Reason and Analysis by Blanshard Brand
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Overview: Gordon H. Clark once wrote that Brand Blanshard was the most important American philosopher of twentieth century. Why would Clark (a staunch Calvinist) say this about Blanshard (a signer of the Secular Humanist Manifesto)? Well, read this book.
Blanshard was a rationalist who disagreed with the dominant empiricist trend in philosophy. Like just about everyone prior to Hume, Blanshard had a full-orbed conception of reason. Philosophy is not limited to describing "linguistic conventions," but actually tell us something about the nature of the world.
REASON AND ANALYSIS starts with a discussion of traditional conception of reason (and its recent enemies) and then begins a full-scale assault on analytic philosophy. There is a particularly excellent discussion of a priori reasoning, which demolishes logical positivism and also demonstrates that logic is neither a linguistic convention nor the arbitrary creation of the mind.
My only complaint with this book is its length: 500 pages. Considering that much of what Blanshard destroyed has gone the way of a 1970's sitcom, this might seem excessive. On the other hand, if you are interested in learning about the differences between the early Moore and the later Moore, the early Russell and the later Russell, logical atomism and logical positivism and the like, you get something of an encyclopedic approach to the issue. It's tempting to ignore all the differences in nuance in various schools and thinkers, but the attention to detail only magnifies our appreciation of this work.
Genre: Non Fiction, Philosophy
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Requirements: PDF Reader, 22 MB
Overview: Gordon H. Clark once wrote that Brand Blanshard was the most important American philosopher of twentieth century. Why would Clark (a staunch Calvinist) say this about Blanshard (a signer of the Secular Humanist Manifesto)? Well, read this book.
Blanshard was a rationalist who disagreed with the dominant empiricist trend in philosophy. Like just about everyone prior to Hume, Blanshard had a full-orbed conception of reason. Philosophy is not limited to describing "linguistic conventions," but actually tell us something about the nature of the world.
REASON AND ANALYSIS starts with a discussion of traditional conception of reason (and its recent enemies) and then begins a full-scale assault on analytic philosophy. There is a particularly excellent discussion of a priori reasoning, which demolishes logical positivism and also demonstrates that logic is neither a linguistic convention nor the arbitrary creation of the mind.
My only complaint with this book is its length: 500 pages. Considering that much of what Blanshard destroyed has gone the way of a 1970's sitcom, this might seem excessive. On the other hand, if you are interested in learning about the differences between the early Moore and the later Moore, the early Russell and the later Russell, logical atomism and logical positivism and the like, you get something of an encyclopedic approach to the issue. It's tempting to ignore all the differences in nuance in various schools and thinkers, but the attention to detail only magnifies our appreciation of this work.
Genre: Non Fiction, Philosophy
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