The Metaphysical Society of America is an organization of professional philosophers that meets once annually to discuss issues of fundamental concern in all of the major areas of philosophical reflection. It is a society committed to the principle that philosophical thought is open to a variety of different traditions and methodologies, and at its annual meeting, it provides a forum for the discussion of the questions that have animated philosophical debate from the start. As the opening declaration of its constitution states, “The purpose of the Metaphysical Society of America is the study of reality.” The Society has no publication of its own, but has from its inception maintained a close informal relation with the Review of Metaphysics. Since 1958 it has been a constituent of the American Council of Learned Societies.

Past Presidents include Paul Weiss, Charles Hartshorne, W. E. Hocking, John Herman Randall, Errol Harris, John E. Smith, J. N. Findlay, Wilfrid Sellars, Joseph Owens, Stanley Rosen, Robert Cummings Neville, and Nicholas Rescher. More...

2014 Conference Dates Announced

May 19, 2014
The dates for the 2014 meeting at Williams have been announced. Also, the deadline for submitting abstracts has been extended to July 1 and the deadlie for the Aristotle Prize has been extended to September 1. More...

New grad student travel grant 

January 30, 2013
Thanks to the generosity of members of the Metaphysical Society and a grant from the Hocking-Cabot Fund for Systematic Philosophy, starting with the 2014 meeting  the Society will award one or two travel grants a year to assist graduate students in traveling to the annual meeting. More...

2014 call for papers

January 27, 2013
The Call for Papers for the 65th annual meeting of the MSA is now available. President-Elect Alan White has chosen the theme "Questions of Being." More...

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Founding President, Paul Weiss (1901-2002)