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TALKS PANELS COURSES EVENTS AND MEALS CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Young Adult Weekend Main Conference Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday SCHEDULE June 27 June 28 June 29 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 4 Bayer and Rivera: Campus Activism Course: Ghate and Lockitch: and Campus Club 8:40–9:40 AM Bernstein: Introduction to Ayn Rand’s Philosophy, Objectivism War Stories CONCURRENT What Everyone TALKS/PANELS Can Do to Journo: AND A COURSE Promote Freedom DAY 2: DAY 3: The Virtue of DAY 1: DAY 4: Reality and Values and Selfishness in Why Philosophy? Open Q&A Foreign Policy Knowledge Happiness Thompson: Simpson: Brook: Salmieri: Mayhew: Independence Day 10–11:30 AM Lockitch: Self-Interest Cronyism, The Inequality Thinking Ayn Rand’s Celebration TALKS The Sacred Self Rightly Corruption and Debate Objectively Sacred Atheism 10:30–11:30 AM Understood Government Power 11:30 AM–1:30 PM The Undercurrent Introduction to Atlantis Legacy A Tribute to Q&A on Capitalism GROUP LUNCH Students Only Planned Giving Lunch Allan Gotthelf Lunch OR LUNCH ON Lunch Lunch (FREE) (by invitation only) Lunch 11:45 AM–1:15 PM YOUR OWN 11:45 AM–1:30 PM 11:45 AM–1:15 PM 11:45 AM–1:15 PM Smith: Mossoff: Boeckmann: Boeckmann: What Are We Mossoff: Term Limits Romanticism vs. Romanticism vs. Cheering? Sport The Smartphone for Patents and Naturalism and Naturalism and and the Value of Wars and “Patent Copyrights Classicism (part I) Classicism (part II) Trolls”—What They Valuing Mean to You Bayer: Panel: 1:30–2:45 PM Panel: Locke: Milgram: Spreading The Fundamental CONCURRENT Foreign Policy and Free Will vs. Ayn Rand: Objectivism by Challenge of K-12 TALKS/PANELS International Trade Neuroscience A Writer Is Born Living It Education Epstein: Rheins: Girn: The Moral Case for From Zeus to the Panel: Panel: The Self-Made Fossil Fuels Prime Mover: A Ayn Rand and the Objectivism Is Child (Montessori’s Very Short History New Atheists Radical Education) of Greek Theology Course: Lewis: World War I: A Watershed in World History Watkins: Part I Part II Part III Part IV Ending the Debt Draft: Taking the Maxham: Bowden: Thompson: Moral High Ground Genetically 3:05–4:05 PM How Did Bill Gates Atlas Shrugged on Entitlements Modified CONCURRENT Panel: Get So Rich? and America Organisms (part I) Maxham: TALKS/PANELS/ Living Objectivism Genetically COURSES Modified Rheins: Basu: Amy Peikoff: Bernstein: Organisms (part II) Was the Universe Individualism and OCON Legalizing Privacy: How to Be an Created? The Collectivism in Attendee Why and How Impassioned Valuer Debate—from Plato Health Care Services and Aristotle to Today Registration Milgram: Salmieri: open Selgin: Joan of Arc: How to Be an 3–8 PM Panel: Free Banking and Schiller and Objective Consumer Entitlement State the Fed Ayn Rand of Science vs. the Young Brook: 4:25–5:40 PM Panel: The State of the Panel: Panel: Panel: CONCURRENT Q&A on Ayn Rand Institute Current Legal Issues Microsoft and Objectivism in TALKS/PANELS Objectivism Presentation and Controversies Antitrust Business Panel: (FREE) Panel: Panel: Why You Pursuing Academia Panel: Unions and Should Care About as an Objectivist The Rule of Law in Business and Encourage America Regulations Campus Clubs Q&A with Book Signings Young Adult Leonard Peikoff 6–8 PM Get Involved 5:45–6:15 PM Welcome Reception Mixer 6–7 PM EVENTS Meetup The Andrew Lewis Closing Reception, 6–7:30 PM 6:30 PM ARI Benefactors Trio (FREE) Dinner and Dance and Dinner Dinner 8–9 PM 6:30 PM–Midnight RockStar Karaoke 7:30–10 PM Ayn Rand Trivia (by invitation only) 9 PM–Midnight (FREE) (FREE) 7–10 PM 9 PM 9–11 PM Objectivist Conferences/Ayn Rand Institute ® reserve the right to make necessary adjustments to the schedule..

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Beyond Reductionism: Reconsidering the Right to Privacy
BEYOND REDUCTIONISM: RECONSIDERING THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY Amy L. Peikoff∗ INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................2 I. A SKETCH OF RAND’S VALIDATION OF INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS...............................................................................................5 II. THE RIGHT TO PROPERTY AS FUNDAMENTAL................................14 III. SHOULD THERE BE A LEGAL RIGHT TO PRIVACY? ........................20 A. Any Law Protecting a Right to Privacy Would be Non-Objective, and Thus Unjust. ..........................................20 B. Laws Directed Specifically at Invasions of Privacy Tend, in Their Application and Proliferation, to Erode Fundamental Rights to Liberty and Property ....................................................................24 ∗ Assistant Professor of Philosophy, United States Air Force Academy, J.D., Univer- sity of California Los Angeles School of Law, Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Southern California. Thank you to S.A. Lloyd, Tara Smith and participants in the Anthem Foundation Workshop at the University of Texas at Austin, Philosophy Department, Spring 2004, for comments on earlier drafts of this piece. 1 2 N.Y.U. Journal of Law & Liberty [Vol. 3:1 1. “Decisional” Privacy – Roe v. Wade and its progeny.......................................................................................... 26 2 “Informational” Privacy Cases: Eroding the Right to Property .......................................................................... 34 IV. RECOMMENDATION.......................................................................
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July 1 O Through July 22, 2004 General Session Lectures Optional
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