Greg Salmieri & Yaron Discuss Objectivism and Its Applications | Yaron Interviews
Channel: Yaron Brook
Date: 2023-04-20

Gregory Salmieri is a senior scholar of philosophy in the Salem Center for Policy at the McCombs School. He holds the Brigham Fellowship for the Study of Objectivism and is the director of the center’s Program for Objectivity in Thought, Action, and Enterprise. 

His research concerns epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy, and the philosophies of Aristotle and Ayn Rand. Salmieri is the co-editor of “A Companion to Ayn Rand” and “Foundations of a Free Society” and the author of numerous articles and talks.

Salmieri has taught philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Rutgers University, Boston University, and the Stevens Institute of Technology, and his course topics include ancient philosophy, ethics, and theory of knowledge

Salmieri earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh and a bachelor’s in philosophy from the College of New Jersey.

00:00 Intro
02:30 Greg's workshops at the Salem Center
05:40 Racism
17:30 Upcoming ethics workshop
22:54 Did Rand discuss or dilineate between racism (hating someone based on race) vs prejudices (eg coming across a menacing looking person bs a grandmother in a dark alley) Does she view prejudgement (vs racism) of an individual based on a class such as age/race as rational?
27:03 Immigration laws have been historically intertwined with racism, especially anti-Asian racism. Why are obstacles to immigration so seldom integrated into discussions of racism?
29:15 Upcoming workshops on philosophy of economics and probability/mathematics in reasoning
39:41 Can Greg expound on man’s life as the ethical standard and each man’s life as his purpose? Are those two principles in different contexts or are they connected?
44:00 Hello from India 🇮🇳 👋 In Rand’s novels people are black or white: heroes or villains. But in the real world a person's psychology, knowledge & context make it difficult to slot them so. Young readers get confused and can be obnoxious towards people around them... Any thoughts?
48:02 Does Rand's epistemology breakdown if we're all schizophrenic? Or do schizophrenic people know on some deep level that they're not registering reality as it actually is?
50:51 What gives philosophy veto power over scientific claims?
53:21 Popping in just to say thank you, Greg! Your work made it easier for me to understand Objectivism and better apply its ideas to my life. Your OCON talk a few years back, Principles and Personal Values, is absolute gold!
54:00 Greg, are you still glad you voted for Biden? He just announced he'll be running for a second term. And do you actually think Trump has a chance of winning?
55:10 Is it a sanction to work with An-Caps like Caplan?
58:05 Is there a branch of philosophy that deals with meaning, like a combonation of teleology, axiology, and semantic clarity? Can you point to any references about meaning fulfilling higher needs?
1:02:12 Relationship between meaning and purpose
1:04:39 Why are social issues dominating political discourse and how big of a national schism will the abortion issue create?
1:14:04 When is it fair to say you're in a lifeboat scenario and can initiate force for your own survival? When free speech is abolished?
1:17:59 Since ITOE, have you noticed in university philosophy course teaching the idea of Induction and unit measurement omission as Peikoff has spoken on? Like in Logical Leap and Axioms of Induction?
1:19:02 Do any academics you work with in philosophy departments have the slightest respect for Ayn Rand? Are your students more interested in Rand then they were a decade ago?
1:21:01 Are you overall optimistic about our ability to spread Objectivism and gradually change the culture? Do you think you will see real positive change in your lifetime?
1:23:49 Is the U.S. undergoing a cultural revolution, where leftist ideology infiltrates media, academia and law? For example, derivatives of critical theory have at least more visibility today.
1:26:54 Is The Ayn Rand Society still active and engaging with non-Objectivist philosophers?
1:28:49 See pinned comment for timestamps of additional questions
2:17:41 Outro
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