Raymond Perkins Jr.

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Raymond Perkins Jr. (21 July 1942 - )

Perkins was born in Concord, New Hampshire, where he attended public schools. He received a B.A. in philosophy from Colby College in 1964 and a Ph. D. in philosophy from Duke University in 1973, where his dissertation was entitled, Meaning and Acquaintance in the Early Philosophy of Bertrand Russell.

He has taught philosophy at several institutions of higher learning including Duke University, New England College, University of New Hampshire and, currently, Plymouth State University, where he serves as chair of the philosophy department.

A member of the Northern New England Philosophical Association, he has served as its Executive Secretary since 1998.

Since 1996, he has been a member of the Bertrand Russell Society Board and in 2001 became its Vice President. He also chairs the BRS Book Award Committee.

Perkins has published articles in numerous professional journals including Mind, Nous, Analysis, Journal of the History of Philosophy, and The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. His paper “Why ‘On Denoting’?” recently appeared in a special issue of Russell (Summer 2007).

With Ralph Sleeper, he is co-editor of R. P. Sylvester’s The Moral Philosophy of G.E. Moore (Temple, 1990); author of The ABCs of the Soviet-American Nuclear Arms Race (Brooks-Cole, 1991); wrote Logic and Mr. Limbaugh (Open Court, 1995); and is editor of Yours Faithfully, Bertrand Russell: A Lifelong Fight for Peace, Justice, and Truth in Letters to the Editor (Open Court, 2002), for which he received the BRS Book Award. Currently he is working on Bertrand Russell: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum Publications).

Perkins lives with his wife Karen along the Blackwater River in Webster, New Hampshire.