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{{Short description|Global meeting of philosophers}}
The '''World Congress of Philosophy''' (originally known as the '''International Congress of Philosophy''') is a global meeting of philosophers held every five years 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 in a different country, 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 24th World Congress of Philosophy was held in [[Place:Beijing|Beijing]] in August 2018. The 25th World Congress of Philosophy will take place in [[Place:Rome|Rome]] in 2024.<ref>[https://www.fisp.org FISP web site]</ref>

==List of congresses==
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! # !! Date congress !! Country !! Host !! Theme
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| 1st || 1900, 1 Aug – 5 Aug || [[Place:Paris|Paris]], {{flag|France}} || ||
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| 2nd || 1904, 4 Sep – 8 Sep || [[Place:Geneva|Geneva]], {{flag|Switzerland}} || ||
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| 3rd || 1908, 31 Aug – 5 Sep || Heidelberg, {{flag|Germany}} || ||
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| 4th || 1911, 5 Apr – 11 Apr || Bologna, {{flag|Italy}} || ||
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| 5th || 1924, 5 May – 9 May || Naples, {{flag|Italy}} || ||
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| 6th || 1926, 13 Sep – 17 Sep || Boston, {{flag|United States}} || ||
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| 7th || 1930, 1 Sep – 6 Sep || Oxford, {{flag|United Kingdom}} || ||
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| 8th || 1934, 2 Sep – 7 Sep || [[Place:Prague|Prague]], {{flag|Czech Republic}} || ||
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| 9th || 1937, 31 Jul – 6 Aug || [[Place:Paris|Paris]], {{flag|France}} || || "Congrès Descartes", on the 3rd centenary of ''[[Discourse on the Method|Discours de la Méthode]]'' 
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| 10th || 1948, 11 Aug – 18 Aug || [[Place:Amsterdam|Amsterdam]], {{flag|Netherlands}} || ||
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| 11th || 1953, 20 Aug – 26 Aug || Brussels, {{flag|Belgium}} || ||
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| 12th || 1958, 12 Sep – 18 Sep || Venice, {{flag|Italy}} || ||
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| 13th || 1963, 7 Sep – 14 Sep || [[Place:Mexico City|Mexico City]], {{flag|Mexico}} || ||
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| 14th || 1968, 2 Sep – 9 Sep || [[Place:Vienna|Vienna]], {{flag|Austria}} || ||
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| 15th || 1973, 17 Sep – 22 Sep || [[Place:Varna, Bulgaria|Varna]], {{flag|Bulgaria}} || || ''Science, Technology, Man''
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| 16th || 1978, 26 Aug – 2 Sep || [[Place:Düsseldorf|Düsseldorf]], {{flag|Germany}} || ||
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| 17th || 1983, 21 Aug – 27 Aug || {{wipe|Montreal}}, {{flag|Canada}} || || ''Philosophy and Culture''
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| 18th || 1988, 21 Aug – 27 Aug || Brighton, {{flag|United Kingdom}} || || ''The Philosophical Understanding of Human Beings''
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| 19th || 1993, 22 Aug – 28 Aug || [[Place:Moscow|Moscow]], {{flag|Russia}}<ref name="WCP 2008 Website">[http://www.wcp2008.or.kr/congress/congress.asp WCP 2008 Website]</ref> || || ''Mankind at a Turning Point: Philosophical Perspectives''
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| 20th || 1998, 10 Aug – 15 Aug || Boston, {{flag|United States}}<ref>[http://secure.pdcnet.org/wcp20 Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy]</ref> || || ''Paideia: Philosophy Educating Humanity''
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| 21st || 2003, 10 Aug – 17 Aug || Istanbul, {{flag|Turkey}}<ref>''Philosophy Now'' [http://www.philosophynow.org/issue43/43steinbauer.htm The 21st World Congress of Philosophy]</ref><ref>[http://www.wcp2003.org/philosophy.html Address on WCP 2003 Website]</ref> || [[Biography:İoanna Kuçuradi|İoanna Kuçuradi]] {{flag|Turkey}} || ''Philosophy Facing World Problems''
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| 22nd || 2008, 30 Jul – 5 Aug || [[Place:Seoul|Seoul]], {{flag|South Korea}}<ref name="WCP 2008 Website"/> || Peter Kemp {{flag|Denmark}} || ''Rethinking Philosophy Today''
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| 23rd || 2013, 4 Aug – 10 Aug || [[Place:Athens|Athens]], {{flag|Greece}}<ref>[http://www.wcp2013.gr/en WCP 2013 Website]</ref> || Konstantinos Boudouris {{flag|Greece}} || ''Philosophy as Inquiry and Way of Life''
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| 24th || 2018, 13 Aug – 20 Aug || [[Place:Beijing|Beijing]], {{flag|China}} ||  || ''Learning To Be Human''
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| 25th || 2024, 1 Aug – 8 Aug || [[Place:Rome|Rome]], {{flag|Italy}}<ref>[https://www.fisp.org/copy-of-2021wcp24-intervent-presiden Presidential address at the signing ceremony]</ref> ||  || ''Thinking beyond frontiers''
|}

===Overview===
The first International Congress of Philosophy was held in [[Place:Paris|Paris]] in 1900 on the occasion of the Universal Exhibition. Among the participants were [[Biography:Henri Bergson|Henri Bergson]], [[Biography:Maurice Blondel|Maurice Blondel]], [[Biography:Moritz Cantor|Moritz Cantor]], [[Biography:Louis Couturat|Louis Couturat]], [[Biography:Henri Poincaré|Henri Poincaré]], [[Biography:Giuseppe Peano|Giuseppe Peano]] and [[Biography:Bertrand Russell|Bertrand Russell]]. The second International Congress took place in [[Place:Geneva|Geneva]] in 1904; the third was held in Heidelberg in 1908 (with [[Biography:Josiah Royce|Josiah Royce]], [[Biography:Wilhelm Windelband|Wilhelm Windelband]] and [[Biography:Benedetto Croce|Benedetto Croce]]). The First World War interrupted the sequence of these events after the 4th International Congress in Bologna in 1911.

Thereafter these congresses were held in Naples (1924), Cambridge, US (1926), Oxford, UK (1930), [[Place:Prague|Prague]] (1934), and [[Place:Paris|Paris]] (1937). The next International Congress of Philosophy was held in 1948, and these events have been held every five years under FISP sponsorship ever since. Recent congresses have taken place in Brighton (1988), [[Place:Moscow|Moscow]] (1993), Boston (1998), Istanbul (2003), [[Place:Seoul|Seoul]] (2008), and [[Place:Athens|Athens]] (2013). The event became known as the World Congress of Philosophy in 1973.<ref>[https://www.pdcnet.org/wcp World Congress of Philosophy Collection], accessed 16 January 2016]</ref>

===The 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 Societies. 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 [[Company:Philosophy Documentation Center|Philosophy Documentation Center]], in cooperation with the Congress's American Organizing Committee. All papers are available online at the Paideia Archives.<ref>[http://www.bu.edu/wcp/PaidArch.html "Paideia Archives"]</ref> The topics of the volumes include: 
# Ethics; 
# Metaphysics; 
# Philosophy of Education; 
# Philosophies of Religion, Art, and Creativity; 
# Epistemology; 
# Analytic Philosophy & Logic; 
# Modern Philosophy; 
# Contemporary Philosophy; 
# Philosophy of Mind; 
# Philosophy of Science; 
# Social and Political Philosophy; 
# Intercultural Philosophy.

These Proceedings were edited by [[Biography:Jaakko Hintikka|Jaakko Hintikka]], Robert Cummings Neville, [[Biography:Ernest Sosa|Ernest Sosa]], and [[Biography:Alan M. Olson|Alan M. Olson]]. Notable contributors include Pierre Aubenque, [[Biography:Evandro Agazzi|Evandro Agazzi]], [[Biography:Karl-Otto Apel|Karl-Otto Apel]], Natalia Avtonomova, Arindam Chakrabarti, Chung-ying Cheng, [[Biography:Daniel Dennett|Daniel Dennett]], [[Biography:Fred Dretske|Fred Dretske]], Jorge J.E. Gracia, [[Biography:Marjorie Grene|Marjorie Grene]], [[Biography:Adolf Grünbaum|Adolf Grünbaum]], [[Biography:Jaakko Hintikka|Jaakko Hintikka]], [[Biography:Ted Honderich|Ted Honderich]], Ioanna Kucuradi, Hans Lenk, [[Biography:Alasdair MacIntyre|Alasdair MacIntyre]], C. Ulises Moulines, W. V. Quine, Gunnar Skirbekk, Vyachevslav Stepin, [[Biography:P. F. Strawson|P. F. Strawson]], Olúfémi Táíwò, [[Biography:Georg Henrik von Wright|Georg Henrik von Wright]], [[Biography:Linda Zagzebski|Linda Zagzebski]], Ernesto Gustavo Edwards, and Alicia Mónica Pintus.<ref>[http://www.pdcnet.org/wcp20 ''Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy'']</ref>

===The 21st World Congress===
The 21st World Congress was held in Istanbul 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: 
# Ethics; 
# Social and Political Philosophy; 
# Human Rights; 
# Philosophy of Education; 
# Logic and Philosophy of Sciences; 
# Epistemology; 
# Philosophy and Culture(s); 
# Philosophy of Religion; 
# Philosophical Anthropology; 
# Ancient and Modern Philosophy; 
# Contemporary Philosophy; 
# Philosophical Trends in the 20th Century; and 
# Philosophy Facing World Problems. 
The collections is accessible online in cooperation with the [[Company:Philosophy Documentation Center|Philosophy Documentation Center]].<ref>[http://www.pdcnet.org/wcp21 Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy]</ref>

===The 22nd World Congress===
The 22nd World Congress took place in [[Place:Seoul|Seoul]], 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:

* 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 [[Biography:Gilbert Hottois|Gilbert Hottois]].<ref>[http://www.wcp2008.or.kr/congress/congress_01.asp WCP International Committees]</ref> Over 1,200 paper were presented at this Congress, and the Korean Philosophical Association published all of the contributed papers as an eBook in DVD format edited by Prof. Myung-Hyun Lee.<ref>[https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/BVDB.nsf/item?openform&product=digital_media&item=congress22 Proceedings of the Twenty-Second World Congress of Philosophy] DVD, accessed 7 October 2012</ref> This collection is notable for its inclusion of papers in the seven official languages of the congress: English, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Korean, French, and German.<ref>[https://www.pdcnet.org/wcp22 Proceedings of the XXII World Congress of Philosophy] online, accessed 7 October 2012</ref> It has also been made available online in cooperation with the [[Company:Philosophy Documentation Center|Philosophy Documentation Center]] Invited papers were published separately as a special supplement to the ''Journal of Philosophical Research''.<ref>[https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/BVDB.nsf/item?openform&product=publications&item=wcp22papers Selected Papers from the XXII World Congress of Philosophy], ''Journal of Philosophical Research'', accessed 7 October 2012</ref>

===The 23rd World Congress===
The 23rd World Congress took place in [[Place:Athens|Athens]], Greece, August 4–10, 2013, at the [[Organization:National and Kapodistrian University of Athens|National and Kapodistrian University of Athens]]. The main theme of the conference was "Philosophy as inquiry and way of life", and there were four plenary sessions:

* Philosophical Method: 
Chair: [[Biography:Evandro Agazzi|Evandro Agazzi]] (Italy/Mexico)
Speakers: Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Senegal/US), [[Biography:Dagfinn Føllesdal|Dagfinn Føllesdal]] (Norway), [[Biography:John McDowell|John McDowell]] (South Africa/United States)
 
* Philosophy and the Sciences:
Chair: Maria Carla Galavotti (Italy)
Speakers: [[Biography:Susan Haack|Susan Haack]] (US), Alberto Cordero (Peru/United States), Keiichi Noe (Japan)
 
* Philosophy as Practical Wisdom:
Chair: Juliana González (Mexico)
Speakers: [[Biography:Alexander Nehamas|Alexander Nehamas]] (Greece/US), Chen Lai (China)
 
* Philosophy and Public Life:
Chair: Hans Lenk (Germany)
Speakers: [[Biography:Seyla Benhabib|Seyla Benhabib]] (US), Abdussalam Guseinov (Russia), [[Biography:Abdolkarim Soroush|Abdolkarim Soroush]] (Iran)

A selection of invited papers from this Congress was published in 2015.<ref>[https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/BVDB.nsf/item?openform&product=publications&item=wcp23papers Selected Papers from the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy], ''Journal of Philosophical Research'', accessed 16 January 2016</ref>

==Literature==
* Lutz Geldsetzer, ''Bibliography of the International Congresses of Philosophy. Proceedings 1900-1978'', München: Saur, 1978
* Rolf Elberfeld, '[https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/media/fb2/philosophie/Globale.Wege.der.Philosophie_Rolf_AZP.pdf Globale Wege der Philosophie im 20. Jahrhundert. Die Weltkongresse für Philosophie 1900–2008]', in: ''Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie'', 34.1 (2009)

==References==
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== External links ==
* [https://fisp.org/ Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie]
* [https://www.pdcnet.org/wcp/World-Congress-of-Philosophy-Collection World Congress of Philosophy Collection]


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