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Aux EcoutesTUNIS: 2 - 3 - 4 septembre 1990XXIIlerne CONGRES INTERNATIONALdes Societes de Philosophie de Langue Fran~aiselerne CIRCULAIREI. MODIFICATIONS OE DATESLe Congres se deroulera aux 2-3-4 septembre 1990 (au lieu des 27-28-29 aout. La date limite avant la majoration des frais d'inscription (a 40Dinars tunisiens, soit environ 300 francs fran~ais) est reportee au 31 decembre1989 (au Heu du 31 octobre).II. COMMUNICATIONSNous rappeIons aux congressistes que la date limite pour l'envoi dessujets de communications a ete fixee au 31 janvier 1990. Exceptionnellement,les propositions de sujets de communications seront re~ues jusqu'au 28 fevrier1990.Ne seront retenues que les communications dont les auteurs aurontregle leurs droits d'inscription ou auront motive par lettre au comiteorganisateur les raisons de non-paiement, s'engageant aregIer le montant del'inscription a leur arrivee. Ceci ne vaut que pour les participants appartenanta des Etats ou un contröle des changes rigoureux exclut tout versementprealable.Les communications seront inscrites dans les differentes sections:I. Critique et difference dans les philosophiesanciennes et modernes.11. Theories critiques, theories de la difference.III. Critique et interculturalite.IV. Critique et difference dans les sciences.V. Art, critique et difference.Les participants sont pries d'envoyer avant le 31 mars 1990 unresume dactylographie de leur communication (une demi-page, interlignesimple). Les resurnes de communications seront remis a chaque congressistea son arrivee, avec le programme definitif detaille.11111. RENSEIGNEMENTS PRATIQUESLe Congres se deroulera al'Hötel Continental d'Hammamet (bord demer) ainsi qu'au Centre Culturel Intemational d'Hammamet. Le Seeretariatdu Congres aeeueillera les eongressistes le samedi 1er septernbre entre 16h et20h et durant toute la duree du Congres au ~ntre Intemationald'Harnmamet.Les partieipants pourront choisir leur logement:SOIT dans les hötels d'Hammamet (irnportante infrastrueture touris-tique; les hötels les plus proches du lieu du Congres sont I'HötelAladin et I'Hötel ~l Bostane). Dans ce cas nous vous prions de reserverdirectement par l'intermediaire de votre agence de voyages (le plus totpossible).SOIT a l'Hötel Continental et Pare Hötel d'Hammamet (ou nous avonsreserve une quarantaine de chambres doubles).SOIT au Centre Culturel Intemational d'Hammamet (une vingtaine dechambres simples).SOIT a la Residence Universitaire d'Hammamet-Nabeul (plus d'unecentaine de chambres simples).Une exposition d'ouvrages et de revues de philosophie se tiendradurant le Congres. Nous demandons aux congressistes d'envoyer oud'apporter les ouvrages et les revues susceptibles d'enrichir cette exposition,ainsi que les notices ou bulletins concemant leurs ouvrages ou les revues qu'ilsrepresentent.Au cours du Congres aura Heu l'Assemblee Generale de l'Associationdes Societes de Philosophie de Langue Fran~aise. Les delegues desdifferentes societes de philosophie partieipant au Congres sont pries de sefaire connaitre au plus tot.Une exeursion archeologique sera organisee le 5 septembreIV. CIRCULAIRE ULTERIEURELe programme provisoire du Congres figurera dans la 3eme cireulairequi paraitra au mois d'avril et qui eomportera egalement les informationseoncemant les manifestations culturelles et le repas de clöture ainsi que lesdetails de l'excursion archeologique.RAPPELONS QUE TOUTE CORRESPONDANCE RELATIVE AUCONGRES DOIT ETRE ADRESSEE A: Societe Tunisienne de PhilosophieMonsieur Ali chenoufi21, rue des Vergers, Khaznadar, 2000 Le Bardo, TUNIS, TUNISIE12

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Sous l'Egide de la ChroniqueCONSTITUTIONSOCIETE AMERICAINE DE PHILOSOPHIE DE lANGUE FRANCAlSEArtiele I. NAME:Tbe name of ~his Society ~hall be: S~iete AmeriWiitte de Philosophiede Langue Fran~ise (AinericanSociety of FrancophonePhilosophy).Miete TI. AFFILIATION:Tbe SocieTe Amerieaine de Philosophie de Langue Fran~ise wascreated with tbe help and with tbe approval of the Association des Societesde Philosophie de Langue Fran~ise.Miete 111. PURPOSE:The Societe Americaine de Philosophie de Langue Fran~ise is herebyestablished in order to promote and help foster re~arch on warks by Frenchphilosopbers as' weU ~ encpurage tbe $tudy, dissemination, translation,popularization of these works and the translation into the French language ofphilosophical works in other languages.Artic)e IV. INCORPORATION:Tbe Societe Americaine de Philosophie de Langue Fran~ise has beenincorporated as a non-profit corporation in, and in accordance with the lawsof the State of Illinois, U.S.AArticle V. MEMBERSHIP:There shall be four categories of membersbip: Regular members,Student members, Life members, and Fellows. Tbe dues structure within eachcategory shall be determined by the Executive Council.Institutions or organizations wishing to support tbe Society maysubscribe to the publications of the Society, but will have no vote in theSociety's proceedings.1. Re~ular Members. Subject to the approval by an officer of theSociety, persons professionally interested in philosophy in the French languagemay become regular members of the Association.2. Student Members. Subject to approval by an officer of the Society,graduate students engaged in a course of study leading to a degree in the fieldof philosophy, or any allied fields, may for a maximum of four years becomestudent members of the Society.3. Life Members. Persons eligible for regular membership may becomelife members exempt from annual payment of dues upon a signle payment tobe determined by the Executive Committee.4. Honorary Members and Fellows. Foreign scholars may be electedHonorary members of the Society and distinguished men and wornen of anynationality may be elected Honorary Fellows.Article VI. ORGANIZATION:1. The administration of the Society shall be in the hands of theExecutive Council, consisting of five rnembers, one of whom shall be thePresident. There shall be two Vice-Presidents of the Society, and a NewsletterEditor. The Secretary-Treasurer shall serve ex-officio. The ExecutiveCouncil shall act either upon its own initiative or upon the recommendationof the Delegate Assembly.2. For the conduct of all formal busines of the Society, the authorityshall be ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDER NEWLY REVISED (1970).3. The accounts of the Society shall be audited annually. For budgetaryand other administrative purposes, the official year shall be determined by theCouncil.4. The permanent Fund of the Association and its other endowmentfunds as they shall be created shall be adrninistered by a Board of threetrustee, each appointed by the Executive Council for a three-year term, thethree terms to be staggered by one year. One of the trustees shall bedesignated the Managing Trustee.5. The Treasurer shall pay over to the Trustee any sums due thePermanent Fund, either as payments for life merrlbership or as gifts to the5Society, and also any sums contributed to any other endowment funds. TheTrustee shall invest and reinvest the principal unimpaired to the best of theirability. The income accruing on a11 property in their hands may be reinvestedwith the authorization of the Executive Council.6. Any Trustee may be removed by the Executive Council by aunanimous vote or those present at a meeting called for the purpose, and anyvacancy arising from the death, resignation, or removal of any Trustee shallbe fi11ed by the Council.Micle VII. RESPONSIBILITIES:1. The President will preside at a11 meetings of the Executive Councll;the First Vice-President will preside at a11 meetings of the Delegate Assembly.Either of these duties may be assumed by the President, the First-Vice-President, the Second-Vice-President upon the agreenlent of these threeofficers.2. Under the direction of the Executive Council, the President shalladminister the affairs of the Society, with the fo11owing specific responsibilities:to be General Editor of all publications issued by the Association; to be ex-officio member of a11 committees and commissions of the Society andchairman of the Program Committee; to act as Secretary of the ExecutiveCouncil and Qerk of the Delegate Assembly; to have charge of a11 financialoperations of the Society, including the co11ection of sums due the Society andthe payment of its bills; to present to the Council each year a budget forensuing fiscal year. After action by the Council, the budget shall bedistributed to the members of the Association for their information. ThePresident and the Treasurer shall be bonded whenever deemed appropriateby the Executive Council in a sum to be set by said Council.3. Such administrative, editorial, and clerical assistance shall beprovided for the President as may be approved by the Council.Article VIII. ELECIlON:1. Allofficers shall serve for a term of two years.2 The election of officers will occur during the annual business meetingof the Society and will be settled by a simple majority of the members inattendance, or who have submitted absentee ballots. The Secretary-Treasurerwill supervise the balloting and certify the results of the election.A To provide for its own organization and operations and to6Inanage the business and affairs cf the Soeiety as provided by the laws of theState of Illinois for direetors of Corporation.B. To aet upon reeommendations of the Delegate Assembly.c. To initiate and supervise the services of the Soeiety.D. To approve the budget of the Soeiety and to supervise itsexpenditure.E. To establish and diseharge eommittees and eommissions ofthe Soeiety, either upon reeommendation of the Delegate Assembly or uponits own initiative, and to designate their ehaimen. In making appointments,the Couneil shall ensure fair representation of all branehes of philosophy.F. To aet upon proposals affeeting the dues strueture approvedby the Delegate Assembly.G. To supervise publieation and other media of the Soeiety.H. To approve grants and eontraets.I. To plan, with the Program Committee and the DelegateAssembly, the time, plaee, eharaeter, and seope of general eonventions andmeetings of the Soeiety.J. To nominate honorary members and fellows.Artiele X. EXECUTIVE COUNCIL - COMPOSITIONThe officers named in Artiele VI shall be the members of the ExeeutiveCouncil ex-officio and two members who are not officers shall be elected tothe Executive Council for a term of two years.Article XI. DELEGATE ASSEMBLY - MEETINGS1. There shall be an annual business meeting of the Society, at a timeand place determined by the Executive Committee. A notice of the meetingwill be prepared by the Program Committee and included in the Society'sNewsletter.2. Special meetings may be called by the Executive Committee.Artiele XII. COMMITTEES71. Nominating Committee. The Nominating Committee of the Society,charged with nominations for members of the Executive Council, shall becomposed of three members who shall serve for two calendars years. Inalternate years, one members and two members shall be elected to theCommittee.2. Committee on Resolutions. The Executive Council shall each yearappoint a Committee on Resolutions consisting of five merrlbers, of whom theChairman and at least two others shall be merrlbers of the Council. Membersof this Committee shall be appointed for a term of one year but may bereappointed. They should represent a broad spectrum of the interests of theSociety. The Committe shall receive resolutions submitted by members of theSociety under the following conditions:A No resolution may exceed one hundred words in length.B. Resolutions submitted to the Chairman of the Committee upto one month before a meeting of Delegate Assembly shall bear the signatureof aleast ten members.C. Resolutions submitted to the Chairman of the Committeelater than one month before a meeting of the Delegate Assembly at whichthey are to be presented but not later than forty-eight hours before thatmeeting shall bear the signature of at least twenty members.D. No resolution shall be accepted later than twenty-four hoursbefore a meeting of the Delegate Assembly.E. The Committee may propose resolutions on its own initiative.F. The Committee shall hold hearings open to a11 members ofthe Society on all resolutions it has received and those it has initiated.G. Taking into account the views expressed at the hearings, theCommittee shall evaluate a11 resolutions submitted to it, as weIl as those whichit has initiated, and shall transmit them to the Assembly meeting,accompanying each resolution with the notation "Recommended" or "Notrecommended."H. The Delegate Assembly may not propose new resolutionsfrom the floor.I. A majority vote of the Assembly shall be required for8approval of a resolution. All resolutions so approved must be ratified by amajority of those voting in a mail ballot of the membership of the Association.3. Committee on Research Activities. The Executive Council shallappoint a Committee on Research Activities. The major fields of philosophyshall always be represented on this committee and its membership shall alwaysinclude at least one representative from an interdisciplinary field. Thecommittee shall select its own chairman. The duty of this committee shall beto further the research activities of the Society and its members. It shallconsider projects of research or publication that may be presented to it, eitherby individuals, or by the Divisions or by the Societies affiliated to theASSOCIATION DES SOCIETES DE PHILOSOPHIE DE lANGUEFRANCAlSE, and shall report such projects with its recommendations to theExecutive Council. It mayaIso initiate projects of research or publication andmay authorize grants from the income of the Research Endowment Fund. ItmayaIso recommend to the Council the continuation of desirable projects. Noresearch project project undertaken by individual members, by Divisions, orby other scholarly units of the Society or the Association shall be officiallysponsored by the Society until it has received the approval of the Committeeon Research Activities. This restriction shall not be construed as affecting theauthority and functions of other standing committees.4. Other Committees and Commissions. The Executive Council shallappoint and discharge such other committees and commissions of the Societyas it deerns appropriate. Membership, term of office, and charge of eachcommittee and commission shall be detennined by the Council. The namesof committee and commission members and their terms of appointment shallbe published at least once a year in an appropriate publication of the Society.Committee and commission menlbers must retain their membership in theSociety during their terms of office. The chairman of each committe shallreport at regular intervals to the Council on the work of the committee.Article XIII. CONVENTIONS AND MEETINGS1. The Society shall hold one business meeting annually. In anemergency, the Executive Council shall have the power to canceI a conventionexcept for the annual meeting.2. Conventions shall be planned by the Executive Council with theadvice of the Program Committee and Delegate Assembly.3. The Program Committee shall exercise general supervision overDivision and Discussion Groups, making recommendations to the Executive9Council concerning their number, the fields represented, and policy concerningthe conduct of Division and Discussion Group meetings at a Convention. TheExecutive Director, with the assistance of the Program Committee, shall havefinal responsibility for planning or approving forums and other special events.4. The President shall be empowered to make regulations regardingpapers and discussions and to coordinate or modify the various Divisions,forums, and Discussion groups in any program until the executive Councilmeets and acts upon the changes or policies involved.Article XIV. AMENDMENTSAmendments to this constitution may be proposed by petition of anythree members of the Society and shall be adopted at the annual businessmeeting by a two-thirds vote of the members present or submitting verifiedabsentee ballots.Article XV. DISSOLUTIONThe Society may be dissolved only at a special meeting called for thepurpose, and in the manner prescribed by the laws of the State of Illinois, byvote of four/fIfths of the members present. Subject to compliance with theapplicable provisions of such laws, upon any such dissolution of the Society,all its property remaining after satisfaction of all its obligations shall bedistributed to such one or more corporations, funds, foundations, or leamedsocieties, organized and operated exclusively for charitable, scientific, literary,or educational purposes, no part of the net eamings of which inures thebenefit of any private shareholder, member, or individual, and which does notcarry on propaganda or participate or intervene in any political campaign, asthe Executive Council may select.10

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4CHRONIQUE HISTORIQUELa Soci~t~ Am~ricaine de Philosophie de languefranQaise est heureuse d'annoncer san affiliation,vot~e lors de la r~union en Assembl~e G~n~rale 1e 1undi29 aoQt 1988, durant 1e Congr~s de Dijon, parmi 1esmembres adh~rents de l'Association des Soci~t~s de~hi10sophie de Langue Fran~aise&Nous rappe10ns aux membres de 1a Soci~t~Am~ricaine.de Philosophie que cette Association a ~t~fond~e en 1937 par Gaston Berger. "C'est en France, enSuisse et en Be1qique" rapporte l'ancien Pr~sident del'Association, Venant Cauchy, "que commenc~rent aud~but du XXe si~c1e 1es grands mouvements de reqroupe-ment des philosophes. Le plus connu fut sans doute 1aSoci~t~ franQaise de phi10spphie fond~e par Xavier L~onen 1901. La langue franQaise jouissait ä l'~poqued'une certaine primaut~, qu'el1e devait conserverjusqu'ä la seconde querre mondiale. Ainsi tout au langde ce premier demi-si~c1e l'activit~ internationale dela ph~10sophie de langue franQaise se d~p10ya surtoutdans 1e cadre d'organismes internationaux mu1tilinquesau sein desque1s 1e franQais servait en que1que sortede moyen privi1iqi~ de communication."En ce d~but d'ann~e naus nous r~jouissons d'ap-prendre qu'une quarantaine de soci~t~s se r~unissentautour de l'Association des Soci~t~5 de Philosophie deLangue FranQaise:ASSOCIATION BRESILIENNE DE PHILOSOPHIEASSOCIATION CANADIENNE DE PHILOSOPHIEASSOCIATION DES PROFESSEURS DE PHILOSOPHIE DES FACULTESCATHOLIQUES DE FRANCEASSOCIATION PRESENCE GABRIEL MARCELCERCLE DE PHILOSOPHIE DE TROIS-RIVIERESCERCLE D'ETUDES PHILOSOPHIQUES D'ANNECYSOCIETE ALPINE DE PHILOSOPHIESOCIETE AZURIENNE DE PHILOSOPHIESOCIETE BELGE DE PHILOSOPHIESOCIETE BOURGUIGNONNE DE PHILOSOPHIESOCIETE BRETONNE DE PHILOSOPHIE-RENNESSOCIETE CANADIENNE DE PHILOSOPHIE POLITIQUE ET DE5PHILOSOPHIE DU DROITSOCIETE CANADIENNE JACQUES MARITAINSOCIETE CHAMPENOISE.DE PHILOSOPHIESOCIETE DE PHILOSOPHIE DE KINSHASASqCIETE DE PHILOSOPHIE OE BORDEAUXSOCIETE DE PHILOSOPHIE OE LOUVAINSOCIETE OE PHILOSOPHIE DE MADAGASCARSOCIETE DE PHILOSOPHIE DE MONTREALSOCIETE DE PHILOSOPHIE 'DU QUEBECSOCIETE AMERICAINE OE PHILOSOPHIESOCIETE BENINOISE DE PHILOSOPHIESOCIETE FRANCAISE DE PHILOSOPHIESOCIETE HELLENIQUE D'ETUDES PHILOSOPHIQUESSOCIETE IVOIRIENNE DE PHILOSOPHIESOCIETE JAPONAISE OE PHILOSOPHIESOCIETE LIGERIENNE DE PHILOSOPHIESOCIETE LILLOISE OE PHILOSOPHIESOCIETE LYONNAISE OE PHILOSOPHIESOCIETE MAROCAINE OE PHILOSOPHIESOCIETE PHILOSOPHIQUE DE BRUXELLESSOCIETE POITEVINE DE PHILOSOPHIESOCIETE ROMANDE DE PHILOSOPHIE: GROUPE GENEVOISSOCIETE ROMANDE DE PHILOSOPHIE: GROUPE NEUCHATELOISSOCIETE ROMANDE DE PHILOSOPHIE: GROUPE VAUDOISSOCIETE SENEGALAISE DE PHILOSOPHIESOCIETE STRASBOURGEOISE DE PHILOSOPHIESOCIETE TOULOUSAINE DE'PHILOSOPHIESOCIETE TUNISIENNE DES ETUDES PHILOSOPHIQUESAux EcoutesLe 5ecr~taire q~n~ral de la Soci~t~ Tunisienne, M.Ali Chanoufi, confirme la proposition faite par lerepr~sentant de cette Soci~te ä l'Assemblee G~n~rale del'ASPLF de ~ijon. La Soci~t~ Tunisienne est dispos~e äorqaniser a Tunis le prochain Conqr~s de l'ASPLF. Ellesoumettra prochainement ä l'ASPLF un expos~ de sesprojets et des conditions pratiques de la tenue duConqr~6 ä Tunis. Les membres de la Soci~te Americainede Philosophie seront tenus au courant.

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