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  • Minutes of the Business Meeting Charles Sanders Peirce Society 21 April 2011

Following the annual scholarly meeting, with papers by President Cheryl Misak ("Pragmatism and Indispensability Arguments") and Essay Contest winner Richard Atkins ("This Proposition is not True: C.S. Peirce and the Liar Paradox"), President Misak called the meeting to order at 7:20 pm at the Hilton Bayfront San Diego.

1. Cheryl Misak asked for approval of minutes of the 2009 meeting. Bob Lane indicated that there was an error in the financial report included in those minutes: the report excluded $2.03 interest earned on our savings and money market accounts. He submitted the following, corrected version of the financial report for 2009:

The Society's income in 2009 was $5,360.29: $2,499.30 in membership dues; $2,822.10 in Transactions royalties; and $38.89 in interest. Our 2009 expenditures were $1,154.51: $500 for the 2009 essay contest prize; $75.11 for postage (payment to John Shook, for shipping Peter Hare's files to André De Tienne and to me); $221 for FISP (Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie) dues for 2009; $275 for IUHPS/DLMPS (International Union of History and Philosophy of Science / Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science) dues for 2008, 2009 and 2010; and $83.40 for web-site fees. As of December 31, 2009, the Society's assets were $11,689.02, an increase of $4,205.78 from last year. The breakdown of the assets is: $3,628.42 in checking, $7,986.23 in a money-market account, $74.37 in savings.

2. Cheryl Misak delivered the following report from the President and the Executive Committee:

The committee met from 9:15am until about 10:30am on the morning of Thursday April 21. Those in attendance were: Cheryl Misak, Risto Hilpinen, Bob Lane, Mats Bergmann, and Shannon Dea. Chief among the issues discussed by the Executive Committee were the following.

1. Bob Lane reported on the size of the Society's membership. As of April 1, 2011, there are 226 individual members and 211 subscribing institutions. This reflects a very small decrease over the last three years; in June 2008, there were 237 individual members and 216 institutional subscribers. Given the availability of the Transactions via institutional subscriptions to JSTOR and EBSCOhost to those who are not members of the Society, it is not surprising that there are fewer Society members [End Page 115] now than there were a few years ago. But the decline (11 individual members and 5 institutional subscribers) is not large enough to be worrisome.

2. We reviewed Matt Moore's report on his 2010 visit to SUNY Buffalo to catalog the back issues of the Transactions that are stored there. According to that report, there are copies of all back issues through volume 41 issue 3 (summer 2005), with the exceptions of v.21:1 (winter 1985), v.31:4 (fall 1995), and v.40:3 (summer 2004). Last year we agreed to try to pull at least one complete run (or as complete a run as possible) from this stockpile, which would then be sent to the Peirce Edition Project for permanent archiving. To that end, we agreed to the following plan: 1) find out from PEP which issues they do not currently possess; 2) arrange with SUNY Buffalo, or perhaps with the University of Toronto, to have a graduate student pull copies of those copies, box them up, and ship them to PEP (the shipping will be paid by the Society); and 3) allow SUNY Buffalo to keep the remaining copies.

[After Cheryl read this portion of the Report, Kees de Waal indicated that PEP needs as complete a run of the Transactions as can be gathered from SUNY Buffalo. Cheryl will contact SUNY Buffalo to request that such a run be collected and sent to PEP.]

3. We discussed the location of the Society's next annual meeting and agreed that it should once again be held during the Pacific APA (Seattle, April 4-8, 2012).

4. Because we will continue to hold our annual meeting during the Pacific APA, we will...

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