“Invitation to Learning” Sessions

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russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies n.s.  (summer ):  The Bertrand Russell Research Centre, McMaster U. issn –; online – “INVITATION TO LEARNING” SESSIONS Marley Beach Russell Research Centre / McMaster U. beachm1@mcmaster.ca nvitation to Learning by Martin Grams, Jr. (Kearney, ne: otr / Morris Publishing , ) lists a dozen appearances by Bertrand Russell in –. Of these, the texts of seven have yet to be found. Searches of the archives belonging to the programme’s various hosts and participants have been fruitless, as well as the promising radio collection at the Library of Congress. The show was rebroadcast locally from “transcription discs”, and some may still lie in local radio station archives or await discovery in private collections. G. W. F. Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of History (). Speakers: Huntington Cairns, Mark Van Doren, Allen Tate and Russell.  April  (session #). Reprinted as Paper  in Papers . Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (–). Mark Van Doren and Russell.  September  (#). Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland (). Mark Van Doren, Katherine Anne Porter and Russell.  December  (#).  in Papers . Benedict de Spinoza, Ethics (). Scott Buchanan, Mark Van Doren and Russell.  January  (#).  in Papers . René Descartes, A Discourse on Method (). Jacques Barzun, Mark Van Doren and Russell.  April  (#).  in Papers . Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits (), and Washington Irving, The Sketchbook (). James Thurber and Russell.  October  (#). Boethius, The Consolations of Philosophy (). Irwin Edman, Ernest Nagel and Russell.  May  (#). George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House (). Lee Simonson, John Anderson and Russell.  June  (#). James Bryce, The American Commonwealth (). Max Lerner, Jacques Barzun and Russell.  July  (#). John Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding (). Lyman Bryson, Jacques Barzun and Russell.  September  (#). Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution (). Lyman Bryson, Lindsay Rogers and Russell.  March  (#). John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (). Lyman Bryson, Robert MacIver and Russell.  October  (#).  in Papers . I ...