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

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):

8:30 - 9:10

While England (and Russell) Slept: The Start of World War I - Blackwell

9:10 - 9:50

Russell’s Paradox: Still a Problem for Set Theory

- Ferrier

9:50 - 10:00

(Break)

10:00 - 10:40

Russell on Controlling Human Passions and Impulses: What Can be Done to Eliminate War?

- Blitz

10:40 - 11:20

The Russell-Dummett Correspondence on Frege and His Nachlass - Klement

11:20 - 12:00

Strange Bedfellows? Russell and Churchill

- Beruman

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

2:50 - 3:30

Whitehead’s Bewildering Denial of Modus Ponens in Principia’s Vol. 2 - Landini

3:30 - 3:40

(Break)

3:40 - 4:20

‘A Lovelorn Orphan in a Cold World’: Bertrand Russell’s 1931 North American Lecture Tour

- Stevenson

4:20 - 5:00

Meditations on, Inquiry Into, and Critique of Pure ‘Logic as the Essence of Philosophy’ - Lucas

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 - Shier

9:10 - 9:50

Against the Crimes of Silence, Forgetfulness and Revisionism - Andersson

 

9:50 - 10:00

(Break)

10:00 - 10:40

V.J. McGill’s Critique of Russell’s Political and Economic Philosophy in Retrospect - Riggins

10:40 - 11:20

Master Class Reading: Ayer on Russell - Trainer

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Lunch

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Continuation of Board Meeting (if necessary)

2:00 PM

Departure