The Nathaniel Branden Annotated Bibliography

roger e. bissell, email: [email protected], website: http//www.rogerbissell.com, is a professional musician and a writer on philosophy and psychology, specializing in aesthetics, logic and epistemology, and personality type theory. He is a research associate with the Molinari Institute, and his work has appeared in a number of other publications, including Reason Papers, Objectivity, Journal of Consciousness Studies, Bulletin of the Association for Psychological Type, Vera Lex, and ART Ideas. His mock transcription of a lecture by the fictional composer Richard Halley was published in Edward W. Younkins's 2007 compilation, Ayn Rand's “Atlas Shrugged”: A Philosophical and Literary Companion, and he supervised the transcription of Nathaniel Branden's lectures for the 2009 publication of The Vision of Ayn Rand: The Basic Principles of Objectivism, and of Barbara Branden's lecture course, “Principles of Efficient Thinking” (2016, Cobden Press). In 2014, he published his first book, How the Martians Discovered Algebra: Explorations in Induction and the Philosophy of Mathematics, available from Amazon Kindle. He also frequently performs on recording sessions and jazz engagements, and information about CDs featuring his trombone playing, singing, musical arrangements, and original compositions can be accessed at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/rbissell and http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/rogerbissell.

stephen cox, email: [email protected], is Distinguished Professor of Literature and Director of the Humanities Program at the University of California, San Diego. Since 1987 he has served as Editor and since 2005 as Editor in Chief of Liberty magazine (libertyunbound.com). He is a founding editor of JARS. His work has engaged several fields: cultural history (The Titanic Story, 1999; The Big House: Image and Reality of the American Prison, 2009); economics and literature (Literature and the Economics of Liberty, coedited with Paul Cantor, 2009); religious texts and history (The New Testament and Literature: A Guide to Literary Patterns, 2006; Changing and Remaining: A History of All Saints' Church, 2011; American Christianity: The Continuing Revolution, 2014); and the history of radical individualism (The Stranger Within Thee: Concepts of the Self in Late-Eighteenth-Century Literature, 1980; Love and Logic: The Evolution of Blake's Thought, 1992; and The Woman and the Dynamo: Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America, 2004). His other work on Paterson, Rand's influential mentor, includes the jubilee edition of Paterson's The God of the Machine (1993) and a recent, extensively annotated edition of her shorter writings, Culture and Liberty (2015). He has repeatedly been recognized for excellence in teaching by the students and faculty of UC San Diego.

robert l. campbell, email: [email protected], a Professor of Psychology at Clemson University, is the coauthor, with John Chambers Christopher, of “Moral Development Theory: A Critique of Its Kantian Presuppositions” (Developmental Review, 1996). Without Nathaniel Branden's influence and example, there is a good chance he would not have written it.

roderick t. long, Professor, Department of Philosophy, 6080 Haley Center, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849, email: [email protected], website: http://praxeology.net, A.B. Harvard 1985, Ph.D. Cornell 1992, is the author of Reason and Value: Aristotle versus Rand (The Objectivist Center, 2000) and Wittgenstein, Austrian Economics, and the Logic of Action: Praxeological Investigations (Routledge, forthcoming), as well as coeditor (with Tibor R. Machan) of Anarchism/Minarchism: Is a Government Part of a Free Country? (Ashgate, 2008). He runs an anarchist think tank, the Molinari Institute at http://praxeology.net/molinari.htm; edits the Molinari Review at http://molinari-review.org and The Industrial Radical at http://praxeology.net/industrial-radical.htm; blogs at Austro-Athenian Empire at http://aaeblog.com and Bleeding Heart Libertarians at http://bleedingheartlibertarians.com; and is active in the Center for a Stateless Society at http://c4ss.org and the Alliance of the Libertarian Left at http://all-left.net. He is also a coeditor of The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies.

chris matthew sciabarra, email: [email protected], website: http://www.chrismatthewsciabarra.com, blog: http://notablog.net, received his B.A. in political theory, economics, and history (with honors), his M.A. in political theory and methodology, and his Ph.D., with distinction, in political theory, philosophy, and methodology from New York University. He is the author of the “Dialectics and Liberty Trilogy,” which includes Marx, Hayek, and Utopia (State University of New York Press, 1995), Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995; expanded second edition, 2013), and Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000). He is also co-editor, with Mimi Reisel Gladstein, of Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999), and a founding co-editor of The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies (1999–present). He has written over a dozen encyclopedia entries dealing with Objectivism and libertarianism, given over fifty interviews published in such periodicals as The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, The Village Voice, and The Economist, and published over one hundred fifty essays, which have appeared in publications as diverse as Critical Review, Reason Papers, Liberty, Reason, The New York Daily News, Film Score Monthly, Jazz Times, Just Jazz Guitar, and Billboard.