Brand Blanshard 1892 – 1987
Brand Blanshard (1892 – 1987) was an American philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Analytic Philosophy.
Percy Brand Blanshard was an American philosopher of an Anglo-American rationalist temper, a long-serving professor at Yale, and one of the principal twentieth-century defenders of the coherence theory of truth and of the rationality of the universe. His two-volume Nature of Thought is a sustained argument for absolute idealism in an analytic style, while Reason and Analysis, his Carus Lectures, defended speculative philosophy against the linguistic and positivist turn of his contemporaries. His clear and elegant prose made him one of the most accessible American philosophers of his generation.
Key facts
- Nationality
- American
- Era
- Contemporary
- Movements
- Analytic Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Brand Blanshard:
“All thought aims at coherence.”
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Attributed to Brand Blanshard:
“Reason is the supreme guide of life.”
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Attributed to Brand Blanshard:
“Truth is the grasp of the necessary connections of things.”
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Attributed to Brand Blanshard:
“A philosophy that abandons reason abandons philosophy.”
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Attributed to Brand Blanshard:
“Clear writing is a moral as well as an intellectual virtue.”
Brand Blanshard by topic
Frequently asked about Brand Blanshard
- When did Brand Blanshard live?
- Brand Blanshard was born in 1892 and died in 1987.
- Where was Brand Blanshard from?
- Brand Blanshard was an American philosopher of the Contemporary era.
- What philosophical movements is Brand Blanshard associated with?
- Brand Blanshard was associated with Analytic Philosophy.
- What was Brand Blanshard known for?
- Percy Brand Blanshard was an American philosopher of an Anglo-American rationalist temper, a long-serving professor at Yale, and one of the principal twentieth-century defenders of the coherence theory of truth and of the rationality of the universe.
- How many quotes are attributed to Brand Blanshard?
- There are 5 attributed quotations from Brand Blanshard in the 1001Philosophers collection, organized by topic.