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A Level Philosophy
Description: "A Level Philosophy (ALP) provides conferences on philosophy and religious studies for Years 12 and 13 in the UK. We host conferences for students and and INSET days for teachers, and also organize talks and conferences in schools."

A. Bronson Alcott Society

Academy for the Study of the Psychoanalytic Arts
Description: To advance the study of psychoanalytic epistemology, theory, practice, ethics, and education within a psychological framework consisting of philosophy, the arts, and the anthropic sciences as opposed to biology, medicine, and the natural sciences.

Acton Institute
Description: "The Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty is named after the great English historian, Lord John Acton (1834-1902). He is best known for his famous remark: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Inspired by his work on the relation between liberty and morality, the Acton Institute seeks to articulate a vision of society that is both free and virtuous, the end of which is human flourishing. To clarify this relationship, the Institute holds seminars and publishes various books, monographs, periodicals, and articles."

Adam Smith Institute
Description: "The ASI is Britain's leading innovator of market economic policies. Since 1977, it has played a key role in the analysis and development of public policies and has published over 300 influential policy reports. It has been part of a worldwide movement towards free markets and free trade. It encourages discussion of policy ideas through its website, and through newspapers, magazines and radio and television. The Institute's main focus has been introducing choice and competition, in extending the influence of markets, in giving ordinary people the chance to help frame their future by their choices, and in redesigning public services in ways that inject innovation and customer responsiveness into their delivery."

African Americans for Humanism
Description: "African Americans for Humanism is engaged in developing humanism in the African American community. We exist for those who are unchurched or free from religion and who are looking for a rational and ethical approach to life. Our organization believes that the solving of problems and attainment of happiness are rooted in reason, free inquiry, and critical thinking. We do not embrace ESP, astrology, numerology, or any other paranormal belief. We strive to deal with the problems of the world by fully developing our minds and properly analyzing ethical ideas."

Akademie für Ethik in der Medizin
Description: The AEM was founded in Göttingen in 1986 by a group of experts in the subject of medical ethics. The form of an academy was chosen to ensure a sophisticated and balanced exchange and collaboration between the disciplines involved, e.g. clinical and theoretical medicine, philosophy, theology, law, psychology, natural and social sciences, health care and administration. The AEM has over 200 members and is steadily growing with the aim to represent a great variety of competences.

Alain Leroy Locke Society
Description: "ALLS was founded in Boston in December 1994 at the eastern region meeting of the American Philosophical Association by a group of academicians at the initiative of Leonard Harris of Purdue University. The Society was expressly organized to create an official forum for discourse, not only in issues that concern academics in African-American philosophy but also to promote the work of philosopher and educator Alain Leroy Locke (1885-1954). Trained at Harvard, Oxford and Berlin Universities, the first African American Rhodes Scholar, Locke, besides his writings in Philosophy, played a central role in the literary and aesthetic movement, Harlem Renaissance."

Alexandria Society

American Academy of Religion
Description: "As a learned society and professional association of teachers and research scholars, the American Academy of Religion has over 8,000 members who teach in some 1,500 colleges, universities, seminaries, and schools in North America and abroad. The Academy is dedicated to furthering knowledge of religion and religious institutions in all their forms and manifestations. This is accomplished through Academy-wide and regional conferences and meetings, publications, programs, and membership services."

American Association of Philosophy Teachers
Description: The American Association of Philosophy Teachers is dedicated the improving the quality of instruction in philosophy at all educational levels. We promote quality teaching by offering the International Workshop-Conference on Teaching Philosophy (IWCTP) every two years; offering, with the APA, a graduate student and beginning teacher seminar in conjunction with the IWCTP; sponsoring pre-conference workshops in conjunction with APA conventions; providing a forum for on-going discussion of philosophy teaching through the listserv AAPT-L; and publishing a quarterly newsletter focussed on teaching.

American Atheists
Description: "Since 1963 American Atheists has been the premier organization laboring for the civil liberties of Atheists, and the total, absolute separation of government and religion."

American Catholic Philosophical Association
Description: Since 1926, scholars and thinkers, mostly based in Canada and the United States, have forged a unique tradition and community known as the "American Catholic Philosophical Association." Steeped in classical sources and cultivating the Catholic Philosophical heritage, this tradition is known for creative engagement with major philosophers of every era and bold responses to the themes and issues of contemporary philosophy.

American Humanist Association
Description: The American Humanist Association is a national organization founded in 1941 to promote the philosophy of humanism in the United States. The AHA represents both secular and religious naturalistic humanism, and cooperates and joins with other national and international humanist organizations to advance the ideals of humanism. The AHA organizes and supports local humanist chapters in many major American cities, advocates the cause of humanism by publications and court briefs, and publishes The Humanist, a bimonthly magazine of critical inquiry and social concern that deals with humanist topics and interests.

American Indian Philosophy Association
Description: "Our organization is an association of professional philosophers who seek to encourage the thoughtful and careful articulation, study, and contemplation of philosophical issues that affect American Indigenous people and the communities to which we belong. The members of A.I.P.A. include both professional working philosophers and students studying philosophy."

American Nihilism Association

American Philosophical Association
Description: "The American Philosophical Association is the main professional organization for philosophers in the United States. Founded in 1900, its mission is to promote the exchange of ideas among philosophers, to encourage creative and scholarly activity in philosophy, to facilitate the professional work and teaching of philosophers, and to represent philosophy as a discipline."

American Philosophical Practitioners Association
Description: "The APPA is a non-profit educational corporation that encourages philosophical awareness and advocates leading the examined life. Philosophy can be practiced through client counseling, group facilitation, organizational consulting or educational programs. APPA members apply philosophical systems, insights and methods to the management of human problems and the amelioration of human estates."

American Society for Aesthetics
Description: The ASA promotes study, research, discussion, and publication in aesthetics. "Aesthetics," in this connection, is understood to include all studies of the arts and related types of experience from a philosophic, scientific, or other theoretical standpoint. The ASA publishes the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and the ASA Newsletter. It meets annually in the fall and its regional divisions in the spring.

American Society for Philosophy, Counseling, and Psychotherapy
Description: "Founded in 1992, the American Society for Philosophy, Counseling, and Psychotherapy (ASPCP) promotes the philosophical examination of the theory and practice of counseling and psychotherapy and of philosophy as a private practice profession. It hosts annual program sessions at each of the divisional meetings of the American Philosophical Association, holding its national business meeting with the APA Eastern Division."

American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
Description: "The American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy was founded in 1955 by a group of friends in the social sciences, law, and philosophy who shared an interest in a range of problems traditionally treated within the broad context of interdisciplinary exploration and discussion of those issues of political and legal philosophy that are of common interest to those fields. The society has two major activities: first, an annual meeting devoted to the discussion of one particular topic in political and legal philosophy, and second, the publication of a yearbook, NOMOS, in which the results of the discussions are incorporated in a series of articles on the topic by members who have participated formally or informally in the discussions."

American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics
Description: The mission of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics (ASLME) is to provide high-quality scholarship, debate, and critical thought to the community of professionals at the intersection of law, health care, policy, and ethics.

Ancient Philosophy Society
Description: "The Ancient Philosophy Society was established to provide a forum for diverse scholarship on ancient Greek texts. Honoring the richness of the American and European philosophical traditions, the Ancient Philosophy Society supports phenomenological, postmodern, Anglo-American, Straussian, Tubingen School, hermeneutic, psychoanalytic, and feminist interpretations of ancient Greek philosophical and literary works. It is the intention that, within the larger aim of assessing the meaning and significance of ancient Greek texts, the Ancient Philosophy Society serve as the site of critical engagement among these various schools of interpretation and that it encourage creative and rigorous independent readings."

Anthroposophical Society in America
Description: "The Anthroposophical Society in America is the national organ of the General Anthroposophical Society, founded by Rudolf Steiner in 1923 as "an association of people who would foster the life of the soul, both in the individual and in human society, on the basis of a true knowledge of the spiritual world." Membership in the society is open to everyone regardless of nationality, social standing, scientific or artistic conviction, or religion. It is entirely non-secratarian, and nonpolitical."

Applied Research Ethics National Association
Description: ARENA is a national service organization for professionals concerned with issues relating to the protection of human subjects, the humane care and treatment of animals, scientific misconduct, eithical decision-making in healthcare, and other ethical issues pertaining to biomedical and behavioral research. ARENA's mission is the promotion of networking among its members, the development of educational activities, the resolution and/or amelioration of mutual problems, and the professional advancement of its members in order to enhance the ethical conduct of research and medicine.

Arche: Center for Philosophy of Logic, Language, Mathematics and Mind
Associated School: University of St Andrews
Description: A research center whose goal is "the promotion and publication of research of the highest quality in metaphysics, formal and philosophical logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of mind"

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Aristotelian Society
Description: "The Aristotelian Society, founded in 1870, meets fortnightly in London, throughout the academic year, to hear and discuss philosophical papers. Papers are drawn from an international base of contributors and discuss issues across a broad range of philosophical traditions, including those which are of greatest current interest. These meetings are open to the public."

Asociación de Estudos Filosóficos Doutor Castro
Description: "The "Asociación de Estudos Filosóficos Doutor Castro" is an Galician not-for-profit association, whose objective is to spread and to promote the philosophy in Galician language (one of the four official languages of Spain). In order to obtain this the association will coordinate investigation programs on the Galician philosophers, will organize conferences, publish articles and will foment any directed activity to disclose critical values and habits. All it inspired by the illustrated philosopher Juan Francisco de Castro Fernandez (1721-1790), "Doctor Castro". In the Web of the association there is the Virtual Library of Philosophy in Galician language, also there are Games, Forum, Articles, the projects that we are developing and a section dedicated to Didactics of the philosophy."

Asociacion Espanola de Etica y Filosofia Politica

Asociacion Iberoamericana de Filosofia Politica

Association des Amis de Spinoza

Association for Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics and Science Studies

Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory
Description: "Feminist Ethics and Social Theory is a professional organization dedicated to promoting feminist ethical perspectives on phliosophy, moral and political life, and public policy. Through meetings, publications, and projects we hope to increase the visibility and influence of feminist ethics, as well as feminist social and political theory, and to provide support to emerging scholars from diverse and underrepresented populations."

Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking
Description: "Founded in 1983, the Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking (AILACT) is a non-profit scholarly association which aims to promote research into, teaching of, and testing of informal logic and critical thinking. It sponsors programs in conjunction with the annual meetings of the Eastern, Pacific and Central divisions of the American Philosophical Association, and has in the past sponsored programs in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association."

Association for Legal and Social Philosophy
Description: "The Association for Legal and Social Philosophy has been in existence since the early 1970s. Originally concentrating on running an annual conference around a theme of interest to social, moral and political philosophers and academic lawyers alike, and including a distinguished keynote speaker as Austin Lecturer, it has since broadened both its remit and its membership which now stands at about 150."

Association for Liberty, Philosophy, and Society
Description: "Established in 2002, the Association for Liberty, Philosophy, and Society is an independent philosophical society, formed to promote philosophical discussion and research on the importance of personal liberty in shaping a free and just society. This is meant to include such topics as individual liberty, legitimate political authority, limited government, self-ownership, the just acquisition of external resources, the rule of law, the social impact of free markets, economic justice, human rights, just war theory, the machinery of freedom, etc. The association meets annually in conjunction with the Eastern Division of The American Philosophical Association. Although we are primarily a society of philosophers, non-philosophers are also encouraged to become members."

Association for Moral Education
Description: 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 Association emphasizes the development of moral understanding in all individuals, and believes that such development requires opportunities for engagement in moral dialogue. Through its program of conferences and publications, the AME serves as a resource to educators, practitioners, students, and the public in matters related to moral education and development, provides expertise on educational policies and practices, and provides information about moral education to interested parties in the general public.

Association for Politics and the Life Sciences
Description: "The Association for Politics and the Life Sciences (APLS) is an international and interdisciplinary association of scholars, scientists, and policymakers concerned with problems or issues that involve politics or public policy and one or more of the life sciences. The association, founded in 1980, publishes a journal, Politics and the Life Sciences; a newsletter, APLS News; and a membership directory, The APLS Directory. The association's annual conference is held in late August or early September, concurrently with—but independently of—the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association."

Association for Practical and Professional Ethics
Description: 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. To advance this broad purpose, the Association facilitates communication and joint ventures among centers, schools, colleges and individual faculty concerned with the interdisciplinary study and teaching of practical and professional ethics, and supports efforts of colleges and universities, centers, professional associations, and local, state and national governments that seek to foster curricular development and scholarly research on ethical issues.

Association for Process Philosophy of Education
Description: "An international organization of scholars and teachers dedicated to the ideas of Alfred North Whitehead as well as other process philosophers and their application to educational practice."

Association for Social Economics
Description: The Association for Social Economics was established in December 1941 in Washington, DC. ASE was formed to advance scholarly research and writing about the great questions of economics, human dignity, ethics, and philosophy. Members seek to explore the ethical foundations and implications of economic analysis, along with the individual and social dimensions of economic problems, and to help shape economic policy that is consistent with the integral values of the person and a humane community. Membership is open to anyone who affirms this purpose.

Association for Symbolic Logic
Description: 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.

Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry
Description: "Formed in 1989, The Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry's mission is to encourage interdisciplinary activity in philosophy and psychiatry and, by fostering collegial exchange, to advance knowledge, promote research, and facilitate understanding in both fields. Our association brings together an active group of psychiatrists, philosophers, physicians, and scholars. We have an annual meeting, conjoint meetings with similar organizations, and several active local groups. AAPP plans monographs--the first of which, Philosophical Perspectives on Psychiatric Diagnostic Classification (The Johns Hopkins University Press), was published in May 1994. Additionally, the first issue of our journal, Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, which is co-sponsored by the (British) Philosophy Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists was published in May 1994. We expect PPP to be of the highest academic quality and a first choice journal for publications in this field."

Association for the Foundations of Science, Language, and Cognition
Description: "AFOS is an international professional association of both working scientists and theorists of science, language and cognition who seek to learn how well founded knowledge of the states of affairs and processes surrounding us can be achieved and communicated in a systematic, applicable and improvable form. The association has a number of purposes. Principal among these is to bring together scientists and those interested in scientific method to discuss foundational issues in a precise and rigorous manner. AFOS will engage in all the forms of activity typical for scientific associations: conferences, workshops, publications, sponsoring and/or supervising specific research projects."

Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
Description: 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.

Association Internationale des Professeurs de Philosophie

Association of Chinese Philosophers in North America
Description: "ACPA is an academic organization in philosophy and the humanities. The general purpose of this organization is to promote philosophical activities of the Chinese philosophers in America. To achieve this general goal, the organization will serve as a means for members to keep in touch with one another; to share experiences, common concerns, and information; to exchange professional achievements; to represent members' common interests and cooperate on collective professional projects; to promote philosophical exchange between China and America and other countries."

Association Presence de Gabriel Marcel

Associazione Internazionale di Studi e Ricerche Federico Nietzsche

Atheist Alliance, Inc.
Description: A democratic association of 13 independent, autonomous atheist societies that focuses the efforts of its members on common goals.

Atheist Centre
Description: (India) 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.

Atheist Foundation of Australia, Inc.
Description: "An organization which begain in South Australia in 1970, and has the following aims: To encourage and to provide a means of expression for informed free-thought on philosophical and social issues; To safeguard the rights of all non-religious people; To serve as a focal point for the fellowship of non-religious people; To offer reliable information in place of superstition and to offer the methodology of reason in place of faith so as to enable people to take responsibility for the fullest development of their potential as human beings; and To propagate atheism."

Atlantic Region Philosophers Association
Description: 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.

Atlas Society, The
Description: The Atlas Society challenges both the cultural left and cultural right with Objectivism, Ayn Rand's philosophy of rational, principled individualism. The goal of The Atlas Society is to help create a new culture in our society, a culture that affirms and embodies the core Objectivist values of reason, individualism, freedom, and achievement. We seek to influence the course of debate and the climate of public opinion, and to recruit like-minded people to our cause. Objectivism is the philosophical foundation for TAS's cultural agenda. Ayn Rand's insights about human knowledge, moral values, individual rights, the role of art in human life, and many other topics give Objectivism a unique perspective on the issues of our day. It's a perspective that transcends conventional "left-right" cultural and political thinking, offering a challenging new moral vision of human nature, individual potential, and social relationships. In support of its cultural mission, TAS sponsors philosophical research, political and cultural advocacy, and educational programs. The organization promotes rational individualism by articulating its meaning and implications in every field of cultural significance: politics, intellectual trends, the arts, psychology, personal values and social mores, law, and business.

Australasian Association for Process Thought
Description: "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 organisation is to promote the study of the process-relational thought of Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne in the Antipodes. Membership consists of philosophers, scientists, medics, psychologists, clergy, students, and other interested scholars from all over Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. We have strong links with other groups and individuals in South Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States."

Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
Description: AAHPSSS is the 'professional association' representing people with an interest in the history of science, the philosophy of science, and the sociology of science - with all these terms being interpreted as broadly as the natural elasticity of the human mind can achieve- in Australia and New Zealand. Its principal activities are an annual conference and a journal, Metascience.

Australasian Association of Philosophy
Description: "The AAP is the professional organisation of academic philosophers in Australia and New Zealand. The purpose of the Association is to promote the study of philosophy in Australasia, and to co-ordinate professional activities. The AAP runs conferences; offers an annual prize for philosophy published in the popular media; and maintains a mailing list which carries news of relevance to our members."

Australasian Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy

Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy
Description: "The Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy started in 1995-1996 as the revamped version of the former Australasian Society for Phenomenology and Social Philosophy. It is an independent, non-profit, volunteer-based organisation serving as a reference point for people working with Continental Philosophy across various disciplines."

Australian Association of Professional and Applied Ethics
Description: The broad purpose of the AAPAE is to encourage awareness in Australia of applied ethics as a significant area of concern, and to foster discussion of issues in applied ethics. It provides a meeting point for practitioners from various fields together with academics with specialist expertise. It welcomes everyone who wants or needs to think and talk about applied or professional ethics. The AAPAE also attempts to foster and maintain lines with special interest groups.

Australian Society for Legal Philosophy
Description: "The ASLP is the Australian Section of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR). ...The aims of the Society are to promote the study and discussion of legal philosophy though publications and conferences. 'Legal philosophy' is construed broadly and includes philosophical, psychological, social and cultural studies of law. Since its inception it has drawn its membership principally from Law Schools, judges and legal practitioners but also from Philosophy and Social Science departments. Currently the Society has over one hundred members."

Austrian Karl R. Popper Research Association
Description: "The Austrian Karl Popper Research Association was founded in Graz at the end of October 1997. Its main task is to publish the Series in the Philosophy of Karl Popper and Critical Rationalism in cooperation with the Philosophy Department of the University of Graz. This association mainly includes persons who have done serious research in Popper's philosophy."

Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society
Description: The aim of the ALWS is to make progress in Wittgenstein scholarship and analytical philosophy in general. It has held a symposium every August for 20 years, each time under another general theme. The general theme of the August 1998 symposium is Applied Ethics.

Ayn Rand Institute
Description: "The Ayn Rand Institute (ARI), a 501(c)(3) educational organization, was established in 1985 and is headquartered in Irvine, California. Ayn Rand (1905–1982) was an ardent advocate of reason and rationality; individualism and individual liberties; and free-market capitalism. ARI seeks to promote these principles, spearheading a “cultural renaissance” to reverse the anti-reason, anti-freedom, anti-capitalist trends in today’s culture."

Ayn Rand Society
Description: 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.