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Minutes:
The
Meeting of Conference of Philosophical Societies (CoPS)
December
27, 2003, Washington, D.C.
Place:
Washington Hilton, Georgetown East Hall, Washington, D.C.
Time:
20.00-22.00, December 27, 2003
Participants:
John
M. Abbarno (Chair), Thomas Magnell, Stuart A. Umpleby, George F. McLean, Peter
Boltuc, Hu Yeping and others
1.
Presentation:
The
meeting began with a presentation given by Professor Peter Boltuc on the
implications of philosophy for social action and his experience on how to
promote students engaging in the community building, especially in courses on
“Social Capital” and “Critical Thinking”. This was followed by a
discussion on philosophy as theory and practice.
2.
Business meeting:
1.
The President of CoPS, Professor John Abbarno, introduced briefly the activities
and plans of CoPS. He gave thanks to Professor Nancy
Simco for her devotion to the printed Philosophical Calendar and other works of
the CoPS all these years and Professor Kevin Stoehr who took over the electronic
version of Philosophical Calendar and initiated the webpage (www.crvp.org) maintained
by the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy (RVP). Professor Abbarno
urged CoPS members to contribute their new ideas regarding activities in the
coming year (address: abbarnojo@dyc.edu).
(2) George F. McLean, one of the founding members of CoPS, made the following proposal which was unanimously accepted.
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The multiple philosophical societies were founded largely after 1950 in
response to the increasing specialization of work in this field. In 1970s Cops
was founded to provide a way for them to cooperate.
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This was first and foremost a matter of providing information about what
each society was doing separately through the development of the Philosophical
Calendar listing conferences and distributed in print and on the web, as well as
being reprinted in the FISP bulletin.
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Now in the postmodern world the sciences, physical and social, seem no
longer adequate to address the newly emerging issues of human rights and
dignity, culture and values, and the global dialogue of civilizations, which
have become the present preoccupations of humankind.
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It is proposed therefore that Cops establish a sub-committee to explore
and promote research cooperation on such issues between its specialized society
members. The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy (RVP) would share its
experience in the development of related teams and assure publication of the
resulting work.
(3)
Elected new board members:
President:
John Abbarno
Treasurer:
Nancy Simco
Secretary:
Hu Yeping
Sub-Committee
on research cooperation: George F. McLean (Chair), John Abbarno, Thomas Magnell
and Hu Yeping
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