- Alliance of Secular
Humanist Societies (ASHS)
A network created for mutual support among local and/or regional
societies of secular humanists. Links to local organizations throughout
North America.
- American Humanist Association (AHA)
National organization founded in 1941 to promote humanism in the
United States. News, articles, essays, commentaries, lists, and bulletins
of current and future events.
- American Philosophical Association
(APA)
The primary professional organization for American philosophers.
- Atlantic
Region Philosophers Association (ARPA)
Fosters research and scholarship within the philosophical community
in Atlantic Canada.
- Australasian Association
of Philosophy (AAP)
Professional organization of academic philosophers in Australia and
New Zealand. Runs conferences, offers an annual prize for philosophy
published in the popular media, and edits the Australasian Journal
of Philosophy.
- British
Society for Ethical Theory
The society has the following current functions: Runs conferences,
encourages the electronic interchange of information, drafts of papers,
reviews, publishes a list of members and their research interests,
publishes a list of British Graduate Students in Ethics
- Canadian Philosophical Association
A learned society made up principally of teachers and students of
philosophy. The CPA Bulletin, the journal Dialogue, and online forums
to facilitate communication among philosophers.
- Council for Secular
Humanism (CSH)
Sponsors publications, programs, and organizes meetings to cultivate
rational inquiry, ethical values, and human development through the
advancement of secular humanism.
- Existentialist Society,
Australia
Organizes a series of monthly lectures.
- Guide to Philosophy
on the Internet: Associations, by Peter Suber
A comprehensive collection of online philosophy resources. Well-organized,
easy to navigate, regularly updated.
- Hungarian Philosophical
Association
Maintained by the Department of History and Philosophy of Science,
University, Budapest. Rankings of graduate programs in analytical
philosophy, and links for educators and students.
- Individualist Research Foundation
Promotes research and publication among students of the struggle
between individualism and collectivism.
- The Institute for Applied
Philosophy, Public Policy, and World Affairs
Non-Profit Organization dedicated to research and advocacy, exploring
practical, existential and concrete implications and applications
of philosophy to Public Policy Issues and World Affairs.
- Institute
for Axiological Research / Institut f黵 Axiologische Forschungen
Axiology - philosophical and interdisciplinary Value Inquiry with
following priorities: 1) classical and contemporary theories on values,
2) values in sex-gender context, 3) hermeneutics of religion and culture,
4) actual transformations: identity, democracy, globalisation and
justice, 5) praxis and values.
- International
Association for Critical Realism
The IACR was established in 1997 with the basic objective of serving
as a networking and facilitating resource for anyone broadly sympathetic
to, or concerned with, realist philosophy and social theory.
- Lonergan Philosophical
Society
Center at Loyola Marymount University, dedicated to the study of
the work of Bernard Lonergan.
- New Banner Intitute
Local seminars and online discussion in philosophic inquiry: Open
forum, logical analysis, and fundamental research in metaphysics,
epistemology, ethics, psychology, economics, political science, aesthetics,
and cognitive sciences.
- Philosophical
Organizations
Directory of links to philosophy-related organizations, including
societies, institutes, associations, and centers, by subject or alphabetical,
from Epistemelinks.
- Philosophical Organizations
Directory of annotated links to philosophical organizations, philosophy
societies, philosophy associations, and many other philosophy-related
interest groups, at ErraticImpact.
- The Philosophical Society
of England
Chartered "to promote the study of practical philosophy among the
general public", unconfined to the university system.
- The Radical Academy
Forum for the discussion of traditional philosophical questions,
as seen through the eyes of a philosophical realism fundamentally
grounded on the judgments of "common sense, critically examined."
- REALIA: Philosophy
in Service to Humanity
Realia is a non-profit organization, publishing the journal "Contemporary
Philosophy" and sponsoring annual conferences, with the mission of
contributing viable solutions to contemporary concerns.
- Society for Exact Philosophy
(SEP)
Meets annually, alternating between Canada and the U.S., to provide
sustained discussion among researchers who believe that rigorous methods
have a place in philosophical investigations.
- Society for Philosophical
Inquiry
Dedicated to dusting off and resuscitating philosophical inquiry,
wresting philosophy from the confines of academia and giving it back
to the people.
- Society for Philosophy
in the Contemporary World
Committed to the application of philosophy to understanding and solving
contemporary social problems broadly conceived.
- Society
of Christian Philosophers
Association composed of professional philosophers who embrace the
Christian faith.
- South Carolina Society
for Philosophy (SCSP)
Calls for papers, conference programs, history of the Society, and
a list of South Carolina philosophy programs.
- The
Stoic Foundation
Advice, support, discussion group, and a correspondence course in
practical Stoicism as a route to personal tranquillity.
- UNESCO: Philosophy at
UNESCO
UNESCO pursues its work in the field of intercultural philosophy,
including studies of cultural difference and cultural dialogue, and
publications bringing together an arrays of views on philosophical
and ethical themes.
- Vancouver Island
Society for Practical Philosophy
Promotes an interdisciplinary educational approach, employing philosophical
reasoning and philosophical theories, to the resolution of complex
social problems.
- The Virginia Philosophical
Association (VPA)
Holds annual meetings to promote philosophy and philosophical discussion
among faculty or graduate students in philosophy or those with equivalent
competence.