The Aristotelian Society

The Society is run by its Executive Committee which is in turn overseen by its Council, consisting of past Presidents of the Society.

Many distinguished philosophers have served as President. For a complete list click here.

The Society's full name is 'The Aristotelian Society for the systematic study of philosophy'. According to H Wildon Carr (President 1915-1918), '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' (Wildon Carr, PAS Vol XXIX 1928-9 p. 361).

To see the Society's Rules, click here.

Below is an extract from the Aristotelian Society minute book recording the reading of Bertrand Russell's paper, 'The Limits of Empiricism' (PAS XXXVI 1936 pp. 131-50) at its meeting on 6 April 1936.