Chad Trainer
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Chad Trainer (22 March 1963 - )
Trainer, who was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, is the son of Philip and Regina (O'Rourke) Trainer.
Self-educated, he graduated in 1981 and is married to Cara Elizabeth (Rice) Trainer, and lives with his wife in Pennsylvania.
Trainer is Chairman of the Board of the Bertrand Russell Society.
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Member of Organizations
- The Medieval Academy of America, 1993 to present;
- The Bertrand Russell Society,
- 1998 to present; Secretary, 2002 - 2005; President 2005 - );
- The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, 2000 to present;
- The Renaissance Society of America, 2000 to present; and
- American Philosophical Association, 2006 to present
Articles
“Treason to Truth” in Philosophy Now, July/August 2007 issue: pp. 15-17
“Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish and Short: Russell’s Views of Life without World Government” in The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly, November 2005-February 2006, Nos. 128-129: 23-34
“Finding a Philosophy in Leonardo” in Philosophy Now, Issue 50 March/April 2005: 24-26 “Russell’s Pennsylvania” in Russell: Vol. 24, no. 1, Summer 2004: 37-53
“Earth to Russell” cover article in Philosophy Now, Issue 40, March/April 2003: 20-22, and reprinted in The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly, May 2003, No. 118: 14-22
“Bertrand Russell: A Carneades Reincarnate” in Nexus: A Forum for Ideas (a publication of the Department of Political Science and Philosophy at Monmouth University), Vol. 5, Spring 2002: 18-27
“A Conversation with U.S. Representative Neil Abercrombie (Democrat, Hawaii) - Conducted by Chad Trainer” in The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly, November 2001 No. 112: 17-25
“Language: A Leading Or Lagging Indicator of Truth for Russell” in Nexus: A Forum for Ideas (a publication of the Department of Political Science and Philosophy at Monmouth University), Vol. 4, Spring 2001: 3-11
Reviews
Denton, Peter, The ABC of Armageddon: Bertrand Russell on Science, Religion, and the Next War (Albany: State University of New York, 2001), in The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly, May 2004 No. 122, pp. 37-9 Edmonds, David, and John Eidinow, Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers (New York: HarperCollins, 2001), in Russell: Vol. 22, no. 2, Winter 2002–03, pp. 74-5
Hinde, Robert, and Joseph Rotblat, War No More: Eliminating Conflict in the Nuclear Age (London and Sterling, Va.: Pluto P., 2003), in Russell: Vol. 26, no. 2, Winter 2006-07, pp. 187-90
Schwerin, Alan, Bertrand Russell on Nuclear War, Peace, and Language (Westport: Praeger, 2002), om The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly, May 2004, No.124: 43-7
Shute, Chris, Bertrand Russell: Education as the Power of Independent Thought (Nottingham: Educational Heretics Press, 2002), in The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly, May—August 2006, Nos. 130-13, pp.: 41-4
Conference Presentations
“Russell’s Empricist Propensities: Empiricism’s Survival of Russell’s ‘Last Substantial Change’” on June 10, 2007, at Monmouth University, Monmouth, New Jersey, for the 34th annual meeting of the Bertrand Russell Society
“Finding a Philosophy in Leonardo” on March 24, 2007, as part of The Renaissance Man: A Discoverer in Mathematics, Astrology and Geography panel at the 53rd annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America at the New Radisson Hotel in Miami, Florida
“Off to a Good Start: The Merits of the Milesians” on October 21, 2006, as part of the Pre-Socratic Philosophy panel at Fordham University’s annual Ancient & Medieval Philosophy convention at the Fordham Lincoln Center in New York, New York
“The Possibility of a Philosophic Theology: Frederick Copleston’s Epiphany in Hawaii” on October 13, 2006, as part of the Comparative and Cross-Traditional Perspectives in Medieval Philosophy panel at the thirty-first Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies conference at Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania
“In Further Praise of Idleness” on May 27, 2006, at University of Iowa, Iowa City for the 33rd annual meeting of the Bertrand Russell Society
“Philosophy in Greece vs. that in the East: Frederick Copleston’s Epiphany in Hawaii” as part of the “Reception of Ancient Philosophy” panel on October 16, 2005, at Fordham University’s International Conference on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
“Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Bertrand Russell’s View of Life without World Government” on May 14, 2005, at McMaster University for the 32nd annual meeting of the Bertrand Russell Society
“Treasons to Truth: The Myths of Plato” as part of the Plato: Poetry, and Myth Panel on October 23, 2004, at Fordham University’s International Conference on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
“Finding a Philosophy in Leonardo” for the Society for Medieval & Renaissance Philosophy Sponsored Section Panel at the Twenty-ninth International Conference on Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies at Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, on September 18, 2004
“Russell’s Pennsylvania” on June 20, 2004, at Plymouth State University for the 31st annual meeting of the Bertrand Russell Society
“The Aristotle That Was Never Really in Aquinas” on November 2, 2003 as part of the Aquinas: Logic, Ethics, Mind, Life and Death Panel at Fordham University’s 2003 International Conference on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy and; on September 28, 2002 as part of the Aquinas Studies Panel at Villanova University’s Twenty-seventh International Conference on Patristic, Mediaeval, and Renaissance Studies
“Bertrand Russell’s Assessments of René Descartes’s Philosophy” on May 31, 2003, at Lake Forest College for the 30th annual meeting of the Bertrand Russell Society
“Earth to Russell: The Limits of Russell’s Views on Space Exploration” on June 1, 2002, at Lake Forest College for the 29th annual meeting of the Bertrand Russell Society
“Various Ways Matter Has Mattered: A Tension within Plotinus’ Views” as part of the Neoplatonism Panel II on October 27, 2001, at Binghamton University for the 20th Annual SSIPS/SAGP/ISNS/ ACPA International Conference on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy and Dialogue Among Civilizations
“Bertrand Russell: A Carneades Reincarnate” on May 27, 2001 at McMaster University for the 28th annual meeting of the Bertrand Russell Society
“Language: A Leading Or Lagging Indicator of Truth for Russell” on June 3, 2000, at Monmouth University for the 27th annual meeting of the Bertrand Russell Society
