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| Conferences and Calls for Papers (5/16/2012) |
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The APA National Office is happy to announce that we will again be accepting calls for conferences, seminars, and calls for papers to post to the website. Please send information and any documents to Mike Morris. Please be sure to include the following information: Conference name, dates, website URL, location, and submission deadline. |
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| APA Members Awarded ACLS Fellowships (5/16/2012) |
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APA Members Awarded ACLS Fellowships
The American Council of Learned Societies has just announced the 2012 awardees under
a number of ACLS Fellowship categories. The following APA members are among those
selected:
ACLS Fellowships:
Victor Caston Univ. of Michigan;
Katherine Thomson-Jones Oberlin College;
Shelley Weinberg Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign;
Steven Yablo MIT;
Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships:
Konstantin Pollok Univ. of South Carolina;
ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowships:
Andrew Janiak (Duke) and Karen Detlefsen (Univ. of Pennsylvania);
New Faculty Fellowships:
Kristin Boyce Johns Hopkins;
Orlin Vakarelov Duke;
Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships:
Eliot Michaelson UCLA;
Charles Rathkopf Univ. of Virginia;
Justin Horn Univ. of Wisconson;
Comparative Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society Grants:
Eric Hutton Univ. of Utah. |
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| JFP 194W is posted (5/16/2012) |
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Jobs for Philosophers volume 194W is now available. To access JFP, log in and select "Publications" under "Members Only." |
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| Petition to Save the Classics (5/9/2012) |
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The University of Pittsburgh Administration has proposed cancelling graduate admissions in Pitt’s Classics program. This would not only affect the Classics Department in a detrimental way, but would also damage the interdisciplinary Program in Classics, Philosophy, and Ancient Science and weaken the History and Philosophy of Science program. Please see the petition below and consider whether you wish to sign.
Petition Link |
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| JFP 194 to be Online Only, New JFP Coming This Fall (5/1/2012) |
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JFP Volume 194 to be Online Only
Jobs for Philosophers volume 194, to be published May 16, 2012, will be published online as JFP 194W. There will be no print edition. All ads scheduled for the print edition will appear online in JFP 194W.
To place an ad in JFP 194W, send the ad copy via email to mpmorris@udel.edu. To ensure that your ad appears on the publication date of May 16, your ad must be received by 5pm EDT on Monday, May 14.
All-New Jobs for Philosophers Coming This Fall
Exciting changes are scheduled for Jobs for Philosophers this fall. On October 1, the APA will unveil an all-new JFP website with improved usability, new advertising options, and new features. More details will be available in the September 2012 volume of Proceedings & Addresses, as well as on apaonline.org this fall.
For JFP ad guidelines, please visit the JFP ad info page. If you have any questions, please contact:
Mike Morris
The American Philosophical Association
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
Phone: (302) 831-2012
E-mail: mpmorris@udel.edu |
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| Online Committee Nominations page available (4/18/2012) |
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Online committee nominations are available starting today — Wednesday, April 18, 2012. The nomination deadline is June 30, 2012. The feature is available to APA members, and can be found under the "Members Only" menu item, which will appear to members after login. |
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| APA Board Chair Michael Bratman Announces Amy Ferrer next Executive Director (4/17/2012) |
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I am pleased and excited to announce that Amy Ferrer will become the new Executive Director of the APA, effective August 1, 2012. The choice of Ms. Ferrer was the result of an extensive and intensive search procedure, one that involved interviews both at the 2012 Central APA meetings and later at the APA’s national office at the University of Delaware. Ms. Ferrer comes to the APA with a background in non-profit administration. She has a master’s degree in public policy and administration from the University of Massachusetts, and she has worked in non-profit administration for more than 8 years. Most recently Ms. Ferrer served as Associate Director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee in Northampton, Massachusetts, where her work included communications and publications, media relations, office management, fundraising and grant management, program development, and project management. She also has extensive experience in the use of online resources to promote effective communication and outreach. She impressed the search committee as a person with the kind of intelligence, initiative, reliability, managerial skills, energy and passion, leadership skills, and interpersonal and organizational savvy to lead us in our efforts over these next years to build a preeminent learned society, one that serves all of our members and functions with distinction in this new century. Please join with me in welcoming Ms. Ferrer to the APA and in wishing her the very best as she works closely with the APA Board, the APA committees and task forces, the APA staff, and, most generally, the members of the APA.
Michael Bratman
Chair, National Board of the APA |
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| Yablo received Guggenheim Fellowship (4/16/2012) |
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Yablo received Guggenheim Fellowship:
The American Philosophical Association is pleased to congratulate APA Member, Stephen Yablo, Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT, upon his receipt of a Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Professor Yablo was one of 181 scholars so recognized from an applicant pool of almost 3,000. |
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| Call for Commentator/Chair volunteers on the December 2012 Eastern Division program (3/20/2012) |
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The Eastern Division Program Committee invites volunteers for the positions of commentator and chair on the December 2012 Eastern Division program. Commentators are sought for the submitted portion of the program, chairs for both the submitted and the invited portions. To volunteer, click on the link below and fill out and submit the form; you can choose commentator, chair, or both, and you will be asked to list up to three AOSs. You will receive a confirmation email upon submitting the form.
http://apaeastern.wufoo.com/forms/apa-eastern-division/
Volunteers cannot be guaranteed a place on the program; it depends on how many people volunteer and on the areas represented on the program. However, the Program Committee will rely on the list of volunteers in filling the commentator and chair slots. This will happen in May and June, once the committee has decided which submitted papers to accept.
Note: you may volunteer to be a commentator or chair if you have already submitted a paper. However, you may not appear on the main program more than once in any given year; so if your paper is accepted, you will no longer be eligible to serve as a commentator or chair. |
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| Now Available: Mailing List Rental (3/20/2012) |
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Direct Mail Advertising
Mailing addresses of individual USA members of the APA are available from the National Office for direct mail advertising of philosophical publications. Addresses are rented for one-time use subject to APA approval, and can be provided on 3 across Avery Laser labels in zip code order. Labels are also available in electronic format. All orders are to be pre-paid before processing is completed (see bottom of order form). For more information please contact us at (302) 831-2012.Download Adobe Reader |
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| Meetings forms cannot be accepted by email (3/6/2012) |
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For security purposes, the APA National Office CANNOT accept emailed/pdf advance 2012 Pacific Division meeting registration forms. Please fax forms to 302-831-3372 or alternatively mail them to 31 Amstel Ave., Newark, DE 19716. Registration confirmations and receipts will ONLY be sent after your registration is processed. Thank you for your cooperation.
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| Members Only Section (3/6/2012) |
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"My Account" is now "Members Only." In the effort to improve the structure of the website, we have renamed the "My Account" section of the website to "Members Only," and moved the members-only publications and Grant Fund to this area. The Members Only portion of the website is only visible and accessible to members when logged in.
Proceedings & Addresses and Jobs for Philosophers are now in the new Members Only section of the website, under Publications.
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| New dates for the Eastern Division Meeting starting 2015/2016 (3/6/2012) |
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The Eastern Division Executive Committee has reviewed the results of the fall 2011 survey on meeting dates. In light of these results, the Committee has decided to change the dates of future Eastern Division meetings to early January: specifically, the end of the first full week in January (counting Monday as the first day of the week). These new meeting dates will take effect in the 2015/16 academic year. The Executive Committee thanks all those who took part in the survey. To view the survey results, click here. |
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| Members: Bring your copy of the Proceedings & Addresses to the Divisional Meetings (3/6/2012) |
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Starting with the 2011 Eastern Division Meeting, APA members will no longer receive a duplicate copy of the September issue of the Proceedings at the conference registration desk. All registrants will receive a copy of a brochure giving the locations of main program and group program sessions. Only non-members will receive a copy of the Proceedings at registration. If you plan to attend the meeting and wish to consult the full program, please bring a copy of the Proceedings to the meeting or use the online program at www.apaonline.org. |
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| Access to website content (3/6/2012) |
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Paid Members: Certain content is visible and available on the website to all currently paid APA members. These include: the Online Paper Submission feature and access to JFP and the Proceedings ( Log in, click on "Members Only.").
Unpaid Members: Not all content is visible or accessible to members who still owe dues for this year, 2011-2012.
Remitting Dues: The "Pay My Dues" link is located in the blue header bar on this page. Dues paid online are posted to members' files within 24 hours of payment. |
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| Carolyn Fuqua’s presentation given at the 2012 APA Central Division Meeting (2/24/2012) |
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Carolyn Fuqua’s presentation on the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Humanities Indicators and Humanities Departmental Survey, given at the 2012 APA Central Division Meeting, February 18, 2012 (includes data on the number and characteristics of philosophy degree completers). Please follow the link immediately above to access a download of the presentation. |
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| Ruth Barcan Marcus dies (2/24/2012) |
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The Association was saddened to learn that Professor Ruth Barcan Marcus, Yale Professor of Philosophy, passed away on Sunday, February 19th. Marcus was President of the Central Division of the Association, and served two terms as APA Chair of the Board (1977-1983). |
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| In recognition of Alain LeRoy Locke (2/2/2012) |
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In recognition of Black History Month, the APA wishes to honor Alain LeRoy Locke (1885-1954), the first African-American Rhodes Scholar and founder of the Howard University Philosophy Department. |
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