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