contain up-to-date information regarding Institute programs, projects, and publications such as the international conference series; the Boston Forum; spring and summer symposia; master classes; the yearbook series Analecta Husserliana; the WPI Monograph Series; the journal Phenomenological Inquiry; as well as other matters of philosophical interest related to joint research projects with universities and advanced research institutions around the world.

A professional organization devoted to supporting philosophy inspired by Continental European traditions. SPEP is also actively committed to philosophical pluralism. It is one of the largest American philosophical societies and accommodates such traditions as critical theory, exisentialism, feminism, German idealism, hermeneutics, post-structuralism, and phenomenology.

For many people, the word \"phenomenology\" is difficult to pronounce and those who hear the word for the first time often ask what it means. The present attempt at an answer is in part methodological but is chiefly historical. It reflects lessons learned in editing the Encyclopedia of Phenomenology, and derives immediately from the Introduction of that work, which contains references to fairly detailed entries on disciplines, individuals, tendencies, etc