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| Institut Supérieur de Philosophie | |
|---|---|
| Name | Institut Supérieur de Philosophie |
| Native name | Institut Supérieur de Philosophie |
| Established | 1889 |
| Type | Research institute |
| Affiliation | Université libre de Bruxelles |
| City | Brussels |
| Country | Belgium |
Institut Supérieur de Philosophie is a Belgian research institute associated with the Université libre de Bruxelles that focuses on historical and systematic study of philosophy, interdisciplinary inquiry, and international collaboration. It traces intellectual links to European currents such as Phenomenology, Marxism, Analytic philosophy, and Pragmatism, and hosts scholars who engage with figures like Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Edmund Husserl, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karl Marx, G. W. F. Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Henri Bergson, John Dewey, Bertrand Russell, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Charles Sanders Peirce, Wilfrid Sellars, John Rawls, Hannah Arendt, Alasdair MacIntyre, Saul Kripke, Donald Davidson, Alfred North Whitehead, José Ortega y Gasset, Alexandre Koyré, Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, Isaiah Berlin, Karl Popper, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jürgen Habermas, Herbert Marcuse, Raymond Aron, Emmanuel Levinas, Louis Althusser, Antonio Gramsci, Giorgio Agamben, Slavoj Žižek, Axel Honneth, John Searle.
The institute was founded in 1889 within the Université libre de Bruxelles during a period that also saw the establishment of institutions like the École Normale Supérieure, the Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, the Sorbonne, the University of Vienna, the University of Göttingen, the University of Paris, the University of Heidelberg, the University of Leuven (1425–1797), and the University of Liège. Early directors and contributors engaged with continental movements exemplified by Edmund Husserl, Henri Bergson, Karl Marx, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, Ernst Cassirer, Alexandre Koyré, Ernest Renan, Charles Secrétan, Théodore Simon Jouffroy, and maintained intellectual exchanges with scholars at the Collège de France, the Royal Irish Academy, the British Academy, the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, and the German Historical Institute. The institute weathered political crises including the World War I, the World War II, and the Cold War, reshaping curricula in response to debates involving Logical Positivism, Phenomenology, Structuralism, and Post-structuralism.
Administratively integrated into the Université libre de Bruxelles, the institute comprises departments and units mirroring international centers such as the Institut d'études politiques de Paris, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, the Institute for Advanced Study, the European University Institute, and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. Departments include a Department of History of Philosophy that traces lines from Plato and Aristotle to Thomas Aquinas and Spinoza, a Department of Contemporary Philosophy engaging with Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, Gilbert Ryle, and Wilfrid Sellars, a Department of Continental Philosophy treating figures like Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and a Department of Ethics and Political Philosophy that dialogues with John Rawls, Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Jürgen Habermas, Alasdair MacIntyre, Robert Nozick, Amartya Sen, Martha Nussbaum, and Charles Taylor.
The institute offers degree programs and postgraduate training comparable to offerings at the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, the Sorbonne, the Columbia University, and the Princeton University. Programs include Bachelor's and Master's curricula, research doctorates, and specialized diplomas in areas such as History of Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Science in the tradition of Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, Imre Lakatos, and interdisciplinary programs linking to the Faculty of Law of Université libre de Bruxelles, the Faculty of Psychology of Université de Liège, the Faculty of Economics at the London School of Economics, and the Faculty of Medicine at KU Leuven.
Research outputs are published in journals and series analogous to the Revue de métaphysique et de morale, the Mind (journal), the Philosophical Review, Synthese, The Journal of Philosophy, and book series with presses like Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Springer, Routledge, Brill, and De Gruyter. Projects include archival work on manuscripts by Henri Poincaré, editions of texts by Edmund Husserl, critical studies of Karl Marx and Louis Althusser, and interdisciplinary collaborations with centers such as the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, the Belgian Royal Library, the European Commission, the World Health Organization, and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
Faculty and alumni have included figures linked to broader intellectual networks like Henri Poincaré, Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul-Henri Spaak, Raymond Aron, Louis Althusser, Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Lacan, Jean Hyppolite, Jean Wahl, Charles Péguy, Étienne Gilson, Georges Sorel, André Lalande, Jacques Maritain, Paul Ricœur, Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Serres, Paul Valéry, Ilya Prigogine, François Perroux, Ernest Gellner, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Georges Dumézil, Norbert Elias, Hélène Cixous, Maurice Blanchot, Raymond Aron, Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, Slavoj Žižek, Axel Honneth, John Searle, Saul Kripke, Donald Davidson, and prominent Belgian public intellectuals such as Paul-Henri Spaak and Hergé.
Located in Brussels, the institute occupies historical and modern facilities comparable to those of the Royal Library of Belgium, the Solvay Library, the Mundaneum, and the Palais des Académies. Campus resources include specialized libraries, manuscript collections, seminar rooms, and digital archives interoperable with networks like Gallica, Europeana, the HathiTrust, and the Digital Public Library of America. Nearby institutions include the Belgian Parliament, the European Parliament, the Royal Palace of Brussels, the Maison du Roi, and cultural sites such as the Musical Instrument Museum.
The institute maintains partnerships with universities and research centers including the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, the Princeton University, the Columbia University, the New York University, the University of Chicago, the European University Institute, the Max Planck Society, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the British Academy, and the American Philosophical Society. Outreach includes public lectures, collaborations with the European Commission, contributions to cultural programming at venues like the Centre Pompidou and the BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, and participation in European research frameworks such as Horizon 2020.
Category:Université libre de Bruxelles Category:Research institutes in Belgium