Harry Binswanger was, for 38 years, a member of the Ayn Rand Institute's Board of Directors. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University in 1973 and has taught philosophy at Hunter College (City University of New York), The New School for Social Research, the University of Texas, Austin, and now at Ayn Rand University.s

During the 1980's, he published and edited The Objectivist Forum, a bimonthly journal devoted to Ayn Rand's philosophy, and in Ayn Rand's last years, Dr. Binswanger became her associate and friend.

He is the author of How We Know:  Epistemology on an Objectivist Foundation, The Biological Basis of Teleological Concepts, and Ayn Rand's Philosophic Achievement. He is the editor of The Ayn Rand Lexicon and of the second edition of Ayn Rand's Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology.

A frequent speaker on Ayn Rand's philosophy, he has given more than 70 talks at on a wide variety of topics in philosophy and politics at some 35 universities, and he has appeared on TV shows hosted by Glenn Beck, Geraldo Rivera, and Judge Anthony Napolitano, and in two documentary films on Ayn Rand.

His current project is to re-conceptualize, along Aristotelian and Randian lines, the foundations of mathematics.

Dr. Binswanger was a Contributor to Forbes Online. He moderates and writes for a blog/discussion forum on Objectivism.