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    Objectivist Metaphysics
    In Allan Gotthelf & Gregory Salmieri (eds.), A Companion to Ayn Rand, Wiley. 2016.
    This chapter focuses on Ayn Rand's characteristic approach to metaphysical concepts and principles. It first concerns the axioms of existence and identity, their respective concepts, and then their validation and cognitive roles. The chapter also considers Rand's view of entities and causation. Next, it describes consciousness, and its dependence on existence (i.e., the primacy of existence). The chapter then discusses Rand's view of free will (a fundamental feature of human consciousness) and t…Read more