Proceedings And Addresses
September, 2005 (Volume 79, Issue 1)
Letter from the Secretary-Treasurer
Letter from the Secretary-Treasurer
To All Members of the Association:
The one hundred and second Annual Meeting of the Eastern Division will be held from Tuesday, December 27th through Friday, December 30th, 2005, at the Hilton New York. All official meeting functions will take place at this hotel. Hotel accommodations at convention rates are available at the Hilton New York. I suggest that you make reservations at your earliest convenience. [NOTE: early reservations are especially important this year. Please see the Special Notice on Hotel Reservations included with the forms.] This issue of the Proceedings contains the following items:
(1) The complete program, including the program for group meetings.
(2) An advance registration form for individuals.
(3) An advance registration form for departments planning to interview candidates at the meeting and wishing to use the APA Placement Service.
(4) Forms for room reservations and room reservations at student rates.
(5) A table reservation form for the receptions.
Additional copies of the full program will be available at the Registration Desk.
1. Registration
Rates for registration are as follows:
APA Members: $50
Non-members: $60
Student members: $10
These rates are the same as for the previous three years. Of the $50 the Eastern Division collects from each APA member, $35 will be returned to the National Office to cover the salaries of staff members essential to the functioning of the Division. The remaining $15 will go to offset meeting expenses directly.
Persons who are not now members may take advantage of the lower registration fee for members by joining the APA. Regular and student membership application forms 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. The APA Registration Desk will be open on:
Tuesday, December 27: 3:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Wednesday, December 28: 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, December 29: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Friday, 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 $10 ticket; tickets will be available at the door to the
reception. For those who register, name badges will serve as proof of
registration.
2. Placement Service
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 Ombudsperson, either the Chair or a member of the APA Committee on Academic Career Opportunities and Placement, will be available in the Placement Service area for anyone encountering problems with the interviewing process.
3. Book Exhibits
The publishers' book exhibit area is in the Rhinelander Gallery on the second floor of the Hilton New York. It is open at the following times:
Wednesday, December 28: 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Thursday, December 29: 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Friday, December 30: 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
4. Presidential Address
The Presidential Address will be delivered by Jerry Fodor at 4:45 p.m., December 29th, in the Grand Ballroom (Third Floor). The title of the address is "What's Universally Quantified and Necessary and A Posteriori and it Flies South for the Winter?"
5. Receptions and Reception Tables
There will be Receptions on the nights of December 28th, from 8:00 p.m. to Midnight, and December 29th, from 9:00 p.m. to Midnight. Both Receptions will take place in the Grand Ballroom (Third Floor).
The large round tables at the Receptions will be numbered. A chart will be distributed at registration 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 both 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 or email Ms. Linda Smallbrook at the National Office (Phone: 302-831-1113; Fax: 302-831-3372; email: lindas@udel.edu). The deadline for making table reservations is December 12th.
6. Business Meeting and Voting Membership
The annual Business Meeting will be held on December 29th at 11:15 a.m. in the Grand Ballroom. 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 entrance to the Business Meeting itself, for those wishing to attend and to vote.
7. Resolutions
(a) All resolutions to be presented for inclusion on the agenda of the Business Meeting as separate items must be submitted in writing to the Secretary-Treasurer at least nine weeks in advance of the Annual Meeting (by October 25, 2005) in order to be properly announced to the membership.
(b) No question of a substantive nature other than routine business shall be in order under "New Business" unless it has been received by the Secretary-Treasurer three weeks in advance of the Annual Meeting (by December 6, 2005) for transmission to the Executive Committee, except if three-fourths of the Eastern Division affiliates in attendance at the Business Meeting vote that such a question should be taken up at that meeting.
(c) According to section 9.c of the By-Laws of the APA, "Resolutions which purport to represent the sense of a division on matters of public policy may be voted on only by mail ballot authorized by the annual Business Meeting of that division. Such mail ballots will include relevant minutes of the meeting and a summary of the arguments presented."
(d) The Eastern Division Executive Committee has the prerogative to order a mail ballot on any question of a substantive nature other than routine business that may come before the Business Meeting.
(e) There is a Resolutions Subcommittee of the Executive Committee consisting of the Vice President, the Divisional Representative to the Board of Officers, and the Secretary-Treasurer, each of whom is available to consult with members before and during the Annual Meeting, on the preparation of resolutions.
8. The 2006 Program Committee
The 2006 Program Committee invites contributions for the 2006 Annual Meeting that will be held in Washington, D.C., on December 27-30, 2006. The 2006 Program Committee is composed of:
Marc Lange (Chair)
Richard Bett (ex officio)
Susan Brison
James Dreier
Richard Feldman
Sean Kelly
Leonard Lawlor
Ernest Lepore
Alison Simmons
Nancy Tuana
Jonathan Vogel
Roslyn Weiss
Stephen Yablo
The deadline for submitted papers for the 2006 meeting is February 15, 2006. For further details on how and where to submit papers for consideration, see the section on Paper Submission Guidelines elsewhere in this issue.
The 2006 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, Marc Lange, Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina_Chapel Hill, Caldwell Hall, CB#3125, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3125. Nominations should be received by the Chair no later than April 1, 2006; they should include a short list of significant or representative publications by the nominee, and should indicate the nominee's area(s) of specialization. (A curriculum vitae is not required for this purpose.)
9. Graduate Student Travel Stipends and the William James Prize
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. One source is the Graduate Student Travel Stipends, the other is the William James Prize. The guidelines for both are given below.
Graduate Student Travel Stipends.
The Eastern Division will award a $300 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 ensure 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 elsewhere in the Proceedings or on the APA web site,
www.udel.edu/apa), with two modifications.
First, the author must
indicate that the paper is being submitted for consideration for a graduate
student travel stipend. If the paper is submitted electronically, this
is to be done by checking the relevant box on the online submission
form; if it is submitted by mail, the paper must be accompanied by a
cover letter indicating that the paper is in competition for a Graduate
Student stipend. (This information is not to be included in the paper
itself.) Second, whichever method of submission is used, the author
must also supply, at the time of submission, documentation from the
author's institution showing 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, 2001, 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 $300. 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 ensure 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 elsewhere in the Proceedings or on the APA web site, www.udel.edu/apa). In addition, each submission for the competition for the James Prize must be accompanied by a 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. (The paper may, as usual, be submitted either electronically or by mail, but the letter must be mailed.)
The competition for the William James Prize in 2006 will be judged by a subcommittee of the 2006 Program Committee. Its members are Marc Lange (Chair of the Program Committee, serving ex officio), Richard Bett (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. No paper may be awarded both
the William James Prize and a Graduate Student Travel Stipend.
Each recipient of an award will be acknowledged in the printed program for the annual Eastern Division Meeting.
10. APA Prize Reception
There will be a special reception for the presentation of awards, at which all meeting registrants are welcome. The prize reception will take place in the Mercury Rotunda (Third Floor) at 5:00-6:00 p.m. on December 28. The awards to be presented include the Graduate Student Travel Stipends, as well as a number of national APA prizes; the specifics are listed with the announcement of the reception in the main program.
11. The 2007 Program Committee
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, invites nominations, including self-nominations, for membership on the 2007 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, 2005, at the Office of the Secretary-Treasurer, Department of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218-2686.
On behalf of the Executive and Program Committees, I extend to every member of the American Philosophical Association a warm invitation to take part in our one hundred and second Annual Meeting.
Cordially yours,
Richard Bett, Secretary-Treasurer