It has counted among its members Jean-Paul Sartre, Bertrand Russell, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Georg Henrik von Wright, Philippa Foot, Bernard Williams, Jean Wahl, Peter Strawson, Jan Patocka, Theodor Oizerman, Karl Löwith, Chen Bo, Raymond Klibansky, Tomonobu Imamichi, Giovanni Gentile, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Ruth Barcan Marcus.
[1][2] The institute was founded in 1937[3] by representatives of the Sorbonne and Lund University, with its headquarters in Paris.
The current Secretary General is Pascal Engel (Paris IV / EHESS).
[6] The task of the commissions and the board of the Academy primarily includes international philosophical communication and cooperation under the guiding principles of reason and tolerance as well as the mutual opening of cultures, traditions and attitudes and the dialogue with art, literature, science and technology and business.
The academy publishes overview works on philosophical areas, bibliographies as well as chronicles and congress reports.