Since its inception in 1981, Concerned Philosophers for Peace [CPP] has become the largest, most active organization of professional philosophers in North America involved in the analysis of the causes of war and prospects for peace. The organization holds an annual conference as well as programs at each divisional meeting of the American Philosophical Association.
The newsletter Concerned Philosophers for Peace began in 1981 as PANDORA, an acronym for Philosophers Against Nuclear Destruction of Rational Animals. In December 1982, the title of the newsletter changed to Concerned Philosophers. A year later, it became Concerned Philosophers for Peace.
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PANDORA, Vol. 1, No. 1
Concerned Philosophers for Peace
9-1-1981We organized at the Pacific Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association this year in Portland, having found that we share several convictions. A general one is that as the nuclear arms race continues to accelerate and international tensions increase our chances of survival diminish. Yet we do not want to hide from the facts, nor do we want to stand by and watch as though nuclear war were some new kind of public spectacle. We feel furthermore that as philosophers and as educators we own a precious responsibility for the condition of our society and indeed for the whole human community, a responsibility which we must not fail to exercise in this time of unprecedented peril.
