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AMINTAPHIL was started in 1966 by a group of scholars reacting to the traditional conference format in which papers are submitted for presentation and then read to an audience, with little or no time for discussion. These scholars sought a more informal forum for discussion of ideas in political and legal philosophy. They started the following practice: all participants would make a written contribution, whether in a principal paper or a commentary on one more principal papers. All the papers would be circulated in advance and attendees would be expected to have read them. There would be no formal presentations; the conference would commence with discussion of the papers and commentaries. This practice caught on and makes AMINTAPHIL meetings unique and especially enriching. |
The next AMINTAPHIL conference will be held at Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, from October 21 - 24th, 2010. The topic is Economic Justice. Please click here for detailed information |
The next World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR) will be in Beijing, China in September, 2009. |
The AMINTAPHIL volume from the 2006 meeting has been published. The title is Coercion and the State . The editors are David A. Reidy and Walter J. Riker. The volume from the 2004 meeting is Intervention, Terrrorism and Torture: Contemporary Challenges to Just War Theory . The editor is Steven Lee. Both volumes are pulished by Springer Science and Business Media as part of a series entitled AMINTAPHIL: The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice . For further information, click here or see the Publications page. |
University of Utah (Disclaimer)
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The new group became a participating part of the IVR in 1967. It
organized an ad hoc evening session using the strategy of papers
circulated in advance with collegial discussion. That model was
soon applied by IVR and is used today for a large part of IVR congresses.
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