The Kelley Collection

Fact and Value by Leonard Peikoff.

On Moral Sanction by Peter Schwartz Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Ayn Rand Institute.

Notes On A Question of Sanction by Robert Tracinski. Tracinski explores the philosophical corruption of David Kelley as witnessed in a paper of his ’A Question of Sanction’. This article has recently been edited for improvement in style and it is also available in pamphlet form – contact Michael Ferguson (MafSOAR@aol.com).

Dr. Leonard Peikoff (Ayn Rand’s legal and philosophical heir) broke all official relations with Dr. David Kelley in 1989 as a direct result of Kelley’s aforementioned paper. Peikoff’s brilliant exposition of Kelley’s attack on important Objectivist principles, as manifested through his moral tolerationism, is found in The Intellectual Activist Vol. 5, No. 1 – ’Fact and Value’ (see above for link to the article).

Short chronology and comments on the articles and actions involved in David Kelley’s rejection of Objectivism by Jerry Nilson.

Reintroducing the Measurements: An Old Fallacy with a New Name by Bennet C. Karp is an interesting article on a serious epistemological error committed by a former Objectivist – David Kelley.