Annual Meeting of The Bertrand Russell Society

McMaster University

May 13 – 15, 2005

 

Registration is Cdn.$75.00 or US$64.00. For non-members of the Society, the

Buffet is Cdn.$20.00 and the Banquet $25.00.  Tickets will be issued for the

buffet and banquet. Seating is limited.

Participants are listed on the meeting’s website \http://russell.mcmaster.ca/brsmeeting.htm.

Visitors are encouraged to see the Bertrand Russell Archives in Mills

Library, LB-102.

Contacts: duncana@mcmaster.ca or blackwk@mcmaster.ca.

 

 

Friday evening: May 13

 

4:00 – 5.45      Registration and Membership in Commons foyer

6:00 – 7:30    Buffet dinner in Skylight room, Commons

7:30 – 8:00    Welcome from BRS President, Alan Schwerin

8:00 – 9:30      Panel Discussion:
Chair: Alan Schwerin

                                      Presenters: Ray Perkins, Andy Bone and Ken Blackwell. Audio of Manifesto Press Conference, July 9, 1955               

                                      ON THE RUSSELL-EINSTEIN PEACE MANIFESTO: 50TH ANNIVERSARY

 

The papers for the BRS conference will be presented in Kenneth Taylor Hall, B132, close by the “Russell vs. Meinong:

100 Years after ‘On Denoting’” conference (http://denoting.mcmaster.ca/). Those with dual registration can easily switch

from one conference to the other. All participants must please register for the conferences. The registration station will

be active thirty minutes before the first sessions on Saturday and Sunday.

      

 

Saturday: May 14

 

Chair: David Henehan

Chad Trainer             

Independent Scholar  SOLITARY, POOR, NASTY, BRUTISH AND SHORT: RUSSELL'S VIEW OF LIFE WITHOUT WORLD GOVERNMENT

9:00 – 9:40

 

Chair: Peter Stone

Presenter: Edgar Boedeker        

University of Northern Iowa  LOGICAL PLATONISM AND THE THEORY OF TYPES   

9:50 – 10:30

Chair: Rosalind Carey

Presenter: Cara Rice               

Independent Scholar                           WHO STOLE THE FUTURE?

10:30 – 11:00

 

Chair: Cara Rice

Presenter: Andrew Bone          

Russell Research Centre          WHAT RUSSELL GOT WRONG IN THE 1930S    

11:15 – 12:00

 

Catered Lunch                                     12.30 – 1.30

 

The Board of Directors of the BRS will have a working lunch in

Room  KTH-B132. One object is to elect officers. This meeting is open to all members of the society.

 

Chair: Ed Boedeker

Presenter: Howard A. Blair   

Syracuse University                RUSSELL ON THE STRUCTURE OF SPACES (AND TIMES)

1:45 – 3:00

 

Chair: Chad Trainer

Presenter: Andrew Lugg           

Montreal                                  RUSSELL AS A PRECURSOR OF QUINE, QUINE AS A FOLLOWER OF RUSSELL

3:15 – 4:15

 

Chair: Rosalind Carey

Presenter: Bernard Linsky        THE SECOND EDITION OF PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA: MANUSCRIPTS AND NOTES

University of Alberta              IN THE RUSSELL ARCHIVES

4:30 – 5:45

     

    

Banquet           

 

Red Hackle Hour at 6:00 in Skylight room, Commons; Banquet at 7:00.

Open by ticket to non-BRS members who have registered for the Banquet.

 

Chair: Stefan Andersson

Presenter:   Tim Madigan         WHAT A CHARACTER -- BERTRAND RUSSELL IN FICTION    

9:00 – 10:00

 

 

Sunday: May 15

                                          

Chair: Alan Schwerin

Presenter: Michael  Potter       

McMaster University      IMPULSE AND DESIRE IN RUSSELL'S EMOTIVISM                    

9:00 – 9:45

           

Chair: Alan Schwerin

Presenter: David Goldman     

Independent Scholar               A PSYCHIATRIST LOOKS AT THE THE CONQUEST OF HAPPINESS

10:00 -- 11:00

 

Master Class

Presenter: Alan Schwerin          RUSSELL ON VAGUENESS

11:15 – 12:00

Panel Discussion

Chair: Alan Schwerin

Presenters: Tim Madigan, Bob Riemenschneider, Peter Stone

12.00 – 12:30         HARRIET WARD'S A MAN OF SMALL IMPORTANCE

 

Catered Lunch: 12.30 – 1.30

 

Chair: Howard Blair

Presenter: Stephen Heathorn      

Russell Research Centre          EXPLAINING THE EUGENICAL DISCOURSE IN RUSSELL'S MARRIAGE AND MORALS

1:45 – 2:30