IAPS Annual
General (Business) Meeting
1. Confirmation of agenda
Agenda was confirmed
2. Confirmation of minutes of the previous
IAPS General (Business) meeting
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Minutes were confirmed as read.
3. Matters arising from the minutes of the
previous meeting
a. Amendments to the Constitution
The amendments to the constitution (see 2002 minutes) had been presented at the
2002 conference at
unanimously by the entire membership via a postal (mail-in) ballot.
b. Webmaster
This additional non-voting executive position was proposed, seconded and accepted
by members voting at the 2002
subsequently ratified unanimously by the entire membership via a postal (mail-in)
ballot.
c. Expansion of JPS Editorial Review Board
This proposal to increase the editorial review board from 10 to 15 was presented,
seconded and accepted by members voting at the 2002
conference. It has been subsequently ratified unanimously by the entire membership via a postal (mail-in) ballot.
d. IAPS 2004 Conference Site
2004 IAPS conference. Spencer Wertz, organiser can confirm that support is
available from the host institution, but no date is yet fixed. Details are to included in
next newsletter.
Mike McNamee expressed the need to establish clearly that with the new constitution,
the Conference (program) Chair is very different to local Conference Organising
chair, but that close communication between them would be necessary.
Warren Fraleigh suggested that it would be timely to examine in which continent current members reside in order to reflect upon the current practice of hosting the conference on a regular basis (1 in 3) in North America.
Action Sec/Tres for next newsletter
Dennis Hemphill suggested that it with a broader membership, particularly from
central and eastern
that IAPS profile to a wider constituency.
b. Officer Elections
Details to be published in next newsletter
The Presidency takes on the roles of the former President Elect and Conference Chair and is a two year position voted for in years ending in an odd number (i.e. 2005, 2007, 2009, etc).
The current Conference Chair will be on post for a one-year transition term. Thereafter, the Conference Chair will be a two year position voted for in years ending in even numbers (i.e. 2004, 2006, 2008, etc)
Members at
Large – Claudia Pawlenka,
Deborah Vossen
Members at large serve for two years. There are four in total.
The current Elections Chair will be on post for a one-year transition term. Thereafter, the Elections Chair will be a two year position voted for in years ending in even numbers (i.e. 2004, 2006, 2008, etc)
This is a three year position.
This is a two year position.
This is a three year position. Another member will be added next year to complete
the committee.
· The current president stated that voting was low and asked the membership to consider if this presented a problem for the association and the procedures used.
· Warren Fraleigh suggested it was appropriate to investigate the use of e-mail as a means to determine voting.
· Other views suggested that forwarding a hard copy once a year of membership renewal and proposals for voting should be retained.
· Discussion then focused on whether the Constitution currently sanctioned e-mail balloting, with the result leading to the proposal below.
Proposal: The Constitution should be amended to expand the possibilities for voting arrangements and therefore should include the wording “all forms of mail.”
The proposal was
seconded and accepted 25 to 0.
Reports submitted to Executive Committee circulated and discussed.
a. President’s Report – Sigmund Loland
b. President Elect – Jan Boxill
c. JPS Editor’s Report – (Nick Dixon)
d. Sec/Treasurer – (Alun Hardman)
e. Newsletter editor (Sharon K. Stoll)
f. Webmaster site editor (Andy Miah)
5. Committee
Reports
a.
Honours, Awards and
Future Sites (Cesar Torres)
Cesar
Torres was in the process of proposing an application procedure for
determining the quality of bids for future conference sites to
aid the selection
process.
2005 –
Jean
Francois Doré volunteered his institution
2006 –
IAPS had been contacted by external agency to arrange the conference in conjunction with the Commonwealth Games.
The executive committee following advice from the site committee will decide on
2005 before next year’s conference in order to provide the host sufficient lead time to
organise effectively.
Action:
President
Distinguished Service Award
Discussion focused on award schemes with discussion highlighting that whereas
A Distinguished Scholar Award exists it would also be appropriate to have a Distinguished Service Award. A proposal would be brought forward for such an award and presented when ready. In addition there was a further need to archive the recipients of previous Distinguished Scholar Awards
Action Sec/Tres
6. Business
on notice
Proposal:
Increase JPS Editorial Board from 15 to 20 (see Editor’s Report)
The proposal is for a constitutional amendment to increase the editorial board from 15
to 20.
Discussion
Cesar Torres asked if all current reviewers are active. Scott Kretchmar indicated that from his experiences as previous editor this was not the case with other board members with slow response times and recognised that the proposal was appropriate to accommodate such circumstances. The two year term on review board tended to resolve the problem of ineffective reviewers.
Gunnar Breivik indicated that the size of the association journal’s editorial board should not be issue for constitutional consideration but rather an operational matter for the journal editor.
Scott Kretchmar suggested that the IAPS Executive Committee should consult with the journal editor to work on new process to determine size of editorial board and the relationship of this process to the constitution.
The proposal was seconded and passed by Majority with 1 abstention A constitutional amendment to ratify the proposal will now by presented to the membership.
Proposal: Reference to the Association website, iaps.net, to be included within the
JPS.
The proposal was seconded and passed unanimously
Proposal: To establish a Distinguished Service Award (see Honours Awards and
Future Sites Committee Report)
Discussion focused
on award schemes with discussion highlighting that whereas A Distinguished
Scholar Award exists it would also be appropriate to have a Distinguished
Service Award. A proposal would be brought forward for such an award and
presented when ready. In addition there
was a further need to archive the recipients of previous Distinguished Scholar
Awards
The proposal was seconded and passed unanimously
Action Sec/Tres
7. Any
other Business
ICSSPE
Mike McNamee reported that the Pre Olympic Congress was to be organised around three themes including ethics (2 philosophy/ 1 sociology) and the review of abstracts submitted for this area would be co-opted from iaps members
North American
Philosophic Society,
June 3-5,
British Philosohy of Sport Society, June 24-25, TBA
19-21,
Heather Reid reported that the 4 philosophical papers presented at the World
Congress of
Philosophy in