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	Brand Blanshard
		Blanshard was born in miniscule Fredericksburg, Ohio, on August 27, 1892, one half of a pair of fraternal twins.
		Blanshard served in France during the war, and as it came to an end became a faculty member in a makeshift school for soldiers.
		Blanshard became president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in 1941, and in 1943 was appointed to the Board of Officers of that association.
	progressiveliving.org /brand_blanshard.htm (2190 words)

	Brand Blanshard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Brand Blanshard (1892-1987) was an American philosopher known primarily for his defense of reason (A rational motive for a belief or action).
		Blanshard studied at the University of Michigan (A university in Ann Arbor, Michigan) and then at Oxford University (A university in England) (the latter as a Rhodes Scholar (A student who holds one of the scholarships endowed by the will of Cecil J. Rhodes that enables the student to study at Oxford University)).
		Blanshard was a rationalist (Someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes) who espoused and defended a strong conception of reason (A rational motive for a belief or action) during a century when reason was under various sorts of philosophical attack.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/B/Br/Brand_Blanshard.htm (1435 words)

	Brand Blanshard - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Brand Blanshard (1892-1987) was an American philosopher known primarily for his defense of reason.
		Blanshard studied at the University of Michigan and then at Oxford University (the latter as a Rhodes scholar).
		Blanshard was a rationalist who espoused and defended a strong conception of reason during a century when reason was under various sorts of philosophical attack.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Brand_Blanshard (1432 words)

	BRAND BLANSHARD FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Percy Brand Blanshard (August_27 1892, Fredericksburg,_Ohio – 1987) was an American philosopher known primarily for his defense of reason.
		The Blanshard brothers were then reared in near-poverty by their paternal grandmother, Orminda Adams Blanshard, first in Bay_View,_Michigan, later in Detroit.
		Blanshard was a rationalist who espoused and defended a strong conception of reason during a century when reason came under philosophical attack.
	www.wwefacts.com /Brand_Blanshard (1464 words)

	The Works of Brand Blanshard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Blanshard was the most empirical of rationalists, having been driven to his rationalist position by a close examination of the realities of human thought; this work is the fruit of that examination.
		Brand Blanshard, easily the twentieth century's sturdiest defender of reason, rationality and the "rational temper", exemplified that temper in every line of his graceful prose.
		Brand Blanshard, twentieth-century philosophy's greatest exponent of rationalism, here turns his pen to an examination of reasonableness in action, as exemplified in the lives of Marcus Aurelius, John Stuart Mill, Ernest Renan, and (Blanshard's own favorite exemplar of the "rational temper") Henry Sidgwick.
	home.neo.rr.com /jsryan/writings/blanshard.html (1750 words)

	Brand Blanshard
		Blanshard was educated in a two-story, wooden schoolhouse in Edinburg, but the little family soon moved to Bay View, Michigan on the shore of Lake Michigan, just north of Petoskey.
		Blanshard became president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in 1941, and in 1943 was appointed to the Board of Officers of that association.
		Blanshard, the sanest voice in all of philosophy, and possibly the ablest exponent of reason and reasonableness the world has ever had, died in 1987.
	www.progressiveliving.org /brand_blanshard.htm (2158 words)

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		Blanshard's parents were Francis, a Congregational minister, and Emily Coulter Blanshard, both Canadians by birth and naturalized American citizens.
		Blanshard nevertheless appears to have experienced a robust American boyhood, whose highlights included a variety of odd jobs, baseball, and debate, at which he excelled.
		Blanshard was a rationalist who espoused and defended a strong conception of reason during a century when reason came under philosophical attack.
	www.templeofreason.org /test1/Brand_Blanshard.htm (1464 words)

	Brand Blanshard - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com
		Blanshard studied at the University_of_Michigan and then at Oxford_University (the latter as a Rhodes_scholar).
		(Blanshard might have argued, but did not, that this hypothesis is in fact indefeasible, since we could never ''know'' that two facts were really, rather than merely apparently, unconnected by any necessity at all.) In his early work ''The Nature of Thought'', he defended a coherence theory of truth.
		His autobiography and some thirty exchanges with other philosophers are published in ''The Philosophy of Brand Blanshard'' (1980; Paul Arthur Schilpp, ed.), a volume in the, John_Stuart_Mill, Ernest_Renan, and Henry_Sidgwick.
	www.indexsuche.com /Brand_Blanshard.html (1072 words)

	Brand Blanshard -- Philosophy Books and Online Resources
		Basically, Blanshard identifies education with philosophy, not as a narrow technical specialty but as the broad attempt to "see things steadily and whole." He develops this theme with his usual style, grace, vigor, and urbanity, and very effectively excoriates the antirationalism of most of the twentieth century.
		Readers new to Blanshard and without much background in philosophy might want to start with this volume, which is uniformly accessible and non-technical and deals with themes that will be of general interest.
		As a longtime reader of Blanshard, I would like to explore why this is. Though I never met Blanshard personally, I feel safe in saying that his bearing and conduct, as described by those who knew him, exemplified his views on the nature of reason and the importance of the rational temper.
	www.erraticimpact.com /~20thCentury/html/blanshard_brand.htm (522 words)

	Articles - Brand Blanshard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Percy Brand Blanshard (August 27, 1892, Fredericksburg, Ohio â“ 1987) was an American philosopher known primarily for his defense of reason.
		The Blanshard brothers were then reared in near-poverty by their paternal grandmother, Orminda Adams Blanshard, first in Bay View, Michigan, later in Detroit.
		Blanshard studied at the University of Michigan, discovering philosophy while majoring in classics.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Brand_Blanshard?mySession=2e519139d5dafec1db9b3225b2af50b0 (1502 words)

	Amazon.ca: Reason and Analysis: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Blanshard is obsessive-compulsive in his maniacal destruction of the philosophies of Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russel.
		Brand Blanshard is a man on the warpath; he will not be satisfied until every aspect of the aforementioned philosophies has been ground into dust.
		Blanshard does an excellent job at summarizing previous movements, to the extent that you could get by without reading any of the authors he mentions.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0875481043 (573 words)

	Gifford Lecture Series - Biography - Brand Blanshard
		Percy Brand Blanshard was born August 27, 1892 in Fredericksburg, Ohio.
		Blanshard was a rationalist who professed and defended conceptions of reason during a century when reason came under philosophical attack.
		Blanshard died, at the age of 95, on November 19, 1987, in New Haven, Connecticut.
	www.giffordlectures.org /Author.asp?AuthorID=20 (648 words)

	Brand Blanshard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ewing">A.C. Ewing, that the doctrine would have caught on far better had it been more accurately described in terms of "relevance" rather than of "internality"; his doctrine on this point was that no relation is entirely irrelevant to the natures of the terms it relates, such relevance (and therefore "internality") being a matter of degree.
		Blanshard's fullest published reply appears in his book Reason and Analysis.) Sympathetic to theism but skeptical of traditional religious and theological dogma, he did not regard his Absolute as having the characteristics of a personal God but nevertheless maintained that it was a proper subject of (rational) religious inquiry and even devotion.
		Defining "religion" as the dedication of one's whole person to whatever one regards as true and important, he took as his own religion the service of reason in a very full and all-encompassing metaphysical sense, defending what he called the "rational temper" as a human ideal (though one exceedingly difficult to achieve in practice).
	www.aseannewsnetwork.com /articles/content/b/br/brand_blanshard.html (1729 words)

	Mixing Memory : Brand Blanshard
		However, I don't really know anything about Blanshard outside of these two volumes, or really anything that was going on in American philosophy at the time outside of pragmatism and positivism, neither of which seems to fit with what Blanshard is doing.
		Blanshard published his Gifford Lectures, Reason and Belief and Reason and Goodness.
		Blanshard was one of the first philosophers I read, and still one of my favorites.
	scienceblogs.com /mixingmemory/2006/11/brand_blanshard.php (705 words)

	The Rational Temper: Brand Blanshard and What Objectivists Can Learn From Him
		Blanshard's philosophical career was at bottom a long meditation on the question, "What, exactly, are we doing when we think?" He found himself driven to rationalism by an empirical inquiry into "the nature of thought"; his work of that title records the process.
		Blanshard recognized the intimate relationship between a subject's character, tastes, talents, and so forth, on the one hand, and the values appropriate for that same subject, on the other.
		I think Blanshard would have said, and I am certain I would say, that this apparent inability was a great handicap in her evaluation of "objective" values.
	www.monadnock.net /essays/blanshard.html (2908 words)

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		Brand Blanshard - A short biography of the American philosopher Brand Blanshard.
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	Veatch review of Brand Blanshard's Reason and Analysis - Objectivist Living Forum
		Nor is that all, for perhaps the metaphor of Brand Blanshard’s having to swim against the current of contemporary philosophy is almost too bland.
		And so it is that Blanshard’s book continues to loom large on the horizon today—and yet unfortunately withal-too-many people paying it all-too-little heed—as a sustained and unremitting diagnosis and exposure of an entire variety of irrational ills in contemporary thought.
		So are as the phenomenologists are concerned, Blanshard does not deign so much as even to mention them in his book; and existentialism he dismisses out of hand as being a hopeless irrationalism.
	www.objectivistliving.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=1726&st=0&p=10724&#entry10724 (1924 words)

	Review of Reason and Analysis
		Professor Blanshard leads the reader through the main stages of these attempts, quietly dissecting and unmasking version after version, with the patience of a saint and the skill of a surgeon.
		Professor Blanshard analyzes the conventionalist or linguistic theory of logic and mathematics in exhaustive detail, exposing the almost endless series of contradictions that it engenders.
		In bringing to light the underlying irrationalism of the analytic movement, Professor Blanshard may be said to have administered some admirable philosophical “therapy” of his own, but not of the linguistic variety; his treatment is an unqualified success: the patient died—but philosophy survived.
	www.nathanielbranden.com /catalog/articles_essays/review_of_reason.html (1174 words)

	Brand Blanshard Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		Widely acclaimed as "the philosopher's philosopher," Brand Blanshard was known for his original thinking about the role of reason in human life.
		The American Philosophical Association ranked Blanshard's first philosophical book, The Nature of Thought (1939), one of the ten outstanding books in the field published in the United States in the twentieth century.
		Percy Brand Blanshard and his fraternal twin, Paul, were born on 27 August 1892 in Fredericksburg, Ohio, to Francis George Blanshard, the minister of a Congregational church, and Emily Coulter Blanshard.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/brand-blanshard-dlb (173 words)

	Philosophy of Brand Blanshard (Library of Living Philosophers) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Blanshard wrote a book 'On philosophical Style' and a better example of excellence in writing style cannot be found than this book edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp.
		As each philosopher presents Blanshard with his/her criticism, one finds oneself actively participating in the cut and thrust of ideas as Blanshard responds at the end of each essay.
		His replies also indicate where his thought had grown and developed since the publication of _The Nature of Thought_ in the 1930s, thereby continuing his thought along the lines laid down in _Reason and Analysis_, _Reason and Goodness_, and Reason and Belief_.
	www.textkit.com /0_0875483496.html (592 words)

	Four Reasonable Men: Marcus Aurelius, John Stuart Mill, Ernest Renan, Henry Sidgwick (Brand Blanshard) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The entry under Blanshard's name in the _Oxford Companion to Philosophy_ closes on an uncharacteristically personal note: "Blanshard's personal demeanour," writes the entry's author Prof.
		By using four historical examples, with focus not primarily upon their philosophies, but more upon their lives, Blanshard is masterful.
		As a noted philosophical and social commentator in his own right, the author does an excellent job of inserting his own interpretation on the four subject persons, and upon their historical & intellectual significance.
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	Brand Blanshard - TheBestLinks.com - Baruch Spinoza, Bertrand Russell, Detroit, Michigan, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Brand Blanshard - TheBestLinks.com - Baruch Spinoza, Bertrand Russell, Detroit, Michigan,...
		Brand Blanshard, Baruch Spinoza, Bertrand Russell, Detroit, Michigan...
		The Rational Temper: Brand Blanshard and What Objectivists Can Learn From Him (by Scott Ryan) (http://home.att.net/~sandgryan/writings/rationaltemper.html)
	www.thebestlinks.com /Brand_Blanshard.html (1493 words)

	Paul Blanshard and Mary Hillyer Blanshard: Fighters for Social Justice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Paul and his twin brother, Brand Blanshard, who became a chair of the philosophy department at Swarthmore and Yale, where he was honored as a Sterling Professor, were born on April 27, 1892.
		The twins then went their separate ways, Brand to Merton College at Oxford and to ambulance driving in the First World War, then to a distinguished academic career; Paul, to an abortive stint as an ordained Congregational minister, and public witness against American entry into that war.
		The Blanshards do not belittle the new ideas and relatively progressive bishops pushing for reform, but they do emphasize that there is a double effect to the ecumenical movement: the progressive liberalizing of the Catholic Church, as well as the conservatizing of the Protestant denominations.
	www.harvardsquarelibrary.org /unitarians/blanshard.html (1503 words)

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