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Founded in 1999, APPA is a non-profit educational corporation that encourages philosophical awareness and advocates leading the examined life. APPA members apply philosophical systems, insights and methods to the management of human problems and the betterment of human estates. APPA trains and certifies philosophical practitioners, who render public and private services to individuals, groups and organizations world-wide.
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Philosophical Practice: Journal of the APPA
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