 The "Society for Philosophy and Geography" was founded in 1997 by Andrew Light, a philosopher currently at George Mason University, and Jonathan Smith a geographer at Texas A&M University.Three volumes of an annual peer-reviewed journal, "Philosophy and Geography," were published by Rowman & Littlefield Press which later became a bi-annual journal published by Carfax publishers.This journal merged with another journal started by geographers, "Ethics, Place, and Environment," in 2005 to become "Ethics, Place, and Environment