The American Philosophical Association (APA) recently announced new appointees to its various committees.

The APA has six standing committees (specified by the association’s bylaws) and fourteen additional committees.

You can view the list of new appointees here, and click on the committee names below to learn about what they do and who else serves on them.

The standing committees are:

• Academic Career Opportunities and Placement
• Inclusiveness in the Profession
• International Cooperation
• Lectures, Publications, and Research
• Status and Future of the Profession
• Teaching of Philosophy

The other committees are:

• Professional Rights and Academic Freedom
• Pre-College Philosophy
• Philosophy in Two-Year Colleges
• Public Philosophy
• Non-Academic Careers
• Virtual Programming Committee
• Graduate Student Council
• Asian & Asian American Philosophers & Philosophies
• Hispanics/Latinxs
• LGBTQ People in the Profession
• Native American and Indigenous Philosophers
• Status of Black Philosophers
• Status of Disabled People in the Profession
• Women and Gender