Minutes of the Business Meeting Charles Sanders Peirce Society 5 April 2012

Following the annual scholarly meeting, with papers by President Risto Hilpinen ("Types, Tokens and Words") and Essay Contest winner Jean-Marie Chevalier ("Peirce's Critique of the First Critique: A Leibnizian False Start"), President Hilpinen called the meeting to order at 8:35pm at the Westin Seattle.

Risto Hilpinen asked for approval of the minutes of the 2010-11 business meeting. The minutes were approved.

1. 1. Risto Hilpinen delivered the following report from the President and the Executive Committee:

   The committee met from 8:00am until about 10:15am on the morning of Thursday April 5. Those in attendance were: Risto Hilpinen, Bob Lane, and Giovanni Maddalena. André De Tienne was an invited guest. Chief among the issues discussed by the Executive Committee were the following.

   1. 1. We agreed that the Society's next annual meeting should be held during the Central APA in New Orleans, in February 2013. One advantage of moving the meeting from the Pacific to the Central is that it will be easier for European members to travel to New Orleans than to San Francisco.

   2. 2. The move from the Pacific to the Central will require an adjustment to the timeline for the next essay contest. The CFP will go out in early summer 2012; the submission deadline will be early October; and the winner will be announced by the beginning of November 2012.

   3. 3. We discussed the Society's presence at other upcoming conferences. We agreed to sponsor sessions at the 2012 Eastern APA meeting in Atlanta and, if invited to do so, at the 2013 meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. Bob will be responsible for putting those sessions together. We also agreed to sponsor a session at the First European Pragmatism Conference, in Rome, in August 2012; Giovanni will be responsible for that session. Bob reported that Jaime Nubiola is still planning to put together a Society-sponsored session on "Peirce in the Mediterranean" at the 2013 World Congress of Philosophy, in Athens, Greece.

   4. 4. Bob updated everyone on the matter of the hundreds of copies of back issues of the Transactions still stored at SUNY Buffalo. Last year we decided to have a full-run (or as close to a full-run as possible) pulled from that inventory and shipped to the Peirce Edition Project, and that SUNY Buffalo be allowed to keep the remaining copies. In August 2011, Randy Dipert agreed to have a graduate student pull together that run of issues and ship it to PEP. That project is still ongoing.

   5. 5. We discussed whether the Society should pay for the memberships of its presidents once they leave office. Because membership dues are modest (the least expensive membership is $39.50 per year), and because those dues are essential for supporting the activities of the Society, we agreed that Fellows should be encouraged to continue as dues-paying members of the Society.

   6. 6. Bob informed the group of a report recently submitted to the Society by Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen, following his visit to the Houghton Library at Harvard University in February and March. The report contains information about the state of the Peirce-related holdings at Houghton and a research guide to the Peirce-related material across the Harvard library system. Bob has a few printed copies of the report which he can share tonight. The report is also online:

      http://www.helsinki.fi/~pietarin/Memorandum-PeirceSociety-Pietarinen-2012.pdf

      André DeTienne moved that we formally acknowledge and commend Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen for his work compiling this report, a proposal immediately accepted by acclamation.

   7. 7. We discussed preparations for the 2014 Charles S. Peirce International Centennial Congress. Enormous progress has been made on this project since the last meeting of the Society. Thanks to John Kaag's generous offer to host the Congress at his institution, it now has a home: the University of Massachusetts—Lowell. A contract has been signed with the UMass—Lowell Inn and Conference Center, and the Congress will be held there July 16-19, 2014.

      In June, Jaime Nubiola was appointed...