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Reason and Goodness
by Brand Blanshard. 454 pgs.

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Muirhead Library of Philosophy

Preface

Acknowledgments

Analytical Table of Contents

Chapter I: The Tension Between Reason And Feeling in Western Ethics

Chapter II: Stoicism and the Supremacy Of Reason

Chapter III: St Francis and the Supremacy Of Feeling

Chapter IV: The Dialectic of Reason and Feeling In British Ethics

Chapter V: Subjectivism

Chapter VI: Deontology

Chapter VII: Instrumentalism

Chapter VIII: Emotivism

Chapter IX: The Linguistic Retreat From Emotivism

Chapter X: Three Theories of Goodness

Chapter XI: Human Nature and Goodness

Chapter XII: 'Good', 'Right', 'Ought', 'Bad'

Chapter XIII: Thought and Desire

Chapter XIV: Reason and Politics

Chapter XV: The Rational Temper

Index
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The Nature of Thought, Vol. 2
by Brand Blanshard. 540 pgs.

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Contents of Volume Two

Book Three the Movement of Reflection

Chapter XVIII the General Nature of Understanding

Chapter XIX How Reflection Starts

Chapter XX Specifying the Problem

Chapter XXI Observation

Chapter XXII Invention and Association

Chapter XXIII the Nature of Invention

Chapter XXIV the Subconscious in Invention

Chapter XXV the Tests of Truth

Chapter XXVI Coherence as the Nature of Truth

Appendix to Chapter XXVI

Chapter XXVII Coherence and Degrees of Truth

Book Four the Goal of Thought

Chapter XXVIII Empiricism and Necessity

Chapter XXIX Formalism and Necessity

Chapter XXX Logical Positivism and Necessity

Chapter XXXI Concrete Necessity and External Relations

Chapter XXXII Concrete Necessity and Internal Relations

Index
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Education in the Age of Science
by Brand Blanshard. 302 pgs.

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Education in the Age of Science

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The Contributors

Introduction

1: What is Education?

2: Education and the American Scene

3: Education and the World Scene

4: Science and the Humanities

5: The Crisis in Science Education

6: The Gap between the Scientists and the Others

7: Science Teaching

8: The College Professor

9: The Aims of Education
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The Philosophy of Brand Blanshard
by Paul Arthur Schilpp. 1168 pgs.

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General Introduction to "The Library of Living Philosophers"

Advisory Board

Acknowledgments

Table of Contents

Preface

Works by Brand Blanshard Frequently Cited, with Short Titles

Part One: Autobiography of Brand Blanshard

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Works Cited in Autobiography

Part Two: Descriptive and Critical Essays on the Philosophy of Brand Blanshard, with Replies

1: Blanshard's Conception of the Nature and Function of Philosophy

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Introduction to the Replies

2: Blanshard's View of Good

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3: Understanding and Forgiveness

4: The Impasse in Ethics and Blanshard's Way Out

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5: Blanshard on "Intrinsic Goodness"

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6: Reason, Feeling, and World View

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7: Brand Blanshard's Theory of Ethics

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8: Blanshard's Political Philosophy

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9: The Commitment to Excellence in Blanshard's Philosophy of Education

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10: Brand Blanshard: Philosopher of Education and Teacher

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11: Blanshard on Perception and Free Ideas

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12: Blanshard on Understanding Alburey Castell

13: Blanshard's Rationalism and the Critique of Empiricism

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14: Blanshard and the Coherence Theory of Truth

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15: Does Blanshard Escape Epistemic Dualism?

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16: Understanding as Seeing to Be Necessary

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17: Creativity in Brand Blanshard

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18: Blanshard's Critique of Pragmatism

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19: Blanshard's Critique of the Analytic Movement

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20: Idealism, Holism, and "The Paradox of Knowledge"

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21: Blanshard's Theory of Mind and Free Will Francis V. Raab

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22: Blanshard's Theory of Causation

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23: Blanshard's Rationalistic Realism

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24: Blanshard's Theory of Universals

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25: Brand Blanshard's World View

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26: Brand Blanshard on Reason and Religious Belief

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27: Blanshard's View of Christian Ethics George F. Thomas

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28: Faith and Reason

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29: An Appreciation of Blanshard's Views on Catholicism

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30: The Rationalist and the Reformer: A Critique of Blanshard's Views of Protestantism

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Part Three: Bibliography of the Writings of Brand Blanshard to 1980

Preface to the Bibliography

The Writings of Brand Blanshard

Index
5 .

Preface to Philosophy: Textbook (Part II "Personal Ethics" by Brand Blanshard)
by William Ernest Hocking, Brand Blanshard, Charles William Hendel, John Herman Randall Jr., William Pearson Tolley. 512 pgs.

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Part I. Wha is Man?

A. Man and Animal

B. the Cultural Achievements of Man and Their Perils

D. Man as Creative and Malleable

Part Ii. Personal Ethics

A. Do We Need Ethics?

B. Are Men the Slaves of Their Impulses?

C. Relativism in Ethics

D. Types of Ethical Theory

E. Impressionism

F. the Rule Theory

H. Utilitarianism

I. Ideal Utilitarianism

J. Some Great Goods

Part Iii. Social and Political Philosophy

A. the Decisions of the Citizen

B. the Problem of Human Life in Society

C. the Republic: the Pattern of Civilized Society

D. the Background of Modern Civilization: Events, Ideas, and Institutions

E. the Vision of an Order of Freedom and Equality

F. the Moral and Political Principles of a Democratic Society

Part Iv. the Meaning of Religion for Man

A. What Religion is and Does

B. What Religions Give to Men: Salvation

D. Fundamental Religious Beliefs

E. the Community of Religions

Part V. a World-View

A. Philosophy and the Total World Picture

B. What It Takes to Make a World

C. How the World is Organized

D. Endeavors to Reach a Unified View

E. Renewed Attempt to Find a Single Principle of Explanation: the Great Monisms

G. the Risks of Existence

H. the Problem of Evil

I. Summary of World-View

Index
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The Moral Judgment: Readings in Contemporary Meta-Ethics ("Brand Blanshard: The New Subjectivism in Ethics" begins on p. 143 and "Bland Blanshard: Dewey's Instrumentalism" begins on p. 188)
by Paul W. Taylor. 296 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Table of Contents

Introduction

I Objectivism and Its Critics

I Objectivism and Its Critics

Right Acts

Criticism of Objectivism

Ethical Intuitionism: Pro and Con

Ii Subjectivism and Its Critics

Ii Subjectivism and Its Critics

The Definition Of Value in Terms of Interest

Criticism of Subjectivism

Critique Of Professor Perry's Theory

Iii The Emotive-Imperative Theory And Its Critics

Iii The Emotive-Imperative Theory And Its Critics

The Quasi-Imperative Function of Ethical Terms

Criticism Of The Emotive-Imperative Theory

Iv Instrumentalism and Its Critics

Instrumentalism

Theory of Valuation

The Quasi-Imperative Function of Ethical Terms

The Quasi-Imperative Function of Ethical Terms

V New Directions in Meta-Ethics

"Good" As a Grading Word

"Good" As a Commending Word

The Logic of Moral Reasoning

Reasoning In Practical Deliberation
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Philosophical Style: An Anthology about the Writing and Reading of Philosophy (Chap. 10 "Brand Blanshard: Selections from On Philosophical Style")
by Berel Lang. 560 pgs.

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Introduction

I: Philosophers on the Writing of Philosophy

1. Plato: Selections from Viith Letter, Phaedrus, and Phaedo

2. Aristotle: Selections from Physics, Posterior Analyties, Nicomachean Ethics, Rhetoric, on the Heavens, and Poetics

3. St. Augustine: Selections from De Magistro

4. David Hume: Selections from a Treatise on Human Nature and Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary

5. Immanuel Kant: Selections from Critique of Pure Reason and Philosophical Correspondence (1759-1799)

6. Sϕren Kierkegaard: Selections from Either/Or, the Point of View for My Work as an Author, and the Concept of Dread

7. C. S. Peirce: Selections from Colleeted Papers

8. R. G. Collingwood: Selections from an Essay on Philosophical Method

9. Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Selections from Signs and Sense and Non-Sense

II: Philosophical Style: the Search for Categories

10. Brand Blanshard: Selections from on Philosophical Style

11: Berel Lang: "Space, Time, and Philosophical Style"

12: Leo Strauss: Selections from Persecution and the Art of Writing

13. Stephen Pepper: "Root Metaphors"

14: Maurice Natanson: "Rhetoric and Philosophical Argumentation"

15: Lewis White Beck: "Philosophy as Literature"

III: Style and the Reading of Philosophy

16: José Ortega Y Gasset: "The Attitude of Parmenides and Heraclitus"

17. Paul Friedländer: "Irony"

18: Robert S. Brumbaugh: "Criticism in Philosophy: Aristotle's Literary Form"

19. Ben-Ami Scharfstein: "Descartes' Dreams"

References

Notes

20: Gary Shapiro: "The Rhetoric of Netzsche's Zarathustra"

21: Alan Donagan: "Victorian Philosophical Prose: J. S. Mill and F. H. Bradley"

22: Emest Gellner: "Sociology"

23. Carlotta Smith: "Sentences in Discourse: an Analysis of a Discourse by Bertrand Russell"

References

Notes

24: O. K. Bouwsma: "Naturasm"

25: D. T. Suzuki: "The Ten Cow-Herding Pictures"

Selected Bibliography

Sources

Index
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Our Emergent Civilization (Chap. II "Can Men Be Reasonable?" by Brand Blanshard)
by Ruth Nanda Anshen. 356 pgs.

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Preface

Our Emergent Civilization

Chapter I The Decay of the Old Ideals

Chapter II Can Men Be Reasonable?

Chapter III The New Basis for World Politics

Chapter IV Toward a Removal of the Ideological Causes of World Conflict

Chapter V The Changing Functions of the Modern State

Chapter VI The New Social Stratification

Chapter VII Economic Principles of the New Civilization

Chapter VIII Art, Man and Manufacture

Chapter IX The Future of Tradition

Chapter X Ethical Principles of the New Civilization

Chapter XI The Future of Free Society

Chapter XII The New Evolution

Chapter XIII Wm. The Future of Theism

Chapter XIV A New Approach to God

Chapter XV The Emergence of the New Ideals

Biographical Note

Index
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American Philosophers at Work: The Philosophic Scene in the United States ("The Nature of Mind" by Brand Blanshard begins on p. 183)
by Sidney Hook. 516 pgs.

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Introduction

Part One: Logic and Scientific Method

Justifying Inductive Inference

Definition, Presupposition and Assertion

Meaning and Synonymy In Natural Languages

The Revision of Philosophy

Some Suggestions Concerning Metaphysics of Logic

Mechanistic Explanation And Organismic Biology

Logical Truth

Is There a Synthetic a Priori?

Persuasive Definitions

Part Two: Metaphysics and Theory Of Knowledge

The Nature of Mind

God as a Function in Modern Systems of Philosophy

The Method of Knowledge in Philosophy

Some Empty Though Important Truths: A Preface to Metaphysics

Naturalism and First Principles

Metaphysical Method

Time and Eternity

Paul Weiss The New Outlook

The Myth of Passage

Part Three: Ethics and Social Philosophy

Conflict

Mill's "Proof" of Utility

Of Humanistic Sources of Democracy

Obscenity as an Esthetic Category

The Science of Man and Unified Science

Ethical Relativism in the Light Of Recent Legal Science

The Rationale of Political Discussion

The Absolute Truth of Hedonism

Biographical Notes

Index

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