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  • Minutes of the Business Meeting:Charles Sanders Peirce Society: 28 December 2006
  • Mark Migotti, Secretary-Treasurer

Following the annual scholarly meeting with papers by President Joseph Brent, "Peirce and Mysticism", and essay contest winner Jerome Havenel, "Peirce's Clarifications on Continuity", President Brent called the meeting to order shortly after 7 o'clock in the Coolidge Room (Mezzanine Level) of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, D.C.

1. A moment of silence was taken to remember Edward H. Madden and Christian J. W. Kloesel, and memorial statements were read by Peter Hare and Nathan Houser: Edward H. Madden. Ed died on November 25, 2006. He served as president of the Society in 1962–63 and before that as secretary-treasurer. With Edward C. Moore and Richard S. Robin, he was instrumental in founding the Transactions. In the community of Peirce scholars he is primarily known for his work on Peirce's philosophy of science and for his definitive book on the "boxing master" of the Metaphysical Club—Chauncey Wright. However, his publications spanned almost every major aspect of the American philosophical tradition as well as problems in contemporary philosophy of science. He authored or co-authored nine books, edited or co-edited five more books, and authored or coauthored more than one hundred articles and contributions to books. In 1991 the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy gave him the Herbert W. Schneider Award for lifetime achievements in the field. [For a detailed obituary, see Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, Vol. 80, No. 5, May 2007, pp. 169–170.] Christian J. W. Kloesel. Christian died in Indianapolis on December 15, 2006. Sixty-four years old, Christian was born in Breslau, Germany in 1942 and was educated in Germany and France before coming to the United States in the mid-sixties for graduate studies. He took a Master's degree, M.Phil, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Kansas. Christian began his professional career in 1971 as an Assistant Professor of English at Texas Tech University. He started out as a medievalist but his skills with languages caught the attention of Kenneth Laine Ketner, who, in 1975, recruited him as a special assistant for the Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism. He soon turned his attention to Peircean themes and in 1976 was invited to IUPUI to join the English Department and to serve as Assistant Editor for the Peirce Edition Project. Christian was initially responsible for manuscript reorganization and annotation research but he worked his way through the ranks and in 1984, after Edward C. Moore's retirement, he was appointed Director of the Peirce Edition Project. After Max Fisch's second retirement a few [End Page 593] years later, Christian became chief editor for the Project. He was a key member or the leader of the editorial teams that produced the first five volumes of the Critical Edition and, with Houser, edited the first volume of the Essential Peirce. In 1993 he left the Peirce Project to resume his life as an English professor and served as English Department chair from 2001 until his retirement in July 2006. In 2005 he received the School of Liberal Arts' Outstanding Distinguished Faculty Award. We in the Peirce Society remember him, especially, as a long-standing Secretary-Treasurer of our Society (1982 and 1987–1994) and for his service as our President in 1984. We also recall that he helped organize the Peirce program at the 18th World Congress of Philosophy in Brighton (1988) and at the 19th in Moscow (1993), and several other Peirce-related programs at diverse semiotic conferences in the U.S. and abroad. Christian served as a reviewer for the Transactions and was a Fellow of the Peirce Society from 1985 until his death.

2. The minutes of 2005 meeting, published in the Summer 2006 Transactions, were approved.

3. Joseph Brent delivered the following report from the President and Executive Committee: Nathan Houser reported to the Executive Committee on the Rules and Procedures Committee's work to prepare a guide for new Society officers. It is expected that this work will be completed in the spring. The Committee...

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