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Robert Mayhew

Professor of Philosophy
Seton Hall University

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Specialties

  • Ayn Rand
  • Aristotle
  • Objectivism
  • Ancient philosophy
  • Atlas Shrugged
  • We the Living
  • Culture & society

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Robert Mayhew is a professor of philosophy at Seton Hall University, where he has taught for over twenty years.

 

Dr. Mayhew’s primary research interests are in ancient philosophy. His most recent publication in the field is Theophrastus of Eresus: On Winds (Brill). Other books are Prodicus the Sophist (Oxford UP); Aristotle: Problems (Harvard UP); and Plato: Laws 10 (Oxford UP). He recently completed a book on Aristotle’s lost Homeric Problems.

 

Dr. Mayhew also has a serious scholarly interest in Ayn Rand. He is the author of Ayn Rand and “Song of Russia”: Communism and Anti-Communism in 1940s Hollywood, and editor of a collection of essays on each of her four novels. He has also edited some of Ayn Rand’s previously unpublished works: Ayn Rand’s Marginalia, The Art of Nonfiction, Ayn Rand Answers, and most recently, Ayn Rand’s The Unconquered (a play based on We the Living).

 

Dr. Mayhew serves on the boards of the Ayn Rand Institute and the Anthem Foundation for Objectivist Scholarship. 

Career Roles

Professor

Philosophy
Seton Hall University

Board Member

Board of Directors
Anthem Foundation for Objectivist Scholarship

Member

Steering Committee
Ayn Rand Society

Selected Work

Scholarly Articles

“‘God or Some Human’: On the Source of Law in Plato’s Laws” in Ancient Philosophy 2011

“Prayer in Plato’s Laws” in Apeiron 2008

“Aristotle on Prayer” in Rhizai 2007

“Persuasion and Compulsion in Plato, Laws 10” in Polis 2007

“M.G.M.’s Potemkin Church: Religion in Song of Russia” in American Communist History 2002

“Part and Whole in Aristotle’s Political Philosophy” in Journal of Ethics 1997

“Aristotle on Property” in Review of Metaphysics 1993

Books

Essays on Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” (editor) April 28, 2009

Essays on Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead” (editor) November 28, 2006

Essays on Ayn Rand’s “Anthem” (editor) August 2005

Essays on Ayn Rand’s “We the Living” (editor) April 15, 2004

Ayn Rand and Song of Russia: Communism and Anti-Communism in 1940s Hollywood December 03, 2004

Ayn Rand’s Marginalia: Her Critical Comments on the Writing of over 20 Authors March 1998

The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers (editor) January 2001

Ayn Rand Answers: The Best of Her Q&A (editor) November 01, 2005

Prodicus the Sophist: Text, Translation and Commentary February 20, 2012

Aristotle: Problems December 14, 2011

The Female in Aristotle’s Biology: Reason or Rationalization June 01, 2004

Plato: Laws 10 April 09, 2008

Aristotle’s Criticism of Plato’s "Republic" September 1997

"The Assembly of Women" by Aristophanes April 01, 1997

Book Chapters

“The Sacred in We the Living” in Essays on Ayn Rand’s “We the Living” February 17, 2012

“Humor in The Fountainhead” in Essays on Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead” November 24, 2006

“Anthem: ’38 & ’46” in Essays on Ayn Rand’s “Anthem” June 28, 2005

“Kira Argounova Laughed: Humor and Joy in We the Living” in Essays on Ayn Rand’s “We the Living” February 17, 2012

“On Problemata XXIX 13: Peripatetic Legal Justice and the Case of Jury Ties” in Studi sui Problemata Physica Aristotelici 2011

“Rulers and Ruled” in A Companion to Aristotle February 17, 2009

“The Theology of the Laws in Plato’s Laws: A Critical Guide December 13, 2010

Talks & Lectures

“Thales and the Birth of Philosophy in Ancient Greece”

“Ayn Rand on Humor"

“Ayn Rand’s HUAC Testimony”

“Aristotle and the Renaissance”

“Aristotle, Ideology, and the Number of Teeth in Women”