Harry Binswanger (born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1944) is a philosopher and writer. He received his BA in "humanities and engineering" from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his PhD. in philosophy from Columbia University, where he studied with the American positivist, Ernest Nagel. His doctoral dissertation concerned the philosophy of biology. He taught philosophy at CUNY's Hunter College from 1972 to 1979.
Binswanger was a friend of Ayn Rand, and his subsequent philosophical work has been done in the Objectivist tradition. He edited the second edition of Rand's book, Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, and frequently contributes to Objectivist publications. He also compiled The Ayn Rand Lexicon, a topical reference work on Rand's views. His own book, The Biological Basis of Teleological Concepts, was published in 1990. Since then, he has given several lecture courses developing Objectivist theories in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science. These include "Free Will", "Abstractions from Abstractions", "The Metaphysics of Consciousness", and "Consciousness as Identification."
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