International Academy of Philosophy of Science


The International Academy for Philosophy of Science, better known as the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences 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, E W Beth, Józef Maria Bocheński, Niels Bohr, Émile Borel, L. E. J. Brouwer, Louis de Broglie, Albert Einstein, Ferdinand Gonseth, E A Milne, and Hermann Weyl. The AIPS is a founding member of the Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology.

Organization

The AIPS consists of full members, corresponding members, and emeritus members who are elected at the general annual meeting on presentation of the Academic Council. The Council consists of a President, two Vice-Presidents, two Assessors and a Secretary General. The current President is Gerhard Heinzmann ; the list of former presidents includes Evandro Agazzi. 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.

Members

The AIPS currently has over one hundred members, among them