06:5006:50, 23 June 2009diffhist+16
Ayn Rand
No, she was rejected as a philosopher in 1962 by the (conservative and anti-Communist) known philosopher Sydney Hook. She is not a philosopher.
08:2608:26, 16 June 2009diffhist+16
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand was self-proclaimed. You cannot be a "philosopher" merely because you say you are, any more than you can be a "nuclear physicist", or "editor" for that matter.