Gregory Salmieri is a senior philosophy scholar and director of the Objectivity Program at the Salem Center in the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, Austin. After completing his Ph.D. in philosophy at The University of Pittsburgh (2008), he taught philosophy at The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Boston University, and Rutgers University before joining the center. He is co-editor of Foundation of a Free Society (University of Pittsburgh Press 2019) and A Companion to Ayn Rand (Wiley-Blackwell 2016), and has published on issues related to epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy, especially as they arise in connection to the work of Aristotle and of Ayn Rand.