Gregory Salmieri
Director of the Program for Objectivity in Thought, Action, and Enterprise
Department: Finance, Other
Additional Titles: Lecturer
Research Areas: Ethics
Gregory Salmieri is a senior scholar of philosophy in the Salem Center for Policy at The University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business. He holds the Brigham Fellowship for the Study of Objectivism and is the director of the center’s Program for Objectivity in Thought, Action, and Enterprise.
His research concerns epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy, and the philosophies of Aristotle and Ayn Rand. Salmieri is the co-editor of “A Companion to Ayn Rand” and “Foundations of a Free Society” and the author of numerous articles and talks.
Salmieri has taught philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Rutgers University, Boston University, and the Stevens Institute of Technology, and his course topics include ancient philosophy, ethics, and theory of knowledge
Salmieri earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh and a bachelor’s in philosophy from the College of New Jersey.
Publications
“Objectivism” in Zwolinski and Ferguson (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Libertarianism, Routledge. 2022.
“Selfish Regard for the Rights of Others” in Salmieri and Mayhew (eds.) Foundations of a Free Society: Reflections on Ayn Rand’s Political Philosophy. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2019.
Gregory Salmieri. 2018. Intellectual Property and the Freedom Needed to Solve the Crisis of Resistant Infections. George Mason Law Review 26 (1), 215-229.
“On the Role of Voting in the American System of Government” in Hoenig (ed.) A New Textbook of Americanism. Capitalist Pig Publications. 2018.
“Something(s) in the Way(s) He Moves: Reconsidering the Embryological Argument for Robustly Particular Forms in Aristotle” in Falcon and Lefebre (eds.) Aristotle’s Generation of Animals: A Critical Guide. Cambridge University Press. 2018.
“An Introduction to the Study of Ayn Rand” in Gotthelf and Salmieri (eds.) A Companion to Ayn Rand. Wiley-Blackwell. 2016.
“The Act of Valuing (and the Objectivity of Values” in Gotthelf and Salmieri (eds.) A Companion to Ayn Rand. Wiley-Blackwell. 2016.
“Egoism and Altruism: Selfishness and Sacrifice” in Gotthelf and Salmieri (eds.) A Companion to Ayn Rand. Wiley-Blackwell. 2016.
“The Objectivist Epistemology” in Gotthelf and Salmieri (eds.) A Companion to Ayn Rand. Wiley-Blackwell. 2016.
“A Philosopher on Her Times: Ayn Rand’s Political and Cultural Commentary” (co-authored with John David Lewis) in Gotthelf and Salmieri (eds.) A Companion to Ayn Rand. Wiley-Blackwell. 2016.
“Hallmarks of Objectivism: The Benevolent Universe Premise and the Heroic View of Man” (co-authored with Allan Gotthelf) in Gotthelf and Salmieri (eds.) A Companion to Ayn Rand. Wiley-Blackwell. 2016.
Gregory Salmieri. 2014. Aristotle on Selfishness: Understanding the Iconoclasm of Nicomachean Ethics ix 8. Ancient Philosophy 34 (1), 101-120.
Gregory Salmieri. Aristotelian Epistēmē and the Relation between Knowledge and Understanding. 2014. Metascience 23 (1).
Gregory Salmieri and Benjamin Bayer. 2013. How We Choose Our Beliefs. Philosophia 42 (1), 1-13.
“Conceptualization and Justification” in Gotthelf and Lennox (eds.), Concepts and Their Role in Knowledge. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2013.
“Forms of Awareness and Three-Factor Theories” in Gotthelf and Lennox (eds.), Concepts and Their Role in Knowledge. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2013.
“Αἴσθησις, Ἐμπειρία, and the Advent of Universals in Posterior Analytics II 19” in James Lesher (ed.), From Inquiry to Demonstrative Knowledge: New Essays on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics (Apeiron XLIII: 2, 3). 2010.
Gregory Salmieri. 2009. Aristotle’s “Non-Dialectical” Methodology in the Nicomachean Ethics. Ancient Philosophy 29 (2), 311-335.
“Atlas Shrugged on the Role of the Mind in Man’s Existence” & “Discovering Atlantis” in Robert Mayhew (ed.), Essays on Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged.” Lexington. 2009.
“Prometheus’s Discovery: Individualism and the Meaning of the Concept ‘I’ in Anthem” in Robert Mayhew (ed.), Essays on Ayn Rand’s “Anthem.” Lexington. 2005.
“Ayn Rand” (co-authored with Allan Gotthelf) in The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers. Thoemmes Continuum. 2005.
Tara Smith, Onkar Ghate, Gregory Salmieri, and Elan Journo. May 2024. “Ayn Rand’s Distinctive View of Intellectual Freedom.” In The First Amendment: Essays on the Imperative of Intellectual Freedom (Ann Rand Institute Press), Chap. 7.
Tara Smith, Onkar Ghate, Gregory Salmieri, and Elan Journo. May 2024. “Today’s Crisis Over Freedom of Speech.”
In The First Amendment: Essays on the Imperative of Intellectual Freedom (Ann Rand Institute Press), Chap. 8.