Professor Alan Willard Brown noted in 1947 that '[The Society]'s members were not all men of established intellectual position.

It welcomed young minds just out of university as well as older amateur philosophers with serious interests and purposes.

But many distinguished men were faithful members, and not the least virtue of the society has remained, even to the present day, the opportunity it affords for different intellectual generations to meet in an atmosphere of reasoned and responsible discussion.'.

[5] Its other work includes giving grants to support the organisation of academic conferences in philosophy, and, with Oxford University Press, the production of the 'Lines of Thought' series of philosophical monographs.

The Proceedings and the Supplementary Volume are published by the society and distributed by Oxford University Press.