The Conférence Mondiale des Institutions Universitaires Catholiques de Philosophie (COMIUCAP, or, World Congress of Catholic University Institutions of Philosophy) will be holding its 3rd World Congress on September 11 to 13, 2008, with the Ateneo de Manila University and University of Santo Tomas as hosts. The conference, which is held only once every four years, will include more than 150 deans, professors and postgraduate students of philosophy and theology from all over the world.
The COMIUCAP was founded in Rome in April 1999 and currently has 80 member institutions representing 35 countries. The theme for its 3rd World Congress, Philosophy, Religions & Transcendence, builds on the themes of its two previous conferences. The first one, held in Paris in 2000, focused on Philosophical Reason and Christianity, while the second one, held in Mexico in 2004, focused on Philosophy as Mediation. The theme of the 2008 Manila congress focuses on the notion of transcendence – a notion that both unites and separates philosophical and religious traditions and whose relevance is heightened by the Philippines’ proximity to the Far East and its religious realities.
The conference’s speakers will include one of France’s best-known living philosophers, Professor Jean-Luc Marion, and other notable thinkers such as Professor Frank Budenholzer of Taipei, Professor Alfredo Co of Manila, Professor Lorenzo Bruno Puntel of Munich, Professor Friedo Ricken of Munich, and Juan Luis Scannone of Buenos Aires.
The COMIUCAP was founded in Rome in April 1999 and currently has 80 member institutions representing 35 countries. The theme for its 3rd World Congress, Philosophy, Religions & Transcendence, builds on the themes of its two previous conferences. The first one, held in Paris in 2000, focused on Philosophical Reason and Christianity, while the second one, held in Mexico in 2004, focused on Philosophy as Mediation. The theme of the 2008 Manila congress focuses on the notion of transcendence – a notion that both unites and separates philosophical and religious traditions and whose relevance is heightened by the Philippines’ proximity to the Far East and its religious realities.
The conference’s speakers will include one of France’s best-known living philosophers, Professor Jean-Luc Marion, and other notable thinkers such as Professor Frank Budenholzer of Taipei, Professor Alfredo Co of Manila, Professor Lorenzo Bruno Puntel of Munich, Professor Friedo Ricken of Munich, and Juan Luis Scannone of Buenos Aires.
