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The World Congress of Philosophy is a global meeting of philosophers held every five years in a different country under the auspices of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies
(FISP). First organized in 1900, these events became firmly established after the Second World War. Each World Congress is sponsored by one of the member societies, which assumes responsibility for the organization of that Congress. The purpose of these events is to contribute to the development of professional relations between philosophers of all countries, promote philosophical education, and contribute to the impact of philosophical knowledge on global problems.
The first International Congress of Philosophy was held in Paris in 1900 on the occasion of the “Universal Exhibition”. Among the participants were Henri Bergson, Maurice Blondel, M. Cantor, L. Couturat, H. Poincaré, and Bertrand Russell.
The second International Congress took place in Geneva in 1904; the third was in Heidelberg, 1908 (with Josiah Royce, W. Windelband and Benedetto Croce). Thereafter congresses have been held in Bologna (1911), Naples (1924), Prague (1929; 1934), Königsberg (1930), Paris (1935; 1937), Copenhagen (1936), Cambridge (1938), and Cambridge, Massachusetts (1939). The Second World War disrupted the meetings, but after the war they were taken over by FISP. Recent congresses have taken place in Brighton (1988), Moscow (1993), Boston (1988), and Istanbul (2003). In 2008 it was held in Seoul, Korea - the first time a World Congress had been held in Asia.
. An edited selection of the papers presented were published as The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy in twelve thematically organized volumes by the Philosophy Documentation Center
, in cooperation with the Congress's American Organizing Committee. The topics of the volumes include: 1. Ethics; 2. Metaphysics; 3. Philosophy of Education; 4. Philosophies of Religion, Art, and Creativity; 5. Epistemology; 6. Analytic Philosophy & Logic; 7. Modern Philosophy; 8. Contemporary Philosophy; 9. Philosophy of Mind; 10. Philosophy of Science; 11. Social and Political Philosophy; and 12. Intercultural Philosophy. The entire set is available online.
These Proceedings were edited by Jaakko Hintikka
, Robert Neville
, Ernest Sosa
, and Alan M. Olson
and include papers by Pierre Aubenque, Evandro Agazzi
, Karl-Ott Apel, Natalia Avtonomova, Arindam Chakrabarti
, Chung-ying Cheng
, Daniel Dennett
, Fred Dretske
, Jorge J.E. Gracia, Marjorie Grene
, Adolf Grünbaum
, Jaakko Hintikka
, Ted Honderich
, Ioanna Kucuradi
, Hans Lenk, Alasdair MacIntyre
, C. Ulises Moulines, W. V. Quine, Gunnar Skirbekk
, Vyachevslav Stepin, P. F. Strawson
, Olúfémi Táíwò, Georg Henrik von Wright
, Linda Zagzebski, and hundreds of others.
August 10–17, 2003 and had the theme "Philosophy Facing World Problems". There were symposia on:
Edited selections of the papers presented at this meeting were published by the Philosophical Society of Turkey. These Proceedings include the following 13 thematic volumes: 1. Ethics; 2. Social and Political Philosophy; 3. Human Rights; 4. Philosophy of Education; 5. Logic and Philosophy of Sciences; 6. Epistemology; 7. Philosophy and Culture(s); 8. Philosophy of Religion; 9. Philosophical Anthropology; 10. Ancient and Modern Philosophy; 11. Contemporary Philosophy; 12. Philosophical Trends in the XXth Century; and 13. Philosophy Facing World Problems. The entire collections is accessible online in cooperation with the Philosophy Documentation Center
.
, South Korea
from July 30 to August 5, 2008 at the Seoul National University
. The main theme of the conference was "Rethinking Philosophy Today, and there were four plenary sessions:
The International Program Committee was chaired by Gilbert Hottois
. Over 1,200 paper were presented at this Congress, and the Korean Organizing Committee published all of the contributed papers as an eBook edited by Prof. Myung-Hyun-Lee. This eBook includes papers in English, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Korean, French, and German and is distributed by the Philosophy Documentation Center
. A selection of invited papers will be published separately as a special supplement to the Journal of Philosophical Research
.
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...
(FISP). First organized in 1900, these events became firmly established after the Second World War. Each World Congress is sponsored by one of the member societies, which assumes responsibility for the organization of that Congress. The purpose of these events is to contribute to the development of professional relations between philosophers of all countries, promote philosophical education, and contribute to the impact of philosophical knowledge on global problems.
List of congresses
- 1st: 1900 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
- 2nd: 1903 RomeRomeRome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
- 3rd: 1908, 31 August - 5 September HeidelbergHeidelberg-Early history:Between 600,000 and 200,000 years ago, "Heidelberg Man" died at nearby Mauer. His jaw bone was discovered in 1907; with scientific dating, his remains were determined to be the earliest evidence of human life in Europe. In the 5th century BC, a Celtic fortress of refuge and place of...
- 4th: 1911 BolognaBolognaBologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...
- 5th: 1924 NaplesNaplesNaples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...
- 6th: 1926, 13–17 September, BostonBostonBoston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
- 7th: 1930, 1–6 September, OxfordOxfordThe city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...
- 8th: 1934, PraguePraguePrague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
- 9th: 1938, ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
- 10th: 1948, 11–18 August, AmsterdamAmsterdamAmsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
- 11th: 1953, 20–26 August, BrusselsBrusselsBrussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...
- 12th: 1958, 12–18 September, VeniceVeniceVenice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
- 13th: 1963, 7–14 September, Mexico CityMexico CityMexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
- 14th: 1968, 2–9 September, ViennaViennaVienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
- 15th: 1973, VarnaVarnaVarna is the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and third-largest in Bulgaria after Sofia and Plovdiv, with a population of 334,870 inhabitants according to Census 2011...
- 16th: 1978 DüsseldorfDüsseldorfDüsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...
- 17th: 1983, August, MontrealMontrealMontreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
- 18th: 1988 BrightonBrightonBrighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain...
- 19th: 1993 MoscowMoscowMoscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
- 20th: 1998 BostonBostonBoston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
- 21st: 2003 IstanbulIstanbulIstanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...
- 22nd: 2008, July 30-August 5 SeoulSeoulSeoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...
- 23rd: 2013 AthensAthensAthens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...
, to celebrate the two thousandth four hundredth anniversary of the founding of Plato's Academy!
The first International Congress of Philosophy was held in Paris in 1900 on the occasion of the “Universal Exhibition”. Among the participants were Henri Bergson, Maurice Blondel, M. Cantor, L. Couturat, H. Poincaré, and Bertrand Russell.
The second International Congress took place in Geneva in 1904; the third was in Heidelberg, 1908 (with Josiah Royce, W. Windelband and Benedetto Croce). Thereafter congresses have been held in Bologna (1911), Naples (1924), Prague (1929; 1934), Königsberg (1930), Paris (1935; 1937), Copenhagen (1936), Cambridge (1938), and Cambridge, Massachusetts (1939). The Second World War disrupted the meetings, but after the war they were taken over by FISP. Recent congresses have taken place in Brighton (1988), Moscow (1993), Boston (1988), and Istanbul (2003). In 2008 it was held in Seoul, Korea - the first time a World Congress had been held in Asia.
- The 19th World Congress was held in 1993 in MoscowMoscowMoscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
- The 20th World Congress was held in 1998 in Boston and was the largest gathering of philosophers of the 20th Century
- The 21st World Congress was held in 2003 in IstanbulIstanbulIstanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...
- The 22nd World Congress was held in 2008 in SeoulSeoulSeoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...
- The 23rd World Congress will be held in 2013 in AthensAthensAthens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...
20th World Congress
Thousands of philosophers from dozens of countries participated in the week-long event in Boston sponsored by the International Federation of Philosophical SocietiesInternational 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...
. An edited selection of the papers presented were published as The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy in twelve thematically organized volumes by the 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...
, in cooperation with the Congress's American Organizing Committee. The topics of the volumes include: 1. Ethics; 2. Metaphysics; 3. Philosophy of Education; 4. Philosophies of Religion, Art, and Creativity; 5. Epistemology; 6. Analytic Philosophy & Logic; 7. Modern Philosophy; 8. Contemporary Philosophy; 9. Philosophy of Mind; 10. Philosophy of Science; 11. Social and Political Philosophy; and 12. Intercultural Philosophy. The entire set is available online.
These Proceedings were edited by Jaakko Hintikka
Jaakko Hintikka
Kaarlo Jaakko Juhani Hintikka is a Finnish philosopher and logician.Hintikka was born in Vantaa. After teaching for a number of years at Florida State University, Stanford, University of Helsinki, and the Academy of Finland, he is currently Professor of Philosophy at Boston University...
, Robert Neville
Robert Neville
Robert Neville was a Bishop of Salisbury and a Bishop of Durham. He was also a Provost of Beverley. He was born at Raby Castle. His father was Ralph Neville and his mother was Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt. He was thus a highly-placed member of the English aristocracyNeville was...
, Ernest Sosa
Ernest Sosa
Ernest Sosa is an American philosopher primarily interested in epistemology. He is currently Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He has been at Rutgers full-time since January, 2007; previously, he had been at Brown University since 1964...
, and Alan M. Olson
Alan M. Olson
Alan M. Olson is a Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at Boston University. He received his degrees from Saint Olaf College , Luther Theological Seminary , Nashotah House, where he studied with Anton Arthur Vogel, and Boston University where he studied with Peter A. Bertocci, Erazim Kohak,...
and include papers by Pierre Aubenque, Evandro Agazzi
Evandro Agazzi
Evandro Agazzi is an Italian philosopher and professor at the University of Genoa. His fields of interest are ethics of science and technology, logic, metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, philosophical anthropology, and systems theory.- Education :He is a graduate of the...
, Karl-Ott Apel, Natalia Avtonomova, Arindam Chakrabarti
Arindam Chakrabarti
Arindam Chakrabarti is a professor of philosophy at the University of Hawaii, where he directed the Center for South Asian Studies....
, Chung-ying Cheng
Chung-ying Cheng
Chung-ying Cheng is a Taiwanese philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. He received his BA in 1956 from National Taiwan University, his MA in 1958 from University of Washington, and PhD in 1964 from Harvard University.Professor Cheng's research interests are...
, Daniel Dennett
Daniel Dennett
Daniel Clement Dennett is an American philosopher, writer and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. He is currently the Co-director of...
, Fred Dretske
Fred Dretske
Frederick Irwin Dretske is a philosopher noted for his contributions to epistemology and the philosophy of mind. His more recent work centers on conscious experience and self-knowledge. Additionally, he was awarded the Jean Nicod Prize in 1994...
, Jorge J.E. Gracia, Marjorie Grene
Marjorie Grene
Marjorie Glicksman Grene was an American philosopher.She wrote both on existentialism and the philosophy of science, especially the philosophy of biology. She taught at the University of California at Davis from 1965 to 1978. From 1988 until her death she was Honorary University Distinguished...
, Adolf Grünbaum
Adolf Grünbaum
Adolf Grünbaum is a philosopher of science and a critic of psychoanalysis. He is also well-known as a critic of Karl Popper's philosophy of science....
, Jaakko Hintikka
Jaakko Hintikka
Kaarlo Jaakko Juhani Hintikka is a Finnish philosopher and logician.Hintikka was born in Vantaa. After teaching for a number of years at Florida State University, Stanford, University of Helsinki, and the Academy of Finland, he is currently Professor of Philosophy at Boston University...
, Ted Honderich
Ted Honderich
Ted Honderich is a Canadian-born British philosopher, Grote Professor Emeritus of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic, University College London and Visiting Professor, University of Bath...
, Ioanna Kucuradi
Ioanna Kucuradi
Ioanna Kuçuradi is a Turkish philosopher of Greek descendant. She is currently the president of Philosophical Society Of Turkey and a full time academic of Maltepe University.-Biography:...
, Hans Lenk, Alasdair MacIntyre
Alasdair MacIntyre
Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre is a British philosopher primarily known for his contribution to moral and political philosophy but known also for his work in history of philosophy and theology...
, C. Ulises Moulines, W. V. Quine, Gunnar Skirbekk
Gunnar Skirbekk
Gunnar Skirbekk is a professor emeritus at the Department of Philosophy and the Center for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, University of Bergen.-Education:...
, Vyachevslav Stepin, P. F. Strawson
P. F. Strawson
Sir Peter Frederick Strawson FBA was an English philosopher. He was the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford from 1968 to 1987. Before that he was appointed as a college lecturer at University College, Oxford in 1947 and became a tutorial fellow the...
, Olúfémi Táíwò, Georg Henrik von Wright
Georg Henrik von Wright
Georg Henrik von Wright was a Finnish philosopher, who succeeded Ludwig Wittgenstein as professor at the University of Cambridge. He published in English, Finnish, German, and in Swedish. Belonging to the Swedish-speaking minority of Finland, von Wright also had Finnish and 17th-century Scottish...
, Linda Zagzebski, and hundreds of others.
21st World Congress
The 21st World Congress was held in IstanbulIstanbul
Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...
August 10–17, 2003 and had the theme "Philosophy Facing World Problems". There were symposia on:
- Inequality, Poverty and Development: Philosophical Perspectives
- Violence, War and Peace
- Democracy and its Future: Citizenship and Civil Society
- Human Rights: Concepts, Problems and Prospects
- Philosophy in Turkey
Edited selections of the papers presented at this meeting were published by the Philosophical Society of Turkey. These Proceedings include the following 13 thematic volumes: 1. Ethics; 2. Social and Political Philosophy; 3. Human Rights; 4. Philosophy of Education; 5. Logic and Philosophy of Sciences; 6. Epistemology; 7. Philosophy and Culture(s); 8. Philosophy of Religion; 9. Philosophical Anthropology; 10. Ancient and Modern Philosophy; 11. Contemporary Philosophy; 12. Philosophical Trends in the XXth Century; and 13. Philosophy Facing World Problems. The entire collections is accessible online in cooperation with the 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...
.
22nd World Congress
The 22nd World Congress took place in SeoulSeoul
Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...
, South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
from July 30 to August 5, 2008 at the Seoul National University
Seoul National University
Seoul National University , colloquially known in Korean as Seoul-dae , is a national research university in Seoul, Korea, ranked 24th in the world in publications in an analysis of data from the Science Citation Index, 7th in Asia and 42nd in the world by the 2011 QS World University Rankings...
. The main theme of the conference was "Rethinking Philosophy Today, and there were four plenary sessions:
- Rethinking Moral, Social and Political Philosophy: Democracy, Justice and Global Responsibility
- Rethinking Metaphysics and Aesthetics: Reality, Beauty and the Meaning of Life
- Rethinking Epistemology, Philosophy of Science and Technology: Knowledge and Culture
- Rethinking History of Philosophy and Comparative Philosophy: Traditions, Critique and Dialogue
The International Program Committee was chaired by Gilbert Hottois
Gilbert Hottois
Gilbert Hottois is a Belgian professor of Philosophy at the Université Libre de Bruxelles who specialises in Bioethics.His positions include:* Vice-Président of the Association des Sociétés de Philosophie de Langue Française ;...
. Over 1,200 paper were presented at this Congress, and the Korean Organizing Committee published all of the contributed papers as an eBook edited by Prof. Myung-Hyun-Lee. This eBook includes papers in English, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Korean, French, and German and is distributed by the 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...
. A selection of invited papers will be published separately as a special supplement to the Journal of Philosophical Research
Journal of Philosophical Research
The Journal of Philosophical Research is a peer-reviewed academic journal sponsored by the University of Notre Dame and the Canadian Philosophical Association. It publishes articles in English or French, from any philosophical orientation, and is particularly interested in helping new authors...
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