Description: Kirkpatrick Books publishes works in the Objectivist and Austrian traditions. Independent Judgment and Introspection argues that these two traits are fundamental requirements to develop and sustain free societies. In Defense of Advertising: Arguments from Reason, Ethical Egoism, and Laissez-Faire Capitalism is based on the philosophy of Ayn Rand (Objectivism) and the Austrian Economics of Ludwig von Mises. Montessori, Dewey, and Capitalism presents a philosophy of education that requires laissez-faire capit
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Uniting Theory and Practice
Applying Principles is a collection of short essays published between January 2007 and December 2016 as monthly blogposts at jerrykirkpatrick.blogspot.com . The author's aim was to write interdisciplinary, serious posts to inspire critical thinking. Topics, grouped as chapters, range from capitalism and politics to epistemology, academia, education, psychology, youth sports, and the arts.
The title derives from the author's thirty-six years as educator in the applied science of business marketing. Applied sciences, the author realized early in his career, require a deductive process of applying general, more fundamental principles to specific issues. The business disciplines rest on economics and psychology, and those two in turn, as all sciences, rest on philosophy.