The Ecclesiastical School of Philosophy channels its research mainly through research groups, in contact with researchers from other centers (such as the Schools of Philosophy and Letters). Philosophy and Letters, Theology o Sciencesas well as the Institute for Culture and Society).
group Science, Reason and Faith
This interdisciplinary group , formed in 2002, has as its fields of interest the following topics: origin of the universe, evolutionism, order, complexity and purpose, nature and person, science and truth, and science and religion. The group publishes, together with the Nicolaus Copernicus University (Torun, Poland), the journal Scientia et Fides.
Analytical Theology Cluster Group
This group brings together philosophers and theologians to study and comment on the main approaches and approaches of analytic methodology to various theological and Philosophy issues in religion. The group is supported by the project "Analytic Theology" of the Center for Philosophy of Religion of the University of Notre Dame, funded by the John Templeton Foundation.
The Spanish Philosophy and its projection in the contemporary world.
The research line aims to develop a deeper knowledge of Hispanic thought. It is intended to help doctorate and licentiate degree students to understand the cultural and intellectual keys of our intellectual history. For foreign students, it is a privileged opportunity to learn not only the language but also the Spanish culture and thought. The School develops this research in two fields:
Spanish philosophical thought during the 20th century was largely due to the reception of ideas forged in Europe (mainly France and Germany). Alongside unoriginal repetitions of the scholastic or modern Philosophy there are profound and original elaborations of philosophical thought. Furthermore, the Spanish Philosophy has been a channel of transmission to other Spanish-speaking countries, although it has also followed its own paths in Latin America.
In this sense, research has been carried out on the Philosophy of Xavier Zubiri, Ortega y Gasset, Manuel García Morente, Miguel de Unamuno, Julián Marías, González Arintero, among others; as well as more recent philosophers, such as Antonio Millán-Puelles, Leonardo Polo, Jesús García López, or Mariano Artigas. The research also includes philosophers in exile such as José Ferrater Mora, María Zambrano, Eduardo Nicol, José Gaos, etc.
In addition, work has also been carried out on research on Latin American philosophers of undoubted philosophical relevance: Octavio Nicolás Derisi, Ismael Quiles, Raúl Echauri, Agustín Basave Fernández del Valle, Julio Ramón Ribeyro, among others.
Within the history of the Spanish Philosophy , the University of Salamanca in the 16th century occupies a very important place. The works of the Dominican theologians Francisco de Vitoria, Domingo de Soto, Melchor Cano, Domingo Báñez, etc. are the fruit of the School of Salamanca. They dealt with far-reaching speculations in theodicy and metaphysics as well as in anthropology and Philosophy internship (Philosophy del derecho, Philosophy de la Economics, derecho internacional, etc.).
The work of the Salamancan theologians soon spread to the universities founded in America, and was the ferment for the emergence of philosophers as relevant as Francisco Suárez or Juan de santo Tomás. Moreover, the connection between Philosophy and theology, natural in Hispanic scholasticism, constitutes a suitable framework for the study of the relationship between reason and faith.
The School Eclesiastica of Philosophy collaborates with the Line of Spanish Classical Thought of the University of Navarra, which for more than twenty years has been carrying out extensive research work in the form of the publication of numerous translations and monographs, as well as frequent international scientific meetings.
research line 'Anthropology and ethics of vulnerability'.
The research line 'Anthropology and ethics of vulnerability': recovers fragility - bodily, psychic and existential - as the teleological foundation of care. Integrating Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas and MacIntyre, it presents a philosophical analysis of human nature that highlights interdependence, restores human dignity and counteracts the empire of technological perfectionism that pervades much of contemporary philosophical and theological thought.