Hilton Atlanta and Towers
December 29, 2001

1. The meeting was called to order at 11:20 a.m. by President Virginia Held.

2. President Held announced the agenda, which had been distributed to members present, and appointed Frank Kirkland as Parliamentarian.

3. The minutes of the 2000 business meeting, which had been published in the Proceedings, Volume 75, Number 1 (September 2001) were approved as published.

4. The Secretary-Treasurer's report of the activities of divisional committees from December 27, 2000 through December 26, 2001, which was distributed to members present, was received. The report read as follows:

(A) On behalf of the Executive Committee, the Secretary-Treasurer constituted a Local Arrangements Committee composed of Linda Smallbrook (Chair) and William E. Mann (ex officio) for the 2001 meeting of the Division to be held in Atlanta.

(B) The 2001 Nominating Committee met to select nominees for Vice President and two members-at-large of the Executive Committee, in an election to be held in 2002. The Nominating Committee is composed of the immediate Past President (Daniel Dennett), serving as Chair; two members elected by mail ballot and serving the second year of two-year terms (Cora Diamond and Beth J. Singer), and two members elected by mail ballot and serving the first year of two-year terms (Robert Bernasconi and Charles Scott). The nominees for Vice President are Thomas R. Flynn, John Lachs, and Iris Marion Young. The nominees for members-at-large of the Executive Committee are Martha Brandt Bolton, Walter A. Brogan, James Campbell, Larry A. Hickman, Michael Krausz, Ladelle McWhorter, Richard Moran, Dennis J. Schmidt, and Sally Sedgwick.

(C) The 2001 Program Committee (Richard Aquila, Daniel T. Devereux, Willem deVries, James C. Edwards, Samuel Freeman, John Greco, William E. Mann [ex officio], Victoria McGeer, Mark Richard, John Sallis [Chair], Rosemarie Tong, and Kathleen Wallace) met to establish the submitted portion of the program for the 2001 meeting of the Division.

(D) The 2002 Program Committee (Richard Aquila, Thomas C. Brickhouse, Cheshire Calhoun, David Crocker, Willem deVries, James C. Edwards [Chair], John Greco, Hilary Kornblith, William E. Mann [ex officio], Ladelle McWhorter, Mark Richard, Kathleen Wallace, and Merold Westphal) was prevented from meeting by the events of September 11. The committee conducted its business, the determination of the invited portion of the 2002 meeting of the Division, by correspondence.

(E) The Executive Committee took the following actions at its meeting on December 27, 2000:

1. Approved the minutes of its previous meeting on December 27, 1999.

2. Set the agenda for the 2000 Business Meeting.

3. Heard a report from J. B. Schneewind, Chair of the Board of Officers, concerning the Board's activities since the last meeting of the Executive Committee. Schneewind introduced Elizabeth Radcliffe, who will become Executive Director effective July 1, 2001, and thanked Richard Bett for his service as interim Executive Director. Schneewind announced that the constitutional amendments allowing for the creation of the Board positions of Vice Chair and Treasurer were approved by mail ballot in all three divisions and that the positions have been filled by John M. Cooper and Stephanie Lewis, respectively. The Board authorized creation of a Chair's Council, advisory to the Chair on matters not requiring full Board attention, composed of the three Secretary-Treasurers, one Divisional Representative serving the second year of a three-year term, one chair of a standing committee serving the second year of a three-year term (to be elected by the Board), the Treasurer, the Executive Director, and the Chair.

The Board referred to an ad hoc committee the issue of APA funding of lectures and prizes, authorized the creation of a sixth standing Board committee, the Committee on Inclusiveness (an action that requires constitutional change and thus must be put to mail ballot in all three divisions), began to consider the issue of more explicit guidelines for socially responsible investment of APA funds, approved support of two new newsletters, deliberated about a case of alleged plagiarism, decided to allow censured institutions to continue to use APA placement services so long as their censure is displayed in Jobs for Philosophers, and modified guidelines for the search process for an Executive Director.

In light of the alleged plagiarism case reported by Schneewind, the Executive Committee passed unanimously a resolution urging the National Office to draft a sentence to be included in the paper submission guidelines to the effect that in submitting papers for consideration by the APA, authors thereby certify that the papers were written by them.

4. Moved that the Eastern Division put to mail ballot and adopt the Board of Officers' proposal to add a Committee on Inclusiveness as a standing Board committee, urging the Board to make the necessary editorial changes to the Constitution. The motion passed with one abstention.

5. Received reports concerning the division's financial situation. The Executive Committee decided to defer any decisions about socially responsible investment policies until the Board has acted on the issue.

6. Instructed the Secretary-Treasurer to modify the proposed divisional budget to include a line under Expenses, "Subvention of Central and Pacific Division convention activity: $16,000," and make the appropriate arithmetical changes.

7. Decided unanimously to continue the Foreign Scholar Travel Stipend program for two more years, reviewing it at next year's Executive Committee meeting.

Decided unanimously to insert the following sentence into the Eastern Division paper submission guidelines: "Papers accepted by either the Central Division or the Pacific Division may not be presented at the Eastern Division meeting."

Decided, with one abstention, to allow authors of papers to be presented at the Eastern Division meeting to list their URLs on the APA web site, but not to allow links to the authors' sites.

8. Provisionally authorized the Secretary-Treasurer to negotiate a contract with the New York Hilton and Towers for the Eastern Division meeting in 2005.

9. Unanimously passed a proposal to add two new areas to the Advisory Committee to the Program Committee, one in Phenomenology, Existentialism, and Hermeneutics, and one in Postmodernism and Philosophy of Culture.

10. Received a report on the recipients of Graduate Student Travel Stipends and Foreign Scholar Travel Stipends.

11. Passed unanimously a proposal to establish an apprenticeship year for the successor to the present Secretary-Treasurer (whose term expires July 1, 2003). It was moved that the search committee for a new Secretary-Treasurer be composed of Virginia Held (chair), Edward Casey, Vere Chappell, and William E. Mann. The motion passed with one abstention.

12. Nominated four candidates for two positions on the Nominating Committee. They are Robert Bernasconi, Philip Kitcher, Charles Scott, and Stephen Yablo.

13. After receiving suggestions from the Committee on Committees, established a list of candidates and alternates for membership on the 2002 Program Committee and instructed the Secretary-Treasurer to form a committee from that list plus the list of continuing members.

14. After receiving suggestions from the Committee on Committees, established a list of candidates and alternates for membership on the Advisory Committee to the Program Committee and instructed the Secretary-Treasurer to form a committee from that list plus the list of continuing members.

5. The report of the 2001 Eastern Division mail ballots, which had been published in the Proceedings, volume 75, number 2 (November 2001), was received.

6. The auditor's report of the division's finances for fiscal year 2000-2001 and the divisional budget proposed for fiscal year 2001-2002, which had been distributed to members present, were received.

7. At the request of the Secretary-Treasurer, the members present stood to observe a moment of silent respect for those members whose deaths had been reported since the 2000 business meeting. Their names are:

Peter Clare Appleby Morton O. Beckner Robert L. Caldwell Norman S. Care James Leroy Celarier Houghton Baker Dalrymple Manuel Manson Davenport Burton S. Dreben Lloyd D. Easton Orin C. Flowers Marie C. Fox J. Paul Franke Eugene T. Gadol David L. Hall Frederick P. Harris Charles Hartshorne Robert F. Harvanek Paul Turner Hershey Walker H. Hill

Henry Johnstone, Jr. Howard Kahane George Kerner Elmer Daniel Klemke Alice Ambrose Lazerowitz Marcia Lind James W. McClendon Donald Meiklejohn Bella K. Millmed Harold S. Murphy James Willard Oliver Harold L. Parsons Philip L. Peterson Kenneth Lee Pike Wesley C. Salmon Francis Seaman Craig L. Stark Lester Start Thomas Sidney Vernon

8. The Secretary-Treasurer announced the winners of Graduate Student Travel Stipends and Foreign Scholar Travel Stipends, and presented the awards to those who were present to receive them. The following people won Graduate Student Travel Stipends:

Chrisoula Andreou Justin D. Barnard Sylvia J. Burrow Raffaella De Rosa Matthew Halteman Laura A. McAlinden David Merli

Jeffrey Moriarty Jeffrey Seidman Kenneth E. Shockley Daniel Speak J. Robert Thompson Manuel R. Vargas

A foreign Scholar Travel Stipend was awarded to Michael J. Pendlebury.

9. The report of the 2001 Nominating Committee, which had been published in the Proceedings, Volume 75, Number 2 (November 2001), was received. (The Nominating Committee's nominees for the 2002 elections are listed in section 4(B) of these minutes.)

10. The Secretary-Treasurer announced the nominations of the Executive Committee for two positions on the Nominating Committee and invited other nominations from the floor. Listed alphabetically, the nominees are Mitchell Aboulafia, Thomas Buford, Gail J. Fine, Judith Green, Thomas Hill, Jr., Aryeh Kosman, Lenore Langsdorf, William G. Lycan, Michele Moody-Adams, Ofelia Schutte, and Ernest Sosa.

11. J. B. Schneewind, Chair of the Board of Officers, reported that Elizabeth Radcliffe, the Executive Director, has decided not to serve in that capacity after June 30, 2003. A search committee for her successor is being formed; Richard Bett will be its chair. Nominations are in order for members of the committee. There has been increased membership activity, and with over 11,000 members, eighteen committees, several publications, a web site and other services to be provided, the staff of the National Office is overburdened. Schneewind expressed the belief that the association will not be able to attract a good Executive Director if the present situation in the National Office continues.

Elizabeth Radcliffe mentioned some of the projects with which the National Office is presently involved: Monitoring the membership survey, hoping to have survey results in Spring 2002. Sponsoring a radio program, now in its planning stages. Facilitating the work of various committees, including Inclusiveness, Career Opportunities (concerning job placement), and Status and Future of the Profession (concerning the revision of various APA position statements).

12. The Secretary-Treasurer reported the following actions taken by the Executive Committee at its December 27, 2001 meeting.

(A) In a response to Schneewind's request to help solve serious staffing shortages in the National Office, and in order thereby to make the position of Executive Director more manageable and thus more attractive to potential candidates, the Executive Committee unanimously passed two resolutions. They are:

• The Eastern Division guarantees up to $80,000, beginning January 1, 2002 and ending June 30, 2003, to be used by the National Office to cover urgent staffing needs.

• The Eastern Division approves raising registration fees up to a total of $50 for APA members, and dividing derived income with the National Office, providing that the other divisions also approve, and according to formulas to be worked out by the Secretary-Treasurers.

(B) Foreign Scholar Travel Stipends will be continued indefinitely, as will a program to make available to the Committee on International Cooperation up to $1,000 a year to defray travel expenses for the participation of foreign philosophers at Eastern Division meetings.

(C) After hearing a report from the Executive Committee's ad hoc search committee for a Secretary-Treasurer, the Executive Committee decided to offer the position to Richard Bett, who has accepted. He will serve an apprentice year and take over the office formally on July 1, 2003.

13. Under new business, John Lachs announced a special session on "War as a Response to Terrorism," sponsored by the Centennial Committee. He also announced a series of short radio spots on philosophy by John Cleese, and urged members to call them to the attention of their local public radio stations.

14. There were no open forum issues raised.

15. The meeting adjourned at 11:57 a.m.

Respectfully submitted,

William E. Mann

Secretary-Treasurer

American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division