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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 Sceptic Tank started out as an
interdisciplinary philosophical society in 1989, at which time its
main activities were the organization of interdisciplinary
symposia on a wide range of topics and the consumption of
subsidized wine during office hours. (If the truth must be known,
the very first symposium was held by an organization calling
itself the Boerewors Club but the cheerful pun on the Vienna
Circle was widely misconstrued as an endorsement of carnivorous
and nationalistic conservatism and quickly abandoned.) During
these heady days such topics as "Space, Time and the Fabric
of the Universe", "Deconstruction time again",
"Where has all the Meaning gone?" and "Snap,
Crackle, ...Popper?" were hotly debated. After a number of
busy years the symposium approach ran out of steam and the society
became inactive for about two years. More recently the Tank has
been re-incarnated as an alcohol-free seminar series based in the
UND Philosophy department, which retains the interdisciplinary
flavor of the original by hearing papers from at least as many
non-philosophers as philosophers. The Tank also hosts visitors to
the university, and recent guest speakers include David Papineau
(Philosophy at King's College, London), Phillipe van Haute
(details coming soon), and Thomas Robinson (Classics and
Philosophy at Toronto).
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The Scottish Postgraduate Philosophy Association is
an organization which aims to serve the needs of philosophy
postgraduates in Scotland. To this end, the SPPA organizes
conferences, gathers and redistributes details of visiting and
other speakers and encourages contact and communication between
its members.
Membership is open to any philosophy
postgraduate studying at a Scottish University.
Associate Membership is open to other interested parties.
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SHAK -- International Association of Arab
Skeptics
Contact: writerisis@email.com
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Founded in 1981, the Social Philosophy and Policy
Center is dedicated to the examination of public policy issues
from a philosophical perspective.
The Center is distinctive in its focus upon the
ethical aspects of public policy questions. This emphasis reflects
the belief that policy questions cannot be adequately addressed by
empirical investigation alone. Factual research can reveal the
optimal or efficient policy by which certain public ends can be
attained, yet the validity of those ends is still open to question
from an ethical standpoint.
The methodology of the Center is
interdisciplinary, in that ethical analysis is informed by the
results of economics, jurisprudence, and political science. Thus,
the Center draws upon the work of eminent scholars from a wide
spectrum of informed opinion and disciplines in order to broaden
the range of political discourse. The Center disseminates the
ideas of these scholars through many activities and publications,
including scholarly conferences, research fellowships, books,
original research papers, and its interdisciplinary journal.
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The SACP was established in 1967 as a non-profit
organization aimed at advancing the development of the disciplines
of Asian and comparative philosophy in the international academic
arena, and bringing together Asian and Western philosophers for a
mutually beneficial exchange of ideas.
The Society seeks to provide the same sort of
professional outlet for philosophers doing work in non-Western
areas of philosophy as the American Philosophical Association (APA)
provides for their counterparts in Western thought. The group
serves as the largest and most well-known professional
organization for scholars in the fields of Asian, Indian, and
comparative philosophy. It holds panels in conjunction with the
APA, the Association of Asian Studies (AAS), and the American
Academy of Religion (AAR).
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The Society for Bioethics and Classical Philosophy
(SBCP) explores the implications of ancient and medieval insights
for contemporary bioethics.
The SBCP:
 | facilitates dialogue among scholars of
ancient philosophy, medieval philosophy, and contemporary
biomedical ethics, |
| encourages scholarship on approaches to
bioethics that have classical roots, e.g., virtue ethics,
casuistry, communitarianism, etc., and |
| fosters studies in ancient and medieval
philosophy that are relevant to contemporary philosophy of
biology, philosophy of medicine, medical ethics, research
ethics, environmental ethics, and similar contemporary areas
of interest. |
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The Society of Consultant Philosophers is a
professional organisation which aims to promote Philosophical
Counselling, Socratic Dialogue ( in business) and Philosophy for
Children in the UK. Membership
is open to all interested persons, but only those with suitable
qualifications in philosophy and other relevant disciplines are
eligible for its National Register.
The Society of Consultant Philosophers (SCP)
main inspirational source is the Greek philosopher Socrates who
lived in Athens between c470 and 399 BC. The main character in
Plato's early dialogues, he is the paradigm for philosophy
practiced as a way of life. For Socrates, philosophy was a very
personal affair. He believed that insight into ones own
experiences can best be acquired through mutual, critical enquiry.
When thinking socratically people discover that they cannot
clearly define ideas and concepts they previously held with
certainty. This awareness in turn inspires further curiosity and
open-minded reflection.
The SCP is committed to providing Training and
the National Register for professionals engaged in philosophical
counsellors, socratic dialogue and philosophy for children
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Established in 1995, The Society
for Ethics (SE) serves the purpose of promoting philosophical
research in ethics, broadly construed, including areas such as
(but not limited to) ethical theory, moral, social and political
philosophy, as well as areas of applied ethics such as (but not
limited to) legal, business and medical ethics. Although the SE is
primarily a philosophical society, others are also encouraged to
become members. (Click here
for membership form.)
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The Society for Ethics will hold meetings in
conjunction with the American Philosophical Association's
three annual divisional meetings (Eastern, Pacific and
Central). The format of such meetings for 1997-98 will include
invited Keynote Speakers all of which will be published in
revised form in The
Journal of Ethics: An International Philosophical Review.
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The Society for Ethics distributes an annual
Newsletter, consisting of announcements of upcoming
SE events and meetings (listing the dates, locations and
times of meetings, speakers, their respective titles and
abstracts of the papers to be presented). Each member of the
SE will receive a copy of the SE Newsletter by way of regular
mail service.
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The Society for Ethics is an academic
society which seeks to promote philosophical research in
ethics without promoting a particular ideological creed or
agenda, except that of research excellence in ethics. The SE
seeks to promote excellence in research and scholarship in
ethics in an inclusive manner, without excluding certain
ethical topics or points of view.
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Purpose: To provide sustained
discussion among researchers who believe that rigorous methods
have a place in philosophical investigations.
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The meeting of different cultures, religions and
philosophies calls for an intensive and qualified discourse on the
part of all concerned. The purpose of the SIP is the study of
philosophy from a cultural and intercultural point of view beyond
any centrisms, whether European, Asian, African or Latin American.
Furthermore the society promotes intercultural understanding by
way of a philosophy that seeks to be both: a way of thought as
well as a way of life.
In order to achieve this goal, the SIP is guided
by the attitude that the philosophia perennis is the exclusive
possession of no one. The society proclaims as its motto: a desire
to understand and a desire to be understood are the two faces of
the same hermeneutic coin. The society rejects the fiction
(intellectually oriented by the philosophy of identity) of
cultures, philosophies and religions to be totally commensurable.
Just as much, the SIP is against the overstated thesis of
dissimilarity. Instead, the society affirms, seeks and finds
overlappings which make communication possible in the first place.
The otherness of the other is attainable without reducing or
neglecting it. The modern/postmodern debate, thus loses its sting.
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The Society for Judgment and Decision Making is an
interdisciplinary academic organization dedicated to the study of
normative, descriptive, and prescriptive theories of decision. Its
members include psychologists, economists, organizational
researchers, decision analysts, and other decision researchers.
The Society's primary event is its Annual Meeting at which Society
members present their research.
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SPEP is the Society for Phenomenology and
Existential Philosophy, a professional organization devoted to
supporting philosophy inspired by Continental European traditions.
SPEP is also actively committed to philosophical pluralism. It
has become the second largest American philosophical society and
accommodates such traditions as critical theory, existentialism,
feminism, German Idealism, hermeneutics, post-structuralism and
phenomenology.
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The Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary
World was founded in August, 1993. We are committed to the
application of philosophy to understanding problems of the
contemporary world. We promote work in applied philosophy,
philosophy and public policy, philosophy of the professions,
philosophy of the health sciences, philosophy and cognitive
science, race, gender studies, philosophy and the environment,
philosophy of technology, and philosophy and the future. Our
members are from analytical, Continental, American, multicultural,
and post-modern traditions. We sponsor an annual conference which
usually meets in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. We publish
a journal: Philosophy
in the Contemporary World. We are committed to improving
the way philosophy is conducted. We invite original thinking,
encourage fellowship, believe in equality and mutual respect, and
assist development of members whether they be graduate students or
senior professors.
For further information contact: James
Sauer, Department of Philosophy, St. Mary's University, San
Antonio, Texas 78228-8566 philjim@stmarytx.edu
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For at least a decade there has been a marked
increase in the interests of philosophers and geographers in each
others' work. Philosophers appreciate the synthetic approach of
geographers, and find their philosophy improved by the concrete,
grounded examples of geographic work. Geographers are, for their
part, eager to move beyond description and explanation of the
earth as the home of humankind and undertake evaluation. They are,
however, aware of the need to ground these evaluations in
something more formal and defensible than personal conviction.
While there has not yet been much formal discussion directly
between the two disciplines, there has been some interesting work
at the border of these two fields. It is very common now to hear
members of both fields discussing issues concerning the status of
spatiality, lived space and theoretical considerations on
landscape. Some figures in both disciplines have become standard
reading in any serious work in cultural geography or environmental
philosophy.
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The stated purpose of the SPP is to promote
interaction between philosophers, psychologists and other
cognitive scientists on issues of common concern.
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The Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and
Science was established at Binghamton University in 1970. Since
then its President has been Professor Muhsin S. Mahdi, (the former
director of scholarly centers with a focus on Islamic studies at
the University of Chicago and at Harvard University). The
Executive Committee of SSIPS has included many distinguished
scholars, the late George F. Hourani (at SUNY Buffalo), Charles E.
Butterworth (University of Maryland), Hermann Landolt (McGill
University), Michael E. Maruma (University of Toronto).
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The Society for Women in Philosophy was started in
1972 to promote and support women in philosophy. SWIP holds
divisional meetings, meetings in conjunction with the meetings of
the American Philosophical Association, and it publishes
newsletters
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The Society of Christian Philosophers was organized
in 1978 to promote fellowship among Christian Philosophers and to
stimulate study and discussion of issues which arise from their
Christian and philosophical commitments. One of its chief aims is
to go beyond the usual philosophy of religion sessions at the
American Philosophical Association and to stimulate thinking about
the nature and role of Christian commitment in philosophy.
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The SASGPH aims to enhance the appreciation
for and optimally develop Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, by
stimulating academic productivity in these fields through product
and project marketability, the building of national and
international relations, as well as by emphasizing quality in all
spheres, be they academic or cultural.
Goals and Values
| To promote and establish Greek Philosophy and
the Humanities in South Africa.
| To reflect a world class standard of academic
discourse in its conferences, publications and communications.
| To promote internationally South African
academics in the fields of Greek Studies and Greek
civilization.
| To have a popular component, thereby
appealing to a broader audience.
| To serve and develop the South African
community by means of Greek Cultural Activities and Projects. |
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Goals:
Part of the function of the Stanford Humanists
is to educate people about Humanism. Odd as it may seem, I still
find people who, after I explain that I'm a Humanist, say,
"Wow! That's pretty much what I think, too. I had no idea
there was a word for it, or that anyone else in the world thought
like this too." Also, I have found some interesting beliefs
about atheists and Humanists: that we're Satanists (nope, we don't
believe in him either), we sacrifice goats, we're Pagans and dance
naked on the Winter Solstice (I sincerely doubt Pagans do that
either...) or whatever.
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The Swedenborg Association is dedicated to bringing
Emanuel Swedenborg's works to all those who are concerned with
their spiritual condition, who are seeking answers to personal and
universal issues of vital spiritual importance, and who want to
achieve spiritual renewal.
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Swindon Philosophical Society has been
established over 30 years. We meet weekly for talks and
debate on all aspects of Philosophy. All welcome.
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The organisation was formed in 1979 and has about
1000 members in Sweden. It is a member of IHEU,
The International Humanist and Ethical Union and publishes the
magazine Humanisten -- Tidskrift för kultur- och livsåskådningdebatt
4 nr/year.
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Our society promotes the study of logic and
philosophy of sciences. To that end, we organize an annual
conference, occasional lectures, and an international exchange
program. Details of these activities are provided in the society's
newsletter, entitled Logica
Helvetica.
Membership in the society is open to anyone
interested in its work.
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