The 2005 meeting of the Society was held at the University of St. Thomas.  Craig Matarrese, the president of the Society for 2005, opened the meeting and thanked Sandra Menssen, the Society's vice president, for her work in hosting the conference.  Dr. Menssen then spoke.  She thanked Professor Felicitas Munzel, a Kant scholar from Notre Dame and the keynote speaker for the 2005 conference, as well as John Kronen, Jon Van Ingen, Michael Rota, and Nicole Mass for their help in organizing the conference. After that the Society's secretary/treasurer, John Kronen, read the minutes from last year's meeting and reported on the society's finances. The next order of business, one that is always anticipated with bated breath, was to be the election of the new vice president and the choice of the hosting school for 2006.  Unfortunately, no one came forward to volunteer to host the 2006 conference and so there were, for once, no candidates whatsoever to run in the, usually hotly contested, race to be vice president of the Society.  The disappointment at not being witness to the normally very exiting election of the vice president was palpable to those gathered in the Roggie Layden room who had just finished a delectable lunch and were greatly enjoying the business meeting of the society up to that point!!!  Someone (the secretary believes it was Doug Lewis) did, however, nominate David Cole as vice president and Dr. Cole graciously said he would think about accepting the nomination to this illustrious office.  After this it was time for announcements.  David Cole said that Doc Mayo was leaving U of M Duluth to take an early retirement and that the department, therefore, would have an opening for some one in ethics or ethical theory in particular, as well as in the philosophy of science and/or epistemology. He also said that his department would have a limited term position in the spring. Finally he noted that he would like to invite members of the society interesting in giving papers to come up to Duluth to present them to the department.  The department would have time to sponsor them on Wednesdays or Fridays. New members were announced at the end, but the secretary was unable to clearly hear their names.  He did hear, however, that the University of Minnesota as Morris had two new members.  The secretary requests that those schools who have hired new members and would like their names to appear in the minutes of the Society should not only announce the names of those members but should present the secretary, after the meeting, with the names of those members under the names of the schools they teach at. After the announcements the business meeting was adjourned.