Past Conferences and Meetings


American and European Values IV

"International Conference on Josiah Royce"

Conference Website

Conference Photo Gallery

June 24-28, 2008
Instytut Filozofii
Opole University
Opole, Poland


APA 2008 Central Division Session

April 19, 2008
Palmer House Hilton
Chicago, IL

Jacquelyn Ann Kegley, California State University-- Bakersfield, “Race as a Factor in the Personal and Social Narrative of the Contextual Human Person”

Tommy J. Curry, Southern Illinois University-- Carbondale, “The Lil’ White Man Who Could: Josiah Royce’s Anti-Black Racism as Cultural Perpetuation of White Supremacy” 

Commentator: Dwayne Tunstall, Grand Valley State University

Chair: Randall E. Auxier, Southern Illinois University-- Carbondale


APA 2008 Pacific Division Session

"Josiah Royce and the Origins of Modern Logic"


March 19, 2008
Hilton Pasadena
Pasadena, CA

Scott L. PrattUniversity of Oregon, “On the Politics of Disjunction”

J. Brent Crouch, San Diego City College, “Royce and the Origins of Logicism”

Commentator: Robert BurchTexas A&M University

Chair: Jacquelyn Ann K. KegleyCalifornia State University-- Bakersfield


SAAP 2008 Annual Meeting Session

Panel Discussion:
"One Hundred Years of Loyalty: A Critical Re-examination"

Thurs. March 13, 2008
4:15-6:00pm
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI

Frank M. OppenheimXavier University

Jacqueline Kegley, California State University--Bakersfield

John J. McDermott, Texas A&M University

Kelly Parker, Grand Valley State University

Chair: Bette J. ManterCurry College

Conference Website



APA 2007 Eastern Division Meeting Session

"Josiah Royce and the Origins of Modern Logic"

Friday, Dec. 28, 2007
11:15am -1:15pm
Marriott Waterfront Hotel
Baltimore, MD

J. Brent Crouch, San Diego City University, "Frege, Peirce's Reduction Thesis, and the Logic of Tetrads"

Scott Pratt, University of Oregon, "On the Politics of Disjunction: Russell and the Logic of Action"

Robert Burch, Texas A&M University, "Royce, Boolean Rings, and the T-Relation"

Chair: Kelly Parker, Grand Valley State University

The papers linked above are in PDF (Adobe Acrobat reader) format.


William James and Josiah Royce a Century Later:
Pragmatism and Idealism in Dialogue

Lowell Lecture Hall
Harvard University
May 25-27, 2007

Conference Program with Links to
Streaming Video of All Presentations




Pre-Conference Session

"Perspectives of Graduate Students on William James and Josiah Royce"

May 25, 2007

Congratulations to Alexander V. Stehn, recipient of the Outstanding Essay Award for this session!

Award sponsored by the Josiah Royce Society, the William James Society, and the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy

Gregory Aldin: "Late Royce: An Interpretative Formulation"

Michael Brodrick: "Spirituality and Moral Struggle"

Mathew A. Foust: "William James and the Promise of Pragmatism"

Masato Ishida: "James on Unsmooth Transitions of Events"

Alexander V. Stehn: "William James on the Reality of the Ideal Socius: God's Creation as Our Ethical Task"

The papers linked above are in PDF (Adobe Acrobat reader) format.



2006 APA Eastern Division Session Papers

Robert Innis (University of Massachussetts: Lowell) "Royce and Religious Naturalism"

William Elkins (Drew University) "As Time Goes By: Nature and Spirit in the Later Royce"

Commentator: Roger Ward (Georgetown College)

The papers linked above are in PDF (Adobe Acrobat reader) format.


Updated 18 march 2008