José Luis Villacañas Berlanga (born in 1955) is a Spanish political philosopher and historian of political ideas.
Biography
Born in
Úbeda
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on 10 June 1955, he studied in the ''Colegio de la Sagrada Familia'' in his native town.
He graduated in Philosophy in the
University of Valencia
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in 1977; he later obtained his PhD in Philosophy with ''Realismo empÃrico e idealismo trascendental en la filosofÃa teórica de Kant. Los niveles de uso y de justificación'' in the same university.
He has been full professor in the
University of Murcia
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(UM) and, since 2009, in the
Complutense University of Madrid
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(UCM).
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Spanish political philosophers
Living people
1955 births
Spanish historians of philosophy
Historians of political thought
Carl Schmitt scholars
Academic staff of the Complutense University of Madrid