The International Academy for Philosophy of Science, better known as the (AIPS) is an international organization located in Brussels, which promotes fundamental issues of philosophy of science in an open interdisciplinary dialogue. Its members are philosophers of science or leading experts in sciences interested in philosophical questions.

History

The AIPS was created in 1947 by Stanislas Dockx. Among its first members were

Paul Bernays Paul Isaac Bernays (17 October 1888 – 18 September 1977) was a Swiss mathematician who made significant contributions to mathematical logic, axiomatic set theory, and the philosophy of mathematics. He was an assistant and close collaborator of ...

, E W Beth, Józef Maria Bocheński, Niels Bohr, Émile Borel,

L. E. J. Brouwer Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer (; ; 27 February 1881 – 2 December 1966), usually cited as L. E. J. Brouwer but known to his friends as Bertus, was a Dutch mathematician and philosopher, who worked in topology, set theory, measure theory and compl ...

, Louis de Broglie, Albert Einstein, Ferdinand Gonseth, E A Milne, and

Hermann Weyl Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl, (; 9 November 1885 – 8 December 1955) was a German mathematician, theoretical physicist and philosopher. Although much of his working life was spent in Zürich, Switzerland, and then Princeton, New Jersey, he is assoc ...

. In 1991, the Academy was made an International Member of the

International Union of History and Philosophy of Science The International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology is one of the members of the International Science Council (ISC). It was founded in 1955 by merging the ''International Union of History of Science'' (IUHS) and the ''Inter ...

, Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (IUHPS/DLMPS).

Organization

The AIPS consists of full members (''membres titulaires''), corresponding members (''membres correspondants''), and emeritus members (''membres émérites'') who are elected at the general annual meeting on presentation of the Academic Council (''Conseil Académique''). The Council consists of a President, two Vice-Presidents, two Assessors and a Secretary General. The current President is

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( Nancy); the list of former presidents includes

Evandro Agazzi Evandro Agazzi (born 1934) 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 anthrop ...

( Genoa). Other members of the current Council are Michel Ghins, Gino Tarozzi, Marco Buzzoni, and Itala M. Loffredo D'Ottaviano. Since 1949, the AIPS organises a series of annual conferences, usually in Europe with notable exceptions (

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1977 and Lima 1989).

Members

The AIPS currently has over one hundred members, among them *

* Mario Bunge *

Jeremy Butterfield Jeremy Nicholas Butterfield Fellow of the British Academy, FBA (born 1954) is a philosopher at the University of Cambridge, noted particularly for his work on philosophical aspects of quantum field theory, quantum theory, relativity theory and cla ...

* Nancy Cartwright * Gregory Chaitin * Noam Chomsky *

Newton da Costa Newton Carneiro Affonso da Costa (born 16 September 1929 in Curitiba, Brazil) is a Brazilian mathematician, logician, and philosopher. He studied engineering and mathematics at the Federal University of Paraná in Curitiba and the title of his ...

Michael Detlefsen Michael Detlefsen (20 October 1948 – 21 October 2019) was an American philosopher who was a McMahon-Hank Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. His areas of special interest were logic, history of mathematics, philosophy of ma ...

* Dennis Dieks * John Earman * Luciano Floridi *

Tamaz Gamkrelidze Tamaz (Thomas) Valerianis dze Gamkrelidze (Georgian: თამაზ ვალერიანის ძე გამყრელიძე, 23 October 1929 – 10 February 2021) was a Georgian linguist, orientalist public benefactor and Hittitol ...

Ian Hacking Ian MacDougall Hacking (born February 18, 1936) is a Canadian philosopher specializing in the philosophy of science. Throughout his career, he has won numerous awards, such as the Killam Prize for the Humanities and the Balzan Prize, and been ...

Hannes Leitgeb Hannes Leitgeb (born June 26, 1972, Salzburg) is an Austrian philosopher and mathematician. He is Professor of Philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and has received a Humboldt Professorship in 2010. His areas of research incl ...

* Sabina Leonelli *

Benedikt Löwe Benedikt Löwe (born 1972) is a German mathematician and logician working at the universities of Amsterdam, Hamburg, and Cambridge. He is known for his work on mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics, as well as for initiating the ...

Lorenzo Magnani Lorenzo Magnani (born 1952), is an Italian philosopher who teaches philosophy of science in the Department of Humanities, Philosophy Section, at the University of Pavia, where he is full professor and directs the Computational Philosophy Laborator ...

Michela Massimi Michela Massimi is an Italian and British philosopher of science, a professor of philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, and the president-elect of the Philosophy of Science Association. Her research has involved scientific perspectivism and ...

* Ilkka Niiniluoto *

John D. Norton John Daniel Norton (born 1953) is an Australian philosopher of physics and distinguished professor of the history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh. Biography He had originally studied chemical engineering at the Univers ...

* Steven Pinker *

Stathis Psillos Stathis Psillos (; el, Ευστάθιος (Στάθης) Ψύλλος; born 22 June 1965) is a Greek philosopher of science. He is Professor of Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics at the University of Athens, Greece and a member of thRotman In ...

* Nicholas Rescher *

John Searle John Rogers Searle (; born July 31, 1932) is an American philosopher widely noted for contributions to the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and social philosophy. He began teaching at UC Berkeley in 1959, and was Willis S. and Mario ...

* Elliott Sober * Bas van Fraassen *

Charlotte Werndl Charlotte Werndl is an Austrian philosopher. She holds a chair in logic and philosophy of science at the University of Salzburg and a visiting professorship at the London School of Economics. Werndl is known for her works on philosophy of science ...

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