On Nov 15, 2008, at 12:38 AM, WJhonson(a)aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 11/14/2008 9:36:04 PM Pacific Standard Time,
snowspinner(a)gmail.com writes:
Pure philosophy would have
been published through the existing academic discipline of
philosophy,
in any of the journals or scholarly presses that exist, not in self-
published newsletters that are later compiled and published via the
same press as her novels.>>
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Are you suggesting that a philosopher may not self-publish?
I would think that anyone can self-publish. And the category and
subject of
their work can be anything.
I'm saying that there is a difference between a philosopher and a
loony who self-publishes a philosophical newsletter, and that Ayn Rand
does not come down on the side of that divide that many of her
followers would like to think she does.
-Phil