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Organizations
Here you will find annotated links to philosophical
organizations, philosophy societies, philosophy associations, and other
philosophy related interest groups.
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The Association for Moral Education (AME)
was founded in 1976 to provide an interdisciplinary forum for professionals
interested in the moral dimensions of educational theory and practice. The
Association is dedicated to fostering communication, cooperation, training,
curriculum development, and research that links moral theory with
educational practice. It supports self-reflective educational practices that
value the worth and dignity of each individual as a moral agent in a
pluralistic society. The AME sponsors a Newsletter.
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The Association for Practical and
Professional Ethics is committed to encouraging high quality
interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching in practical and professional
ethics by educators and practitioners who appreciate the theoretical and
practical impacts of their subjects. The Association sponsors Profiles
in Ethics.
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ASSC promotes research within
cognitive science, neuroscience, philosophy, and other relevant disciplines
in the sciences and humanities, directed toward understanding the nature,
function, and underlying mechanisms of consciousness. ASSC currently
has two official journals: CONSCIOUSNESS & COGNITION
and PSYCHE.
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The Association for the Study of
Persons aims at responding to the growing feeling of unease about the
depersonalizing and dehumanizing conditions under which persons have to
live. The Association hopes to raise, encourage, and promote national and
international awareness of personalism, and issues associated with an
understanding of the significance and importance of persons.
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The Association for Symbolic Logic is
an international organization supporting the presentation, publication, and
critical discussion of scholarly work in the field of logic. The Association
was founded in 1936, at a time when great advances in the discipline were
beginning to be made. Its current membership reflects the longstanding
important role of logic in philosophy and in mathematics as well as the
newer connections between logic and both computer science and linguistics.
The Association aims to promote an awareness and appreciation of advances in
the field of logic among all who may benefit. To this end it publishes two
quarterly journals, circulates a newsletter, and undertakes a number of
other publishing ventures; it regularly organizes and sponsors meetings and
summer schools throughout the world; it awards prizes for excellence in
research; and it maintains professional ties with related organizations.
The Association sponsors Newsletters and Journals.
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The Atheist Alliance Inc. (AAI) is a
democratic association of independent, autonomous atheist societies.
Applications for AAI membership from independent local or regional atheist
clubs, groups, societies, organizations, and associations are always
welcome. The Alliance sponsors SECULAR
NATION MAGAZINE
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Atheist Centre is a social change
institution founded by Gora (1902-1975) and Saraswathi Gora (1912) in the
year 1940 at Mudnur village in Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh, India. On
the eve of the Independence to the country, Atheist Centre was shifted to
Vijayawada in 1947 and since then it has been the hub of activity for
promotion of atheism, humanism and social change. Atheist Centre carries on
its multifarious activities with the cooperation and good will of the
people. Since the demise of Gora in 1975, Atheist Centre carries on all its
activities under the able guidance of Ms Saraswathi Gora, the co-
founder of the Centre. She is assisted by the dedicated team of people who
are engaged in the promotion of atheism as a way of life. Atheist Centre is
also actively engaged in Secular Social Work activities for comprehensive
rural development and rendering assistance to people to develop an alternate
way of life on secular and humanist lines. The Centre maintains live-
wire contact with the humanists, atheist, secularists, rationalists and
social change workers in different parts of the world.
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The Atlantic Region Philosophers
Association was formed in 1970. The chief purpose of the organization is to
foster research and scholarship within the philosophical community in
Atlantic Canada.
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The Australasian Association for
Process Thought was formed in 1996 by process philosopher and theologian,
Dr. Greg Moses and computer scientist, Peter Farleigh, with support from
biologist and writer, Professor Charles Birch and humanities professor,
Wayne Hudson. The aim of the organization is to promote the study of the
process-relational thought of Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne
in the Antipodes.
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The Association sponsors a Newsletter
and conferences.
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The AAP is the professional organization
of academic philosophers in Australia and New Zealand. It exists to promote
the study of philosophy in Australasia, and to co-ordinate professional
activities such as conferences.
In recent years, the AAP has offered a prize
for philosophy published in the popular media. And there is a mailing
list which carries news of relevance to our members.
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Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics (AAPAE) grew out
of a conference on Teaching Applied Ethics held in Sydney in 1992.Academics
and professionals from many different backgrounds met together, found a
great deal of common ground, profited from their interchanges, and were
eager to meet again on a regular basis. The next step was to form an
association which could bring together people normally separated by
traditional discipline boundaries. Hence the formation in 1993 of the AAPAE,
a non-partisan, non-profit national umbrella organization for all those
concerned with applied ethics in its many forms. The Association
sponsors a Mailing
List.
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The Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein
Society pursues two main goals: As implied by the name "Wittgenstein
Society," its first goal is the analysis, tradition, and dissemination
of Wittgenstein's philosophy. Confronted with the mass of present-day
Wittgenstein research in the English-speaking countries, this might look
like carrying coals to Newcastle. But it should be kept in mind that in many
European countries Wittgenstein's philosophy, and Analytic Philosophy in
general, were - and up to a point still are - in a minority position. This
situation is the reason for the society's second main goal: to continue a
philosophy which had strong roots in Austria (as well as in other
countries): Analytic Philosophy (Wittgenstein) and philosophy of science
(Vienna Circle). The emphasis, then, is not on the history of philosophy.
The aim is to discuss present-day problems in the framework of a philosophy
which is methodologically explicit and whose results are presented
perspicuously. The spectrum of philosophical problems extends from
philosophy of science, epistemology and logic to ethics and the humanities.
The Austrian Wittgenstein Society is well aware that such a philosophy
cannot - and should not - be an arcane discipline with the society acting as
its church. The society, then, strives to be a forum for all those who are
interested in a scientifically oriented philosophy. The most important forum
are the annual Wittgenstein
Symposia and the publications
of the Wittgenstein Society.
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Since 1985, the Ayn Rand Institute
has been the authoritative source for information about Ayn Rand. The
institute sponsors a Mailing
List.
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The Ayn Rand Society, founded in 1987, is an affiliated
group with the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division. Its aim
is to foster the scholarly study by philosophers of the philosophical
thought and writings of Ayn Rand.
Meetings are held annually, in conjunction with the
annual meeting of the APA Eastern Division, and may on occasion be held in
conjunction with the meetings of other Divisions. Membership in the Society
is open to all members of the APA (regardless of division): regular
membership to regular members of the APA, student membership to student
members.
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