William R Thomas is Manager of Research and Training at The Objectivist Center (formerly: the Institute for Objectivist Studies) in Poughkeepsie, New York. He has a Master’s Degree in Economics from the University of Michigan, where he is a Ph.D. candidate and where he taught the economic history of the United States and China. He has been a lecturer at Gadjah Mada University in Indonesia and conducted research under the auspices of the People’s University of China. He is a graduate of Oberlin College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Thomas is the co-author of The Logical Structure of Objectivism. He has published essays on topics in politics, ethics, and epistemology. He has spoken internationally on the theory of individual rights and Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism, and his introductory course The Essence of Objectivism is available on CD. He is an inveterate traveler, speaks good Spanish, adequate Mandarin Chinese and Indonesian, and writes fiction, too, from time-to-time. He lives in Albany, New York with Susanna Fessler and their sons, Theodore Maxwell Thomas and Henry Fox Thomas.
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