Brand BLANSHARD

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Brand Blanshard (1892-1987) was an American philosopher known primarily for his defense of re ason . A powerful polemicist, by all accounts he comported himself with courtesy and grace i n philosophical controversies and exemplified the "rational temper" he advocated. Life Born in Fredericksburg, Ohio , on 27 August, 1892, Percy Brand Blanshard (his full name) wa s one of a pair of fraternal twins (the other being freethinker Paul Beecher Blanshard). Thei r mother, Emily Coulter Blanshard, died of severe burns (from an accident with a kerosene lam p) in 1893. Their father, Francis Blanshard, moved the family first to Grand Rapids, Michigan , then to Edinburg, Ohio, in 1899. Francis suffered from consumption and was advised to see k a drier climate by moving west; he did so in 1902 to serve as a pastor in Helena, Montana , and then moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he died in 1904. Following his death the b rothers remained in the care of their grandmother, Orminda Adams Blanshard. Eventually the fa mily moved to Bay View, Michigan, and then to Detroit. Blanshard studied at the University of Michigan and then at Oxford University (the latter a s a Rhodes scholar. He taught at Swarthmore College from 1925 until 1944 and then spent the r emainder of his career at Yale University, where he served as chairman of the department of p hilosophy for many years. Blanshard was married twice. In 1918 he married Frances Bradshaw, to whom he remained happil y wedded until her death forty-eight years later in 1966. After her death, which came as a gr eat blow to him, he finished and edited her book Frank Aydelotte of Swarthmore, bringing it t o publication in 1970. In 1969, after two and a half years of what he later described as "lon eliness, failing health, and failing motives", he married Roberta Yerkes (the daughter of Bla nshard's colleague Robert M. Yerkes, who was his wife until his own death in 1987.



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