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Lecture 6: Emotions and Reason

In this lecture, philosopher and economics professor William R Thomas turns our attention to the relation between reason and our emotions. He covers the traditional view of the conflict between reason and emotion, the Objectivist view of the nature of emotions, Ayn Rand's view that emotions are not tools of cognition, and what emotions are tools of. ABOUT WILLIAM R THOMAS William R Thomas has a Master's Degree in Economics from the University of Michigan, where he taught the economic history of the United States and China. He has been a lecturer at Gadjah Mada University in Indonesia and conducted research under the auspices of the People's University of China. He is a graduate of Oberlin College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Thomas is the editor of The Literary Art of Ayn Rand (2005), author of Radical for Capitalism, and is the co-author of the survey The Logical Structure of Objectivism. He has published essays on topics in politics, ethics, and epistemology. He has spoken internationally on the theory of individual rights and Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism. Will was a contributing editor for The New Individualist and has written many articles for the magazine. He is the program director of the Atlas Summit and regularly offers webinars on Objectivism. He is available to speak and lecture in Spanish. Thomas is currently a lecturer in the Department of Economics of the University at Albany.