In the UK, where I did all of my philosophy education bar a brief trip to Australia for a couple of months, Rand is not a significant presence in the wider culture in any way, so she wouldn’t naturally come up unless she already had credibility within academic philosophy. Though there were a lot of Americans around in Oxford obviously, and maybe they had read Rand.
I believe that to be true, and to be a very good sign of what kind of an ivory tower philosophy has become.
Or a sign that knowing about philosophy decreases support for Rand.
In the UK, where I did all of my philosophy education bar a brief trip to Australia for a couple of months, Rand is not a significant presence in the wider culture in any way, so she wouldn’t naturally come up unless she already had credibility within academic philosophy. Though there were a lot of Americans around in Oxford obviously, and maybe they had read Rand.