In a message dated 11/14/2008 9:36:04 PM Pacific Standard Time, snowspinner@gmail.com writes:
Pure philosophy would have been published through the existing academic discipline of philosophy, in any of the journals or scholarly presses that exist, not in self- published newsletters that are later compiled and published via the same press as her novels.>>
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On Nov 15, 2008, at 12:38 AM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 11/14/2008 9:36:04 PM Pacific Standard Time, snowspinner@gmail.com writes:
Pure philosophy would have been published through the existing academic discipline of philosophy, in any of the journals or scholarly presses that exist, not in self- published newsletters that are later compiled and published via the same press as her novels.>>
Are you suggesting that a philosopher may not self-publish? I would think that anyone can self-publish. And the category and subject of their work can be anything.
I'm saying that there is a difference between a philosopher and a loony who self-publishes a philosophical newsletter, and that Ayn Rand does not come down on the side of that divide that many of her followers would like to think she does.
-Phil