CFP: Bertrand Russell Society 2018 Meeting

Submission deadline: April 1, 2018

Conference date(s):
June 22, 2018 - June 24, 2018

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Conference Venue:

Russell Archives, McMaster University
Hamilton, Canada

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The Bertrand Russell Society (BRS), an international organization dedicated to the memory and scholarly study of the philosopher Bertrand Russell, will hold its annual meeting at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario from 22-24 June 2018. The conference will include a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Bertrand Russell Archives, which is housed and curated by McMaster University Library.

This year’s meeting is also being held in conjunction with the Society for the Study for the History of Analytic Philosophy (SSHAP, http://sshap.org/) whose conference (19-21 June 2018) convenes immediately before the BRS meeting. The organizers hope that BRS conferees will also want to attend the SSHAP meeting and vice-versa. There are many areas of shared interest and possibilities for fruitful exchange. Information about the SSHAP meeting and its call for papers can be found here (http://sshap.org/2017/11/08/sshap-2018-hamilton-cfp/). We do ask that those who wish to submit papers for both meetings not submit the very same paper.

If you intend to present a paper at the BRS Annual Meeting, please e-mail a paper abstract to our president, Timothy Madigan, at [email protected]. The abstract should be no longer than two paragraphs. The deadline for submission is 1 April 2018. There is a time limit of 20 minutes for presentation. An additional 10 minutes is allotted for discussion.

We welcome papers on any aspect of Russell’s personal life and his thought, work, and legacy. We also welcome proposals for other activities that might be appropriate for the meeting (e.g., a master class on an essay by/about Russell). Special emphasis will be given to

  • the centenary of Russell's lectures on Logical Atomism;
  • Russell's political imprisonment during World War I for statements “likely to prejudice” a British ally (the United States);
  • the publication of his proposals for post-war radicalism, Proposed Roads to Freedom;
  • the writing of Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy and the groundwork for The Analysis of Mind, both of which were undertaken while Russell was in prison.

Further details about the annual meeting (registration, etc.) will be posted at the Bertrand Russell Society website: http://bertrandrussell.org/.

BERTRAND RUSSELL SOCIETY, INC.
Tim Madigan, President • Department of Philosophy, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY 14625 • 585-385-5259 • [email protected]

“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge”

http://bertrandrussell.org/annual-meeting-2018/

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