Dr. E. S. Russell, O.B.E.

Firestorm : Dr . James E . McDonald ’ s Fight for UFO Science

Like Dr. James E. McDonald, I am a mainstream ‘‘establishment’’ scientist who, at a certain point, became convinced that the UFO phenomenon deserves serious consideration. There, the resemblance between me and McDonald ends. In my case, I decided, very early on, that my particular mix of strengths and weaknesses was such that active effort by me on this problem was unlikely to be dramatically p...

Russell Grigg Freud ’ s Problem of Identification

As the theory of identification assumed increasing importance in Freud’s work, it came to be a cornerstone of psychoanalytic theory. Yet because the difficulties contained in Freud’s views on this question have not, with the exception of Lacan, been properly appreciated, post— Freudian theory has employed a theoretical construct of questionable coherence. Although Freud wavered over what was id...

Dr. K. S. Ray

Notions of Cause : Russell ’ s thesis revisited ∗

We discuss Russell’s 1913 essay arguing for the irrelevance of the idea of causation to science and its elimination from metaphysics as a precursor to contemporary philosophical naturalism. We show how Russell’s application raises issues now receiving much attention in debates about the adequacy of such naturalism, in particular, problems related to the relationship between folk and scientific ...

Dr H. S. Davidson

interests of this ancient Society; we recall the occasions on which, by means of papers and discussion, he contributed so profitably to our deliberations out of his large experience; but we remember, perhaps, more even than these, the appeal of a personality that charmed us alike by its simplicity, its sympathy and its sincerity. The loss the Society has sustained in the death of Davidson is a ...