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Born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, Binswanger received his Bachelor of Science degree in "Humanities and Engineering" from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (where he was instrumental in establishing the student group "Radicals for Capitalism") and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University in 1973. Binswanger was a close friend of Ayn Rand, and his subsequent philosophical work has been done in the Objectivist tradition. He edited the new material in the second edition of Rand's book, Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, published in 1990 after her death (the first edition was published in 1979) and frequently contributes to Objectivist publications. He also compiled The Ayn Rand Lexicon, a mini-encyclopedia of Rand's views on some 400 topics in philosophy—now available online. His own book, The Biological Basis of Teleological Concepts, was published in 1990. Since then, he has given many 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," "Psycho-Epistemology," and "Philosophic Issues in Economics."
From 1980 through 1987, he published and edited a bimonthly journal called The Objectivist Forum, which was subsequently published as a hardback collection.
Binswanger is currently on the Board of Directors of the Ayn Rand Institute, and is a professor at its Objectivist Academic Center. He also moderates and regularly posts to an email discussion group on Objectivism, called "The Harry Binswanger List," or HBL.
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