Philosophical Associations and Societies

Also see the sections on Journals and Projects

• The Aberdeen Centre for Philosophy Technology and Society. University of Aberdeen.
• Aberdeen University Philosophy Society. A student organization.
• The Academy of Humanism
• African Americans for Humanism
• Akademie für Ethik in der Medizin. Göttingen University. A part of the page is in English.
• The Alexandria Society
• Alliance of Secular Humanist Societies
• American Association of Bioethics
• American Association of Philosophy Teachers
• American Atheists
• American Bioethics Network
• American Catholic Philosophical Association
• American Humanist Association
• American Indian Philosophy Association
• American Nihilism Association
• American Philosophical Association
• American Philosophical Practitioners Association On philosophical counseling.
• American Society for Aesthetics. University of Louisville.
• American Society for Philosophy, Counseling, and Psychotherapy
• American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics. St. Louis University.
• Anthroposophical Society
• Applied Research Ethics National Association (ARENA)
• Arbeitsgruppe Phänomenologie und neuere französische Philosophie
• Artificial Intelligence Societies and Organizations Directory. A wide-ranging collection of links.
• Association des Amis de Spinoza
• Asociación Filosófica de México
• Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry
• Association for the Foundations of of Science, Language, and Cognition
• Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. Indiana University at Bloomington.
• Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
• Association for the Study of Persons
• Association for Symbolic Logic
• Association of Chinese Philosophers in America
• Associazione di Logica, Epistemologia, Filosofia. Student association at the University of Bologna.
• The Atheist Centre. Vijayawada, India.
• The Atheist Foundation of Australia
• The Atheist Society of Australia
• The Augustine Institute for Ethics. Part of the Center for the Advancement of Paleo Orthodoxy (CAPO).
• Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science. University of New South Wales.
• Australasian Association for Process Thought
• Australasian Association of Philosophy
• Australian Association of Professional and Applied Ethics
• The Australian Group. The Australasian Branch of The Philosophical Society of England.
• Australasian Philosophy Postgraduates
• Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy
• Austrian Center of Philosophy With Children. Also available in German.
• The Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society
• The Bacon Center for Ethics in Business. Iowa State University.
• The Bakhtin Centre. University of Sheffield.
• Baptist Association of Philosophy Teachers
• Bioethics Network of Ohio. Contains helpful sub-pages on bioethics in the academic literature and bioethics in the news.
• Brisbane Philosophy Society.
• British Logic Colloquium
• The British Lonergan Association
• British Society for Aesthetics
• British Society for Ethical Theory
• British Society for the History of Philosophy
• British Society for Philosophical Counselling
• British Society for Philosophy of Science
• Business Ethics Teaching Society. University of Southern Indiana School of Business.
• Cambridge Centre for Hermeneutic and Analytic Philosophy. Jointly sponsored by the Philosophy Division of Anglia Polytechnic University and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of Cambridge University.
• Canadian Jacques Maritain Association
• Canadian Philosophical Association. Also available in French.
• Canadian Society for Aesthetics
• Canadian Society for Computational Study of Intelligence
• Canadian Society for Hermeneutics and Postmodern Thought. University of Calgary.
• Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics
• Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science
• Canadian Society for Philosophical Practice. On philosophical counseling.
• Canadian Society for the Study of Practical Ethics. Also available in French.
• Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy
• Carleton University Philosophy Society. Student philosophy organization at Carleton University, Ottawa.
• Centre de Logique et de Philosophie des Sciences
• Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology. Site contains scanned tables of contents of relevant books and journals.
• Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics. Carnegie-Mellon University.
• Center for the Advancement of Ethics. University of Wyoming.
• Center for Applied Christian Ethics. Wheaton College.
• Centre for Applied Ethics. University of British Columbia.
• Centre for Applied Ethics. Hong Kong Baptist University.
• Centre for Applied Ethics. Nijenrode University.
• Centre for Applied Ethics. University of Stellenbosch.
• Center for Applied and Professional Ethics. California State University at Chico.
• Center for Applied and Professional Ethics. Missouri State University.
• Centre for Applied Sport Philosophy and Ethics Research
• Center for Bioethics. University of Minnesota.
• Center for Bioethics. University of Pennsylvania.
• Center for Bioethics. University of Pittsburgh.
• Center for Bioethics and Law. Parc Científic de Barcelona. Also available in Spanish and Catalan.
• Center for Biomedical Ethics. Case Western Reserve University.
• Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care. University of Buffalo.
• Center for Critical Thinking
• Center for Dewey Studies. Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
• Center for Environmental Philosophy. University of North Texas.
• Center for Ethics. Chowan College.
• Center for Ethics in Health Care. Oregon Health Sciences University.
• Center for Ethics in Public Policy and the Professions. Emory University.
• Centre for Meaning and Metaphysical Studies. University of Hertfordshire.
• Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy. Baylor College of Medicine.
• Centre for the Mind. Museum of Sydney.
• Centre for Modern European Philosophy. Middlesex University.
• Centre for Philosophical Studies. King's College.
• Center for Philosophy and Ethics of Science. University of Hanover. Also available in German.
• Center for Philosophy and History of Science. Boston University.
• Centre for Philosophy and Phenomenological Studies California State University, Dominguez Hills.
• Centre for the Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences. London School of Economics.
• Center for the Philosophy of Nature and Science Studies. University of Copenhagen.
• Center for Philosophy of Religion. University of Notre Dame.
• Center for Philosophy of Science. University of Pittsburgh.
• Centre for Political Thought. Cracow. Also available in Polish and Ukranian.
• Centre for Practical Philosophy. Middlesex University.
• Center for Process Studies. Claremont School of Theology.
• Center for Professional and Applied Ethics. University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
• Center for Professional and Applied Ethics. Valdosta State University.
• Centre for Research Ethics. University of Gothenburg.
• Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature
• Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition. Indiana University, Bloomington.
• Center for Science and Technology Policy and Ethics. Texas A&M University.
• Center for the Study of Ethics. Utah Valley State College.
• Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions. Illinois Institute of Technology.
• Center for the Study of the Great Ideas. Founded by Mortimer J. Adler and Max Weismann.
• Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI). Stanford University.
• Centre for Thomistic Studies. Sydney, Australia.
• Center for Utopian Studies. Ohio University.
• Centre International de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Psychiatrie. The page is in English.
• Centro de Lógica, Epistemologia e História da Ciência. Universidade Estadual de Campinas. In Portuguese. Also available in English.
• Cognitive Science Society. University of Pittsburgh.
• The R. G. Collingwood Society. University of Wales at Swansea.
• Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
• Computational Epistemology Lab. University of Waterloo.
• Council for Secular Humanism
• Dallas Philosopher's Forum
• Deuteros Plous. Università Cattolica of Milano. Directed by Giovanni Reale and Roberto Radice. In Italian.
• Drew University Philosophical Society. A student organization.
• Eckhart Society
• Enactivism Research Group. University of Alberta.
• Ethics Center for Engineering and Science. Case Western Reserve University.
• Ethics Practitioners Association of Canada
• Ethics Resource Center
• Eubios Ethics Institute. Christchurch, New Zealand, and Tsukuba Science City, Japan.
• European Association for Logic, Language, and Information
• European Business Ethics Network
• European Institute for Business Ethics
• European Society for Analytic Philosophy
• Evangelical Philosophical Society
• Federation of Australasian Philosophy for Children Associations
• Fédération Internationale des Sociétées de Philosophie
• Foundation for the Advancement of Post-Rationalist Studies. Under construction.
• Fundació Krishnamurti Latino Americana
• Gay and Lesbian Atheists and Humanists
• Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie
• Gesellschaft für interkulturelle Philosophie. Society for Intercultural Philosophy. In German, but also presents information in English and French.
• Kurt Gödel Society
• Graduate Student Philosophy Society. Student organization at the University of Florida.
• Gruppe Phänomenologie. "Society for the Advancement of the Reception and the Critical Development of Phenomenology and of Its Impulses."
• The Robert S. Hartmann Institute for Formal and Applied Axiology
• Hegel Society of America
• The History of Economics Society. The collected links cover a number of philosophers and philosophical topics.
• History of Philosophy of Science Working Group
• History of Science Society
• Hoffberger Center for Professional Ethics. University of Baltimore.
• Humanist Association of Canada
• Humanist Association of Ottawa
• Hume Society
• Hungarian Philosophical Association. Also available in English.
• Husserl Circle
• Indiana University Logic Group
• Institut für mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik. In Freiburg.
• Institut für mathematische Logik und Grundlagenforschung. In Münster.
• Institut für Philosophie. University of Karlsruhe. Also available in English.
• Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children. Montclair State University.
• Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics. Ohio State University.
• Institute for Axiological Research. Vienna. Annoying music.
• Institute for Business and Professional Ethics. DePaul University.
• Institute for Ethics and Policy Studies. University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
• Institute for Global Ethics. Camden, Maine.
• Institute for Humane Studies. For undergraduate and graduate students interested in individual liberty.
• Institute for Jewish Medical Ethics. Hebrew Academy of San Francisco.
• Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation. In Amsterdam.
• Institute for Philosophical Pleasure. Undergraduate philosophy club at Lewis & Clark College.
• Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy
• Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory. In Belgrade.
• Institute for Studies in Pragmatism. Texas Tech University.
• Institute for the Study of Applied and Professional Ethics. Dartmouth University.
• Institute for the Study of Civic Values
• Institute of Medicine, Law, and Ethics. University of Liverpool.
• Institute of Practical Philosophy. At Malaspina University-College.
• The Institute of St.Thomas. "Centre of High Medieval and Thomistic Research and Studies." In Rome.
• Institute Vienna Circle. "Society for the Advancement of the Scientific World Conception." Also available in German.
• Instituto de Filosofía. Madrid. In Spanish.
• Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. In Spanish.
• Instituto di Teoria e Storia delle Idee. From Giuseppe Modica. In Italian.
• Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics. Imperial College, London.
• International Association for Computing and Philosophy
• International Association for Greek Philosophy.
• International Association for Philosophical Counseling
• International Association for Philosophy and Literature
• International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
• International Association for Philosophy of Sport
• International Association of Empirical Aesthetics. University of Maine.
• International Association of Women Philosophers
• International Berkeley Society
• International Business Ethics Institute. Washington, D.C.
• International Center for Greek Philosophy and Culture
• The International Humanist and Ethical Union
• International Network of Philosophers of Education
• International Society for Environmental Ethics
• International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology
• International Society for Intellectual History
• International Society for the Study of Argumentation
• International Society for Utilitarian Studies
• International Society of Business, Economics, and Ethics
• International Stoic Society
• Internationale Max Scheler Gesellschaft
• Internet Academy of Philosophy. So far just another name for the philosophy department at Mesa Community College.
• Internet Philosophy Society
• Israel Society for Philosophical Practice and Counseling
• Italian Society of Logic and Philosophy of Sciences. The page is in both Italian and English.
• The William James Society
• The Japan Internet Center for Process Studies. Mejiro Women's College. Also available in Japanese
• The Japan Popper Society
• John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values. Notre Dame University.
• Josephson Institute of Ethics
• Kegley Institute of Ethics. California State University at Bakersfield.
• Kennedy Institute of Ethics. Georgetown University.
• Søren Kierkegaard Society of Australia
• Krishnamurti Foundation of America
• Laboratory for Applied Logic
• Leibniz Society of North America
• Levinas Center. University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
• Limerick Philosophical Society. Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick.
• Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics. Arizona State University.
• Alain Leroy Locke Society
• The Lonergan Philosophical Society
• The Lonergan Research Institute. University of Toronto.
• The Los Angeles Lonergan Center. Loyola Marymount University.
• Rosa-Luxemburg-Institut. In German. A portion of the page is in English.
• MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. University of Chicago. Contains a good page of links.
• Jacques Maritain Center. University of Notre Dame.
• Mauritian Institute. Tallinn, Estonia.
• Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Santa Clara University. Large and well-organized collection of ethics links, including a valuable journal and articles database.
• Massachusetts Undergraduate Philosophy Club
• Mathematical Logic Group. University of Bonn.
• Máthesis. "Investigaciones en Filosofia Antigua."
• Medical Ethics Resource Network of Michigan. Michigan State University.
• Metaphysics Research Lab. Stanford University.
• Midwest Philosophy of Education Society
• Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of Science. University of Minnesota.
• Morris Institute for Human Values. Wilmington, N.C.
• MU Philosophy Club. Student organization at University of Missouri.
• National Bioethics Advisory Commission. Part of the National Institutes of Health.
• National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature. Georgetown University.
• The New Acropolis. An international association of cultural organizations dedicated to creating a school of philosophy "in the classical tradition".
• New Banner Institute
• New England Philosophy of Education Society
• New Philosophy Society. Student organization at the University of Edinburgh.
• Friedrich Nietzsche Society
• North American Fichte Society
• North American Kant Society
• North American Nietzsche Society
• North Carolina Philosophical Society. Davidson College.
• Northern Moral Sciences Club. Student philosophy organization at Northern Illinois University.
• Norwegian Søren Kierkegaard Society
• Norwegian Secular Humanists
• Norwegian Society for Philosophical Practice. On philosophical counseling. Also available in Norwegian.
• Michael Oakeshott Association
• Olsson Center for Applied Ethics. Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia.
• Online Center for the Cognitive Science of Metaphor. University of Oregon.
• Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science. Case Western Reserve University. Also available in Spanish.
• Order of Saint Augustine. In German. Also available in English.
• Österreichische Gesellschaft für Phänomenologie. In German.
• Österreichische Gesellschaft für Religionsphilosophie
• Oulu Center for Philosophical Inquiry in Education. Philosophy for children. University of Oulu (Finland). Also available in Finnish.
• Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics, and Society. Mansfield College, Oxford.
• The Pascal Centre for Advanced Studies in Faith and Science. Redeemer College, Ancaster, Ontario.
• The Charles S. Peirce Society
• The Philosopher's Den. Undergraduate philosophy association at the University of Texas, Austin.
• Philosopher's Information Center. Publisher of Philosopher's Index.
• Ontario Philosophical Society. University of Windsor.
• PHILOG. "The Danish Network of Philosophical Logic and its Applications."
• Philopsychy Society
• Philosophical Research Society. On the teachings of Manly P. Hall. Mostly occult.
• Philosophical Society of England. Here's another page. The London Group, the Northern Group, and the Australian Group have their own pages.
• The Philosophical Think Tank. The philosophy club at Thiel College.
• Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence Group. King's College, London.
• Philosophy Club. Student organization at Iowa State University.
• The Philosophy Club. Student organization at SUNY, Oneonta.
• Philosophy Documentation Center. Bowling Green State University.
• Philosophy for Children Association of New South Wales
• The Philosophy Foundation
• Philosophy in Britain.
• Philosophy of Education Society
• Philosophy of Science and Technology Club. At CERN. Pages in English and French.
• Philosophy of Science Association
• Philosophy of Science Society, Japan
• Philosophy Society. Student organization at the University of Glasgow.
• Philosophy Society. Student organization at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick.
• Philosophy Society. Student organization at the University of Warwick.
• The Philosophy Symposium. Student organization at the University of Southern Maine.
• Plain Philosophy Centre. In Vancouver.
• Plato's Cave. Student philosophy organization at Illinois State University.
• Polyhymnia. Student philosophy organization at California Polytechnic State University.
• Pope John Center for the Study of Ethics in Health Care
• Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions. Indiana University.
• The Radical Philosophy Association
• Realia
• Rousseau Association
• The Bertrand Russell Society
• Sadra Islamic Philosophy Research Institute
• Saint Francis College Philosophic Society. A student organization.
• San Diego Association of Secular Humanists
• San Francisco Epicureans
• San Francisco Society for Lacanian Studies
• Society for the Advancement of Philosophical Enquiry and Reflection in Education (SAPERE)
• Scholarly Societies Project List of Philosophical Scholarly Societies
• The Scottish Postgraduate Philosophy Association
• The Semiotic Society of America
• The Senpo Sugihara Asian Bioethics Centre. At the Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
• Skeptics Society Web
• Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center. Duquesne University.
• Social Philosophy and Policy Center. At Bowling Green State University.
• Società Filosofica Italiana
• Società Italiana di Filosofia Analitica.
• Societas Ethica. "European Society for Research in Ethics." The page is in German.
• Société de philosophie du Québec
• Society for Activist Freethought
• Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
• Society for the Advancement of Philosophical Enquiry and Reflection in Education (SAPERE). Philosophy for and with children.
• Society for Bioethics and Classical Philosophy. "[E]xplores the implications of ancient and medieval insights for contemporary bioethics."
• The Society for Ethics
• Society for Exact Philosophy
• Society for Existential Analysis
• Society for Health and Human Values
• Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
• Society for Philosophical Inquiry
• Society for Philosophy and Geography
• Society for Philosophy and Psychology
• Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World
• Society for Social Studies of Science
• Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science
• Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP). The Canadian SWIP has a separate page.
• Society of Christian Philosophers. Calvin College.
• Society of Consultant Philosophers
• Society of Humanist Philosophers
• Society of Intercultural Philosophy. Also available in German.
• South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities
• South Carolina Society for Philosophy
• Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology
• The Spinoza Society (Spinoza-Gesellschaft)
• St. Petersburg Centre for the History of Ideas
• Stanford Humanists
• Student Philosophy Association University of Queensland.
• Studentenverband Ethik in der Medizin. Universität Würzburg.
• The Swedenborg Association
• Swedish Secular Humanists
• Swindon Philosophical Society. Swindon, Wiltshire, U.K.
• Swiss Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science
• System of Life Institute
• Taiwan Philosophical Association. Mostly in Chinese.
• Taiwan Super Logos Philosophy Virtual Association. In Chinese.
• Tasmania Philosophy Society. Student organization at the University of Tasmania.
• Tasmanian Association of Philosophy for Children
• Teenage Philosopher's Society
• Tennessee Philosophical Association
• Texas Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism. In Austin.
• Thomas Instituut te Utrecht
• The Thoreau Society
• Undergraduate Philosophy Association. At the University of Texas at Austin.
• University of Kent Philosophy Society
• University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics
• University of St. Andrews Philosophy Club
• Jakob von Uexküll Centre
• Values, Ethics, and Justice Specialty Group Part of the Association of American Geographers.
• Vancouver Island Society for Practical Philosophy
• Vienna Philosophical Bureau
• Virginia Philosophical Association
• Voltaire Foundation
• Voltaire Society of America
• Voluntary Euthanasia Society of Scotland
• Wiener Gesellschaft für interkulturelle Philosophie
• World Federation of Right to Die Societies
• World Transhumanist Association
• Zentrum für Medizinische Ethik. Ruhr-Universität Bochum. A portion of the page is in English.
• Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
• The Xavier Zubiri Foundation of North America

Peter Suber, Department of Philosophy, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, 47374, U.S.A.
peters@earlham.edu. Copyright © 1996-2002, Peter Suber.