38th Annual Meeting of The Bertrand Russell Society Drew University May 20 – 22, 2011 FINAL, MAY 19 Abstracts, list of participants, and registration form are listed on the meeting’s official website: http://russell.mcmaster.ca/brsmeeting All participants must please register. The banquet on Saturday is by pre-registration only. Note that 2011 membership dues are due. Contact: [email protected]. Map of Drew University campus: http://www.drew.edu/map All events are held in Mead Hall, the neoclassical mansion in the front of campus. Friday evening, May 20 4:00 – 6:00 6:00 – 7:00 7:00 – 7:30 7:30 – 8:15 8:15 – 8:45 8:45 – 9:15 Registration, check-in to dorms, and coffee in Mead Hall Buffet dinner Welcome from BRS President, Alan Schwerin Welcome from host John Lenz: On the history of Mead Hall David White: Philosophy, Literature, Russell and Woolf Ken Blackwell: “You Need Not Suppose I Do Not Try to Get Money”: Towards a Russellian Philosophy of Personal Finance A Russell film, courtesy of David Blitz Saturday, May 21 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. 9:00 – 9:45 9:45 – 10:30 10:30 – 11:00 11:00 – 11:45 11:45 – 12:30 12:30 – 2:00 2:00 – 3:00 All events (papers and meals) are in Mead Hall. All events (papers and meals) are in Mead Hall. Continental breakfast in Mead Hall Howard Blair: Wanted: Schroedinger's Cat: Dead and Alive Bill Bruneau: Principia Patrum: Conrad and Bertrand Russell as Political Intellectuals Coffee break Kevin C. Klement: Universals as Individuals in Principia Mathematica Ray Perkins: Was Russell’s 1922 Error Theory a Mistake? Lunch in Mead Hall, and Meeting of Board of Directors (all members are welcome to attend) Master Class with Peter Stone: Taming Economic Power (1938 broadcast) 3: 00 – 3:45 3:45 – 4:15 4:15 – 5:00 6:30 – 7:30 7:30 – 9:30 Chad Trainer: Bereft of God and Anglican Complacency: A Comparison of Russell’s Empiricism with Berkeley’s Coffee Break David Blitz: Russell and the Non-Absolute: From Pacifism to Atheism “Red Hackle Hour”/Cocktail Hour in Mead Hall Banquet in Mead Hall (Wendell Room) (by pre-registration only) Presentation of BRS Award and BRS Book Award Sunday morning, May 22 All events (papers and meals) are in Mead Hall. 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. Continental breakfast in Mead Hall 9:00 – 9:45 Gregory Landini: Types ‘ Typos ‘ Principia: On the Orders of Elimination of Incomplete Symbols. Workshop [bring PM to *56] 9:45 – 10:30 Tom Riggins: Russell vs. Mao on the Preconditions of Chinese Liberation (based on The Problem of China) 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 – 11:45 Donovan Wishon: Russellian Acquaintance without Discriminating Know ledge 11:45 – 12:30 Tim Madigan: Mr. Russell’s Chicken 12:30 – 1:30 Lunch and General Meeting of the Society
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