Ayn Rand defined psycho-epistemology as “the study of man’s cognitive processes from the aspect of the interaction between the conscious mind and the automatic functions of the subconscious.”
In these lectures extending material presented in “Psycho-Epistemology I”, Dr. Binswanger introduces and defines a new sub-discipline: applied psycho-epistemology.
Topics include:
- The goal of applied psycho-epistemology
- Psycho-epistemology as one’s automatized “mental software”
- Mental filing as link formation
- Factors affecting information retrieval
- Definition as the process that organizes your knowledge by essentials
- How to concretize properly
Course Content
Not Enrolled
Course Includes
- 2 Lessons
Course Faculty
Harry BinswangerDr. Binswanger, Ph.D. in philosophy, was an associate of Ayn Rand’s and is editor of The Ayn Rand Lexicon and co-editor of the revised edition of Ayn Rand’s Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology. He is the author of How We Know and The Biological Basis of Teleological Concepts and was the founding editor/publisher of The Objectivist Forum. In addition to owning and moderating the Harry Binswanger Letter.
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