Specialties: Ayn Rand, Objectivism, Philosophy, Religion vs. Atheism, Philosophy of Science, Capitalism, Individual Rights, Open Immigration.

Dr. Binswanger, a longtime associate of Ayn Rand, taught philosophy at Hunter College (City University of New York) from 1972 to 1979, and at the University of Texas, Austin, Spring 2002. During the 1980s, he was editor of The Objectivist Forum, a bimonthly journal devoted to Ayn Rand's philosophy. Since 1994, he has been professor of philosophy at the Objectivist Academic Center of the Ayn Rand Institute. He is the author of The Biological Basis of Teleological Concepts (ARI Press, 1990) and editor of The Ayn Rand Lexicon (New American Library) and of the second edition of Ayn Rand's Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (New American Library). Dr. Binswanger moderates and writes for HBL, an email list discussing Objectivism. A regular speaker at universities, he has given more than 70 talks at some 40 universities on a wide variety of topics in philosophy and politics. Dr. Binswanger is currently writing a book on the causal nature of consciousness.

Lectures

• Ayn Rand's Philosophic Achievement
• Ayn Rand's Life: Highlights and Sidelights
• Ayn Rand and the Atlas Shrugged Years
• New York Centenary Reminiscences of Ayn Rand
• How to Study Ayn Rand's Writings
• "Buy American" Is Un-American
• Capitalism vs. Democratic Socialism
• John Locke's Political Philosophy
• America vs. Death-Worship
• Consciousness as Identification
• The Metaphysics of Consciousness
• Consciousness: Foundations of a Rational Theory
• Perception
• Selected Topics in the History of Science
• Abstraction From Abstractions
• Psycho-Epistemology I
• Psycho-Epistemology II
• Free Will
• Free Will and Values
• Emotions
• Logical Thinking

Booklets

• Volition as Cognitive Self-Regulation
• Life-Based Teleology and the Foundations of Ethics

Books

• The Biological Basis of Teleological Concepts
• The Ayn Rand Lexicon (editor)
• Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (editor)

Journal

• The Objectivist Forum (editor)

Featured Article

• America vs. Death-Worship: The Moral Meaning of the Coming War (October 2, 2001)

Op-Eds

Letters to the Editor

Interviews