However, reviewers also noted that the work assumed considerable prior knowledge of philosophy on the part of the reader.

The second section covers ethics and contains essays by Jack Wheeler, Charles King, and Erick Mack.

The final section covers political philosophy and has essays by Antony Flew and Tibor R. Machan.

[2] The Philosophic Thought of Ayn Rand was first published by as a hardcover book by the University of Illinois Press in 1984.

[4] A review in The Freeman praised the book as "a valuable beginning by serious philosophers at the important task of evaluating, describing, and developing Rand's philosophy, in a dispassionate, objective manner.