
Dr. Jose Luis Caballero Bono. PhD in Philosophy /Universidad Complutense of Madrid (1999). Director of the Magazine Diálogo Filosófico (Philosophical Dialog) of which he had also been chief editor since 1996. In the past years his publications have dealt with three authors: Edith Stein, Xavier Zubiri and Julián Marías. He has translated numerous books from German, Italian and English. At the Institute of Philosophy Edith Stein he teaches courses in Logic and History of modern and Contemporary Philosophy. His recent works have consisted in collecting and editing the work of Spanish contemporary authors, as well as a long research through which he brings to light the works of Father Augusto Andrés Ortega.

Fr. Abelardo Lobato, O. P. PhD. He is former President of The International Thomas Aquinas Society and of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas, as well as representative of the Vatican before the Council of Europe and Rector of the Faculty of Theology of Lugano. He holds an honorary doctorate from different Spanish and foreign universities. His publications and works are numerous, of which we include only a summary. His research focuses particularly on the work of St. Thomas, a field in which he is reputed international specialist. At present he devotes his expertise to elaborating and editing critical bilingual editions of the work of the saint of Aquinas.

Dr. D. Marcelo López Cambronero. PhD in Philosophy of Law /University of Valencia (2000). He has been a Visiting-Professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz – Germany, for three years, giving seminars on Spanish philosophy. His research follows two tracks: Slavonic literature & philosophy and Spanish philosophy. He conducted his doctoral thesis on the figure of Nikolai A. Berdiáev. Recently he has published works on Dostoievski (in "Lecturas sobre la libertad") and on Vasili Grossman. In the field of Spanish philosophy he has given special attention to Jose Ortega y Gasset. He has directed magazines of thought (Teleskop), recipient of essay awards and director of the program on the history of cartography " Meridian 0 " in Spanish national radio. Nowadays he is finishing an essay entitled ¨Memory and Hope ", which gathers some of the lectures given in the year 2005 on phenomenology at the University of Mainz (Germany).

Dra. Dª Feliciana Merino Escalera. PhD in Philosophy of Law /University of Valencia (2004). Known as a specialist in the figure of Edith Stein, her research predominantly deals with the thought of the Jewish philosopher, with numerous articles and chapters in collective works, of which some have been translated into other languages. She has been visiting-professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. She has just translated Alasdair MacIntyre's volume " Edith Stein: a philosophical prologue". At the Institute of Philosophy Edith Stein she teaches courses on Introduction to Philosophy, Ethics and Philosophical Anthropology.

Dr. D. Eduardo Segura Fernández. PhD in Philology (2001). Internationally reputed specialist in J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and "The Inklings". Author of numerous books, chapters and articles on this group of writers and thinkers, some of which are very recent such as "J.R.R. Tolkien. Mythopoeia and Mythology", "C.S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia", or "Myth and Magic: Art according to the Inklings". Author of several entries of the J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia. He is Honorary Associate of the Tolkien Spanish Society.
Dª María Dolores García Jiménez. BA graduate in Social and Cultural Anthropology, at present she is writing her doctoral thesis in Philosophy at the University of Salamanca, the title of her thesis is: “Humanism and religious experience in Miguel Unamuno ". Her work covers all of Unamuno's religious experience, giving special attention to his literary work, both prose and poetry, and to catholic tradition expressed in it. At the Institute of Philosophy Edith Stein she teaches courses on Social and Cultural Anthropology.

D. Guillermo Peris Bautista. MA in Philology/ University of Valencia (Specialization Anglo-German). At the present time he is writing his doctoral thesis in Philosophy on the aesthetics J.R.R. Tolkien and the literary canons concerning the notion of myth. He is specialist in the History of Literature, interested in the - oral and written - transmission of mythical lore, especially in Greece and in the work of Tolkien and Lewis. He has published many articles in specialized magazines on this matter and on the American new formalism. As a translator, he has also worked on the work of Tolkien, and of other English and American writers.
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