| Year |
Theme |
Location |
President |
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| 1926 |
Various Topics |
Washington, DC |
Edward Pace |
| 1926 |
Various Topics |
Notre Dame, IN |
Edward Pace |
| 1927 |
Various Topics |
Worcester, MA |
Edward Pace |
| 1928 |
Various Topics |
Milwaukee, WI |
Edward Pace |
| 1929 |
Various Topics |
Washington, DC |
John McCormick |
| 1930 |
Various Topics |
Chicago, IL |
James Ryan |
| 1931 |
Political Philosophy |
St. Louis, MO |
Gerald Phelan |
| 1932 |
Current American and British Realism |
Detroit, MI |
James McWilliams |
| 1933 |
Philosophy of Society |
Pittsburgh, PA |
Charles Miltner |
| 1934 |
Philosophy of Religion |
Chicago, IL |
Francis Walsh |
| 1935 |
Philosophy of the Sciences |
Cleveland, OH |
John Riedl |
| 1936 |
Christian Philosophy and the Social Sciences |
Chicago, IL |
John Toohey |
| 1937 |
Philosophy of Education |
New York, NY |
William Dillon |
| 1938 |
Causality in Current Philosophy |
Cincinnati, OH |
Ignatius Smith |
| 1939 |
Philosophy of the State |
Washington, DC |
William O'Connor |
| 1940 |
The Problem of Liberty |
Detroit, MI |
Francis McMahon |
| 1941 |
Philosophy and Order |
Philadelphia, PA |
Fulton Sheen |
| 1942 |
Truth in the Contemporary Crisis |
Meeting cancelled |
Joseph Schabert |
| 1943 |
Philosophy in Post War Reconstruction |
Chicago, IL |
Joseph Schabert |
| 1944 |
No meeting scheduled |
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| 1945 |
The Philosophy of Democracy |
Milwaukee, WI |
Leo Ward |
| 1946 |
The Philosophy of Being |
Toronto, Canada |
Anton Pegis |
| 1947 |
The Absolute and the Relative |
St. Louis, MO |
Joaquin Garcia |
| 1948 |
No meeting scheduled |
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| 1949 |
Philosophy and Finality |
Boston, MA |
Vernon Bourke |
| 1950 |
The Natural Law and International Relations |
St. Paul, MN |
Ernest Kilzer |
| 1951 |
The Nature of Man |
New York, NY |
Gerard Smith |
| 1952 |
Philosophy and the Experimental Sciences |
Cleveland, OH |
Francis Meehan |
| 1953 |
Philosophy and Unity |
Notre Dame, IN |
Elizabeth Salmon |
| 1954 |
The Existence and Nature of God |
Milwaukee, WI |
James Collins |
| 1955 |
Knowledge and Expression |
Philadelphia, PA |
Charles O'Neil |
| 1956 |
The Role of Philosophy in the Catholic Liberal College |
Cincinnati, OH |
Vincent Smith |
| 1957 |
Ethics and Other Knowledge |
Chicago, IL |
George Klubertanz |
| 1958 |
The Role of the Christian Philosopher |
Detroit, MI |
Allan Wolter |
| 1959 |
Contemporary American Philosophy |
New York, NY |
Lawrence Lynch |
| 1960 |
Analytic Philosophy |
St. Louis, MO |
Robert Lechner |
| 1961 |
Philosophy and Psychiatry |
Buffalo, NY |
William Walton |
| 1962 |
Justice |
Louisville, KY |
Carl Grindel |
| 1963 |
Philosophy in a Pluralistic Society |
Boston, MA |
Donald Gallagher |
| 1964 |
History and Philosophy of Science |
Kansas City, MO |
James Weisheipl |
| 1965 |
Philosophy of the Arts |
Denver, CO |
John Oesterle |
| 1966 |
Scholasticism in the Modern World |
Washington, DC |
Joseph Owens |
| 1967 |
The Nature of Philosophical Inquiry |
Notre Dame, IN |
Ernan McMullin |
| 1968 |
Philosophy and the Future of Man |
New Orleans, LA |
Robert Kreyche |
| 1969 |
Truth and the Historicity of Man |
New York, NY |
W. Norris Clarke |
| 1970 |
Philosophy and Christian Theology |
San Francisco, CA |
William Wallace |
| 1971 |
Myth and Philosophy |
Pittsburgh, PA |
Louis Dupré |
| 1972 |
The Existence of God |
Milwaukee, WI |
Ralph McInerny |
| 1973 |
The Philosopher as a Teacher |
Montreal, Canada |
Gerald Kreyche |
| 1974 |
Thomas and Bonaventure |
Washington, DC |
Thomas Langan |
| 1975 |
Philosophy and Civil Law |
Cincinnati, OH |
Jude Dougherty |
| 1976 |
Freedom |
New York, NY |
Desmond Fitzgerald |
| 1977 |
Ethical Wisdom East and/or West |
Detroit, Mi |
Mary Clark |
| 1978 |
Immateriality |
Chicago, IL |
Kenneth Schmitz |
| 1979 |
The Human Person |
Toronto, Canada |
Armand Maurer |
| 1980 |
Philosophical Knowledge |
Philadelphia, PA |
Henry Veatch |
| 1981 |
Infinity |
St. Louis, MO |
Leo Sweeney |
| 1982 |
The Role & Responsibility of the Moral Philosopher |
Houston, TX |
John Noonan |
| 1983 |
The ACPA in Today's Intellectual World |
New York, NY |
Marc Griesbach |
| 1984 |
Practical Reasoning |
Pittsburgh, PA |
Germain Grisez |
| 1985 |
Realism |
Milwaukee, WI |
Cornelius Delaney |
| 1986 |
Existential Personalism |
Baltimore, MD |
Francis Lescoe |
| 1987 |
The Metaphysics of Substance |
Buffalo, NY |
John Wippel |
| 1988 |
Hermeneutics and the Tradition |
Louisville, KY |
John Caputo |
| 1989 |
The Ethics of Having Children |
New Orleans, LA |
Joseph Boyle |
| 1990 |
Ways to World Meaning |
Toronto, Canada |
Gerald McCool |
| 1991 |
Religions and the Virtue of Religion |
Boston, MA |
Frederick Crosson |
| 1992 |
Relations: From Having to Being |
San Diego, CA |
Mary Rousseau |
| 1993 |
The Importance of Truth |
St. Louis, MO |
Lawrence Dewan |
| 1994 |
Reason in History |
Atlanta, GA |
Thomas Flynn |
| 1995 |
The Recovery of Form |
Washington, DC |
Robert Wood |
| 1996 |
Philosophy of Technology |
Los Angeles, CA |
Thomas Anderson |
| 1997 |
Virtues and Virtue Theories |
Buffalo, NY |
Linda Zagzebski |
| 1998 |
Texts and Their Interpretation |
Pittsburgh, PA |
Jorge Gracia |
| 1999 |
Insight and Inference |
St. Paul, MN |
Thomas A. Russman |
| 2000 |
Philosophical Theology |
Dallas, TX |
Eleonore Stump |
| 2001 |
Person, Soul and Immortality |
Albany, NY |
James Ross |
| 2002 |
Philosophy at the Boundary of Reason |
Cincinnati, OH |
Patrick Bourgeois |
| 2003 |
Philosophy and Intercultural Understanding |
Houston, TX |
David Burrell |
