[McGroarty]

James Sedgwick is one of the posters in the OSG mailing list archives. In his 2002 posts, he's got a link to his website in the sig, but the site is no longer there: http://home1.gte.net/cpq1szzy/

Archive.org has some of the site archived. The Certainty Site tour is a concise and very accessible review of Objectivist epistemology, and archive.org has it mirrored in full. Unfortunately, while the rest of the site looks promising, much of it isn't in the archives. In particular, I'd like to be able to reach the missing book content.

Googling for some of the phrases on the archived pages isn't turning up a copy of the site elsewhere. Does anyone know of a new location, or a way to contact Mr. Sedgwick?

[BurgessLau]

McGroarty, on Dec 26 2004, 11:40 AM, said:

Does anyone know of a new location, or a way to contact Mr. Sedgwick?
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I have been told that James died during the last year. He was quite old, judging from comments he made about working for a railroad in the 1940s. He was mentally and physically active to the last year of his life.

[McGroarty]

I'm sorry to hear this. So far, I have found him to be a very clear writer. I am enjoying what I've found of his writings and would like to have seen more from him.

I spent some time scraping his site from archive.org and found most of the pieces I was missing in Google's cache. Apparently his site was still active earlier this year, and so Google hasn't yet purged its copies. What I recovered was the full content for 5 of his 6 online books and all of the essays he had on the site. I only have fragments of Freedom in Mind, the sixth book. If anyone knows how to find the text for this, I would appreciate hearing from you.

What I have, I've mirrored at:
http://www.mcgroarty...js/overview.htm

[Citizen Publius]

Thank you McGroarty!
I have begun to catalog Objectivism sites in the last few days and you have helped me in this. I do not have the information that you are looking for. However, if I come across it, I will post it in this thread.
Thanks again!!

[Jay P]

I am truly sorry to hear about James Sedgwick.

During the time I was an OSG member, he was consistently one of the top three or four contributors to that forum, in terms of the value he added by his writings, which were written with benevolence and wisdom and showed a love for Objectivism.

He understood Objectivism well, and was able to explain its ideas to novices, and also frequently suggested new ways of looking at problems. He always also sounded like he'd done a great deal of reflecting on the times he had lived through, and the philosophical significance of the cultural events he had seen. (For example, he would be the sort of person who could make an insightful comment contrasting America of the 1940's, 1960's, and today.)

[wissler]

McGroarty, on Dec 26 2004, 05:22 PM, said:

If anyone knows how to find the text for this, I would appreciate hearing from you.

What I have, I've mirrored at:
http://www.mcgroarty...js/overview.htm
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I had James' written permission to publish his writings in the event of his death, and have done so today. See:

http://www.thoughtsonobjectivism.com/certa...ite/certain.htm


Shayne Wissler

[McGroarty]

That's great news! I'm glad to find the missing book in your archive.

I had created a mirror of the pieces I recovered at www.certaintyplus.com - I now have that forwarding directly to your page.