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Richard B(ooker) Brandt

1910-1997

Entry Updated : 12/16/2003
Place of Birth: Wilmington, OH

Award(s):
Guggenheim fellow in 1943; John Locke Lecturer at Oxford University in 1974; fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, CA; senior fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities; named the Roy Wood Sellars Distinguished College Professor of Philosophy while teaching at the University of Michigan.

Table of Contents:
Personal Information
Career
Writings
Further Readings About the Author

Personal Information: Family: Born October 17, 1910, in Wilmington, OH; died September 10, 1997, in Ann Arbor, MI; children: Richard (Gigi) and Karen Brandt. Education: Denison University, B.A., 1930; Yale University, Ph.D. (philosophy), 1936; also attended Trinity College, Cambridge University, and Tuebingen University. Memberships: American Academy of Arts and Sciences.


Career: Philosopher, educator, and author; Swathmore College, philosophy teacher, 1937-64; University of Michigan, professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy, beginning in 1964; American Philosophical Association, western division, president, 1969-70; Law Center of Georgetown University, visiting professor, 1982--.

WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:

  • The Philosophy of Schleiermacher: The Development of His Theory of Scientific and Religious Knowledge, Harper (New York, NY), 1941.

  • Hopi Ethics: A Theoretical Analysis, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 1954.

  • Ethical Theory: The Problems of Normative and Critical Ethics, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ), 1959.

  • Value and Obligation: Systematic Readings in Ethics, Harcourt, Brace & World (New York, NY), 1961.

  • (Editor) Kenneth E. Boulding, Social Justice, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ), 1962.

  • (Editor with Ernest Nagel) Meaning and Knowledge: Systematic Readings in Epistemology, Harcourt, Brace & World (New York, NY), 1965.

  • (Editor with William P. Alston) The Problems of Philosophy: Introductory Readings, Allyn and Bacon (Boston, MA), 1967.

  • (Contributor) War and Moral Responsibility, edited by Marshall Cohen, Thomas Nagel, and Thomas Scanlon, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1974.

  • (With others) Freedom and Morality, edited with an introduction by John Bricke, University of Kansas Press (Lawrence, KS), 1976.

  • A Theory of the Good and the Right, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1979.

  • Morality, Utilitarianism, and Rights, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1992.

  • Facts, Values, and Morality, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1996.

Also author of Moral Philosophy and the Analysis of Language, published in 1963. Brandt also wrote close to one hundred articles.

FURTHER READINGS ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

BOOKS

  • Petersson, Ingrid, Utilitarianism, Responsibility, and Punishment: With Special Reference to R. B. Brandt's Defence of Utilitarianism, Tryckbaren (Lund, Sweden), 1976.

  • Rationality, Rules, and Utility: New Essays on The Moral Philosophy of Richard B. Brandt, edited by Brad Hooker, Westview Press (Boulder, CO), 1994.

  • Who's Who in America, 42nd edition, Marquis (New Providence, NJ), 1982.

  • Values and Morals: Essays in Honor of William Frankena, Charles Stevenson, and Richard Brandt, edited by Alvin I. Goldman and Jaegwon Kim, D. Reidel (Boston, MA), 1978.

ONLINE

  • The Guggenheim Foundation, http://www.gf.org/ (August 11, 2003), "1943 U. S. and Canadian Fellows."

  • Pragmatism Archive, http://www.pragmatism.org/ (August 11, 2003), "Alphabetical Listing of Presidents, The American Philosophical Association, 1901-2000."

  • University of Michigan, http://www.umich.edu/ (August 11, 2003), " Richard B. Brandt."


Source: Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2003.

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