Dual Foundationalism and the Core of Objectivist Logic An ordered, thematic collection of articles regarding what I take to be an important development in Objectivist Epistemology. The two interdependent foundations for human knowledge and cognition. The sense in which each foundation preceeds the other. The twelve central epistemic norms which properly guide human cognition. Their basis in causal law as it applies to a volitional awareness. The logical order and classification of these norms.

Inspired, in part, by the work of Ayn Rand (as the originator of Objectivism, for her identification of the role of axiomatic concepts, the primacy of existence, centrality of the standard of objectivity, and for her theory of concept-formation), and Dr. Leonard Peikoff (for his identification of the hierarchical structure of the Objectivist Metaphysics as presented in the all-too-often ignored tape lecture series OBJECTIVISM: The State of the Art, his identification of the role of reduction and integration in logic, and his explanation of the philosophic problem of seeming-circularity). I am also heavily indebted to Dr. David Kelley (for his explanation of how Objectivism makes use of a first-person perspective in its analysis of the subject/object-relationship, for his defense of perception as the metaphysical level of man's awareness and as the perception of physical entities, and for his use of the norm of self-referential coherence in his treatise The Evidence of the Senses), and Dr. Harry Binswanger (for his explication of the Objectivist theory of volition in the pamphlet Volition as Cognitive Self-Regulation (see especially his explanation of the motive for the act of being in focus), his explanation of how the standard of value avoids the pitfall of intrinsicism (which is clearly analogous to the standard of objectivity), and his explanation of reciprocal causation in the context of life (see his treatise The Biological Basis of Telelogical Concepts), which I found particularly illuminating in the realm of human cognition).