Thinking Objectively (OCON 2014)

If you are an honest person, you are not content to hold beliefs subjectively — because of accidental features of your psychology or circumstances. You aspire to be objective — to conform all of your thinking to the facts. To do this you must be able to identify the available evidence, to determine what conclusions it supports, to check the premises you have already formed, and to integrate your conclusions into a consistent sum. This lecture by philosopher Gregory Salmieri, recorded at the 2014 Objectivist Summer Conference in Las Vegas, discusses these skills and how to develop them. Image credits: 0:12 Lewis Hine / public domain / Wikimedia Commons 3:54 Courtesy of the Ayn Rand Archives / Al Aumuller, New York World-Telegram 47:35 Cutco knives and shears / Hustvedt / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 --- ARI offers educational experiences, based on Ayn Rand's books and ideas, to a variety of audiences, including students, educators, policymakers and lifelong learners. ARI also engages in research and advocacy efforts, applying Rand's ideas to current issues and seeking to promote her philosophical principles of reason, rational self-interest and laissez-faire capitalism. Subscribe to ARI's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM6z... Explore ARI: http://www.AynRand.org Follow ARI on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AynRandInst Like ARI on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AynRandInsti...