Faculty

John L. Dennis

PhD, Cognitive Psychology, 2010, University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Dennis is an adjunct professor and research consultant at numerous Italian universities. His research is focused on three areas in cognitive psychology: motivation, psychology of ownership, and moral psychology. He is a practicing psychologist, a business consultant and owner of a translation company.

Martin Johansen

MS, Computer Science, 2009, University of Oslo
Martin Johansen is a PhD student in computer science at the University of Oslo. Expected to finish this year, he has been doing his PhD work at SINTEF as a part of an international research project on automatic testing of highly configurable software and hardware systems.

James G. Lennox

PhD, Philosophy, 1978, University of Toronto
James G. Lennox is professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh. He was one of the founding members of the Ayn Rand Society and serves regularly on its steering committee. He is author of Aristotle’s Philosophy of Biology (2001) and Aristotle on the Parts of Animals I–IV (2001) and coeditor of Philosophical Issues in Aristotle’s Biology (1987), Concepts, Theories, and Rationality in the Biological Sciences (1995), Being, Nature and Life in Aristotle: Essays in Honor of Allan Gotthelf (2010) and Metaethics, Egoism and Virtue: Studies in Ayn Rand's Normative Theory (2011). Currently he is working on a book on Aristotle’s norms of inquiry and collaborating on a translation and commentary of Aristotle's Meteorology IV.

Jason G. Rheins

PhD, Philosophy, 2010, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Rheins is an assistant professor of philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. His dissertation was on Plato’s Cosmology and Theology. In addition to ancient Greek philosophy, he works in the areas of philosophy of science and early modern philosophy (especially Locke and Kant).

Petter Sandstad

MPhil, Philosophy, 2012, University of Oslo
Petter Sandstad has an M.Phil. in Philosophy from the University of Oslo. He is also a graduate of The Objectivist Academic Center. His research interest is mainly in the history & philosophy of science & logic.

Tor Mikkel Wara

Tor Mikkel Wara has worked for many years as a PR-consultant, currently at First House, formerly at Wara Consulting, and as a partner at Geelmuyden.Kiese and Madland & Wara. He was Member of  Norwegian Parliament from 1989 to 1993, spokesman on finance, and member of Oslo City Council for Fremskittspartiet (The Progress Party). He is a member of the board at Folketrygdfondet. Tor Mikkel Wara was born in Karasjok in 1964.

Barry Wood

PhD, History of Art and Architecture, 2002, Harvard University
Dr. Wood teaches Persian and Arabic languages at Bogaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey. An art historian by training, he has taught history, art and philosophy at several public and private universities in the US, UK and Turkey. He has also published and lectured on topics ranging from Persian manuscripts to the history of aesthetics. He recently edited Leonard Peikoff’s lecture course Objective Communication for publication (to appear in Fall 2013).