pt. I. Autobiography of Brand Blanshard -- pt. II. Descriptive and critical essays on the philosophy of Brand Blanshard. I. The office of philosophy. Blanshard's conception of the nature and function of philosophy / Sterling M. McMurrin ; Introduction to the replies by Brand Blanshard ; Reply to Mr. McMurrin -- II. Ethics. Blanshard's view of good / Alfred C. Ewing ; Reply to Mr. Ewing ; Understanding and forgiveness / Elizabeth L. Beardsley ; Reply to Mrs. Beardsley ; The impasse in ethics and Blanshard's way out / Oliver A. Johnson ; Reply to Mr. Johnson ; Blanshard on "intrinsic goodness" / John Howie ; Reply to Mr. Howie ; Reason, feeling, and world view / W.T. Jones ; Reply to Mr. Jones ; Brand Blanshard's theory of ethics / Henry Margenau ; Reply to Mr. Margenau -- III. Political theory. Blanshard's political philosophy / Richard T. De George ; Reply to Mr. De George -- IV. Philosophy of education. The commitment to excellence in Blanshard's philosophy of education / Eugene Freeman ; Reply to Mr. Freeman ; Brand Blanshard : philosopher of education and teacher / James Gutmann ; Reply to Mr. Gutmann -- V. Theory of knowledge. Blanshard on perception and free ideas / Errol E. Harris ; Reply to Mr. Harris ; Blanshard on understanding / Alburey Castell ; Reply to Mr. Castell ; Blanshard's rationalism and the critique of empiricism / Andrew J. Reck ; Reply to Mr. Reck ; Blanshard and the coherence theory of truth / Nicholas Rescher ; Reply to Mr. Renscher ; Does Blanshard escape epistemic dualism? / Peter A. Bertocci ; Reply to Mr. Bertocci ; Understanding as seeing to be necessary / Charles Hartshorne ; Reply to Mr. Hartshorne ; Creativity in Brand Blanshard / William S. Minor ; Reply to Mr. Minor ; Blanshard's critique of pragmatism / John E. Smith ; Reply to Mr. Smith ; Blanshard's critique of analytic movement / Robert J. Fogelin ; Reply to Mr. Fogelin ; Idealism, holism, and "the paradox of knowledge" / Richard Rorty ; Reply to Mr. Rorty -- VI. Metaphysics. Blanshard's theory of mind and free will / Francis V. Raab ; Reply to Mr. Raab ; Blanshard's theory of causation / Richard Taylor ; Reply to Mr. Taylor ; Blanshard's rationalistic realism / Ervin Laszlo ; Reply to Mr. Laszlo ; Blanshard's theory of universals / Marcus Clayton ; Reply to Mr. Clayton ; Brand Blanshard's world view / Lewis Edwin Hahn ; Reply to Mr. Hahn -- VII. Philosophy of religion. Brand Blanshard on reason and religious belief / Frederick Ferré ; Reply to Mr. Ferré ; Blanshard's view of Christian ethics / George F. Thomas ; Reply to Mr. Thomas ; Faith and reason / Louis Depré ; Reply to Mr. Depré ; An appreciation of Blanshard's views on Catholicism / Joseph A. Owens ; Reply to Father Owens ; The rationalist and the reformer : a critique of Blanshard's views of Protestantism / Jerry A. Irish ; Reply to Mr. Irish -- pt. III. Bibliography of the writings of Brand Blanshard to 1980 / compiled by John Howie.