offer a fuller scholarly understanding of this highly original and influential thinker. The Ayn Rand Society, an affiliated group of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, seeks to foster scholarly study by philosophers of the philosophical thought and writings of Ayn Rand. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-13685711\"\u003eAllan Gotthelf\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/06\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.93lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.85d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822967019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822967014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PHI\"\u003ePhilosophy\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PHI004000\"\u003eEpistemology\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Allan Gotthelf (1942-2013) was visiting professor of the history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh from 2003 to 2012 and Anthem Foundation Distinguished Fellow for Research and Teaching in Philosophy at Rutgers University from 2012 to 2013. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eOn Ayn Rand and Teleology, First Principles, and Scientific Method in Aristotle's Biology \u003c\/i\u003eand coeditor of \u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Issues in Aristotle's Biology\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAyn Rand: A Companion to Her Works and Thought.\u003c\/i\u003e He was a founding member of the Ayn Rand Society and coeditor of the Ayn Rand Society Philosophical Studies book series. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e James G. Lennox is professor emeritus of history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAristotle on Inquiry, Aristotle: On the Parts of Animals I-IV\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAristotle's Philosophy of Biology: Studies in the Origins of Life Science\u003c\/i\u003e. Lennox is coeditor of \u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Issues in Aristotle's Biology; Being, Nature, and Life in Aristotle: Essays in Honor of Allan Gotthelf;\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eConcepts, Theories, and Rationality in the Biological Sciences.\u003c\/i\u003e He was a founding member of the Ayn Rand Society and is coeditor of the Ayn Rand Society Philosophical Studies series. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44586435739885,"sku":"9780822967019","price":49.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_146e954d-9e9d-4146-b44f-5f22d91ac073.jpg?v=1702180516","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/concepts-and-their-role-in-knowledge-reflections-on-objectivist-epistemology-9780822967019","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}