Contributors
- Contributors
ROGER E. BISSELL, email: rebissell@aol.com, website: http//www.rogerbissell.com, is a professional musician and a writer on philosophy and psychology, specializing in aesthetics, logic and epistemology, and personality type theory. His work has appeared in a number of other publications, including Reason Papers, Objectivity, Journal of Consciousness Studies, Bulletin of the Association for Psychological Type, Vera Lex, and ART Ideas. His mock transcription of a lecture by the fictional composer Richard Halley was published in Edward W. Younkins’s 2007 compilation, Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”: A Philosophical and Literary Companion, and he supervised the transcription of Nathaniel Branden’s lectures for the 2009 publication of The Vision of Ayn Rand: The Basic Principles of Objectivism. Most recently, he published his first book, How the Martians Discovered Algebra: Explorations in Induction and the Philosophy of Mathematics, available from Amazon Kindle. He also frequently performs on recording sessions and jazz engagements, and information about CDs featuring his trombone playing, singing, musical arrangements, and original compositions can be accessed at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/rbissell and http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/rogerbissell.
ERIC B. DENT, email: dr.eric.dent@gmail.com, is professor of leadership, Fayetteville State University. He is committed to an interdisciplinary research agenda that has resulted in publications in behavioral science, complexity theory, systems science, education, consulting, history, communications, [End Page 290] spirituality, organization development, and philosophy journals. He has won numerous awards and is a consultant to Fortune 500, government, and nonprofit organizations as well as an invited speaker to national audiences. He earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from Emory University and an M.B.A. and Ph.D. in organizational behavior from George Washington University
MICHELLE MARDER KAMHI, email: mmk@mmkamhi.com, website: http://www.mmkamhi.com, is an independent scholar and critic, and coedits Aristos, an online review of the arts at www.aristos.org. She coauthored What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand and is the author of Who Says That’s Art? A Commonsense View of the Visual Arts. Articles by her have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Art Education, and Arts Education Policy Review, among other publications, and an essay by her is included in the volume After the Avant-Gardes (Open Court, 2016). Her blog about art is For Piero’s Sake, on her website.
JOHN A. PARNELL, email: john.parnell@uncp.edu, is the Belk Chair in Management at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. He is the author of over two hundred basic and applied research articles, published presentations, and cases in strategic management, ethics, crisis management, and related areas, as well as two current textbooks, Strategic Management: Theory and Practice and Crisis Management: Leading in the New Strategy Landscape. He is the 2011 recipient of the Spirit of Inquiry award from the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy for his course titled “Ethics and Capitalism.” He has lectured in a number of countries, including China, Mexico, Peru, and Egypt.
FRED SEDDON, email: fas12@psu.edu, holds adjunct professorships at Pennsylvania State University and Duquesne University. He was president of the West Virginia Philosophical Society from 1988 to 2010, and is an associate member of the Center for the Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is an international scholar and the author of over 150 books, articles, book reviews, and speeches, including such works as Ayn Rand, Objectivists and the History of Philosophy, An Introduction to the Philosophical Works of F. S. C. Northrop, and Aristotle and Lukasiewicz on the Principle of Contradiction.
EDWARD W. YOUNKINS, email: younkins@wju.edu, professor, Department of Business, Wheeling Jesuit University, 316 Washington Avenue, Wheeling, West Virginia, 26003, is the author of numerous articles in accounting and business journals. In addition, his many free-market-oriented articles and reviews [End Page 291] have appeared in a variety of publications. He is the author of Capitalism and Commerce: Conceptual Foundations of Free Enterprise (Lexington Books, 2002) and Champions of a Free Society: Ideas of Capitalism’s Philosophers and Economists (Lexington Books, 2008). He is the editor of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”: A Philosophical and Literary...
