Author Description

Pere Lluís Font (Pujalt, Pallars Sobirà, 1934), who studied in France, has been a philosophy lecturer at the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona (UAB) from its foundation in 1968. He has published works on the history of modern philosophy, the history of Catalan thinking and the philosophy of religion, and is the Co-director of the collection "Philosophical Texts" for the publishing house Edicions 62. He has been a member of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans since 1990 and has received the Creu de Sant Jordi from the Generalitat de Catalunya. He was the first Head of the Department of Philosophy and Vice-rector of Academic Affairs at the UAB, a member of the Cultural Advisory Board of the Generalitat de Catalunya and a member of the Technical and Scientific Board of the Catalonia Research Plan. Publications: El estructuralismo (1968)L'estatut de la filosofia de la religió (1981)Fe cristiana i ciència moderna (1993)Catalan translation and notes to Discurs del mètode by Descartes (1996)Introducció a la lectura de Pascal (1996)Onze tesis sobre Kant (1998)Experiència estètica, experiència ètica i experiència religiosa (1999)L'ètica kantiana (2000)Les idees i els dies. Un segle de filosofia i ciències socials als Països Catalans (2002)Història del pensament cristià. Quaranta figures (2003)He has also published (with introductions and notes) the Catalan editions of the works of Montaigne (1982), Descartes (1996 and 1998), Spinoza (1991) and Kant (1982, 1984 and 2004).