[lit-ideas] The Aristotelian Society
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:49:57 -0400 (EDT)
And then there's the Aristotelian Society (* below) -- how many
philosophers can claim a Society of their own?
Grice contributed to the Aristotelian Society with his "The Causal theory
of perception", a symposium with A. R. White, chaired by R. Braithwaite in
Cambridge, and published in the Proceedings for 1961.
Cheers,
Speranza
In a message dated 6/13/2012 9:36:39 P.M. UTC-02, tehart@xxxxxxx writes:
Aristotle may be making a come back. .
E. Y:
Yeah, I likes me some Aristotle once in a while. Some Aristotle'd be
mighty fine 'bout now.
The Aristotelian Society for the Systematic Study of Philosophy was founded
at a meeting
--
of
Mr. F. G. Fleay,
Dr. Alfred Senier
Mr. Herbert Burrows,
Mr. Edward Clarkson, and
Mr. Alfred Lowe
-- 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
Reform Association"
Amongst other things, the rules of the Society stipulated:
The object of this Society shall be the systematic study of philosophy;
1st, as to its historical development;
2nd, as to its methods and problems.
According to H. Wildon Carr, in choosing a name for the society, it was:
"essential to find a name which would definitely prescribe the speculative
character of the study which was to be the Society's ideal, and it seemed
that this could best be secured by adopting the name of a philosopher
eminently representative."
"There is only one such name in the history of philosophy and so we became
the Aristotelian Society, not for the special study of Aristotle, or of
Aristotelianism, but for the systematic study of Philosophy."
The Society's first president was Mr. Shadworth H. Hodgson.
He was president for fourteen years from 1880 until 1894, when he proposed
Dr. Bernard Bosanquet as his replacement.
The Society continues to meet fortnightly at the University of London's
Senate House to hear and discuss philosophical papers from all philosophical
traditions.
The current President is Marie McGinn, a Professor of Philosophy at
University of East Anglia and Emeritus Professor at the University of York.
Its other work includes giving grants to support the organisation of
academic conferences in philosophy, and, with Oxford University Press, the
production of the 'Lines of Thought' series of philosophical monographs.
Its annual conference, organised since 1918 in conjunction with the Mind
Association and known as the Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and
The Mind Association, (publishers of the philosophical journal Mind) is
hosted by different university departments in turn, in July each year.
The first edition of the Society's proceedings, the Proceedings of the
Aristotelian Society for the Systematic Study of Philosophy, now the
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, was issued in 1888.
The papers from the invited speakers at the Joint Session conference are
published in the June of each year (i.e., prior to the joint conference) in
The Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume.ISSN
0066-7374
The Proceedings and the Supplementary Volume are published by the Society
and distributed by Wiley-Blackwells.
The entire back run of both journals has been digitised by JSTOR.
List of current and past presidents
Many significant philosophers have served the Society as its president:
Shadworth H. Hodgson (1880-1894)
Bernard Bosanquet (1894-1898)
D. G. Ritchie (1898-1899)
G. F. Stout (1899-1904)
Hastings Rashdall (1904-1907)
Lord Haldane of Cloan (1907-1908)
Samuel Alexander (1908-1911)
Bertrand Russell (1911-1913)
G. Dawes Hicks (1913-1914)
Arthur Balfour (1914-1915)
H. Wildon Carr (1915-1918)
G. E. Moore (1918-1919)
James Ward (1919-1920)
W. R. Inge (1920-1921)
F. C. S. Schiller (1921-1922)
A. N. Whitehead (1922-1923)
T. Percy Nunn (1923-1924)
Lord Lindsay of Birker (1924-1925)
J. A. Smith (1925-1926)
C. Lloyd Morgan (1926-1927)
C. D. Broad (1927-1928)
A. E. Taylor (1928-1929)
J. Laird (1929-1930)
Beatrice Edgell (1930-1931)
W. G. de Burgh (1931-1932)
Leonard J. Russell (1932-1933)
L. S. Stebbing (1933-1934)
G. C. Field (1934-1935)
J. L. Stocks (1935-1936)
Samuel Alexander (1936-1937)
Bertrand Russell (1937-1938)
G. F. Stout (1938-1939)
Sir William David Ross (1939-1940)
Hilda D. Oakeley (1940-1941)
A. C. Ewing (1941-1942)
Morris Ginsberg (1942-1943)
H. H. Price (1943-1944)
H. J. Paton (1944-1945)
Gilbert Ryle (1945-1946)
R. B. Braithwaite (1946-1947)
Norman Kemp Smith (1947-1948)
C. A. Mace (1948-1949)
W.C. Kneale (1949-1950)
J. Wisdom (1950-1951)
A. J. Ayer (1951-1952)
H. B. Acton (1952-1953)
Dorothy Emmet (1953-1954)
C. D. Broad (1954-1955)
J. N. Findlay (1955-1956)
----> J. L. Austin (1956-1957)
R. I. Aaron (1957-1958)
Sir Karl Popper (1958-1959)
H. L. A. Hart (1959-1960)
A. E. Duncan-Jones (1960-1961)
Prof. A. M. MacIver (1961-1962)
H. D. Lewis (1962-1963)
Sir Isaiah Berlin (1963-1964)
W. H. Walsh (1964-1965)
Ruth L. Saw (1965-1966)
Stephan Körner (1966-1967)
Richard Wollheim (1967-1968)
D. J. O'Connor (1968-1969)
---> P. F. Strawson (1969-1970)
W. B. Gallie (1970-1971)
Martha Kneale (1971-1972)
R. M. Hare (1972-1973)
C. H. Whiteley (1973-1974)
D. D. Raphael (1974-1975)
A. M. Quinton (1975-1976)
D. M. Mackinnon (1976-1977)
D. W. Hamlyn (1977-1978)
G. E. L. Owen (1978-1979)
A.R. White (1979-1980)
P. G. Winch (1980-1981)
R. F. Holland (1981-1982)
T. J. Smiley (1982-1983)
A. R. Manser (1983-1984)
Peter Alexander (1984-1985)
Richard Sorabji (1985-1986)
Martin Hollis (1986-1987)
G. E. M. Anscombe (1987-1988)
Onora O'Neill (1988-1989)
Renford Bambrough (1989-1990)
John Skorupski (1990–1991)
Timothy Sprigge (1991-1992)
Hugh Mellor (1992-1993)
David E. Cooper (1993-1994)
Jonathan Dancy (1994-1995)
Christopher Hookway (1995-1996)
Jennifer Hornsby (1996-1997)
John Cottingham (1997-1998)
Adam Morton (1998-1999)
David Wiggins (1999-2000)
James Griffin (2000-2001)
Jane Heal (2001-2002)
Bob Hale (2002-2003)
Paul Snowdon (2003-2004)
Timothy Williamson (2004-2005)
Myles Burnyeat (2005-2006)
Thomas Baldwin (2006-2007)
Dorothy Edgington (2007-2008)
M G F Martin (2008-2009)
Simon Blackburn (2009-2010)
Quassim Cassam (2010-2011)
Marie McGinn (2011-present)
Notes:
References
Brown, A.W., "The Metaphysical Society: Victorian Minds in Crisis,
1869-1880" New York: Columbia University Press (1947)
Carr, H.W., "The Fiftieth Session: A Retrospect", Proceedings of the
Aristotelian Society, Vol.29, (1928-1929), pp.359-386.
Categories:
Learned societies of the United Kingdom
History of philosophy
Philosophical societies
Organizations established in 1880
1880 establishments in England
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