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Academia Analitica
Academia Analitica
Academia Analitica is a learned society for the development of logic and analytic philosophy based in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was founded in 2007 at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Sarajevo. The society's founder and president is Nijaz Ibrulj...
American Association of Philosophy Teachers
American Association of Philosophy Teachers
American Association of Philosophy Teachers is a non-profit professional organization dedicated to the advancement of the art of teaching philosophy. The association was establsihed in 1976 and since that time it has supported the continuing professional development of philosophy teachers in North...
American Catholic Philosophical Association
American Catholic Philosophical Association
The American Catholic Philosophical Association is an organization of Catholic philosophers established in 1926 to promote the advancement of philosophy as an intellectual discipline consonant with Catholic tradition...
American Ethical Union
American Philosophical Association
American Philosophical Association
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...
American Philosophical Society
American Philosophical Society
The American Philosophical Society, founded in 1743, and located in Philadelphia, Pa., is an eminent scholarly organization of international reputation, that promotes useful knowledge in the sciences and humanities through excellence in scholarly research, professional meetings, publications,...
American Society for Aesthetics
American Society for Aesthetics
American Society for Aesthetics is a philosophical organization founded in 1942 to promote the study of aesthetics. The ASA sponsors national and regional conferences, and publishes the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, the American Society for Aesthetics Graduate Ejournal, and the ASA...
American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
The American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, or ASPLP, is a learned society founded in 1955 by political theorist Carl Friedrich. The ASPLP's annual thematic conferences form the foundation for the Nomos series. The ASPLP operates according to a distinctive three-discipline structure...
Animal Rights Cambridge
Animal Rights Cambridge
Animal Rights Cambridge is an animal rights group based in Cambridge, England, founded in 1978. The group claims to be the longest standing local animal rights group in the UK....
Arché (research center)
Arché (research center)
Arché is a research centre at the University of St Andrews, Scotland...
Aristotelian Society
Aristotelian Society
The Aristotelian Society for the Systematic Study of Philosophy was founded at a meeting on 19 April 1880, at 17 Bloomsbury Square which resolved "to constitute a society of about twenty and to include ladies; the society to meet fortnightly, on Mondays at 8 o'clock, at the rooms of the Spelling...
Association for Logic, Language and Information
Association for Logic, Language and Information
The Association for Logic, Language and Information is an international, especially European, learned society administered from Nancy-Université in France...
Association for Symbolic Logic
Association for Symbolic Logic
The Association for Symbolic Logic is an international organization of specialists in mathematical logic and philosophical logic—the largest such organization in the world. The ASL was founded in 1936, a crucial year in the development of modern logic, and its first president was Alonzo Church...
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
The Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness is a professional membership organization that aims to encourage research on consciousness in cognitive science, neuroscience, philosophy, and other relevant disciplines in the sciences and humanities, directed toward understanding the...
Australasian Association of Philosophy
Australasian Association of Philosophy
The Australasian Association of Philosophy is the main professional organization of academic philosophers in Australasia, New Zealand, and Singapore...
Batavian Society for Experimental Philosophy
Batavian Society for Experimental Philosophy
The Batavian Society for Experimental Philosophy is a Dutch learned society residing in Rotterdam.The society was founded on June 3, 1769 after Steven Hoogendijk declared in his last will that after his death a foundation for the furtherance of experimental philosophy would inherit his fortune...
British Philosophical Association
British Philosophical Association
The British Philosophical Association is a British organisation set up in October 2003 to promote the study of Philosophy.The Association encourages the teaching of Philosophy in British schools and promotes philosophy among prospective university students...
British Society for Ethical Theory
British Society for Ethical Theory
The British Society for Ethical Theory is a philosophical organization dedicated to philosophical research in normative ethics, meta-ethics, and moral psychology. The society holds annual and conferences; and facilitates the exchange of information, drafts of papers, and reviews among its members....
British Society of Aesthetics
British Society of Aesthetics
The British Society of Aesthetics is a philosophical organization founded in 1960 to promote the study of aesthetics. The BSA sponsors national and regional conferences, and publishes the British Journal of Aesthetics, as well as a newsletter. The organization also funds projects that promote the...
Café Philosophique
Café Philosophique
Café philosophique is a grassroots forum for philosophical discussion, founded by philosopher Marc Sautet in Paris, France....
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The Cambridge Philosophical Society is a scientific society at University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1819. The name derives from the medieval use of the word philosophy to denote any research undertaken outside the fields of theology and medicine...
Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics
Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics
The Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics is a permanent standing committee of the Canadian House of Commons that reports to the Parliament of Canada on issues related to ethics and the Access to Information Act. The committee may be referred to...
Canadian Philosophical Association
Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics
Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics
The Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics is dedicated to the study of the history and philosophy of mathematics in Canada....
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs is a New York City-based a 5013 public charity serving international affairs professionals, teachers and students, and the attentive public. Founded in 1914, and originally named Church Peace Union, Carnegie Council is an independent and...
Center for Ethics at Yeshiva University
Center for Ethics at Yeshiva University
The Center for Ethics at Yeshiva University, located on Yeshiva University’s Wilf Campus in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood, fosters research on ethical issues and the integration of discourse on ethics into the curriculum among Yeshiva University’s schools...
Center for Religion, Ethics and Social Policy
Center for Religion, Ethics and Social Policy
Center for Religion, Ethics and Social Policy is a non-profit, nonsectarian, educational organization affiliated with Cornell University...
Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions
Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions
The Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at the Illinois Institute of Technology was established in 1976 to promote research and teaching on practical moral problems in the professions. The first interdisciplinary center for ethics to focus on the professions, CSEP continues to be one...
Centre de Recherche en Epistémelogie Appliquée
Centre de Recherche en Epistémelogie Appliquée
The Centre de Recherche en Épistémologie Appliquée — the Center for Research in Applied Epistemology — conducts research in humanities and the social sciences...
Centre for Applied Ethics
Centre for Applied Ethics
Centre for Applied Ethics at Hong Kong Baptist University was founded in 1992. It is the first of its kind established in China and one of the earliest in Asia...
Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE)
Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE)
The Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at Australian National University, Charles Sturt University and University of Melbourne was established in 2000 as an Australian Research Council funded Special Research Centre and is the world’s largest concentration of applied philosophers...
Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds
Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds
The Centre for History and Philosophy of Science is a research institution devoted to the historical and philosophical study of science and technology, based in the Department of Philosophy, at the University of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England...
Charity International
Charity International
Charity International, who recently switched name to Global Happiness Organization , is an international non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of utilitarian ethics. It was founded in 2007 by a team of Swedish academics, philosophers and animal welfare activists led by Ludvig Lindström...
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is a nonprofit 501 organization that describes itself as "dedicated to promoting ethics and accountability in government and public life by targeting government officials – regardless of party affiliation – who sacrifice the common good to...
Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform
Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform
Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform was a commission established by executive order by President George H. W. Bush to review federal ethics laws, executive orders, and policies and to make recommendations to the president for legislative, administrative, and other reforms needed to ensure full...
Committee on Publication Ethics
Committee on Publication Ethics
The Committee on Publication Ethics is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to define best practice in the ethics of scholarly publishing and to assist editors, publishers, etc. to achieve this.- Mission :...
Compliance and ethics program
Compliance and ethics program
There has been a long history of business and government excesses and subsequent legal, public and political reaction. Response to criminal misconduct has resulted in legal sanctions, governance practices, compliance standards and cultural transformation...
Computer Ethics Institute
Computer Ethics Institute
The Computer Ethics Institute is a nonprofit research, education, and public policy organization focused on the issues, dilemmas, and challenges of advancing information technology within ethical frameworks...
Concerned Philosophers for Peace
Concerned philosophers for peace
Concerned Philosophers For Peace is an organization of professional philosophers founded in 1981. It is the "largest and most active organization of professional philosophers in North America oriented to the critique of militarism and the search for a just and lasting peace." The organization...
Conscious enterprise
CPNSS
CPNSS
Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science is an interdisciplinary research centre into philosophical, methodological and foundational questions in the natural and the social sciences at the London School of Economics...
Cumberland School of Law's Center for Biotechnology, Law, and Ethics
Cumberland School of Law's Center for Biotechnology, Law, and Ethics
The Center for Biotechnology, Law and Ethics is a bioethics, biotechnology, and biotechnology law research center of Cumberland School of Law located on the Samford University campus in Birmingham, Alabama...
District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics
District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics
The District of Columbia Board of Elections & Ethics, or BOEE, is the independent agency of the District government responsible for the administration of elections, ballot access and voter registration...
Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission
Ethics and Democracy Network
Ethics and Democracy Network
The Ethics and Democracy Network is a political party in Ecuador. For the October 2006 elections, it has entered into an alliance with the Party of the Democratic Left, to support the ticket formed by former Vice-President León Roldós, and Ramiro González, former Prefect of the Province of...
Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation
Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation
The was established in 1982 by Edith Kinney Gaylord . The Foundation is dedicated to upholding the values and interests of its founder. President and CEO Robert J. Ross has led EEJF and the Inasmuch Foundation since 2003. The Foundation is currently headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma...
Ethics and Public Policy Center
Ethics and Public Policy Center
The Ethics and Public Policy Center is a Washington, D.C.-based conservative advocacy group. Formed in 1976 by Ernest W. Lefever, who was its president until 1989, the group describes itself as "dedicated to applying the Judeo-Christian moral tradition to critical issues of public policy."Since...
Ethics Commission
Ethics Commission
In the United States, an Ethics Commission is a commission established by State law or county or city ordinance to investigate dishonest or unethical practices by public employees and elected officials....
Ethics Committee (European Union)
Ethics Committee (European Union)
The Ethics Committee, according to Directive 2001/20/EC, is an independent body in a Member State of the European Union, consisting of healthcare professionals and non-medical members, whose responsibility it is to protect the rights, safety and well being of human subjects involved in a clinical...
Ethics Resource Center
Ethics Resource Center
The Ethics Resource Center is a non-profit research organization based in Arlington, Virginia, United States, that is devoted to the advancement of high ethical standards and practices in public and private institutions. ERC is said to be the oldest U.S. organization devoted to this purpose and is...
European Society for Analytic Philosophy
European Society for Analytic Philosophy
The European Society for Analytic Philosophy is a philosophical organization founded by Kevin Mulligan Barry Smith, Peter Simons, Pierre Jacob, Marco Santambrogio, Andreas Kemmerling, and Pascal Engel in 1991. The official journal of the society is Dialectica....
European Society for Philosophy and Psychology
European Society for Philosophy and Psychology
The European Society for Philosophy and Psychology is a professional organization in Europe that promotes discussion and research at the intersection of philosophy, psychology and cognitive science. It is the European counterpart of the American Society for Philosophy and Psychology. The first...
Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology
Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology
Under article 23 of the Gene Technology Act, the Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology is an extra-parliamentary advisory committee, appointed to advise the Federal Council and the federal and cantonal authorities on matters of regulations and enforcement of legislation in the...
Foundation for Thought and Ethics
Foundation for Thought and Ethics
The Foundation for Thought and Ethics is a Christian non-profit organization based in Richardson, Texas, that publishes textbooks and articles promoting intelligent design, abstinence, and Christian nationism. In addition, the foundation's officers and editors are some of the leading proponents...
Hegel Society of America
Hegel Society of America
The Hegel Society of America, or HSA, was founded in 1968 at the Wofford Symposium in Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States. Its mission is to promote the study of the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel....
Hegel Society of Great Britain
Hegel Society of Great Britain
The Hegel Society of Great Britain is an English-speaking forum for scholars and students interested in the writings of the philosopher GWF Hegel . Such scholastic interest may extend to Hegel's predecessors, contemporaries, followers and critics.The Hegel Society of Great Britain was founded in...
Human Genetics Commission
Human Genetics Commission
The Human Genetics Commission is a non-departmental public body body that advises the UK government on the ethical and social aspects of genetics...
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies was founded in 2004 by philosopher Nick Bostrom and bioethicist James Hughes. Incorporated in the United States as a non-profit 501 organization, the IEET is a self-described "technoprogressive think tank" that seeks to contribute to understanding...
Institute for Global Ethics
Institute for Global Ethics
The Institute for Global Ethics is a 501 nonsectarian, nonpartisan, global research and educational member supported non-profit organization based in Rockland, Maine. It also has affiliate offices in London, England and Vancouver, British Columbia.-History:With initial funding provided by the W.K...
Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation
Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation
The Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation is a research institute founded at the University of Manchester in 2007 with a mission to examine the role and moral responsibilities of science, technology and innovation in the contemporary world...
Institutional review board
Institutional review board
An institutional review board , also known as an independent ethics committee or ethical review board , is a committee that has been formally designated to approve, monitor, and review biomedical and behavioral research involving humans with the aim to protect the rights and welfare of the...
International Association for Business and Society
International Association for Business and Society
The International Association for Business and Society is a non-profit organization devoted to research and teaching about the relationships between business, government and society. Established in 1990, IABS sponsors a scholarly journal, Business and Society, publishes a newsletter, hosts an...
International Association for Computing and Philosophy
International Association for Computing and Philosophy
The International Association for Computing and Philosophy is a professional, philosophical association emerging from a history of conferences that began in 1986...
International Association for Environmental Philosophy
International Association for Environmental Philosophy
The International Association for Environmental Philosophy is a philosophical organization focused on the field of environmental philosophy, including environmental ethics, environmental aesthetics, environmental ontology, environmental theology, philosophy of science, ecofeminism, and the...
International Association for Philosophy and Literature
International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy , known as IVR from its initials in German, is a learned society.It holds an international conference every two years...
International Association of Empirical Aesthetics
International Association of Empirical Aesthetics
The International Association of Empirical Aesthetics is a psychological organization founded to investigate the nature of aesthetic experience, and aesthetic behavior uning scientific methods. Membership includes psychologists, sociologists, musicologists, philosophers, and other researchers in...
International Bioethics Committee
International Bioethics Committee
- International Bioethics Committee :The International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO is a body composed of 36 independent experts from all regions and from different disciplines that follows progress in the life sciences and its applications in order to ensure respect for human dignity and human...
International Federation of Philosophical Societies
International Federation of Philosophical Societies
The International Federation of Philosophical Societies or Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie is an International Federation of Philosophical Societies, whose member-societies span pretty well every country where there is significant academic philosophy...
International Humanist and Ethical Union
International Humanist and Ethical Union
The International Humanist and Ethical Union is an umbrella organisation embracing humanist, atheist, rationalist, secular, skeptic, freethought and Ethical Culture organisations worldwide. Founded in Amsterdam in 1952, the IHEU is a democratic union of more than 100 member organizations in 40...
International Society for Environmental Ethics
International Society for Environmental Ethics
Since 1990, The International Society of Environmental Ethics has striven to advance research and education in the field of environmental ethics and philosophy, and to promote appropriate human use, respect, conservation, preservation, and understanding of the natural world...
International Society for Philosophy of Music Education
International Society for Philosophy of Music Education
The International Society for Philosophy of Music Education is an international scholarly organization for the field of music education philosophy...
International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science
International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science
The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science is a philosophical organization for promoting the study of the history of philosophy of science. The society promotes exchange of ideas among scholars through meetings, publications, and electronic media. HOPOS is a member...
International Society for the History of Rhetoric
International Society for the History of Rhetoric
The International Society for the History of Rhetoric was created in order to promote studies of rhetoric in theory and practice. It also emphasizes the relationship of rhetoric to other cultural contexts, such as poetics, literary theory and criticism, philosophy, politics, religion, law. The...
Jeffersonville Ethics Commission
Jeffersonville Ethics Commission
The Jeffersonville Ethics Commission is a commission formed in 2006 by an ordinance compiled by the City Council of Jeffersonville, Indiana that was passed unanimously on June 30, 2006. Then it was signed by Mayor Rob Waiz on July 13, 2006. The Commission reviews complaints and subjects of...
John Dewey Society
John Dewey Society
The John Dewey Society was founded in 1935, and was the first organization focused on philosophy of education. Its goal is to "keep alive John Dewey's commitment to the use of critical and reflective intelligence in the search for solutions to crucial problems in education and culture." The Society...
John Stuart Mill Institute
John Stuart Mill Institute
The John Stuart Mill Institute is a non-governmental, Heidelberg-based research institute founded in 2009 and named after John Stuart Mill, an influential 19th century English philosopher and politician....
Karl Jaspers Society of North America
Karl Jaspers Society of North America
The Karl Jaspers Society of North America is a philosophy organization founded on December 28, 1980 through the joint efforts of George B. Pepper , Edith Ehrlich, and the late Leonard H. Ehrlich for promoting the study of the philosophy of Karl Jaspers...
Kenan Institute for Ethics
Kenan Institute for Ethics
The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University is an interdisciplinary "think and do" tank committed to understanding and addressing real-world ethical challenges facing individuals, organizations and societies worldwide...
Kennedy Institute of Ethics
Kennedy Institute of Ethics
The Kennedy Institute of Ethics was established at Georgetown University in 1971 as a bioethics center, think tank and library.Scholars based at the Institute, as of 2009, include Ruth Faden and Tom Beauchamp....
Kurt Gödel Society
Kurt Gödel Society
The Kurt Gödel Society was founded in Vienna, Austria in 1987. It is an international organization aimed at promoting research primarily on logic, philosophy and the history of mathematics, with special attention to connections with Kurt Gödel, in whose honour it was named.The group also organizes...
Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne
Maguire Center for Ethics
Maguire Center for Ethics
The Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility serves the campus of Southern Methodist University and the greater Dallas community. The center is most recognized for its scholarships awarded to students who display an exceptional capacity to change our world...
Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society
Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society
The Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, popularly known as the Lit & Phil, is a learned society in Manchester, England.Established in 1781 as the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, by Thomas Percival, Thomas Barnes and Thomas Henry, other prominent members have included...
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University promotes research and dialogue in five major focus areas: Bioethics, Business Ethics, Campus Ethics, Character Education, and Government Ethics. The Center offers public talks, workshops, and training, as well as sponsoring...
Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy
Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy
]The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy is an institution dedicated to scholarly, extensive and engaged readings of key figures and texts in the history of modern European thought and contemporary discourse. The School was founded in 2003 and formalised its status as an independent,...
Metaphysical Society
Metaphysical Society
The Metaphysical Society was a British society, founded in 1869 by James Knowles. Many of its members were prominent clergymen.Papers were read and discussed at meetings on such subjects as the ultimate grounds of belief in the objective and moral sciences, the immortality of the soul, etc...
Metaphysical Society of America
Metaphysical Society of America
The Metaphysical Society of America is a philosophical organization founded by Paul Weiss in 1950 for promoting the study of metaphysics. The society is a member of the American Council of Learned Societies...
National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research
National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research
National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research was the first public national body to shape bioethics policy in the United States....
Nevada Commission on Ethics
Nevada commission on ethics
Nevada Commission on Ethics is a commission that investigates ethics violations by government officials or employees in the state of Nevada in the United States....
Oklahoma Ethics Commission
Oklahoma Ethics Commission
The Oklahoma Ethics Commission is an agency of the state of Oklahoma that issues rules on the ethical conduct for state elected officials and employees. It also investages and prosecutes violations of its rules. The Ethics Commission was created by a two-to-one vote of the people of the state per...
Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission
Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission
Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission is the main ethics commission for the Government of Pennsylvania.-The Commissioners:The six Commissioners, with one vacancy, are: * Louis W. Fryman, Esq., Chairman* John J. Bolger, Vice Chairman...
Phi Sigma Tau
Phi Sigma Tau
Phi Sigma Tau is an international honor society for philosophers. Its essential purpose is to promote ties among philosophy departments in accredited institutions and students in philosophy nationally...
Philomatic society
Philomatic society
A philomatic society is an association of persons who love sciences. The term "philomatic" is no longer in use. The philomatic societies were influential in the nineteenth century...
Philosophy Documentation Center
Philosophy Documentation Center
The Philosophy Documentation Center is a non-profit publisher and resource center dedicated to providing affordable access to a wide range of materials in applied ethics, classics, philosophy, religious studies, and related disciplines...
Philosophy of Science Association
Philosophy of Science Association
The Philosophy of Science Association is an academic organization which promotes further studies and free discussion from diverse standpoints in the field of philosophy of science....
Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues was created by Executive Order 13521 on November 24, 2009, to succeed the disbanded President's Council on Bioethics. The Commission's leadership and members were appointed by President Barack Obama...
Royal Institute of Philosophy
Royal Institute of Philosophy
The Royal Institute of Philosophy, founded in 1925, is a charity organisation based in London that offers lectures and conferences on philosophical topics. The Institute is not committed to any particular philosophical school, method or ideology...
Royal Institution of South Wales
Royal Institution of South Wales
The Royal Institution of South Wales is a Welsh learned society founded in Swansea in 1835 as the Swansea Philosophical and Literary Society with objectives:In 1838, the Society received its Royal charter as the Royal Institution....
Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow
Saturday Club (Boston, Massachusetts)
Saturday Club (Boston, Massachusetts)
The Saturday Club, established in 1855, was an informal monthly gathering in Boston, Massachusetts, of writers, scientists, philosophers, historians and others.-Overview:The club began meeting informally at the Albion House in Boston...
School for Ethics and Global Leadership
School for Ethics and Global Leadership
Located in Washington, DC, The School for Ethics and Global Leadership is a selective, semester-long residential program for intellectually motivated high school juniors from across the United States...
Semiotic Society of America
Semiotic Society of America
The Semiotic Society of America is an interdisciplinary professional association serving scholars from many disciplines with common interests in semiotics, the study of signs and sign-systems. It was founded in 1975 and includes members from the United States and Canada. Its official journal is The...
Shalom Hartman Institute
Shalom Hartman Institute
Shalom Hartman Institute is a Jewish research and education institute based in Jerusalem, Israel, that offers pluralistic Jewish thought and education to scholars, rabbis, educators, and Jewish community leaders in Israel and North America...
Society for Applied Philosophy
Society for Applied Philosophy
The Society for Applied Philosophy is a philosophical organization founded in 1982. The purpose of the organization is promoting study and research in philosophy that has a direct bearing on areas of practical concern and work that is intended to make a constructive contribution to problems in...
Society for Business Ethics
Society for Business Ethics
The Society for Business Ethics is a non-profit organization established in 1980 to promote the advancement and understanding of ethics in business. Its mission is to provide a forum in which moral, legal, empirical, and philosophical issues of business ethics may be openly discussed and analyzed...
Society for Exact Philosophy
Society for Exact Philosophy
The Society for Exact Philosophy is a North American organisation that is devoted to the application of exact, rigorous methods in philosophy. It was founded in 1970 in Montreal and has met annually since 1976, usually alternating between the United States and Canada....
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy is a philosophical society whose purpose is to promote the study of phenomenology and existentialism....
Society for Philosophical Inquiry
Society for Philosophical Inquiry
The Society for Philosophical Inquiry is a non-profit organization devoted to propagating a version of Socratic inquiry through the establishment of regular meetings. Based on their different settings, they are called Socrates Café, Philosophers' Club, these meetings take place all over the world...
Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Society for Philosophy and Psychology
The Society for Philosophy and Psychology is a professional organization in North America that promotes discussion and research at the intersection of philosophy, psychology and cognitive science...
Society of Christian Philosophers
Society of Christian Philosophers
The Society of Christian Philosophers is a society associated with the American Philosophical Association. The society was founded in 1978. Past Presidents include William Alston, Robert Merrihew Adams, Alvin Plantinga, Marilyn McCord Adams, George I. Mavrodes, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Eleonore...
Socrates Cafe
Socrates cafe
Socrates Café are gatherings around the world where people from different backgrounds get together and exchange thoughtful ideas and experiences while embracing the Socratic Method. The groups model their discussions from the book of the same name by Christopher Phillips...
SOPHIA (European Foundation for the Advancement of Doing Philosophy with Children)
SOPHIA (European Foundation for the Advancement of Doing Philosophy with Children)
SOPHIA is a European Foundation for the Advancement of Doing Philosophy with Children. It is an open European cooperative organization for educators and philosophers working with the subject of philosophy with children....
St James Ethics Centre
St James Ethics Centre
St James Ethics Centre is a fully independent not-for-profit organisation which provides a non-judgemental forum for the promotion and exploration of ethics and ethical decision-making. The Ethics Centre works with business, professions, community groups, governments and individuals to encourage...
Swiss Center for Affective Sciences
Swiss Center for Affective Sciences
The Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences is an interdisciplinary research centre based in Geneva.. Founded in 2003, the focus of its research is the emotions or affective science. It is one of 20 Swiss Government funded NCCR...
Telos Institute
Telos Institute
The Telos Institute is a 501 non-profit organization affiliated with the academic journal Telos. The Telos Institute hosts annual conferences to examine such topics as "social theory, political philosophy, intellectual history, and contemporary culture." Research presented at the conferences is...
Tennessee Philosophical Association
Tennessee Philosophical Association
The Tennessee Philosophical Association is a philosophical organization founded in 1969, based in Tennessee. TPA hosts annual conferences at Vanderbilt University....
Texas Ethics Commission
Texas Ethics Commission
The Texas Ethics Commission was established in 1991 to "provide guidance on various public ethics laws" within the state of Texas. The agency is headquartered on the 10th Floor of the Sam Houston State Office Building at 201 East 14th Street in Downtown Austin....
The British Society for the Philosophy of Religion
The British Society for the Philosophy of Religion
The British Society for the Philosophy of Religion was founded in 1993 and is the United Kingdom's main forum for the interchange of ideas in the philosophy of religion...
The Internationale Hegel-Gesellschaft
The Internationale Hegel-Gesellschaft
The Internationale Hegelgesellschaft e.V. claims to be Germany's oldest surviving Hegel Society. It was founded 1953 in Nürnberg by Wilhelm Raimund Beyer .Mr...
The Internationale Hegel-Vereinigung
The Internationale Hegel-Vereinigung
The Internationale Hegel-Vereinigung is a non-profit organization, founded in 1962. Its mission is to promote the study of G.W.F...
The Metaphysical Club
The Metaphysical Club
The Metaphysical Club was a conversational philosophical club that future Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., psychologist William James, and polymath Charles Sanders Peirce formed in January 1872 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and dissolved in December 1872. Upon Peirce's arrival at...
The Philosophical Society of England
The Philosophical Society of England
The Philosophical Society of England was founded in 1913 by a group of largely amateur 'philosophers' concerned to provide an alternative to the formal university-based discipline. The society has passed through a series of changes in direction, including a period during which it offered...
Thomas-Institut
Thomas-Institut
The Thomas-Institut is a research Institute whose function it is to serve the study of medieval philosophy by preparing critical editions and historical and systematic studies of medieval authors.-General information:...
United States House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct
United States House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct
The Committee on Ethics, often known simply as the Ethics Committee, is one of the committees of the United States House of Representatives. Prior to the 112th Congress it was known as the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct....
United States Office of Government Ethics
United States Office of Government Ethics
The United States Office of Government Ethics is a separate agency within the executive branch of the U.S. Federal Government which is responsible for directing executive branch policies relating to the prevention of conflicts of interest on the part of Federal executive branch officers and...
United States Senate Select Committee on Ethics
United States Senate Select Committee on Ethics
The U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics is a select committee of the United States Senate charged with dealing with matters related to senatorial ethics. It is also commonly referred to as the Senate Ethics Committee...
University Philosophical Society (Trinity College, Dublin)
University Philosophical Society (Trinity College, Dublin)
The University Philosophical Society, commonly known as The Phil, is a student paper-reading and debating society in Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. It is one of the two debating societies in the university...
Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute is an academic institute in Jerusalem established in 1959 by the Van Leer family of the Netherlands.The Van Leer Institute is a center for the interdisciplinary study and discussion of issues related to philosophy, society, culture and education...
Wesleyan Philosophical Society
Wesleyan Philosophical Society
The Wesleyan Philosophical Society is an academic society largely represented by academic institutions affiliated with Christian denominations in the Wesleyan tradition. Despite its primarily Wesleyan orientation, there has been increasing participation from scholars in Catholic, Orthodox, and...
York virtuosi
York virtuosi
The York Virtuosi were an informal group of antiquarians, artists and natural philosophers who gathered initially around Martin Lister in York between 1670 and 1683....
Yorkshire Philosophical Society
Yorkshire Philosophical Society
The Yorkshire Philosophical Society is a charitable learned society aimed at promoting the natural sciences, archaeology and history. The society was formed in York in December 1822 by James Atkinson, William Salmond, Anthony Thorpe and William Vernon....

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