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	Harry Binswanger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Harry Binswanger (born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1944) is a philosopher and writer.
		Binswanger was a friend of Ayn Rand, and his subsequent philosophical work has been done in the Objectivist tradition.
		Harry Binswanger is currently on the Board of Directors of the Ayn Rand Institute, and is director of its Objectivist Academic Center.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harry_Binswanger (217 words)

	Harry Binswanger-Ayn Rand Bookstore
		The war on terror represents, not merely a clash of civilizations, but a clash of fundamental ethical premises: the premise of life and the premise of death.
		America was attacked, Dr. Binswanger argues, because it upholds and embodies the value of life, while its enemies scorn life and worship death.
		Binswanger masterfully answers questions on a broad range of issues, including: whether parents have a legal obligation to send their children to school; the meaninglessness of the idea of human "instincts"—in sex and elsewhere; the irrationality of the "Bell Curve" approach to race and intelligence; and how to undo bad psycho-epistemological habits.
	www.aynrandbookstore2.com /products.asp?dept=39 (724 words)

	"The Big Lie: Intelligence Failure in Iraq"
		Binswanger in asking “was there intelligence failure” evades the essential point: it was not a failure of intelligence that got the U.S. into Iraq, it was the dishonesty of that intelligence.
		Binswanger’s final phrase “near to the heart of terrorism” is rhetorical fluff which, coupled with what has come before, is intended to smuggle the idea into your mind that Saddam was a terrorist threat to America.
		Binswanger and others at ARI bring up this story again and again only shows how extraordinarily weak their case really is. They grasp at anything.
	www.ariwatch.com /TheBigLie.htm (2181 words)

	"The Wreckage of the Consensus Revisited"
		Binswanger wrote this article the tip of the iceberg of U.S. torture had come into view the previous month with the news about Abu Ghraib, featuring photos about which any decent man would have been sickened and outraged.
		Binswanger leaves us to conclude that America must be in a sad state to resort to faking torture photos.
		Binswanger’s technique: “Accuse them of murdering three men and a dog, and they will triumphantly produce the dog alive.” We reply, to both the Jesuits and Mr.
	ariwatch.com /WreckageOfTheConsensus.htm (710 words)

	enlightenment: BBTC, Chapter 5
		According to Harry Binswanger, teleological concepts "have as their original and paradigm case the purposeful behavior of man; it is a man's knowledge of his own purposefulness that gives rise to the wider idea of teleological causation" (5).
		Teleological causation (TC) in human purposeful action, according to Binswanger, is the _unproblematic_ case of TC in terms of which all other cases are to be analyzed.
		Binswanger's answer is that both sorts of action have "value-significance" for their agents, and that the cause of the action in both cases is the _value_ (or anticipated value) to the agent of the goal in question.
	enlightenment.supersaturated.com /essays/text/bbtc/05.html (1876 words)

	Memo From Two Prominent Objectivists
		Harry and Peter sent letters to Leonard, which were forwarded to us by Leonard subsequent to the conference call.
		For professional reasons, Edith is constrained from answering Harry's innuendo that he was on her "list" because he had stopped therapy with her, or from making any statement as to when he finally stopped therapy with her.
		He then confuses himself and Harry with the Institute itself, and declares that this requires that "the Institute itself not 'turn the other cheek.'" This confusion of the Institute with their persons is shared by Harry.
	www.jeffcomp.com /faq/ari/memo_rp.html (2230 words)

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		In this talk, Dr. Binswanger, an associate of the late Ayn Rand, will defend her claim to have presented the first fully rational and consistent philosophy.
		Binswanger argues that one’s volitional control over the operation of one’s own mind is an axiom which has to be implicitly assumed as true even by those, such as Marx, Freud, and Skinner, who attempt to deny it.
		Binswanger first refutes Hume’s argument for the fact-value dichotomy, and then offers a step-by-step account of Ayn Rand’s derivation of a moral code based on one’s own life as an ultimate value.
	objectivist.union.rpi.edu /lib.htm (1473 words)

	Binswanger's defense of capitalism ignores absence of equal opportunity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I was very much disturbed by Harry Binswanger's defense of capitalism as I read the interview article (I did not see him speak) in Friday's Tech ["Binswanger discusses the moral basis of capitalism," March 16].
		As stated in the article's summary of Binswanger's talk, he defends capitalism by saying, "Preventing a man from keeping the values that he has achieved is immoral.
		I am sure that what Binswanger values more highly than his financial gains is the fact that he has worked hard and has earned what he has.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V110/N14/barnes.14o.html (513 words)

	An Author Who Would Let the Whole World In - December 16, 2005 - The New York Sun
		Author Harry Binswanger gave a provocative talk Monday on "The Case for Open Immigration: Why Immigration Is a Right." He said that, ideally, he would support there being the same treatment at the American border as one would have crossing the Triborough Bridge, only without the toll.
		Binswanger, who formerly taught philosophy at Hunter College, spoke before members of the Objectivist Club at New York University.
		Binswanger began by outlining two aspects regarding the case for free and open immigration: one moral, the other practical.
	www.nysun.com /article/24600 (374 words)

	Mars: Who Should Own It
		Objectivist philosopher Harry Binswanger recently proposed this policy (without specifying a required duration of stay) and defended it on moral grounds.
		But Dr. Binswanger made this defense to illustrate a more fundamental point, which is: Mars must be recognized as property-not some time in the future, but now.
		Here then is Dr. Binswanger's main point: Much more important than the exact rule for initial ownership is that Mars be owned-that it be property-not some time in the future, but now-not merely as a just reward and incentive for settlement, but as a just reward and incentive for initial exploration.
	www.ronpisaturo.com /mars/marswsoi.html (4401 words)

	Capitalists and socialists square off in Kennedy School debate
		Binswanger and Ridpath defended capitalism on the basis of objectivism, the philosophy developed by novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand.
		Binswanger defended this principle by appealing to the role of reason in human survival.
		To live, he said, humans must produce and this requires rational thinking and action: "reason is man's means of survival." Force, he said, is anti-reason: "you must be left free to think and act on your own judgment without fear of force, jail, or fines." Thus, he concluded, freedom is the fundamental social value.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V109/N50/deblat.50n.html (1045 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: Critique of Pure Nonsense (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		They believe that every wealthy and successful individual is so because of his or her "productivity," that the uncreative and less intelligent and less talented should suffer for their fruitlessness, and ultimately, that our civil society should feel no obligation to them.
		In his response, Binswanger hit on something obvious which seemed to elude most everyone in the auditorium--that we all have degrees of freedom (baby, Square Deal-guy, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68).
		Binswanger's position revealed the egotism of the objectivist (a.k.a.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=217501 (1092 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Here is a quote from Objectivist philosopher Dr. Harry Binswanger: "The "libertarians"...plagiarize Ayn Rand's principle that no man may initiate the use of physical force, and treat it as a mystically revealed, out-of-context absolute....
		The religious conservatives are seeking to tie capitalism to mysticism; the "libertarians" are tying capitalism to the whim-worshiping subjectivism and chaos of anarchy.
		Author: Harry Binswanger Title: Volition as Cognitive Self-Regulation Journal: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 1991, 50, 154-178 Author: Harry Binswanger Title: Life-based Teleology and the Foundations of Ethics Journal: The Monist, Jan 1992, v75, n1, p84.
	www.faqs.org /ftp/faqs/objectivism/faq (4004 words)

	The Biological Basis of Teleological Concepts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		To resolve these issues, Harry Binswanger provides a unique approach combining factual and epistemological considerations.
		Accordingly, to determine the proper extent of telelogical concepts, Dr. Binswanger provides an analysis of purposeful action and a point-by-point comparison of the features of purposeful action to those of vegetative and inanimate processes.
		He concludes that to be essentially similar to purposeful action, a process must exhibit three features: "self-generation," "value-significance," and "goal-causation." By drawing on the principle of natural selection, he supports an exclusively biological teleology.
	rous.redbarn.org /objectivism/bib/bbtc.html (229 words)

	The Ten Commandments vs. America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Since Binswanger has his Ph.D. and claims to have done his scholarship, I accuse him of being a liar, rather than merely a fool.
		People like Binswanger and the Ayn Rand Institute shove Tom Paine into the "atheist" category -- they take each political philosopher, and shove them one more notch to the left than they really were.
		Binswanger, you are a liar, and should be ashamed of yourself.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/976880/posts (5002 words)

	The Ayn Rand Institute: Harry Binswanger
		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.
		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).
		Click here to download a photo of Harry Binswanger for print publication.
	www.aynrand.org /site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5146 (282 words)

	Crosswalk.com
		Harry Binswanger of the Ayn Rand Institute argues that the Ten Commandments represent a primitive conception of law and morality [that] flatly contradicts American values." As you might expect, the first five commandments draw Binswanger's hottest fire.
		Binswanger, a former college teacher, is now professor of philosophy at the "Objectivist Graduate Center of the Ayn Rand Institute." Never heard of it?
		Binswanger and Dershowitz are agreed in identifying the Ten Commandments as a fundamentally repressive and dangerous text.
	www.crosswalk.com /faith/1255415.html?view=print (1174 words)

	Objectivist Conferences
		What is needed is a theory of consciousness based on Objectivism, a theory which treats consciousness as a natural, biological phenomenon.
		Schwartz, and the one by Dr. Binswanger on July 10, will replace the two-part lecture that was to be given by Mary Ann Sures.
		We are sorry to report that Mary Ann Sures has decided not to participate in the conference; her recent illness interrupted her schedule and she does not think she would be able to complete her preparation work.
	www.objectivistconferences.com /ocon2005/general.htm (2422 words)

	America vs. Death-Worship (Audio)-Ayn Rand Bookstore
		In the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, many people wondered why America had been targeted.
		In this speech, delivered at Columbia University on October 2, 2001, Dr. Binswanger shows that the answer to that question was revealed in the terrorists' choice of targets-and goes on to identify the deeper, philosophical meaning of the attacks.
		This war represents, not merely a clash of civilizations, but a clash of fundamental ethical premises: the premise of life and the premise of death.
	www.aynrandbookstore2.com /prodinfo.asp?number=HB69C (191 words)

	Letter From Linda Reardan - To Harry Binswanger, Peter Schwartz, and Michael Berliner
		As I told you in Boston, I agree with Jerry's letters of October 26 and November 2, 1993.
		Show that you have made a study of potential students for the OGC, their backgrounds, goals, etc., and thus what would best promote their careers as Objectivist intellectuals for the least cost.
		If it really has come to this — that I have to fear for my job because I have some significant criticisms of the way you are running ARI (and because I respect and value Edith and George) — then I want no part of any of it.
	www.jeffcomp.com /faq/kirk/linda1.html (934 words)

	Catallarchy » Loyalty Oaths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Harry Binswanger List (HBL) is an email list for Objectivists, moderated by Dr. Binswanger, for discussing philosophic and cultural issues.
		And while I understand their reasoning for it, I don’t think this is the best way to go about group discussions – especially when discussing philosophy –; as the dialectics of argument have a better chance of leading to truth and understanding than a monolithic echo-chamber.
		So I agree with Binswanger in the notion that I (politically a libertarian) am indeed an “enemy” of Objectivism.
	catallarchy.net /blog/archives/2004/10/11/loyalty-oath (1000 words)

	Immoral to Ban Human Cloning [Free Republic]
		Binswanger is either intellectually lazy not to know this, or he's a liar.
		With Binswanger's terrible, superstitious, and intrinsically evil definition of humanity, one might justify all sorts of monstrous acts.
		For those who can't make up their mind about this issue, that is one excellent reason to reject human cloning.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b693f8909fd.htm (8612 words)

	Harry Binswanger-Ayn Rand Bookstore
		This talk challenges the entire protectionist approach to foreign trade.
		Binswanger categorically rejects the view that it is "patriotic" to "buy American." To the contrary, he argues, purchasing foreign goods when they are a better value is the patriotic act—one that increases America's economic power.
		For the capitalists: Harry Binswanger and John Ridpath
	www.aynrandbookstore.com /products.asp?dept=49 (586 words)

	StrongBrains - The Mysterious Valley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This is the adventure story, originally serialized in a boys' magazine, through which Ayn Rand discovered the world of romantic fiction.
		Here is how Harry Binswanger, in his Introduction, describes the book: "The Mysterious Valley is the book that kindled the soul of Ayn Rand, at age nine, growing up in Russia on the eve of the Communist revolution.
		The overwhelming impact of the story on the young Ayn Rand came with her discovery of a true hero.
	strongbrains.com /pages/e1186.htm (190 words)

	Passing Thoughts :: Harry Binswanger on Immigration :: April :: 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Passing Thoughts :: Harry Binswanger on Immigration :: April :: 2006
		Harry Binswanger has a paper up on the ILW website.
		Just bringing it to your attention; I haven’t read all of it yet.
	passingthoughts.blogsome.com /2006/04/03/harry-binswanger-on-immigration (110 words)

	Harry Binswanger - The Paper Tiger Rare Books
		Harry Binswanger - The Paper Tiger Rare Books
		Since logic is the method of reason, books on logic ought to be supremely valuable.
		This review originally appeared in the October 2000 issue of The Intellectual Activist magazine
	www.papertig.com /Publishing_TIA_Logic..htm (897 words)

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