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	American Philosophical Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Through research grants, published journals, the upkeep of an extensive library, and regular meetings, the Society continues to advance careful study in a wide variety of disciplines (in the humanities and the sciences).
		Under his influence, the Society received land from the government of Pennsylvania, along with a plot of land in Philadelphia where Philosophical Hall now stands.
		In 1786, the Society established the Magellanic Premium, a prize for achievement in "navigation, astronomy, or natural philosophy", the oldest scientific prize awarded by an American institution, which it still awards.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Philosophical_Society (370 words)

	American Philosophical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Through researchgrants, published journals, the upkeep of an extensive library, and regular meetings, the Society continues to advance carefulstudy in a wide variety of disciplines (in the humanities and the sciences).
		After the end of the American Revolution, the Societylooked for leadership to Francis Hopkinson, one of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence.
		In 1786, the Society established the Magellanic Premium, a prize for achievement in "navigation, astronomy, or natural philosophy", the oldest scientific prize awarded by an American institution, which it stillawards.
	www.therfcc.org /american-philosophical-society-79480.html (336 words)

	Ayn Rand Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Membership in the Society is open to all members of the APA (regardless of division): regular membership to regular members of the APA, student membership to student associate members.
		The philosophical speeches from her novels, and her philosophic essays and lectures, became the basis for a series of seven book-length collections, starting in 1961.
		Society must therefore be organized so as to leave each man free to create and enjoy the values his life requires.
	www.aynrandsociety.org (2983 words)

	American Philosophical Society Library & Museum
		The American Philosophical Society was founded as a home for thinkers about nature, machines, industry and governance and is today the oldest surviving learned organization in the country.
		The name "The American Philosophical Society" is derived from the concept of "natural philosophy" which was the 18th century name for the study of nature and has nothing to do with "philosophy" (political or otherwise) as we understand it today.
		The American Philosophical Society is home to a library of more than 7 million manuscripts, 250,000 volumes and bound periodicals and thousands of maps and prints.
	www.ushistory.org /tour/tour_philo.htm (1083 words)

	Franklin's American Philosophical Society - RIP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		One of the most important obligations of the American Philosophical Society, one would hope, is to keep a little bit of Franklin and Jefferson (the authors of the Declaration) alive and well in America.
		In addressing the American Philosophical Society about the need to update the natural philosophical basis of American democracy so as to be consistent with postmodern (post-Einstein) knowledge, the response from the Society is of more than passing interest.
		The propensity of the American Philosophical Society to avoid these core theological issues reflects mostly the oppressive nature of religious capitalism, under which Americans are very often unable to do their jobs for fear of losing their jobs, if not the institution wherein they have their jobs.
	opednews.com /articles/opedne_dr._gerr_050703_franklin_s_american_.htm (1030 words)

	Marty elected to American Philosophical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Marty, one of America's foremost theologians and religious historians, was one of 36 scholars to be elected to the society, which was founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743 and is the oldest learned society in the United States.
		The American Philosophical Society promotes "excellence and useful knowledge in the sciences and humanities through scholarly research, professional meetings, publications, library resources and community service." Its members include scholars in mathematics, the biological, physical and social sciences, the humanities, the arts and other learned professions.
		He is a past president of the American Academy of Religion, the American Society of Church History and the American Catholic Historical Association, and he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, for which he directed the six-year, six-volume international Fundamentalism Project.
	chronicle.uchicago.edu /940609/aps.shtml (238 words)

	AllRefer.com - American Philosophical Society (Science, General) - Encyclopedia
		American Philosophical Society, first scientific society in America, founded (1743) in Philadelphia.
		Franklin was the first secretary of the society, and Thomas Hopkinson the first president.
		The society, which has a notable library located in Philadelphia, confers membership upon people of distinction in all fields of intellectual and scientific study.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/AmerPhil.html (211 words)

	American Philosophical Society--Lewis and Clark Expedition: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
		The American Philosophical Society traces its origins back to 1743, when Benjamin Franklin publicly urged the creation of a society to stimulate interest in learning.
		President Thomas Jefferson was one, and 10 years before the Corps of Discovery, Jefferson proposed that the American Philosophical Society outfit an adventurer to explore the American continent.
		The American Philosophical Society collection consists of 18 small notebooks, approximately 4 by 6 inches, of the type commonly used by surveyors in field work.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/lewisandclark/ame.htm (731 words)

	The American Philosophical Association
		The committee urges philosophers to inform themselves about the proposed legislation and to report incidents of which they are aware (the posting of unauthorized "class canceled" signs, public labeling of faculty as "communists" or "terrorist sympathizers," and so on).
		The American Philosophical Association is the main professional organization for philosophers in the United States.
		Founded in 1900, its mission is to promote the exchange of ideas among philosophers, to encourage creative and scholarly activity in philosophy, to facilitate the professional work and teaching of philosophers, and to represent philosophy as a discipline.
	www.apa.udel.edu /apa (1028 words)

	American Philosophical Society displays natural history specimens (phillyBurbs.com) \| Pennsylvania News
		The bones and letter are part of the American Philosophical Society's new exhibit, "Stuffing Birds, Pressing Plants, Shaping Knowledge," examining 130 years of natural history in North America.
		The naturalists also fed a philosophical struggle emerging in the 19th century to rationalize religious conviction with scientific discovery, Prince said.
		Benjamin Franklin founded the American Philosophical Society in 1743 "to promote useful knowledge." It served as a national library, patent office, museum and academy of science before the federal government established these institutions in Washington, D.C. The society continues to be a source of research in biology, genetics and other evolutionary sciences.
	www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/103-11292003-204161.html (772 words)

	Columbia News ::: American Philosophical Society Elects Two Professors
		Bagnall, who came to Columbia in 1974, was chair of the classics department from 1994 to 2000 and was dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from 1989 to 1993.
		He served as chairman of the department from 1970 to 1973 and chairman of the Society of Fellows in the Humanities from 1984 to 1988.
		He was executive director of the Renaissance Society of America from 1966 to 1982 and 1985 to 1988, and is currently a member of its Executive Board.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/news/01/06/aps.html (268 words)

	Three professors elected to American Philosophical Society : 5/01
		The learned society, founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin, selected two faculty members from Stanford's Department of History, David M. Kennedy and James J. Sheehan, and a professor whose research and teaching have spanned several areas of social science, James G. March.
		Sheehan, the Dickason Professor in the Humanities, approaches the past from a different angle: As a professor of modern European history, his focus is on the social, political and cultural history of 18th- and 19th-century Germany.
		He has been recognized by numerous Scandinavian governments and learned societies and was named a Knight, First Class, of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit in 1995 and a Commander of the Order of the Lion of Finland in 2000 in honor of his research and work with SCANCOR.
	news-service.stanford.edu /news/2001/may23/aps-523.html (579 words)

	American Philosophical Society elects Steiner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Donald Steiner, the A.N. Pritzker Distinguished Service Professor in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Medicine, was elected to the American Philosophical Society and was welcomed to the APS at its annual meeting in Philadelphia in November 2004.
		Steiner, a pioneer in understanding how insulin is made, is one of six biological scientists elected to the society this year and the 41st Chicago faculty member ever to be elected a member.
		More recent studies in his laboratory have focused on the cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in the processing of both pre- and pro-proteins, and on the structure, evolution and mechanisms of regulation of the genes for insulin and related growth factors.
	chronicle.uchicago.edu /050120/steiner.shtml (261 words)

	Philosophical Hall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Philosophical Hall recently opened its doors to the public for the first time since the early nineteenth century.
		The Hall is the headquarters of the American Philosophical Society, which was founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743 for "promoting useful knowledge among the British plantations in America."
		Philosophical Hall was built between 1785 and 1789 to provide a central meeting place for members of the American Philosophical Society — doctors, lawyers, clergymen, merchants, and artisans as well as founders of the Republic like George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton.
	www.nps.gov /inde/philhall.html (252 words)

	Whitehead Institute - Two Elected to American Philosophical Society
		She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996 and the National Academy of Sciences in 1997, the same year she became a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.
		A past president of the Genetics Society of America, he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Institute of Medicine.
		Fink and Lindquist are among 43 Americans and eight international scholars to be elected as members of the society during its recent annual meeting.
	www.wi.mit.edu /news/archives/2003/sl_gf_0508.html (522 words)

	Resources of Scholarly Societies - Philosophy
		Brunswik Society ["The Brunswik Society is an informal association of researchers who are interested in understanding and improving human judgment and decision making.
		International Berkeley Society [The Society is devoted to the study of the life and work of Bishop George Berkeley, who "...made important contributions in the fields of philosophy, mathematics, and economics."]
		International Society for Ecological Psychology ["The International Society for Ecological Psychology is a scholarly organization for researchers and practitioners in the natural, social, and applied sciences, the humanities, the fine arts, and many subdisciplines of psychology.
	www.lib.uwaterloo.ca /society/philos_soc.html (700 words)

	Conferences, Seminars & Calls for Papers: Index
		The International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy (ISCWP) is to hold the 2005 year term, "On the Twentieth Century Analytic Philosophy---From the Point of View of Chinese Philosophers", of its roundtable-workshop series "Beijing Roundtable on Contemporary Philosophy" on June 23, 2005 in Beijing, China.
		The Society for Social And Political Philosophy: Historical, Continental, and Feminist Perspectives (SSPP) to be held in conjunction with the APA Eastern Division meeting in 2005.
		THE SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: Historical, Continental, and Feminist Perspectives (SSPP) www.sspp.us Call for papers for the Society's meeting to be held in conjunction with The Eastern APA (American Philosophical Association) in 2006 The SSPP invites papers for two conference panels.
	www.apa.udel.edu /apa/opportunities/conferences (8516 words)

	Physicist Gordon Baym elected to American Philosophical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Baym is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society.
		Founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin, the American Philosophical Society promotes useful knowledge in the sciences and humanities through scholarly research, professional meetings, publications, library resources and community service.
		The society elected 42 resident members and five foreign members this year, bringing its total membership to 853, including 712 from the United States.
	www.news.uiuc.edu /news/02/00/0509baym.html (332 words)

	American Philosophical Society
		That one society be formed of Virtuosi or ingenious Men residing in the several Colonies, to be called the American Philosophical Society; who are to maintain a constant Correspondence.
		One of the Society's most successful early ventures was charting the Transit of Venus from the State House yard in 1769.
		Throughout the years, the society had been a peripatetic group meeting at the College of Philadelphia, Christ Church Schoolhouse, Carpenters' Hall, and even in the homes of members.
	www.ushistory.org /franklin/philadelphia/aps.htm (1647 words)

	Fragmentation and Cohesion in American Society*
		A society lacking in cohesiveness is likely to be one where persons do not care about, or worse, arc intolerant of others and believe others to feel the same way.
		We are moving away from a society whose major resources of solidarity/cohesion were importantly determined by geography --whether the face-to-face presence of others such as kin and friends, neighborhoods or regions, to a society where community is ever less restricted to physical proximity.
		In a society whose cohesiveness is based on ascription, such persons are more likely to be taken care of, because their position is not dependent on what they do, or choose, and others cannot as readily choose to abandon them.
	web.mit.edu /gtmarx/www/frag.html (10143 words)

	American Oriental Society
		The American Oriental Society is the oldest learned society in the United States devoted to a particular field of scholarship.
		The Society was founded in 1842, preceded only by such distinguished organizations of general scope as the American Philosophical Society (1743), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1780), and the American Antiquarian Society (1812).
		The scope of the Society's purpose is not limited by temporal boundaries: All sincere students of man and his works in Asia, at whatever period of history are welcomed to membership.
	www.umich.edu /~aos (265 words)

	The Political Graveyard: American Philosophical Society, politicians
		American Academy of Political and Social Science; American Philosophical Society.
		American Academy of Arts and Sciences; American Philosophical Society.
		American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson; Willard Sterne Randall,
	www.politicalgraveyard.com /group/am-philosophical-soc.html (1231 words)

	American Philosophical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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	The Academy of Natural Sciences - Museum - Lewis & Clark Herbarium - The Herbarium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Bartram, who co-founded the American Philosophical Society with Benjamin Franklin in 1743, established the first botanical garden and commercial nursery in the New World.
		The American Philosophical Society founded in 1743 by Ben Franklin, was a group of scientists and business people who gathered regularly to share discoveries.
		The Academy's Lewis and Clark Herbarium houses 226 sheets of dried, pressed specimens, derived from two sets of plants: 179 that were transferred to the Academy in 1897 for curation by the American Philosophical Society and 47 others that were given to the Academy by William Tuckerman.
	www.acnatsci.org /museum/lewisclark/l&c_herbarium.html (1854 words)

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