Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy

The Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy is a learned society

Learned society

A learned society is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline/profession, as well a group of disciplines. Membership may be open to all, may require possession of some qualification, or may be an honor conferred by election, as is the case with the oldest learned societies,...

established in 1978 to support teaching and research relating to medieval

Medieval philosophy

Medieval philosophy is the philosophy in the era now known as medieval or the Middle Ages, the period roughly extending from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century AD to the Renaissance in the sixteenth century...

and renaissance philosophy

Renaissance philosophy

Renaissance philosophy was the period of the history of philosophy in Europe that falls roughly between the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment. It includes the 15th century; some scholars extend it to as early as the 1350s or as late as the 16th century or early 17th century, overlapping the...

. Presidents of the society have included Arthur Hyman

Arthur Hyman

-Academic career:Arthur Hyman was Dean of the Bernard Revel Graduate School until 2008, succeeded by David Berger. He has taught philosophy at Yeshiva University for 40 years...

, Marilyn Adams

Marilyn McCord Adams

Marilyn McCord Adams is an American philosopher working in philosophy of religion, philosophical theology and medieval philosophy.-Family:Adams is the daughter of William Clark McCord and Wilmah Brown McCord...

, James Ross

James Francis Ross

James Francis Ross was an American philosopher. James Ross, a creative thinker in philosophy of religion, law, metaphysics and philosophy of mind, was a member of the Philosophy Department at the University of Pennsylvania from 1962 until his death...

, Jorge Gracia

Jorge J. E. Gracia

Jorge J.E. Gracia is the Samuel P. Capen Chair, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Department of Comparative Literature in the State University of New York at Buffalo. Gracia was educated in Cuba, Canada and the United States and received his Ph.D...

, Mary Clark

Mary T. Clark

Sister Mary T. Clark, RSCJ is an American academic and civil rights advocate. She is best known as a scholar of the history of philosophy, and is associated especially with Augustine of Hippo. Much of her career was spent at Manhattanville College, from which she graduated in 1939 and with which...

, and R. James Long

R. James Long

Raymond James Long, Ph.D., is a professor of philosophy at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut. He is also faculty member at St. John Fisher Seminary Residence in Stamford, Connecticut. Long was the president of the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy...

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