Philosophical Groups and Societies


There are a lot of academic philosophy groups and philosophical organizations. But we don’t know about all of them.

So we thought it would be useful to develop a centralized list of academic philosophy groups, societies, associations, networks, and the like, with links to their websites.

To do that, we’ll need your help.

An initial version of the list is below. Much of it is based on a list (without links) maintained by the American Philosophical Association.

Since we know there are many more organizations than those on that list, we’re asking you to tell us about them.

If you know of an organization, society, group, association, or network in academic philosophy you think should be on this list, please mention it in the comments along with a link to its website, and we will add it to the list in the post. Such organizations may be based anywhere in the world. We only ask that you limit yourself to suggesting groups that are (a) primarily for academic philosophers, (b) have members from more than one institution, (c) are intended to be ongoing (as opposed to, say, ending when a grant ends), and (d) have a website.

The list will be updated with your suggestions periodically. (If it has been a few days since your suggestion and it hasn’t yet been added to the list, please email us.)

Thank you!

Academic Philosophy Groups, Societies, Networks, and Associations

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Anna Alexandrova
Anna Alexandrova
19 days ago

British Society for Philosophy of Science, Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice, European Philosophy of Science Association, Eastern European Network for Philosophy of Science

Chris Scambler
Chris Scambler
19 days ago

There is also the newly formed European Society for the Philosophy of Mathematics: https://philmath.eu/

Shawn Standefer
19 days ago

The Australasian Association for Logic: http://aalogic.org.

Daniel Breazeale
Daniel Breazeale
19 days ago

North American Fichte Society

William
William
19 days ago

Association for Practical and Professional Ethics

American Society for Bioethics and Humanities

William
William
Reply to  William
19 days ago
Nicolas Delon
Nicolas Delon
19 days ago

Florida Philosophical Association: https://meta.phil.ufl.edu/host/fpa/

David Liakos
David Liakos
19 days ago

North Texas Philosophical Association

https://ntxpa.org/

Philipp
Philipp
19 days ago

Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie e.V. (GAP), Gesellschaft für Antike Philosophie (GANPH)

Martin Pickup
19 days ago

I guess because the initial list is based on the APA one, this is light on British societies. Some that immediately come to mind are:

The Aristotelian Society (https://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/)
The Mind Association (http://mindassociation.org/)
The Royal Institute of Philosophy (https://royalinstitutephilosophy.org/)
The British Society for the History of Philosophy (https://bshp.org.uk/)
The British Society for Philosophy of Religion (http://www.thebspr.org/)

Philipp
Philipp
19 days ago
Josh Myers
Josh Myers
19 days ago

Society for Philosophy and Psychology
https://www.socphilpsych.org/

Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology
https://www.southernsociety.org/

European Society for Philosophy and Psychology
https://www.europeanspp.org/

Patrick Lin
19 days ago

International Association of Computing & Philosophy is a leading org in technology ethics.

Patrick Lin
19 days ago

International Society for Military Ethics seems to be mostly philosophers as well as some practitioners.

David Martens
David Martens
19 days ago

International Federation of Philosophical Societies
https://www.fisp.org/

Eddy Nahmias
Eddy Nahmias
19 days ago

Georgia Philosophical Society (GPS)
Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SPP)
Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SSPP)

Daniel Weltman
19 days ago

Indian Philosophy Network

https://www.indianphilosophynetwork.org

Brad
19 days ago

I should probably say this in a whisper, but some of us have even been know to attend the meetings of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S). Though most of those attending are sociologists or historians of science (or economists or anthropologists), some of us do research in areas that intersect with these fields.

Matthew J Brown
19 days ago

The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, HOPOS https://hopos.org/

Matthew J Brown
19 days ago

Ralph Waldo Emerson Society https://emersonsociety.org/

Matthew J Brown
19 days ago

Kazimierz Twardowski Philosophical Society of Lviv https://twardowski-lviv.org

Jordan
19 days ago

North American Association for Philosophy & Education https://naape.org

Martin Lenz
19 days ago
Matthew J Brown
19 days ago

The Association for Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics, and Science Studies (FEMMSS) http://femmss.org/

Matthew J Brown
19 days ago

International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology https://iuhpst.org/

Griffin Klemick
Griffin Klemick
19 days ago

The Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC)

https://eptc-tcep.net/

Ben McCraw
19 days ago

Society for Philosophy of Religion (SPR)
https://www.societyphilosophyreligion.org/home

Lucy Osler
19 days ago

European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions – https://www.epsse.org/

Ben Lennertz
Ben Lennertz
19 days ago

The Creighton Club (Upstate New York Philosophical Society)

http://creightonclub.blogspot.com/

Michael Cholbi
19 days ago

European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotion, https://www.epsse.org/

Matt Dean
Matt Dean
19 days ago

International Social Ontology Society: https://isosonline.org/

John Walsh
John Walsh
19 days ago

Christian-Wolff-Society for the Philosophy of the Enlightenment
https://www.christian-wolff-gesellschaft.de/

Willem deVries
19 days ago
Jens Lemanski
19 days ago

Schopenhauer Gesellschaft
http://www.schopenhauer.de
Weigel Gesellschaft
http://www.erhard-weigel-gesellschaft.de

david deamer
david deamer
19 days ago

British Society for Phenomenology (BSP) – https://www.britishphenomenology.org.uk/

Posting Anonymously for Good Reason
Posting Anonymously for Good Reason
19 days ago

Black Dagger Society

Dustin Sigsbee
Dustin Sigsbee

Do you have a URL? My search is only turning up a fantasy novel.

Another Philosopher
Another Philosopher
19 days ago

Young Network for Wittgensteinian Philosophy

https://sites.google.com/view/young-network-wp/home

Last edited 19 days ago by Another Philosopher
Jennifer McWeeny
Jennifer McWeeny
19 days ago

International Simone de Beauvoir Society
https://beauvoir.weebly.com/

and its journal:
Simone de Beauvoir Studies http://www.brill.com/sdbs

David Thorstad
David Thorstad
18 days ago
Professor Ronald Barnett
Professor Ronald Barnett
18 days ago

Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Society (PaTHES) – https://pathes.org/

Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen
18 days ago

Here is another one: Institut International de Philosophie https://www.i-i-p.org/

Jacob Joseph Andrews
18 days ago

Aquinas & “The Arabs” International Working Group: http://richardctaylor.info/aaiwg/
St. Louis – Chicago Area Medieval Research Group: https://phartman.sites.luc.edu/sluchi.html
(This is a philosophical Latin reading group)

Virtual Paleography Group: No website, but info here: https://inmediasphil.wordpress.com/2023/08/08/from-paleography-to-real-books/
(Sister group to SLUCHI, another philosophical Latin reading group, but reads texts in original manuscripts rather than in transcription.)

Jacob Levi
Jacob Levi
18 days ago

Society for Contemporary Jewish Philosophy
https://cpjc.mcmaster.ca/

Cecilea
18 days ago

Please list the Society for Philosophy of Emotion: https://www.philosophyofemotion.org/home/about

Axel
Axel
18 days ago
Eric Steinhart
18 days ago

The Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought 
https://www.iarpt.org/

Not Humean
Not Humean
18 days ago

I’m running a small but ambitious research group on “Controversias Actuales en Metafísica Analítica” based in Santiago (Chile). Here’s a link to the webpage with more info: https://giannottiphilosophy.com/grupo-de-lectura-de-controversias-actuales-en-metafisica-analitica/

Andrea Rehberg
Andrea Rehberg
18 days ago

Society for Women in Philosophy UK,
Society for European Philosophy,
Friedrich Nietzsche Society,

Magnus Ferguson
Magnus Ferguson
18 days ago

The Hannah Arendt Circle
https://www.thearendtcircle.com

Kenny Easwaran
18 days ago

Society for Exact Philosophy: https://meta.phil.ufl.edu/host/sep/

Association for the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice: http://www.philmathpractice.org/

Rasmus Pedersen
Rasmus Pedersen
18 days ago

Center for Philosophy of Time (Based in Italy)
https://www.centreforphilosophyoftime.it/

and

Centre for Time (Based in Australia)
https://www.centrefortime.org/

Duncan Richter
Duncan Richter
18 days ago

Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society: https://www.alws.at/

British Wittgenstein Society: http://www.britishwittgensteinsociety.herts.ac.uk/

Nordic Wittgenstein Society: http://www.nordicwittgensteinsociety.org/

North American Wittgenstein Society: https://www.facebook.com/wittgensteinsociety/

John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji
18 days ago

International Society for African Philosophy and Studies – ISAPS

David Martens
David Martens
Reply to  John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji
18 days ago
Antony Eagle
18 days ago

The Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science https://aahpsss.net.au/

The Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology http://theaspp.org/

The Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy https://ascp.org.au/

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Torgeir Fjeld
18 days ago

British Philosophy of Sport Association <http://philosophyofsport.org.uk/&gt;
International Society for Research on Solitude <https://isrs.usz.edu.pl/&gt;
Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts <https://www.ereignis.no/&gt;

Isabel Kaeslin
Isabel Kaeslin
18 days ago

EXRE (Experience & Reason)
https://exre.ch/

Liesbeth
Liesbeth
18 days ago

The various SWIP-chapters, including:
SWIP-NL (Society for Women* in Philosophy for the Netherlands and Flanders): https://swip-filosofie.nl/
SWIP Germany: https://swip-philosophinnen.org/

historygrrrl
historygrrrl
Reply to  Liesbeth
18 days ago
Ehud Lamm
18 days ago

Israeli Society for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science
https://www.ishps.org.il/

David Spurrett
18 days ago

The Philosophical Society of Southern Africa (or PSSA): http://philsafrica.org.za/

Filippo Ferrari
18 days ago

European Network for the Philosophy of Logic (EuPhilo): https://euphilo.net/
Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy: http://sifaphilosophy.eu/

Kourken Michaelian
Kourken Michaelian
18 days ago
Camille Buttingsrud
Camille Buttingsrud
18 days ago
Christopher Thomas
Christopher Thomas
18 days ago

UK Simone Weil Research Network
https://twitter.com/UKWeilNetwork
Website to follow

Philosophers Association of Nigeria - PAN
18 days ago

Philosophers Association of Nigeria – PAN

Stacie Friend
Stacie Friend
18 days ago

-British Society of Aesthetics, https://british-aesthetics.org/
-European Society of Aesthetics, https://www.eurosa.org/
-London Aesthetics Forum, https://www.londonaestheticsforum.org/
-Société Internationales des Recherches sur la Fiction et la Fictionnalité / Association for Studies in Fiction and Fictionality (SIRFF/ASIFF), https://fiction.hypotheses.org/evenement-events

Jessica Leech
18 days ago

UK Kant Society. https://www.ukks.co.uk/

Rafael Winkler
18 days ago

Please add the following:
Centre for Phenomenology in South Africa. This is the link.

Fridolin Gross
Fridolin Gross
18 days ago

Philosophy in Biology and Medicine (PhilInBioMed) https://www.philinbiomed.org/

C. Pence
C. Pence
18 days ago

Belgian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science (BSLPS) – https://www.logic-center.be/bslps/
Société de philosophie des sciences (SPS) – https://www.sps-philoscience.org/
Société d’histoire et d’épistémologie des sciences de la vie (SHESVie) – https://shesvie.hypotheses.org/

Idoga Kizito OCHALA
18 days ago

Philosophers Association of Nigeria – PAN

Idoga Kizito OCHALA
18 days ago

Philosophers Association of Nigeria – PAN

https://www.pan-edu.org

Clive Cazeaux
18 days ago

Society for European Philosophy
https://societyforeuropeanphilosophy.com/

Paul
18 days ago

Halcyonic Association for Radical Philosophy (HARP)
https://harp.tf/

Raoni Arroyo
Raoni Arroyo
18 days ago

International Network on Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information

https://quantuminternationalnet.com/

Jim Collier
18 days ago

Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective: https://social-epistemology.com/

Zoltán György Somhegyi
Zoltán György Somhegyi
18 days ago

International Association for Aesthetics: https://iaaesthetics.org/

historygrrrl
historygrrrl
18 days ago

Ancient Philosophy Society: https://www.ancientphilosophysociety.org/

International Association for Presocratic Studies: https://www.presocraticstudies.org/

Kian Mintz-Woo
18 days ago

Philosophers for Sustainability : https://www.philosophersforsustainability.com/

Oliver BROWN
Oliver BROWN
18 days ago

Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft: https://www.schopenhauer.de/

Jasper van Buuren
18 days ago

Helmuth Plessner Society:

https://helmuth-plessner.de/?lang=en

Jasper van Buuren
18 days ago

The International Merleau-Ponty Circle:

https://www.merleauponty.org/

Klaas Kraay
18 days ago

Toronto Philosophy of Religion Work-in-Progress Group
https://www.torontomu.ca/philosophy/kraay/philosophy-of-religion-work-in-progress/

Klaas Kraay
18 days ago

Canadian Society of Christian Philosophers
https://cscp-scpc.ca/

Jacqueline Wallis
Jacqueline Wallis
17 days ago

International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB) https://ishpssb.org/

Fabrice
Fabrice
17 days ago
Peeter Müürsepp
17 days ago

Baltic Association for the History and Philosophy of Science

Mate Penava
Mate Penava
17 days ago

Hegel Society Croatia
https://hegelovo-drustvo.hr/

Philipp Stehr
17 days ago
Dominic McIver Lopes
17 days ago

British Society of Aesthetics https://british-aesthetics.org/
Western Canadian Philosophical Association http://wcpaonline.ca/

Paul McNamara
17 days ago

NNEPA: Northern New England Philosophical Association:

(Thanks you for doing this!)

Ivana
16 days ago

Croatian Philosophical Society

TJ Bonnet
TJ Bonnet
16 days ago

The Center for Body, Mind, and Culture: https://www.fau.edu/artsandletters/bodymindculture/

Ian James Kidd
Ian James Kidd
16 days ago

Philosophical Society of England – a longstanding public philosophy organisation.

https://philsoceng.uk/

Paul McNamara
16 days ago
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Sean F
Sean F
15 days ago

Husserl Cirlce http://www.husserlcircle.org/

Hegel Society of America
https://www.pdcnet.org/hsa

Viktor Ivanković
Viktor Ivanković
15 days ago

Udruga za promicanje filozofije (Society for the Advancement of Philosophy, Croatia)

http://upf.hr/en/

Janko Nešić
Janko Nešić
14 days ago

Philosophy & Psychiatry Seminar (Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia):

https://sites.google.com/view/philosophy-psychiatry-seminar/begin

Pierluigi Graziani
12 days ago

Società Italiana di Logica e Filosofia delle Scienze (Italian Society for Logic and the Philosophy of Science)
<http://www.silfs.it/&gt;

Jonathan Spelman
Jonathan Spelman
11 days ago

There is the Ohio Philosophical Association at http://ohiophilosophy.org/.

Christopher Satoor, Benjamin Norris
11 days ago

The Idealist Society of North America (ISNA) https://idealistsocietyofnorthamerica.com/

The Idealist Society of North America (ISNA) is an international group of academics, scholars, and researchers dedicated to cultivating a space for the study of idealist philosophy broadly construed. ISNA’s mission is to intertwine the wider tradition of idealism from Plato to the present with this tradition’s instantiation in the fields of 18th and 19th-century German Idealism and 19th and 20th-century British and American Idealism. We view these movements as particularly important moments in the idealist tradition but seek to establish the broader continuity of these movements with the idealist tradition as a whole.

Luca
Luca
9 days ago

British Postgraduate Philosophy Association (BPPA)

https://www.bippa.uk/

Last edited 9 days ago by Luca
Janko Nešić
Janko Nešić
9 days ago

Serbian Society for Phenomenological Psychiatry
https://sites.google.com/view/serbian-phenopsychiatry/main

Julián
6 days ago

CeNic: International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism
https://nihilismocontemporaneo.com.co/en/home-2/