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-Joseph Mercier to be a beacon of Neo-Thomist philosophy. Nowadays it is world-renowned for its work on phenomenology.
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[edit] Husserl Archives
Today, the Institute is most known as the home of the Edmund Husserl Archives. During the Nazi persecution, Father Herman Van Breda, (Franciscan), a PhD student at the Catholic University of Leuven, saved the papers of the recently deceased Jewish philosopher from the Nazis 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).
[edit] Lecturers
Internationally renowned professors who have lectured at the institute:
- Etienne Gilson
- Jacques Lacan
- Paul Ricoeur
- Emmanuel Levinas
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Jan Patoċka
- Jacques Derrida
- Jean-Francois Lyotard
- 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 Cupitt
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Higher Institute of Philosophy (English)
