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Infinity Society
Description: "We are a scientific educational and informational organization, founded by the philosopher Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo, made up of a group of intellectuals, whose purpose is to generate mass wisdom by promoting the use of the word, meaning(s) and concept(s) of Infinity. We are also known as The Society For The Mass Dissemination Of The Concept Of Infinity and have had some relative success in promoting the concept of INFINITY (both publicly and privately, in the commercial sector and elsewhere) since our founding in 1987. We are also interested in any efforts to popularize open philosophic inquiry, discussion and debate all within the framework of non-violent communication and relative tolerance."

Institut für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik

Institut International de Philosophie

Institute for Axiological Research

Institute for Business and Professional Ethics
Associated School: DePaul University
Description: "Founded in 1985, The Institute for Business & Professional Ethics (IBPE) was established as a joint effort of the Colleges of Liberal Arts & Sciences, and Commerce at DePaul University. The mission of the Institute is to encourage ethical deliberation in decision-makers by stirring the moral conscience and imagination. We do this by profiding a forum for exploring and furthering ethical practices in organizations. To accomplish this goal, IBPE provides ethics-related programs and resources to stakeholders at DePaul Univeristy and in the larger Chicago community."

Institute for Criminal Justice Ethics
Description: The Institute for Criminal Justice Ethics was established to foster greater concern for ethical issues among practitioners and scholars in the criminal justice field. Through its diverse programs it serves both as a national clearinghouse for information and as a stimulus to research and publication. It seeks to encourage increased sensitivity to the demands of ethical behavior among those who enforce our system of criminal justice, a more focused treatment of moral issues in the education of criminal justice professionals, and a new dialogue among scholars and practitioners on specific topics in criminal justice ethics.

Institute for Critical Thinking
Associated School: Montclair State University

Institute for Global Ethics
Description: The Institute for Global Ethics is an independent, nonprofit, nonsectarian, and nonpartisan organization dedicated to elevating public awareness and promoting the discussion of ethics in a global context. As an international, membership-based think tank, we focus on ethical activities in education, the corporate sector, and public policy.

Institute for Humane Studies
Associated School: George Mason University
Description: "The mission of IHS is to support the achievement of a freer society by discovering and facilitating the development of talented, productive students, scholars, and other intellectuals who share an interest in liberty and who demonstrate the potential to help change the current climate of opinion to one more congenial to the principles and practice of freedom. Each year IHS awards over $400,000 in scholarships to students from universities around the world. IHS also sponsors the attendance of hundreds of students at its summer seminars and provides various forms of career assistance. Through these and other programs, the Institute promotes the study of liberty across a broad range of disciplines, encouraging understanding, open inquiry, rigorous scholarship, and creative problem-solving."

Institute for Jewish Medical Ethics
Description: Started in 1982, this organization has as its goals: to identify underlying principles of Jewish law (Halachah) in Biblical, Talmudic and other works of Jewish scholarship as they relate to the general practice of medicine; to analyze the efficacy of these principles by evaluating the process by which halachic positions are determined on specific medical issues; to review recent medical, scientific and public policy developments in a variety of medical sub-specialties; to reach out to Jewish and non-Jewish physicians, rabbis and other clergy, other health care professional as well as medical students and lay people.

Institute for Law and Philosophy
Description: "The Institute for Law and Philosophy brings together a large number of scholars for the purpose of discussing the application of legal theory to contemporary legal, moral and political issues. Topics are debated and discussed at the Institute's regularly scheduled faculty workshops, featuring guest speakers who present papers on their current research interests."

Institute for Law and Philosophy
Description: "The primary purpose of the Institute is to further the mission of the law school and Rutgers University, to advance knowledge and understanding of legal topics of philosophical significance, particularly those that implicate questions in contemporary analytic philosophy, criminal law theory, and moral theory. It is designed to extend the acknowledged excellence in philosophical inquiry at the University by bringing together the strengths of the Camden Law School and New Brunswick Philosophy Department."

Institute for Law and Philosophy
Description: "The primary mission of the Institute, in furtherance of the mission of the law school and its parent university, is to advance knowledge on legal topics of philosophical significance, particularly those legal topics that implicate moral, political, and religious philosophical issues."

Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
Associated School: University of Amsterdam
Description: "The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) is a research institute of the University of Amsterdam, in which researchers from the Faculty of Science, the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences collaborate. ILLC's central research area is the study of fundamental principles of encoding, transmission and comprehension of information. Emphasis is on natural and formal languages, but other information carriers, such as images and music, are studied as well."

Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy
Associated School: University of Maryland
Description: Established in 1976 to conduct research into the values and concepts that underlie public policy.

Institute for Research on Women and Gender
Associated School: Stanford University
Description: "Founded in 1974, Stanford’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender is nationally and internationally known for its work. The Institute supports research on women’s changing economic and social roles and organizes educational programs that make such work accessible to the public. These programs have contributed to policy making and leadership on issues with significant impact on women and their families. The Institute’s primary focus has been on interdisciplinary projects including research on women’s health and conferences on divorce reform, adolescent pregnancy, androgyny, redefining family values, women’s autobiographies, and west coast feminism."

Institute for Saint Anselm Studies
Description: "The Institute for Saint Anselm Studies is an academic research center conducted by Saint Anselm College and established to promote and encourage the study of the life, thought, and spirituality of Saint Anselm of Canterbury, the patron of the College. By means of its resources, facilities, and programs, the Institute offers to the College's faculty and students and to the larger scholarly community the opportunity and means to bring Saint Anselm into living contact with the culture of the twenty-first century."

Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism
Associated School: Texas Tech University
Description: "The Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism is the first and oldest organized center for research on the life and works of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), the American Physicist, Mathematician, Logician, and Engineer, one of the greatest interdisciplinary scientists in history. It was founded during the 1971-72 academic year at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas by Charles S. Hardwick and Kenneth L. Ketner. Its mission is to facilitate study of the life and works of Peirce and his continuing influence."

Institute for the Study of Applied and Professional Ethics
Associated School: Dartmouth University
Description: The Ethics Institute exists to foster the study of applied and professional ethics throughout the Dartmouth community, both at the undergraduate level and in the professional schools. We strive to facilitate scholarship and teaching in applied and professional ethics. Membership is open to all Dartmouth faculty who have expressed interest in the field. Dartmouth alumni, administrators and staff, faculty from other institutions, and members of the community may participate in Institute activities as associates. The Institute serves the College, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, as well as Tuck Business School.

Institute of Economic Affairs
Description: The Institute of Economic Affairs is an educational and research charity. Its goal is to explain free-market ideas to the public, including politicians, students, journalists, businessmen, academics and anyone interested in public policy.

Institute of Medicine, Law and Bioethics
Description: The Institute's mission is to: establish a program of research and education to enhance the quality and effectiveness of health care delivery in the Region and throughout the UK through the promotion of safe, ethical and cost-effective practice; and establish a national and international profile as an authoritative body on medico-legal and bioethical issues

Institute of Philosophy
Description: "The Institute of Philosophy is Nepal’s first & only modern professional philosophers organization which is registered HMG’s Katmandu CDO office in 2001 under Society Registration Act 2038 B.S,. It is constitutionally dedicated to developing, research, study and explores philosophies, Specially Practical Philosophies of Indian subcontinent for modern life & democratic way."

Institute Vienna Circle
Description: "The international Institute Vienna Circle, a nonprofit society founded in Vienna in October 1991, has set the following goals, documentation and further contributions to the development of the 'Vienna Circle' in the areas of science and adult education; and secondly to cultivate and apply logical empiricism, critical rationalism and linguistic analysis in the sense of a scientific philosophy and coordinated with general socio-cultural developments."

Instituto de Filosofía
Description: (in Spanish)

Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics
Description: "The Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL) is sponsored by The European Foundation for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), and currently has a membership of over 700 researchers in various aspects of logic (symbolic, mathematical, computational, philosophical, etc.) from all over the world. Our main activity is that of a research and information clearing house."

International Adam Smith Society
Description: "The International Adam Smith Society was founded in 1995 with two aims: (i) to encourage interdisciplinary scholarly interest in Adam Smith's writings, as well as in topics and issues connected with his writings; and (ii) to provide a forum for the sharing of research and scholarship relating to Adam Smith. The Society's activities include sponsoring conference sessions in association with other learned societies and promoting communication amongst Smith scholars by providing a regular newsletter for its members. In June 2001 the society held its first international conference in conjunction with the meeting of The Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society and special sessions have regularly been held at the American Philosophical Association meetings. The society is currently setting up a scholarly, peer-reviewed annual review, the Adam Smith Review."

International Association for Computing and Philosophy
Description: "The IACAP is currently being formed on the basis of a sixteen-year history of Computing and Philosophy (CAP) conferences. Its purpose is to support a global communications system to facilitate these conferences (and other events), to help researchers interested in the intersection between philosophy and computing collaborate with each other, and to promote the study of philosophy in general by employing computational systems to organize philosophical content on the Internet."

International Association for Empirical Aesthetics
Description: The International Association of Empirical Aesthetics was founded in 1965 by D.E. Berlyne, Robert Francès, Carmelo Genovese, and Albert Wellek. The association is open to all who are interested in empirical studies of aesthetics and of the arts, literature, and music. Most members are anthropologists, psychologists, semioticians, and sociologists. However, a number are practicing artists, humanistic scholars, and philosophers who have an interest in empirical studies of the arts.

International Association for Environmental Philosophy
Description: IAEP embraces a broad understanding of environmental philosophy, including not only environmental ethics, but also environmental aesthetics, ontology, and theology, the philosophy of science, ecofeminism, and the philosophy of technology. IAEP welcomes a diversity of approaches to environmental issues, including the many schools of Continental Philosophy, the history of philosophy, and the tradition of American Philosophy. IAEP publishes the biennial journal /Environmental Philosophy/ and hosts annual meetings in conjunction with the International Society for Environmental Ethics (ISEE) and with the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP).

International Association for Greek Philosophy
Description: "The International Association for Greek Philosophy (I.A.G.P.) in a non- profit academic organisation. Its aim is to cultivate and promote the study of Greek Philosophy. The I.A.G.P. welcomes cooperation with all organisations, societies and foundations with similar aims; its purpose being to co-ordinate on an international level all work connected with the research and study of Greek philosophy. To this end it organises Lectures, Seminars, Symposia and Conferences of an international character and scope. Discussions and Studies on Greek philosophy are published by the I.A.G.P. in its journal and separately. The I.A.G.P.'s publications are printed either in modern Greek or in one of the three internationally recognized languages (English, French and German)."

International Association for Philosophy and Literature
Description: The International Association for Philosophy and Literature is dedicated to the exchange of ideas and scholarly research within the humanities. Founded to provide a context for the interplay of Philosophy, Literary Theory, and Cultural / Textual Studies, the Association brings together scholars from the full range of disciplines concerned with philosophical, historical, critical, and theoretical issues. The association's annual meetings provide an opportunity for dialogue and the exchange of ideas, the articulation of contemporary themes and topics, the exploration of various expressive arts, and the production of new theoretical discourses.

International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy

International Association for the Philosophy of Sport
Description: "Established in 1972 as the Philosophic Society for the Study of Sport with it’s name changed in 1999. The purpose of the organization is to stimulate, encourage, and promote study, research, and writing in the philosophy of sporting (and related) activity; to demonstrate the relevance of philosophic thought concerning sport to matters of professional concern; to organize and conduct meetings concerning the philosophy of sport; to issue publications concerning the philosophy of sport; to support and to cooperate with local, national, and international organizations of similar purpose; to affiliate with national and international organizations of similar purpose; and to engender national, regional, and continental affiliates devoted to the philosophic study of sport."

International Association of Women Philosophers
Description: "The International Association of Women Philosophers (Internationales Assoziation von Philosophinnen), or IAPh, was founded in Würzburg (Germany) in 1974, and is currently based in Berlin. The aim of the association is to support the communication and collaboration of women philosophers or women interested in Philosophy, and to promote research in the field of feminist theory. The association seeks both an improvement in working conditions and the recognition of women philosophers, while denouncing, for example, the discrimination that they suffer personally or in their work. The association is also impartial as regards the different currents of thought. Men can be members of the association, but cannot form part of the executive committee."

International Berkeley Society
Description: contains a history of the Society, an extensive online 'bookshop' for Berkeleian books (with links to Amazon), a directory of Berkeleian sites on the web, and a bulletin board.

International Bernard Bolzano Society
Description: The Society aims include: to foster international research on Bolzano; to make the works of Bolzano in Philosophy, Mathematics and Theology better known; to encourage and support publications by and about Bolzano; to encourage and support the treatment of Bolzano in University courses.

International Boethius Society
Description: The International Boethius Society is an non-profit organization promoting scholarship on all aspects of the work, influence, and age of Boethius. The purpose of the society is to promote interest in Boethius and to advance Boethius studies; to make accessible to all members, by means of publications approved by the Society, information of common interest, especially concerning the teaching of and research in Boethius; to hold annual international meetings and other gatherings for the purpose of exchanging ideas and techniques pertitnent to the propoer study of Boethius and his times; to promote and publish research and texts in Boethius and related fields; to promote the teaching of Boethius and related areas at all appropriate levels of education; and to operate and maintain the Society exclusively for educational purposes.

International Center for Interdisciplinary Psychiatric Research
Description: "Presents selected publications on interdisciplinary psychiatry and idealist philosophy from the Center and profiles of the members."

International Centre for Greek Philosophy and Culture
Description: The International Center for Greek Philosophy and Culture (ICGPC) is a non-profit academic, research and cultural Institution which was formed in 1987 and established by law in 1990. The ICGPC has its seat in Samos (Pythagorion), land of Ionia, which is also the birthplace of philosophy. The ICGPC has its aim to promote international research into Greek philosophy, and to coordinate and develop the research carried out by specialists in Greek philosophy, and Greek Culture. The Center views Greek Philosophy as including the philosophical production of the Greeks from the time of the Presocratics until today, since this intellectual production is expressed in the same language, namely Greek. Thus, it is not only the Ancient Greek Classical Philosophy that is defined as Greek Philosophy, but also that philosophy of the Church Fathers, together with Byzantine, Modern Greek and Contemporary Greek Philosophy. Furthermore, in view of the expansion of its activities in the Eastern Aegean, the Center has as its aim to help communication between peoples of differing cultures and to establish itself as a guiding light and upholder of the creative values of the Greek Christian, and European spirit.http://www.unipa.it/~estetica,International Centre for the Study of Aesthetics, The International Centre for the Study of Aesthetics is an Institute of High Culture that was founded on November 27, 1980. Its principal statutory aim is the promotion, on a national and international level, of study and research activities (both interdisciplinary and not) in the field of aesthetics.

International Centre for the Study of Aesthetics
Description: The International Centre for the Study of Aesthetics is an Institute of High Culture that was founded on November 27, 1980. Its principal statutory aim is the promotion, on a national and international level, of study and research activities (both interdisciplinary and not) in the field of aesthetics.

International Economics and Philosophical Society
Description: "The International Economics and Philosophy Society was formed in 1994 to promote collaboration and exchange among scholars interested in economics and philosophy. The main activities of the Society are: regular meetings with the American Philosophical Association and the American Economic Association; annual conferences; the provision of current information, through an Internet forum, on research opportunities, conferences, and publications in the area of economics and philosophy, and the facilitation of communication between members with similar interests through Society circulation of their current research activities."

International Ernst Cassirer Society
Description: The International Ernst Cassirer Society was founded on October 13, 1993. The aim of the society is to coordinate and further research concerning the philosophy of Ernst Cassirer and to support the edition of Cassirer's unpublished writings.

International Herder Society
Description: "The International Herder Society was founded in 1985 in Monterey, California, by scholars from various disciplines at universities in the US. It is the aim of the International Herder Society to promote the interdisciplinary study of all aspects of the work, life, and era of Johann Gottfried Herder, one of the most influential personalities of Eighteenth-century German intellectual history, through meetings and publications without regard to national boundaries or disciplines. The IHS is open to scholars from all countries and all disciplines."

International Humanist and Ethical Union
Description: "IHEU was founded in 1952 in Amsterdam and is the only umbrella organisation of Humanist, rationalist, atheist, secularist, ethical culture and agnostic groups around the world. Its Member Organisations range from large membership groups to specialist bodies such as publishers, universities and development agencies."

International Institute for Field Being
Description: "The IIFB is a non-profit research-oriented international educational association of scholars, professionals, organizations and interested individuals in any field or discipline who study and promote the Field-Being modes of thought. More specifically, the Institute centers its research projects on the following topics or areas: Philosophical implications of the Field-Being world-view; Non-Substantialism versus Substantialism East and West; The Non-Substantialistic Turn in 20th Century thought and philosophy."

International Institute of Applied Aesthetics
Description: "The International Institute of Applied Aesthetics (IIAA) publishes books on aesthetics and organizes research and educational projects, seminars, summer schools, exhibitions and other events. We cooperate with universities, colleges, associations, scholars, students and others interested in environmental and applied aesthetics."

International Interdisciplinary Reid Society
Description: In conjunction with the Reid Project at the University of Aberdeen.

International Network for Life Studies
Description: A non-profit organization that combines philosophy of life, bioethics, environmental ethics, and criticism of modern civilization at its core.

International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry
Description: "INPP provides a collaborative research and education forum to support organisations and individuals involved in conceptual and ethical work in psychiatry and related disciplines."

International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
Description: "Launched in 1992 at the Inaugural Congress of the International Association of Bioethics, the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB) by 2002 has approximately 350 individual members in 28 countries and exchanges information with many organizations whose missions overlap our own. FAB aims to develop a more inclusive theory of bioethics encompassing the standpoints and experiences of women and other marginalized social groups, to examine presuppositions embedded in the dominant bioethical discourse that privilege those already empowered, and to create new methodologies and strategies responsive to the disparate conditions of women's lives across the globe."

International Philosophy Olympiad
Description: "The objectives of IPO are: - to promote philosophical education at secondary school level and increase the interest of high-school pupils in philosophy; - to contribute to the development of critical, inquisitive and creative thinking; - to promote philosophical reflection on science, art and social life; - to cultivate the capacity for ethical reflection on the problems of the modern world; and - by encouraging intellectual exchanges and securing opportunities for personal contacts between young people from different countries, to promote the culture of peace."

International Plato Society
Description: "Founded in 1989, the Society holds triennial symposia and occasional additional activities and supports regional Plato Societies. It also sponsors the publication of scholarly books on Plato, in collaboration with Academia Verlag, Sankt Augustin."

International Process Network
Description: "The International Process Network (IPN) is a global network for process-relational philosophies. Process-relational philosophies (or “process”), in general, have creativity, organic change over time, interiority and interdependence as fundamental aspects of their understandings. Process is part of an ancient tradition dating in the West at least from Heraclites, in Asia from early Hindu and Chinese writings, and around the world from many indigenous traditions. In more recent times, it has been expressed in the thought of such philosophers as Sri Aurobindo, Nishida Kitaro, Henri Bergson, Teilhard de Chardin, and Alfred North Whitehead. IPN came into being in 2001 at the International Whitehead Summit held in Claremont, California. Its purpose, as stated in its bylaws, is 'to support, generate and disseminate an international discourse on the meaning and implications of process thought across academic disciplines and conflicting truth-claims, and in relation to the entire community of life and the cosmos.' Membership in IPN is available to individuals and organizations who are interested in understanding, teaching, developing, applying, promoting or supporting process."

International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism
Description: "The IRIZ was established to promote basic research on Zen Buddhism, support interdisciplinary research in related fields, train scholars in Zen studies, issue publications relating to Zen, organize research materials, and encourage international scholarly exchange."

International Social Theory Consortium
Description: "The purpose of the International Social Theory Consortium and its annual conference is to organize the International Social Theory community and to provide an opportunity for interdisciplinary exchange in social theory."

International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy
Description: "Established in 2002, the International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy (ISCWP) is a non-profit, independent philosophical society in the international academic arena. The Society aims at (1) promoting comparative studies of Chinese philosophy and Western philosophy, (2) facilitating academic contact and exchange of ideas and information among interested philosophers in various regions without regard to their ethnic origins, educational backgrounds and methodological orientations, and (3) providing channels to bring together Chinese and Western philosophers for learning from each other and joint endeavor to contribute to the common philosophical enterprise."

International Society for Environmental Ethics
Description: An international organization, their website includes information on membership, officers of the organization, and international contact persons. The ISEE newsletter is available online, and back issues are archived. A large, searchable bibliography (over 5,000 entries) is available, as is a listing of selected resources.  Also, the Syllabus Project provides ample informaiton on teaching materials in the field.

International Society for Intellectual History
Description: Created in 1994 to foster communication and interaction among the international community of intellectual historians and scholars working in related fields.

International Society for Knowledge Organization
Description: "Founded in 1989, ISKO is the leading international society for organization of knowledge. ISKO has a broad and interdisciplinary scope. ISKO's mission is to advance conceptual work in knowledge organization in all kinds of forms, and for all kinds of purposes, such as databases, libraries, dictionaries and the Internet. As an interdisciplinary society, ISKO brings together professionals from many different fields. ISKO counts more than 500 members all over the world, from fields such as information science, philosophy, linguistics, computer science, as well as special domains such as medical informatics."

International Society for Neoplatonic Studies
Description: "The International Society for Neoplatonic Studies (ISNS) is an organization for the study of Neoplatonism in all of its aspects from the ancient world through the Renaissance and into the modern world. Provides a searchable scholars directory."

International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature
Description: "The aim of the society is the advancement of empirical literary research through international and interdisciplinary co-operation."

International Society for the History of Arabic and Islamic Science and Philosophy

International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science
Description: "HOPOS, The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, is devoted to promoting serious, scholarly research on the history of the philosophy of science. We construe this subject broadly, to include topics in the history of related disciplines and in all historical periods, studied through diverse methodologies. We aim to promote historical work in a variety of ways, but especially through encouraging exchange among scholars through meetings, publications, and electronic media."

International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology
Description: "The International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB) brings together scholars from diverse disciplines, including the life sciences as well as history, philosophy, and social studies of science. ISHPSSB summer meetings are known for innovative, transdisciplinary sessions, and for fostering informal, co-operative exchanges and on-going collaborations."

International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry
Description: "The International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry (ISPC) is devoted to the international exchange of ideas concerning the philosophical foundations of the chemical sciences and related areas. This exchange fosters discourse between chemists, biochemists, philosophers, historians, sociologists and educators."

International Society for the Study of Argumentation
Description: "The International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA) was founded at the end of the First International Conference on Argumentation held at the University of Amsterdam in 1986. ISSA's main purpose is - as stated in its Constitution: to promote and improve the extent and quality of research in the field of argumentation theory and its application; to facilitate the professional cooperation of its members; to sponsor, organize, or support public and professional meetings in the field of argumentation; to support or produce publications relevant to these objectives; and to support and cooperate with individuals and organizations expressing related interests."

International Society for the Study of Time
Description: "The ISST is a professional organization of scientists and humanists interested in exploring the idea and experience of time and the role time plays in the physical, organic, intellectual, and social world. By holding meetings once every three years, the society provides a forum for the exchange of ideas among its members. Selected papers from these meetings have been published in a reference library which consists of ten volumes of The Study of Time series. ... The disciplines represented by members of the society include anthropology, astronomy, the biological sciences, communication, economics, geology, history, Journalism, law, linguistics, literature, the arts (including the history of art), mathematics, medical sciences, music, philosophy, physics, political science, psychology, psychiatry, religion, and sociology."

International Society for Utilitarian Studies
Description: The International Society for Utilitarian Studies reflects the world-wide interest in the Bentham Project, the expansion of Bentham studies, and the growing interest in utilitarianism. The aims of this body are to further the work of the Bentham Project in making available all of Bentham's writings in modern scholarly editions; to organize seminars and conferences on topics relevant to lawyers, philosophers, political scientists and historians; to provide a forum for debate and research on utilitarianism and its present-day relevance in the fields of legal, political and social reform.

International Society of Business, Economics and Ethics
Description: The aim of the Society is to facilitate the dissemination of information and to foster mutually fruitful interaction among businesses, academics, professional societies, and others interested in the ethical dimensions of business and economics on the international level.

Internationale Nietzsche Gemeinschaft

Islamic Institute of Philosophy
Description: "To provide distance learning courses in Islamic Philosophy, we offer 2-year certficate course, and Master's Prgrams."

Israel Society for Philosophical Practice and Counseling
Description: "In May 1996, some Israeli philosophical counselors, and some other interested philosophers agreed on forming a contact group, which became a formal organization in the following November. The aim of ISPPI is to promote affirmative contact among philosophical practitioners and to encourage the development of philosophical counseling through sharing professional experiences, knowledge and information."

Istituto di Teoria e Storia delle Idee
Description: (in Italian)