SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, 13 June
2014
3:00 - 6:00 PM |
Arrival and Registration (Concurrent: BRS Board of Directors meeting) |
Katzman Lounge, Vanier
Hall, University of Windsor |
6:30 - 8:00 PM |
Dinner |
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8:00 - 9:00 PM |
I once saw Bertrand Russell!: My Readings and Thoughts about Russell Over Sixty
Years Keynote
Address by Michael Ruse, 2014 Bertrand Russell Award Winner |
SATURDAY, 14 June 2014
8:00 - 8:30 AM |
Continental Breakfast |
Katzman Lounge, Vanier
Hall, University of Windsor |
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM |
Papers (20 mins and 20 mins discussion each): |
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8:30 - 9:10 |
While England (and Russell) Slept: The Start of
World War I |
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9:10 - 9:50 |
Russell’s Paradox: Still a Problem for Set Theory - Ferrier |
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9:50 - 10:00 |
(Break) |
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10:00 - 10:40 |
Russell on Controlling Human Passions and
Impulses: What Can be Done to Eliminate War? - Blitz |
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10:40 - 11:20 |
The Russell-Dummett
Correspondence on Frege and His Nachlass |
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11:20 - 12:00 |
Strange Bedfellows? Russell and Churchill - Beruman |
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12:00 - 1:00 PM |
Lunch |
|
1:00 - 2:20 PM |
Annual Members’ Meeting |
|
2:30 -
5:00 PM |
Papers (20 mins and 20 mins discussion each) |
|
2:30 - 2:50 |
The Grandfather, the Godfather and the War
Between the States: John Russell’s and John Stuart Mill’s Role in the American
Civil War - Madigan |
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2:50 - 3:30 |
Whitehead’s Bewildering Denial of Modus Ponens in
Principia’s Vol. 2 |
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3:30 - 3:40 |
(Break) |
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3:40 - 4:20 |
‘A Lovelorn Orphan in a
Cold World’: Bertrand Russell’s 1931 North American Lecture Tour - Stevenson |
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4:20 - 5:00 |
Meditations on, Inquiry Into, and Critique of
Pure ‘Logic as the Essence of Philosophy’ |
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6:30 - 9:30 PM |
Dinner |
Enzo’s Trattoria, 1063 Erie St East, Windsor |
SUNDAY, 15 June 2014
8:00 - 8:30 AM |
Continental Breakfast |
Katzman Lounge, Vanier Hall, University of Windsor |
8:30 - 11:30 AM |
Papers (20 mins and 20 mins discussion
each) |
|
8:30 - 9:10 |
Two Letters |
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9:10 - 9:50 |
Against the Crimes of
Silence, Forgetfulness and Revisionism |
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9:50 - 10:00 |
(Break) |
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10:00 - 10:40 |
V.J. McGill’s Critique of Russell’s Political and Economic Philosophy in
Retrospect |
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10:40 - 11:20 |
Master Class Reading: Ayer on Russell |
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11:30 AM - 1:00 PM |
Lunch |
|
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM |
Continuation of Board
Meeting (if necessary) |
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2:00 PM |
Departure |
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