The Metaphysical Society of America
Founded in 1950
Constituent of the American Council of Learned Societies
**2026 CONFERENCE INFORMATION**
Dates: March 2026Location: New Haven, CT
Plenary Address: TBD
Presidential Address: TBD
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The MSA offers up to $400 in support to all graduate students and post-doctoral researchers within 3 years of receiving their PhD who give papers at the annual conference.
The Metaphysical Society of America
The Metaphysical Society of America is an
organization of professional philosophers that meets 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...
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Founding President, Paul Weiss (1901-2002)