Philosophical Societies and Organizations

The earliest forms of philosophical organization were the schools of philosophy of ancient Greece, such as the Lyceum and Plato’s Academy, and the faculties of philosophy at medieval universities. During the Renaissance, a particular circle of humanists would form its own academy—for example, the Platonic Academy in Florence. The national academies of modern times have their own divisions of philosophy; moreover, various schools of philosophy arose in the process of international communication among scholars, and special philosophical societies and organizations were formed.

In Russia, there was a philosophical society at the University of St. Petersburg.

A list of philosophical societies and organizations follows.

International

Hegel Society (Nuremberg, Federal Republic of Germany)

International Association of Philosophy, Arts, and Sciences (Bologna, Italy)

International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies (Paris)

International Institute of Philosophy (Paris)

International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science (London)

Argentina

National Academy of Law and Social Sciences

Australia

Australasian Association of Philosophy

Australian Academy of the Humanities, section for philosophy

Austria

Academic Society for Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychotherapy

Austrian Academy of Sciences, section for philosophy and historical sciences

Society for Ethical Culture

Belgium

Belgian Center Teilhard de Chardin

Belgian Society of Logic and Philosophy of Science

Belgian Society of Philosophy

Catholic University of Louvain, Institute of Philosophy

Philosophical Society of Louvain

Brazil

Brazilian Philosophical Society

Neo-Pythagorean Institute

Bulgaria

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy

Canada

Canadian Philosophical Association

Royal Society of Canada, sections (French and English) for humanities and social sciences

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology

Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology (Bratislava)

Denmark

The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, section for history and philosophy

Federal Republic of Germany

Academy of Sciences and Literature, section for philosophy and social science

Kant Society

Leibniz Society

Schopenhauer Society

Philosophical Society of Germany

Society for the History of Ideas

France

Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, section for philosophy

Center for Marxist Studies

French Society of Philosophy

National Center for Scientific Studies, Center for the Humanities

German Democratic Republic

GDR Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy

Great Britain

British Academy, section for philosophy

British Society of Aesthetics

British Society for the Philosophy of Science

The Philosophical Society of England

Royal Institute of Philosophy

Verulam Institute

Hungary

Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy

India

Indian Institute of Philosophy

Yoga Institute

Italy

Higher Center for Logic and Comparative Science

Italian Philosophical Society

National Academy, section for philosophical sciences

University of Rome, Institute of Philosophical Studies

Mexico

National Autonomous University of Mexico, Institute of Philosophical Research

The Netherlands

General Netherlands Philosophical Society

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, section for history and philosophy

Poland

Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology

Polish Philosophical Society

Rumania

Academy of the Socialist Republic of Rumania, Institute of Philosophy

Spain

Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences

Switzerland

Swiss Philosophical Society

Swiss Society of Human Sciences

USSR

Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Institute of Philosophy

Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Institute of History of Natural Science and Engineering

Academy of Social Sciences Attached to the Central Committee of the CPSU

Philosophical Society of the USSR

Union Republics

Armenian SSR Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy and Law

Azerbaijan SSR Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy and Law

Byelorussian SSR Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy and Law

Estonian SSR Academy of Sciences, philosophy section

Georgian SSR Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy

Kazakh SSR Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy and Law

Kirghiz SSR Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy and Law

Latvian SSR Academy of Sciences, philosophy section

Lithuanian SSR Academy of Sciences, philosophy and law department

Moldavian SSR Academy of Sciences, philosophy and law department

Tadzhik SSR Academy of Sciences, philosophy and law department

Turkmen SSR Academy of Sciences, philosophy section

Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy

Uzbek SSR Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy and Law

USA

American Catholic Philosophical Association

American Philosophical Association

American Philosophical Society

American Society for Aesthetics

Association for Symbolic Logic

Center for the Philosophy of Science

Charles S. Peirce Society

Institute for Philosophical Research

Institute of the Philosophy of Science

Institute of General Semantics

Philosophy of Science Association

Society for the Philosophical Study of Dialectical Materialism

Yugoslavia

Croatian Philosophical Society

Serbian Philosophical Society

Yugoslav Philosophical Society