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05/7/08	The May 2008 Proceedings is now available online in the Members Only Section. The Spring 2008 Newsletters are also available online. Non-APA members may access the newsletters here.
05/5/08	The Willard Van Orman Quine Centennial Fest will be held on June 23, 2008, at Princeton University. For more information, click here.
04/29/08	Central Division 2009: Call for Potential Commentators and Chairs For more information, click here
04/29/08	The Central Division Online Paper Submission IS CLOSED.
04/29/08	Effective 04/30/2008 Evonda Acevedo will be the Employment Services Coordinator. All questions regarding the JFP, Placement Service, Direct Mail Advertising, and the Divisional Paper Submissions should now be directed to Evonda Acevedo.
04/28/08	Fred Berger Memorial Prize. APA members are reminded that the deadline for the next Fred Berger Memorial Prize is June 15, 2008. Please click here for a summary of the prize.
04/14/08	2008-2009 STUDENT RENEWALS. Renewals for the 2008-2009 year are now in the mail to all Student Associate members. Renewals are due by July 1.
04/8/08	ATTENTION APA MEMBERS: Counterpoint Software has released a demo of our newly designed website. Please visit the link below and send your feedback to nikkisz@udel.edu. http://76.12.57.18/
04/7/08	A recent article in the New York Times (April 6, 2008) highlights the increasing number of undergraduate philosophy majors nationwide. Another article, from The Guardian (Nov. 20, 2007), shows evidence that philosophy degrees are in growing demand from employers.
02/18/08	Quine Memorial Marker and Scholarship June 25 will mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ohio’s outstanding native son, the distinguished philosopher and logician Willard Van Orman Quine. In commemoration of the occasion, an official historical plaque from the Ohio Historical Society will be unveiled at Oberlin College (where Quine did his undergraduate studies) on June 25, 2008. The Ohio Historial Society is covering a portion of the cost of the plaque; however, approximately $1,500 still needs to be raised. Donations are welcome, and should be sent to: Office of Development, Attention: Kay Coughlin, 50 West Lorain, Oberlin, OH 44074. Donations in excess of the cost of the marker will go toward the funding of a Quine Memorial Scholarship at Oberlin College. Make checks payable to Oberlin College; in memo line, cite "Quine Marker and Scholarship." For further information, including information for those interested in attending the unveiling, contact Bruce N. Waller at bnwaller@ysu.edu.
02/13/08	Joseph B. Gittler Award The APA is soliciting nominations for the first Joseph B. Gittler Award. The award was established in 2007 with funds from the estate of Joseph B. Gittler, and will be awarded for “an outstanding scholarly contribution in the field of the philosophy of one or more of the social sciences.” For more information see the “Prizes and Awards” section of the APA website. APA members are also reminded that March 15 is the deadline for nominations for the Gittler Award, and is also the deadline for submissions for the APA Article Prize and for the Frank Chapman Sharp Memorial Prize.
02/08/08	IIE Scholar Rescue Fund Fellowships The Institute for International Education has fellowships of up to $25,000 available for foreign academics whose lives and work are threatened in their home countries. Host institutions are expected to provide matching salary or in-kind resources. Full information is available on the Committee on International Cooperation page.
02/07/08	Committee Nominations are now CLOSED for terms beginning July 1, 2009.
02/06/08	Philosophy in an Inclusive Key Summer Institute (PIKSI) 2008 CALLS FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT APPLICATIONS.
02/01/08	Eastern Division 2008: Call for Potential Commentators and Chairs For more information, click here
01/30/08	The APA was saddened to receive the news that Mary Mothersill passed away last week. Professor Mothersill, a long-standing member of the APA, was President of the APA's Eastern Division in 1998-99.
01/18/08	The APA and the American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) are co-sponsoring a Teaching Seminar in Philosophy for current or recent graduate students. The seminar will be held during the AAPT's 17th Biennial Workshop/Conference on Teaching Philosophy at the University of Guelph, August 6-10, 2008. The application deadline is May 1, 2008. For more information, and the application form, click here.
01/15/08	AILACT Response to Spellings Commission’s Recommendation The Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking (AILACT) has requested that APA members be informed of AILACT’s position of qualified support for the Spellings Commission’s recommendation regarding critical thinking testing in higher education. A full text with details of AILACT’s response to the Spelling Commission’s recommendation is available at AILACT’s website, http:/ailact.mcmaster.ca.
01/08/08	E2008 Online Paper Submission System is CLOSED
01/07/08	The APA is saddened by the death of Peter Hare (1935-2008). Peter was a long-standing member of the APA and former Chair of the APA Committee on Career Opportunities. He also served on Committees of the APA's Eastern Division. http://www.pragmatism.org/library/hare/hare.html
01/07/07	Click on the links below for important announcements regarding Philosophy in an Inclusive Key Summer Institute (PIKSI) 2008. GRADUATE ASSISTANT CALL FOR APPLICATIONS ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE 2008 Philosophy in an Inclusive Key Summer Institute (PIKSI) SUMMER INSTITUTE
12/12/07	Request for Proposals The APA Board of Officers will consider members' requests to fund projects that benefit the profession. Projects will be funded from a grant in the amount of the $25,000 made by the APA Eastern Division. Proposals will be reviewed at the 2008 APA Board Meeting in November. Proposals must be submitted to Evonda Acevedo (eacevedo@udel.edu) in the National Office no later than June 30, 2008. Proposals must include: Names Institutional affiliations CVs of the project steering committee An account of the project's purpose explaining its benefits for the profession A plan and timeline for achieving the purpose A project budget with a schedule for allocation of the funds to the project A designation of the fiscal agent for the project Information about other funding obtained or sought. Examples of previously sponsored proposals: Diversity Essays Project: On-line resources for teaching diversity Questions: Philosophy for Young People American Association of Philosophy Teachers Annual Workshop Conference
11/15/07	THIRD DUES NOTICES are now in the mail to all Regular and International Associate members who have not yet paid their dues for the 2007-2008 year. (Dues were due by September 1.) Renewing promptly will ensure that APA publications and access into the Members Only section on the APA website can resume as soon as possible. Discounted conference registration rates and the use of the APA Placement Service at the APA meetings are also benefits of paid membership.
11/13/07	Ruth Barcan Marcus selected for 2008 Lauener Prize "The Lauener-Stiftung [Switzerland] announces that the Lauener Prize for an Outstanding Oeuvre in Analytical Philosophy 2008 goes to Ruth Barcan Marcus (Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Yale University). The 3rd International Lauener Symposium on Analytical Philosophy held in honour of Ruth Barcan Marcus will take place in 2008 in Bern, Switzerland." For more information see www.lauener-foundation.ch/lfeindex.html. Click on “Announcement 2008” under “Events.”
11/2/07	The 2007 Eastern Division Nominating Committee Report, listing the candidates nominated for the spring 2008 elections, is now available.
9/25/2007	$50,000 Donation Received for the Philip Quinn Memorial Prize for Service to the APA A long-standing member of the American Philosophical Association has very generously contributed $50,000 to the fund to establish the Philip L. Quinn Prize for Service to the APA. This very generous contribution will make it possible for the selection process for the first Philip L. Quinn Prize to go forward at this time. The American Philosophical Association expresses it most profound gratitude for the great generosity of the donor, and also expresses deep pleasure that we will now be able to go forward with this initiative to honor the late Philip L. Quinn for his years of dedication to both the profession and the association.
8/6/2007	Philosophy Research Network. There is a new resource for philosophers: a cost-free, centralized place to post work in progress, called the Philosophy Research Network. The Philosophy Research Network (PRN) is part of the Social Science Research Network, a massive website started 10 years ago or so by scholars in law, economics, business, and so forth. There are hundreds of thousands of papers and abstracts now posted on the SSRN, and in the last 12 months there have been over 3,700,000 downloads of papers through the site. In short, this service is a big success in the social sciences. It is a one-stop place for people to post workin gpapers so that those dealing with related topics can have access to them (free of charge). It thus consolidates and organizes the sort of electronic exchanges that already occur via e-mail, or through private websites. And it improves on such exchanges by allowing users to access new work through keyword, abstract, or author searches. The PRN will be formally launched later this summer, and you will see an announcement about it from the APA. But we are happy to say that the network is now accessible in a preliminary way, and we invite you to try it out by posting some of your work. You'll need a PDF version of the papers you want to post, and an abstract of each that you can cut and paste into a text box during the posting process. (For those without the ability to creats pdfs, the process will direct you to a site that allows you to transform your document into a pdf without cost.) The PRN will eventually have its own web address, but you can get to it now by going to the SSRN at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/DisplayJournalBrowse.cfm. You will see a full list of the sub-networks. If you expand the Humanities Research Network list (by clicking on the + sign to the left), you will see the one for philosophy. And if you expand that, and then expand the list of "subject matter journals" in philosophy, you will see what we're up to. We recently put up papers of our own just to test-drive the system. Signing on and getting this done the first time is a little bit of a hassle, but after that it's very easy. And your papers can be found on your own personal page (created automatically when you sign up) and by perusing the subject matter areas in which you want them listed. SSRN is based at the University of Texas, and supports its staff and infrastructure through university sponsorships and institutional subscriptions. The network does very light screening to exclude material of a non-scholarly sort, and to refine the classification of papers--for example, by increasing the number of cross listings. Otherwise there is no peer review, and this posting does not amount to a publication. It is solely for facilitating communication among philosophers who are working on similar things--and thus it is in the same line of work as conferences, and circulating papers among friends. The PRN Advisory Board is: Julia Annas, David Chalmers, Maudemarie Clark, Christine Korsgaard, A. John Simmons, Elliott Sober, Ernest Sosa, and Brian Weatherson. This announcement comes from the PRN's co-directors: Lawrence Becker and Brie Gertler.
8/2/2007	APA Quinn Prize Fund. We would like to remind our members that donations to the Fund for the APA Quinn Prize are still being sought. The Fund is being established by the APA Board of Officers in honor of Philip L. Quinn, for the purpose of a Prize to be awarded in recognition of service to philosophy and philosophers, broadly construed. Any member or live former member of the APA is eligible to receive this prize. The Board decided that although the Committee on Lectures, Publications, and Research will oversee the administration of the prize, the decision to award it will be made by the Board. Members of the Board will not be eligible to receive the prize while they are on the Board. Voluntary contributions to the Fund may be directed to Janet Sample in the APA National Office. (A form for this purpose may be found at the link below.) Quinn Prize form
5/22/2007	The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has declared 2005-2014 as the UN Decade for Education for Sustainable Development. The APA is pleased to provide to interested members information provided by the Disciplinary Association Network for Sustainability (DANS) concerning course materials and interdisciplinary contacts for faculty wishing to include sustainability issues in the courses or to participate in sustainability efforts on their campuses. For more information: Bulletins for DANS members DANS website
3/9/2007	The NEH has a new grant program called the Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants. This program is part of their Digital Humanities Initiative. It is a small grant (up to $30,000) and is designed to fund new projects in the areas where the humanities intersect with science and technology. They have had a huge response to this program so far. However, one group that has not sent in many applications is the philosophical community. For this program thr NEH is looking to get more applications from scholars who are investigating the philosophical and ethical dimensions of science (e.g. bio-technology, nanotechnology) and computing. Also studies of how computing has changed notions of reading, writing, discourse, etc. For more information, interested folks should check out: Digital Humanities Start Up Grant guidelines: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/digitalhumanitiesstartup.html
	The current campaign to promote "Academic Bill of Rights" legislation in state and national legislatures threatens to injure the practice of academic freedom in teaching and research by university professors. The threat posed to academic freedom, coupled with an increase in reports of philosophers as targets of harassment, has prompted the Committee for the Defense of Professional Rights of Philosophers to compile information and advice on its webpage. The committee urges philosophers to inform themselves about the proposed legislation and to report incidents of which they are aware (the posting of unauthorized "class canceled" signs, public labeling of faculty as "communists" or "terrorist sympathizers," and so on).

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