| | In the discussion "Different Views of Integrity" by Joseph Rowlands, Stephen Boydstun recommended "Chapter 7: Integrity" in Tara Smith's Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist (Cambridge, 2006). Today, I borrowed the book from the University of Texas library, where it is catalogued as B 945 R234 S65 2006 c.2. (They have two copies. I checked out the more used of the two and it opened right up to Chapter 7.) Realize what the cataloguing means.
B - philosophy
945 - modern, special schools
R - Rand
Also, in the same rows, I found these:
Introduction to the Objectivist Epistemology
Objectivism in One Lesson by Bernstein
On Ayn Rand by Gotthelf
Ayn Rand and Alienation by Greenberg
Ayn Rand and Business b Geiner and Rinni
The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand by Kelley
Metaethics, Egoism, and Virtue by Gotthelf and Lennox
With Charity Toward None by William F. O'Neill
The Philosophic Thought of Ayn Rand by Den Uyl and Rasmussen
Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical by Sciabarra
Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics by Smith
Ten of these twelve titles did not appear in the tallies above, bringing to 40 the books by or about Ayn Rand.
Perhaps even more suggestive, I found among them The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy by HIlary Putnam (Harvard, 2002). Putnam begins by showing the Fact/Value dichotomy to be an extension of the analytic/synthetic dichotomy. Lest this seem too familar, she has no index listing for Peikoff. She dismisses Ayn Rand as a popular but shallow "philosophizer" specifically refusing to call Rand a philosopher. Putnam's thesis rests heavily on the economics and ethics of Amartya Sen. She cites Willard van Orman Quine for his work demonstrating the errors in the analytic/synthetic dichotomy, a citation made also by others here on RoR.
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