The ninety-eighth Annual Meeting of the Eastern Division will be held from Thursday, December 27th through Sunday, December 30th, 2001 at the Hilton Atlanta. All official functions, including placement, will take place at this hotel. Hotel accommodations at convention rates are available at the Hilton Atlanta. I suggest that you make reservations at your earliest convenience. This issue of the Proceedings contains the following items:

The Eastern Division now offers lower fee rates for those who pre-register instead of registering on-site. The rates are as follows:

Persons who are not now members may take advantage of the lower registration fee by becoming members. Regular and student membership application forms are printed in this issue, are available from the APA National Office, on the APA’s web site www.udel.edu/apa, and will be available during the meeting at the APA Registration Desk in the Atlanta Hilton and Towers. The APA Registration Desk will be open on:

Thursday, December 27: 3:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Friday, December 28: 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, December 29: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, December 30: 9:00 a.m. to Noon

Only registrants are entitled to attend the Reception on December 28th at no additional charge. Non-registrants who wish to attend this reception must purchase a $5 ticket: tickets will be available at the Registration Desk and at the door of the Reception. For those who register, name badges will serve as proof of registration.

The APA Placement Service functions mainly as a channel of communication between interviewers and job applicants. It can be particularly valuable when other arrangements fail to function properly. For this reason, interviewers and candidates, even those who plan to use the Placement Center for no other purpose, should inform the Placement Center about how they may be contacted in case of an emergency. The placement process will operate most smoothly when appointing officers and applicants make preparations for their part in advance of the Annual Meeting and when interviews are arranged prior to the meeting on the basis of listings in Jobs for Philosophers. Detailed information about the APA Placement Service can be found elsewhere in this issue of the Proceedings.

A placement ombudsman will be available in the Placement Service area for persons encountering problems with the interviewing process.

The publishers’ book exhibit area is in the Galleria Hall of the Hilton Atlanta. It is open at the following times:

Friday, December 28: 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, December 29: 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Sunday, December 30: 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

The Presidential Address will be delivered by Virginia Held at 6:00 p.m., December 29th in the Grand Ballroom East. The title of the address is "Moral Subjects: The Natural and the Normative."

The Eastern Division is pleased this year to host the Paul Carus Lectures, to be given by Arthur Danto. The general title for the three lectures is The Revolt Against Beauty. All three lectures will be given in the Grand Ballroom East. Lecture I, "Beauty and the Definition of Art," will be given at 1:30 p.m. on December 28th; Lecture II, "The Intractable Avant-Garde," at 1:30 p.m. on December 29th; Lecture III, "Internal and External Beauty," at 11:15 a.m. on December 30th.

The Eastern Division is also pleased to host the Patrick Romanell Lecture on Philosophical Naturalism, to be given by Penelope Maddy. The title of the lecture is "A Naturalistic Look at Logic." The lecture will be given at 9:00 a.m. on December 30th in the Cherokee meeting room.

2001 has been designated as the APA’s centennial year. (You may wish to examine the founding minutes for what is now the Eastern Division, written in 1902, that immediately follow this letter.) In celebration, the Eastern Division is pleased to host the following events on its program. First, there is a Centennial Symposium on American Philosophy in International Perspective: Today and a Century Ago, featuring Dominique Janicaud and John Haldane. The symposium begins at 2:45 p.m. on December 29th, in the Grand Salon E. Second, the APA Committee on Lectures, Publications, and Research has put together two special sessions on Philosophy in America at the Turn of the Century. The first features Christine Korsgaard, speaking on "Realism and Constructivism in Twentieth-Century Moral Philosophy," on December 29th at 9:00 a.m. in the Clayton meeting room. The second features Jaegwon Kim, speaking on "The American Origins of Philosophical Naturalism," on December 30th at 9:00 a.m. in the Clayton meeting room.

There will be Receptions on the nights of December 28th, from
8:15 p.m. to Midnight and December 29th, from 9:00 p.m. to Midnight. Both Receptions will be held in the Grand Ballroom.

The large round tables at the Receptions will be numbered. A chart will be distributed at the reception giving the table locations along with an index showing, for each table, who has reserved it.

Departments and societies are invited to reserve tables for a fee of $25 per table for two nights. If you wish to reserve a table, please fill out and mail the form included in the back pages of this issue of the Proceedings or call Ms. Linda Smallbrook at the National Office (Phone: 302-831-1113; Fax: 302-831-3372). The deadline for making table reservations is December 10th.

The annual Business Meeting will be held on December 29th at 11:15 a.m. in the Grand Ballroom East. There will be reports from Divisional and National Officers and Committees.

According to the Association’s By-Laws, regular membership is given by an act of the Executive Director on behalf of the Board of Officers. Each year the list of regular members that appears in the November issue of the Proceedings is used as the list of eligible voters for the three subsequent Divisional meetings. Certification of persons as voting affiliates of the Eastern Division will take place at the Registration Desk. Eastern Division affiliates who wish to participate in voting should have their name tags validated at the Registration Desk prior to the Business Meeting. The name tags of those Eastern Division voting affiliates who pre-register will be validated in advance of the Annual Meeting.

The 2002 Program Committee invites contributions for the 2002 Annual Meeting that will be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 27-30, 2002. The 2002 Program Committee is composed of:

James C. Edwards (Chair)
John Greco
Richard Aquila
Hilary Kornblith
Thomas C. Brickhouse
Mark Richard
Cheshire Calhoun
Kathleen Wallace
David Crocker
Ladelle McWhorter
Willem deVries
Merold Westphal
William E. Mann (ex officio)

A paper may be submitted for inclusion in the program either as a colloquium paper or as a symposium paper, and authors should label their submissions clearly as ‘symposium’ or ‘colloquium’. Authors who are willing to have a shortened version of a symposium paper considered as a colloquium paper should submit the shortened version, along with a shortened abstract, simultaneously with the submission of the symposium paper.

Four copies of papers to be considered for colloquia and symposia should be submitted to the American Philosophical Association, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716. The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2002.

Each submission should indicate that the paper is to be considered for the 2002 meeting of the Eastern Division and each submitted paper should have an accurate word count on its first page. Because the Program Committee will blind-review all submissions, the name and institutional affiliation of the author should appear only on a separate cover page; they should not appear in the paper itself in any way that would tend to frustrate blind-reviewing. The body of the paper should not contain any other information that might enable members of the Program Committee to identify its author. Although "Guidelines for the Non-Sexist Use of Language," published in Proceedings, 59, 3 (1986) will not be used as a criterion in evaluating submitted papers, the Executive Committee recommends that members follow the guidelines.

The 2002 Program Committee welcomes nominations, including self-nominations, for commentators and session chairs. In selecting commentators and chairs, the Program Committee tends to prefer, other things being equal, persons who have not made frequent appearances on the Eastern Division Program in the past few years. Nominations should be sent to the Chair of the Program Committee, Professor James C. Edwards, Department of Philosophy, Furman University, 3300 Poinsett Highway, Greenville, SC 29613. Nominations should be received by the Chair no later than April 1, 2002, and should include a copy of the nominee’s vita.

The Eastern Division is pleased to announce that there are two sources of financial support for junior members of the Association who wish to submit papers for consideration for the Eastern Division program. Once source is the Graduate Student Travel Stipends, the other the William James Prize. The guidelines for both are given below.

Graduate Student Travel Stipends. The Eastern Division will award a $250 travel stipend for any paper written by a graduate student that is accepted by the Program Committee in its normal, blind-review process. Eligibility is restricted to APA members or student associate members who are graduate students in good standing in an M.A. or Ph.D. program in philosophy. A graduate student may submit a paper either as a colloquium paper or as a symposium paper. Authors who are willing to have a shortened version of a symposium paper considered as a colloquium paper should submit the shortened version, along with a shortened abstract, simultaneously with the submission of the symposium paper. Authors must comply with all rules, including those intended to insure the integrity of the process of blind-reviewing, that govern normal submissions to the Program Committee (see the APA Paper Submission Guidelines and the Eastern Division Paper Submission Information in various recent issues of the Proceedings or the APA web site, www.udel.edu/apa), with two modifications. First, the author must indicate in a covering letter, and not in the paper itself, that the paper is being submitted for consideration for a graduate student travel stipend. Second, the author must also supply, at the time of submission, documentation from the author’s institution that shows that the author is a graduate student in good standing.

William James Prize. The Eastern Division will award the William James Prize to the best paper in the area of American Philosophy that is both (a) written by a philosopher who received the Ph.D. after January 1, 1997, or is a graduate student, and (b) accepted for inclusion in the Eastern Division program by the Program Committee through the normal process of blind-reviewing. Thanks to a generous gift from Professor and Mrs. John Lachs, the James Prize carries with it an honorarium of $250. For purposes of competition for the James Prize, American Philosophy is to be construed broadly as including not only studies of the work of significant thinkers in the history of American Philosophy but also creative extensions or applications of the ideas, methods or results of traditional American philosophy to philosophical issues of current interest or lasting importance.

A paper may be submitted for the competition for the James Prize either as a colloquium paper or as a symposium paper. Authors who are willing to have a shortened version of a symposium paper considered as a colloquium paper should submit the shortened version, along with a shortened abstract, simultaneously with the submission of the symposium paper. Authors must comply with all rules, including those intended to insure the integrity of the process of blind-reviewing, that govern normal submissions to the Program Committee (see the APA Paper Submission Guidelines and the Eastern Division Paper Submission Information in this issue of the Proceedings or the APA web site, www.udel.edu/apa), with two modifications. First, each submission for the competition for the James Prize must be accompanied by a cover letter from its author both (a) stating either the date on which the author’s Ph.D. was granted if the author has already received the Ph.D. or the fact that the author is a graduate student if that is the case, and (b) expressing the author’s wish to have the paper considered for the James Prize. Second, five copies of each paper, instead of the usual three, must be submitted.

The competition for the William James Prize in 2002 will be judged by a subcommittee of the 2002 Program Committee. Its members are James C. Edwards (Chair of the Program Committee, serving ex officio), William E. Mann (Secretary-Treasurer of the Eastern Division, serving ex officio), and two other committee members.

In the event that no entrant marked specifically for the William James Prize competition is accepted by the Program Committee, the Program Committee will survey the Graduate Student Travel Stipend recipients to see whether any of those papers qualifies by topic for the James Prize. If one (or more) does so qualify, it (or the best one) will receive the William James Prize instead of a Graduate Student Travel Stipend.

Each recipient of an award will be acknowledge in the printed program for the annual Eastern Division meeting.

All awards will be presented at the annual Business Meeting of the Eastern Division.

The Eastern Division is pleased to announce that there is a source of financial support for foreign scholars who wish to submit papers for consideration for the Eastern Division program. $500 travel stipends will be awarded to participants in the annual Eastern Division program from foreign countries who have their submitted papers accepted by the Program Committee in its usual review process. Eligibility is restricted to people (1) not holding citizenship in the United States or Canada, (2) residing in some other country, (3) who must come to the Eastern Division meeting from some other country. In submitting papers, eligible authors must comply with all rules, including those intended to insure the integrity of the process of blind-reviewing, that govern normal submissions to the Program Committee (see the APA Paper Submission Guidelines and the Eastern Division Paper Submission Information in various recent issues of the Proceedings or the APA web site, www.udel.edu/apa), with two modifications. First, the author must indicate in a cover letter, and not in the paper itself, that the paper is being submitted for consideration for a foreign scholar travel stipend. Second, the author must also supply, at the time of submission, documentation that shows that the author meets conditions (1)-(3) above.

All awards will be presented at the annual Business Meeting of the Eastern Division.

The Eastern Division’s Committee on Committees, whose ex officio members are the Vice President, the Divisional Representative to the Board of Officers, and the Secretary-Treasurer, renews its invitation for nominations, including self-nominations, for membership on the 2003 Program Committee. Nominees should be voting affiliates of the Eastern Division. Each nomination must be accompanied by the nominee’s curriculum vitae and must be received by December 1, 2001, at the Office of the Secretary-Treasurer, Department of Philosophy, University of Vermont, 70 South Williams Street, Burlington, Vermont, 05401-3404.

The APA program, abstracts of symposium papers, invited papers and colloquium papers, and the programs of group meetings, are contained in this issue of the Proceedings. Additional copies of the full program will be available at the Registration Desk.

Small problems sometimes arise. In some instances (for example, cashing small personal checks in an emergency, or resolving disagreements with hotel employees), the Local Arrangements Committee may be able to assist you. Should you encounter such problems, please feel free to consult Ms. Linda Smallbrook of the Local Arrangements Committee. She is usually to be found at the APA Registration Desk.

On behalf of the Executive, Program, and Local Arrangements Committees, I extend to every member of the American Philosophical Association a warm invitation to take part in our ninety-eighth Annual Meeting.

Cordially yours,

William E. Mann, Secretary-Treasurer

Eastern Division of The American Philosophical Association