This was a very interesting discussion by Marco den Ouden, which highlights my view of Ayn Rand as a dialectical thinker as presented in my book, “Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical”. Thanks, Marco!
Marco writes:
The third and final installment of my chat wit Microsoft’s AI CoPilot on reason is now up. Here we look at Chris Matthew Sciabarra’s “Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical” and the role of dialectics in our understanding of reason. We follow that up with a look at the analytic–synthetic dichotomy. And finally we look at Steven Pinker’s view that Bayesian reasoning is the go-to methodology for understanding the world and his view that there are two mental zones that people occupy–the Reality Zone and the Mythology Zone. And how those concepts all integrate with Rand as well as Hume, Kuhn and Popper. These chats are not a final word on my views on reason, but an engagement to tease out ideas and how they interconnect. I may follow up with more formal essays. These chats are a prelude.
Here’s the link to Marco’s post: “Your Captain Chats With his CoPilot about Reason – Part 3“.
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