Michael Stuart Kelly Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 Introducing the Stephen Boydstun CornerI have had this corner on my mind for the longest time, but I have not had the time to properly deal with the consequences. Still, the best way to start something is to start. So I wrote to Stephen and told him what I was thinking. I am more than pleased to say that he accepted.Stephen has an impressive body of work, but it is a bit scattered, thus often difficult to access. He has a site for Objectivity (a link to which I keep on the Portal page), but that is difficult to research for many people and quotes need to be copied by retyping.So I thought having a Stephen Boydstun Corner on OL would be a good thing since it carries a lot of targeted traffic of people who are likely to gain value from his writing. As with all other Corners of Insight, this in no way reflects on Stephen agreeing with anything other than things like the normal posting guidelines that apply to everybody. That includes agreeing with me. His mind is his own. Anyway, my idea is to expand with people of good will, not restrict.I have taken so long to do this because my time is really limited and I wanted to contribute more than I can. But I think Stephen will manage nicely and I will help out as much as I can in moving stuff around, being available for technical matters, etc. I have attributed him with moderator powers for his corner.There are three reasons why I consider this corner to be particularly valuable:1. Stephen is one of the few people on earth at the present who has published an academic periodical on Objectivism-related subjects. 2. In his work, he sees Objectivism through the lens of great academic learning. His familiarity with philosophical and scientific technical material is overwhelming at times. At least to me it is. And he applies this knowledge to Objectivist theories and concepts, and vice-versa.3. He has wonderful reading suggestions in philosophy and science. I believe having them (and his comments) in one place is of high value to many, especially those who like to educate themselves.On a personal note, I have difficulty keeping up with some of his writing since I do not read technical stuff very quickly. It takes time that I often don't have to make sure I understand properly. So I am glad there is now a central place bearing his work that should be easy to research before too long. I can easily go back to review the things I missed.In a time of terrible things happening in this world, a bit of sunshine is always welcome. Setting up the Stephen Boydstun Corner is one such sunny day for me.Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Heaps-Nelson Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 Introducing the Stephen Boydstun CornerI have had this corner on my mind for the longest time, but I have not had the time to properly deal with the consequences. Still, the best way to start something is to start. So I wrote to Stephen and told him what I was thinking. I am more than pleased to say that he accepted.Stephen has an impressive body of work, but it is a bit scattered, thus often difficult to access. He has a site for Objectivity (a link to which I keep on the Portal page), but that is difficult to research for many people and quotes need to be copied by retyping.So I thought having a Stephen Boydstun Corner on OL would be a good thing since it carries a lot of targeted traffic of people who are likely to gain value from his writing. As with all other Corners of Insight, this in no way reflects on Stephen agreeing with anything other than things like the normal posting guidelines that apply to everybody. That includes agreeing with me. His mind is his own. Anyway, my idea is to expand with people of good will, not restrict.I have taken so long to do this because my time is really limited and I wanted to contribute more than I can. But I think Stephen will manage nicely and I will help out as much as I can in moving stuff around, being available for technical matters, etc. I have attributed him with moderator powers for his corner.There are three reasons why I consider this corner to be particularly valuable:1. Stephen is one of the few people on earth at the present who has published an academic periodical on Objectivism-related subjects. 2. In his work, he sees Objectivism through the lens of great academic learning. His familiarity with philosophical and scientific technical material is overwhelming at times. At least to me it is. And he applies this knowledge to Objectivist theories and concepts, and vice-versa.3. He has wonderful reading suggestions in philosophy and science. I believe having them (and his comments) in one place is of high value to many, especially those who like to educate themselves.On a personal note, I have difficulty keeping up with some of his writing since I do not read technical stuff very quickly. It takes time that I often don't have to make sure I understand properly. So I am glad there is now a central place bearing his work that should be easy to research before too long. I can easily go back to review the things I missed.In a time of terrible things happening in this world, a bit of sunshine is always welcome. Setting up the Stephen Boydstun Corner is one such sunny day for me.MichaelMichael, Thank you for doing this. Stephen is one of the bright lights in our movement.Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syrakusos Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 He has a site for Objectivity (a link to which I keep on the Portal page), but that is difficult to research for many people and quotes need to be copied by retyping.Actually, I did not find it on the Portal Page. It was easy enough to find "boydstun objectivity" via a search engine and I printed a couple of pages to put into my Ayn Rand folder (manilla folder; on the shelf with the Ayn Rand books). His work deserves the widest possible attention, certainly among Objectivist, for whom the basic principles can be assumed, and from which discussion can advance. I say thee yea, Steve Boydstun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 (edited) Here is an index of his work. This is also available on his profile page.ObjectivityObjectivity ArchiveSubject Index Key"Universals and Measurement"I. OrientationII. Analysis – Affordance of Ratio or Interval MeasuresII. Analysis – Affordance of Ordinal Measures / Superordinates and Similarity Classes / Amended Measure-Definitions of Similarity and ConceptsIII. Genesis – Elaboration of Identity / First Words, First Universals / Analytic ConstraintNotesReferences~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Comments on III. A, B, C~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~– Piece-Wise Ordinal / Entity Measure / Category Theory– Abstractions / Particulars / Themes~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"Judgments and Measurement"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"Capturing Concepts"IntroductionI. Categorical PerceptionII. Reference and SpecificationIII. Measure and MatterIV. AbstractionV. Identity and DefinitionReferences~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Follow-up– Proper-Noun Concepts– Definite Concept and Phrase-Length– The Concept Thought~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"Capturing Quantity" – 1, 2, 3~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"Randian Axioms and Postulates in Metaphysics"Basics / Identity with MeasurementI. Exclusions of Non-Contradiction: Entities. . .Part 1 – Identity as to Kind. . .Part 2 – Identity as to ParticularityII. Exclusions of Non-Contradiction: ActionsIII. Exclusions of Non-Contradiction: Attributes. . .Part 1 – Locke. . .Part 2 – Leibniz I. . .Part 3 –. . .Part 4 –Metaphysics and Life– There Is and I Am– Your Love of Existence– Thought's Living Existence– Beauty, Goodness, LifePhilosophy of Perception– Sensory Qualities: Their Relation to Sensory System and World– Primary/Secondary Qualities– Peirce on Perception and Conception– Perception and Objectivity (& Supplement)– Object and ContentIntuition"Peirce contra Intuition and Self-Evidence". . .Introduction. . .I. Anselm of Canterbury. . .II. Roger Bacon. . .–––Avicenna. . .–––Neoplatonists. . .–––PlatoLogic– Origin of 'A is A' Formula– Between False, Invalid, and Meaningless– Meaningless Tautology– Normativity of Logic – Kant v. Rand– Normativity of Logic - Robert Hanna– Predication on Identity– Contradiction with the Individual Concrete– Identity Manifold– Philosophy of Logic– Modal Logic– Quantum Logic– Why Be Logical?– Epistemology and LogicIntegrationFrom Integrity to CalculusIntegration in Rand – from integrity to calculusto Piaget, Montessori, and HelmholtzTheory of Truth“Objectivist Theory of Truth”“Perception and Truth – Kant and Rand”. . I. Sense and Mind – Rand. . II. Empirical Realism – Kant A, B, C, D, E. . III. Empirical Judgment – Kant and Rand A, B, C, D, E"Truth of Geometry". . .Part 1 – Aristotle. . .Part 2 – Locke and Leibniz. . .Part 3 – Kant, Precritical. . .Part 4 – Kant, Critical (forthcoming)"Analytic-Synthetic Distinction". . .Part 1 – Quine. . .Part 2 – White and Rand-Peikoff. . .Part 3 – Objective AnalyticityChange and Causality– Induction and Causality– Causal Power of Attributes– Inhering, yet Causing– Rand's Law of Causality without Uniqueness– Identity to Causality / Meyerson / Ockham– Ontology of Time– Gradients and Drivers– Types of Cause"Induction on Identity"IntroductionI. Varieties of InductionII. Ockham – ContingencyIII. Nicolaus – Experience of SubstanceIV. Nicolaus – Reasoning to SubstanceV. Hume – Experience of Cause and EffectVI. Hume – Reasoning to Cause or EffectVII. Hume – NecessityVIII. Hume – UniformityIX. Existence is Identity"Volitional Synapses"Conscious Controls / Psychoneural RelationHypothetical NecessityPhysical and Organic Determinism / Deterministic ErrorAyn Rand Society 2007– Foundations of Ethics: Objectivism and Analytic Philosophy – Irfan Khawaja– Addendum to My Comment – Concerning Nozick 2001– Concerning Paul Bloomfield's CommentMathematics in Science– Functions of Mathematical Description in Astronomy and Optics, Illustrations from Antiquity– Angular Momentum and Causation– Rainbows –—Aristotle—Ibn Sahl—Ibn al-Haytham / Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi / Kamal al-Din al-Farisi / Roger Bacon—Theodoric of Freiberg A, BPhilosophy of Science– Between Realism and Constructive Empiricism– Thomas KuhnInterpretation of Quantum Mechanics– Transactional Interpretation"Space, Rotation, Relativity"I. Descartes / HuygensII. Newton / LeibnizIII. KantIV. Ampere / Faraday / Maxwell / EinsteinScientific Cosmology– Copernican Revolution and Significance– Universe as a Concrete– Totality Referent– General Relativity and Cosmology – a, b– Einstein Online– Total Angular Momentum of Universe– By Microwave and Radio– Endless Existence – a, b– Roger Penrose – Cycles of TimeKant– Metaphysics of Kant and Rand– Space, Rotation, Relativity – Kant– Kant and Principia– Kant from A to Bxxx (&)– Mysticism – Kant and Rand– Categories"Kant's Wrestle with Happiness and Life". . .Part 1 – to 1781. . .Part 2 – towards 1785. . .Part 3 – into 1785. . .Part 4 – Moral Worth, Necessary and Free – A, B– Dewey and Peikoff on Kant's ResponsibilityNietzsche v. Rand– Your Moral Ideal– Claiming Nobility– Parallels and Influence"Truth of Will and Value". . .Part 1 – Before Zarathustra. . .Part 2 – Zarathustra and Beyond. . .––––––– Rand 1929–38 A, B, C. . .––––––– Rand 1938–46 A, B, C, D, E. . .––––––– Rand in FullRand and Biology– Rand's Concept of Biology Part 1 / Part 2– Reservation on Evolution– Scientific within Rational– Vegetative Robots and ValueRational Egoism– Function of Mind– Function of Ethics– A Rejection of Egoism– Supported Choice to Live– Desire to Value– Altruism– Sacrifice– Value Out There– Visibility, Benevolence, and Egoism – a, bAyn Rand– Original, True, Important– To Think– Blok– Universals– Three Treasures– Rejection– Objectivist Label – a, b– Soul, Structure, Struggle Edited December 20, 2013 by Stephen Boydstun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted January 20, 2016 Author Share Posted January 20, 2016 Woo hoo!Kat and I are so happy for you!May lots of joy spread and flourish throughout your lives.Michael & Kat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PDS Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 Congratulations! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 Congratulations! From what you've shared over the years, it sounds like you've got a good one in Walter.Cheers!J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 Excellent!! A... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9thdoctor Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Congrats! What were your musical selections? The tried and true: I think this is a good match: Durn, no subtitles. But I expect you know the piece anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthony Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 All the very best! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Bissell Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 Congratulations to you both, Stephen!REB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merjet Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 I don't know whether to say Congratulations or Best Wishes, so both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellen Stuttle Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Unfold the bloom night to day, [...]year on year, we of we of love.Belated congratulations, Stephen.And a wish for many more long, happy years of unfolding the bloom.I like the photo. Ellen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Holy Cow!Congratulations!--Brant(I dropped the wisecrack) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyau Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 . Thank you all, each one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaalChatzaf Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 Guyau (S.B.) is the smartest poster on this board. Half the books I own were recommended by Guyau. Jeezus Stephen, you cost me a fortune! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted December 11, 2016 Author Share Posted December 11, 2016 How did I miss this? Beautiful pictures, Stephen. And beautiful words. Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted October 2, 2020 Author Share Posted October 2, 2020 I have moved this whole Stephen Boydstun section to "Further Corners of Insight" simply because of this one thread. I actually want to delete it, but that is not right. At some time in the past (probably due to disagreeing with my support of President Trump), Stephen deleted all of the content in this section except this thread. What's more, he did not inform me. In respect to those other posters on this thread, I'm keeping this up for the historical record. After all, OL is a record for posterity of what transpired in our subcommunity during this time. If I remember correctly, there were posts by other OL members on some of the threads Stephen deleted. That prompted me to look and I saw some shenanigans by other OL posters who had moderation powers. So I fixed what I could and I have eliminated all moderation on OL by others except me (and Kat, of course ). I apologize to any OL members who had their content deleted by Stephen and others. I don't think it is recoverable. Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyau Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 Hi Michael, I wanted to let you know that although it was on account of your advocacy for Mr. Trump, that I stopped posting at your site in late 2016, the reason I removed my Corner papers (about a year ago) was only because of the ads that were interspersed in my text. They were rather zany and used motion to capture attention. Any interspersed ads at all made my serious work no longer a serene and uninterrupted setting for the reader-attention required to grasp it, and no longer a setting with the respect the works deserved. I am grateful you got my name off your large-lettered sectors of the Corners, and it would be pleasing to me were you to remove the remains of it in the small-letter access, thence my name from your forum cover. --Stephen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted October 8, 2020 Author Share Posted October 8, 2020 54 minutes ago, Guyau said: ... the reason I removed my Corner papers (about a year ago) was only because of the ads that were interspersed in my text. Stephen, Only? Really? Forgive me if I find this hard to believe since you did not let me know about it as was your custom with other complaints. In my mind, I have little doubt if I were not supporting Trump, you would have contacted me instead of taking down the content on the sly. I don't mind that you don't want to be here although I admit I like your work so I have a druther. That's your choice. I do mind--and mind a lot--that you disrespected the members of this forum by doing what you did. 54 minutes ago, Guyau said: I am grateful you got my name off your large-lettered sectors of the Corners, and it would be pleasing to me were you to remove the remains of it in the small-letter access... I'm not in a mood to be pleasing to you about this. Enough of rewriting history in the Objectivist subcommunity. Let the ARI folks do that. What you did happened. It's staying up. Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyau Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 Ballet Album sample Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyau Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 'Tuning True' Album sample Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyau Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 Updated Index All links live as of 10/18/20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted October 19, 2020 Author Share Posted October 19, 2020 1 hour ago, Guyau said: 'Tuning True' Album sample Stephen, I like the long hair look. Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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