The Advanced Seminar in Objectivist Studies ran from the evening of June 27 through the evening of June 29 at the University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown campus, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

Conference Agenda

Seminar Papers:
The papers posted on this site are all working papers copyright of their authors. All seminar papers are in PDF format. If needed, one can download Adobe Acrobat Reader for PDF documents. Hard copies or copies in MS-Word format are available on request.

David Kelley "Concepts and Propositions" (72 KB)

Louis Torres and Michelle Marder Kamhi "Readings from What Art Is" (9 KB) Please note that seminar participants should obtain a copy of Torres and Kamhi's What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand (Open Court, 2000). You can purchase a copy at The Objectivism Store.

Michael Huemer: "Is Benevolent Egoism Coherent?" (71 KB)

Allen Costell: "Analyzing and Reinterpreting the Objectivist Ethics" (not available online)

Ken Livingston "Darwin Overbought: Evolution and Explanation in Psychology" (43 KB)

Christopher Robinson "How Expectancies Influence What We Remember" (52 KB)