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Ayn Rand Society 2009
Posted by Stephen Boydstun on 2/08, 12:15am

The Ayn Rand Society will meet on 9 April 2009, at 6:00–8:00 p.m., at the Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association. The conference is taking place at the Westin Bayshore in Vancouver.

Topic: Reason, Choice, and the Creation of One’s Own Character
Speaker: Onkar Ghate
Commentator: Jonathan Jacobs

Onkar Ghate received his PhD in 1998 from the University of Calgary. Dr. Ghate is the Dean of the Objectivist Academic Center, which is a program of the Ayn Rand Institute.

Jonathan Jacobs is Professor of philosophy at Colgate University. He is the author of numerous works, including Choosing Character: Responsibility for Virtue and Vice (Cornell 2001).

David Copp, Professor of philosophy at University of Florida, will chair the ARS session. Works

Allan Gotthelf will welcome the participants. He will be speaking at ARI’s Summer Conference this coming July, where his topic will be “Hallmarks of Objectivism: The Benevolent Universe Premise and the Heroic View of Man.”

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