Reflections on My Hero, Nathaniel Branden

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.