Amy Peikoff earned her BS in math/applied science and her JD at UCLA, where she served as an editor on the UCLA Law Review. After completing her law degree she went to USC, where she earned her PhD in philosophy. She has taught at Chapman University School of Law, the United States Air Force Academy, University of North Carolina, and University of Texas. She has published academic articles on the right to privacy, Searle’s theory of rational action, and aspects of the novels of Ayn Rand. She has also published several opinion pieces in leading newspapers and appeared in the documentary, Ayn Rand & The Prophecy of Atlas Shrugged. Her goal in her research is to find areas of the law or philosophy where her Objectivist perspective allows her to make a unique and valuable contribution to the literature. She is currently working on a book, Toward a Society of Privacy, which discusses the value of privacy for the virtuous life and the proper means of protecting it.
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Amy Peikoff has spoken to campus and other groups in the United States and Brazil. Speech topics include: The Legal Protection of Privacy, Objective Law, and Ayn Rand’s Theory of Rights.
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Thank you, Amy, for being, for existing in a world fraught with those who would deny man of his freedom to exist as he sees fit. For me, that’s all I want, to be left alone to pursue my own ambitions and dreams. I do not wish ill of any man but I will fight to the death any man who even tries to impose his will on me. Again, thank you.
-Mike Baraniecki, Murrieta, CA
Mike, thanks for joining in for my first show over at BlogTalkRadio. I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Hi Amy,
Just a quick note as a follow-up to the feature you did on Ann Barnhardt:
http://www.bizzyblog.com/2011/11/17/thank-you-ann-barnhardt-we-need-a-lot-more-people-with-her-courage-like-this/
I find this very disturbing, and a harbinger of all the damage that will come of Corzine & his ilk.
Howard Roerig
Denver
Amy,
For those of us who choose not to expose ourselves on the various social networking sites, there is no obvious way to send you an email from your website. Just a thought–you may also want to post an email address or link.
Thanks! Appreciate your hard work & strong stomach (I could not read all of today’s news without getting physically ill!)
Howard
Thanks, Howard, I really appreciate it.
Toward a Society of Privacy sounds excellent! Very fitting for the times. I was working on a philosophic treatise–Toward a New Diction. My premise was to create a work composed of only words that mean what is good–like baking a cake of only the finest ingredients with no unwanted particles. It became one sentence, ultimately–”I am perfect”–though it took me over a year and numerous ripped-up dictionaries. I hope your work proves to be longer….
best premises,
Joseph Dimon
Amy, I enjoy your podcasts, but have been unable to find the most recent ones on iTunes. I did find them on BlogTalkRadio, but it took me a while to figure out how to get them from there to my iPhone. Is there any way you could make them available on iTunes as well? I find iTunes much easier to synch. Keep up the good work!
Richard
Richard, thanks for listening to the show, and sorry the transition to the new platform made it harder for you to access the show. This post should help you to set up a new iTunes subscription, using the feed directly from BlogTalk Radio. Let me know if you have any problems.
Thanks!
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For lack of time, I’ve only heard bits and pieces of your previous podcasts. But I listened to tonight’s (9/2/12), in its entirety—and found it to be entirely refreshing. I have to say, your calm deliberation is practically “therapeutic” (to me)…. (And, by the way, you have an extraordinarily mellifluous voice, if you’ll pardon my saying so. It’s quite like the speaking voices of operatic sopranos, which always seem to exhibit a melodious undercurrent, at least to my ears.)
My thanks to you.
Thanks for listening, for the compliment and for teaching me a new vocabulary word!
I am a UK based Objectivist. Amy, “nihilism” is the direct logical consequence following on from NeoDarwinian premises. Evolution is not gene led. You cannot separate Nature and Nurture, except under controlled experimental conditions. Check out the research findings of the ‘Encode’ project, just published, to read about the extent of switching that goes on at the level of cell molecular machinery. Following Rand’s lead, humans have no automatic instincts. I want Objectivists to make the case for conceptual thinking by explaining that we have learnt to switch genes on and off by means of language and therefore have a much more dynamic and energy efficient means of survival than stereotyped, automatic, instinct dependent animals. The received wisdom on evolution has been a gift to religionists of all stripes and has produced the egalitarian trend in politics that is destroying individualism. They key, as Rand identified, is that language is not primarily a means of communication, as is generally accepted; it is primarily a tool of mental organisation. We use it to switch on and off our own genetic processes and thus to integrate our ideas according to our ‘emotionally felt’ values. This is Rand’s “emotional mechanism”.
Amy, I have been saving and retweeting your tweets for a long time now, I am such a HUGE fan of Atlas Shrugged and Fountainhead. I didn’t realize you had a blog, so great to connect. CHEERS! Coco
Amy,
I just discovered your podcast, and I’m really enjoying it. The only thing that can save this country now is for Atlas to Shrug.
Regards
Amy,
First of all, great job on the show. It has been part of my week since inception.
I recently heard mention of a talk you gave in Houston some years agon on the corruption of the American Bar Association. Is the talk available anywhere online?
Regards,
Joe
Thanks, Joe! In the talk you mention, I criticized some of the ABA’s Model Rules; I didn’t talk about the organization apart from those rules. So far as I know, the talk was not recorded, sorry!
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