Higher Institute of Philosophy
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The Higher Institute of Philosophy of the Catholic University of Leuven was founded in 1889 by Cardinal Désiré Mercier to be a beacon of Neo-Thomist philosophy. Today, the Institute is most known as the home of the Edmund Husserl Archives. During the Nazi persecution, a former student saved the papers of the recently deceased Jewish philosopher from the fires and brought them to Leuven. The Institute also publishes a philosophy journal, the Tijdschrift voor Philosophie, and organizes several major publication efforts, including the Husserliana and the Aristoteles Latinus (the Latin editions of Aristotle's works known to the medieval philosophers).
Internationally Renowned Professors who have lectured at the Institute:
- Etienne Gilson
- Jacques Lacan
- Paul Ricoeur
- Emmanuel Levinas
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Jan Patoċka
- Jacques Derrida
- Charles Harsthorne
- Karl Popper
- John Searle
- Peter Strawson
- Umberto Eco
- Roger Scruton
- Donald Davidson
- Martha Nussbaum
- Richard Rorty
- Bernard Williams
- Ian Hacking
- John Millbank
- Don Cuppit
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- Higher Institute of Philosophy (English)
