This year’s Objectivist Summer Conference 2015 in Charlotte, North Carolina features and outstanding lineup of talks and lecturers, including the return of some of our favorite lecturers.
From Objectivist Summer Conference 2015 – Talks and Panels
- Andrew Bernstein: Objectivism versus Kantianism in The Fountainhead and Black Innovators and Entrepreneurs under Capitalism
- C. Bradley Thompson: The Abolitionist Movement and Its Lessons for Today
- John Allison: The Leadership Crisis and the Free-Market Cure
- Eric Daniels: From “Sputnik” to the Internet: Real Solutions for Reforming Science Education
- Onkar Ghate: “Charlie Hebdo”, the West and the Need to Ridicule Religion
- Peter Schwartz: Defining Basic Moral Concepts and Principles and Anti-Principles in Ethics (advanced talk)
- George Selgin:Money Under Laissez-Faire andThe Destabilizing Consequences of Central Banking
- Amesh Adalja: Infectious Diseases and National Security
- Rituparna Basu: Understanding the Arguments for Universal Health Care
- Michael S. Berliner: How Music Saved a Life: Ayn Rand and Operetta
- John Dennis: Making Decisions in Context
- Ray Girn: LePort Schools Information Session
- Gena Gorlin: Battling Depression and Anxiety: Insights from Moral Philosophy and Clinical Science and The Science of Self-Control: What We Can (and Cannot) Learn from Contemporary Psychologists
- Elan Journo: The Jihadist Movement and The Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
- Ryan Krause: In Defense of Monopolies: How Antitrust Criminalizes Business Strategy
- Andrew Lewis: Magna Carta and Its 800-Year Legacy
- Keith Lockitch:Climate Change and Ideology
- Shoshana Milgram: Moral Self-Defense: How-To Advice from Ayn Rand and Filming “The Fountainhead”: Ayn Rand’s First Plan
- Jean Moroney: Aligning Your Subconscious Values with Your Conscious Convictions and Fueling Achievement with Objectivist Values
- Adam Mossoff: Life, Liberty and Intellectual Property: Why IP Rights Are Fundamental Property Rights
- Gregory Salmieri:Epistemology and Justice in the Age of Social Media
- Thomas Shoebotham:The Legacy of Beethoven,Schumann and Musical Poetry,Chopin, the Bel Canto Pianist,Mendelssohn: Classicizing Romanticism,Berlioz: The Symphony Reimagined, and Liszt and the Virtuoso Tradition
- Steve Simpson: Free Speech Under Siege
- Aaron Smith:Benevolence, Goodwill and the Rationally Selfish Life
- Tara Smith: How Does Objectivity Apply to the Law? and Constitutionalism–the Backbone of Objective Law
- Don Watkins: How to Think about Inequality
and the following panels…
- ARI’s Accomplishments in Its First 30 Years
- Financial Matters
- Life Extension in Our Lifetimes
- Running Topic-Specific Centers
- Admiring Ayn Rand in Hollywood
