Boris Cyrulnik, the next guest of the Chair

Boris Cyrulnik, one of the great figures of modern psychology, neurologist, psychoanalyst, psychiatrist and ethologist by training, considered one of the fathers of the notion of resilience and one of the founders of human ethology, will be the next guest of the Ferrater Mora Chair on 6 and 7 October. Here you can see the programme and access the registration form.

Videos of Axel Honneth's Lectures

Now you can access the videos of the Ferrater Mora Lectures that Axel Honneth gave in Girona with the title “ESCAPE FROM OPPRESSION. SOME VARIANTS OF SOCIAL RESISTANCE”. If you could not come or you want to listen to it again, you can do it here.


The fire that doesn't burn

During April and May 1933, a few weeks after coming to power in Germany, the Nazis organised public burnings of books that, according to them, harmed the destiny and essence of the German people. We organised a tribute event to the authors and books that the Nazis put on the ‘blacklist’ in 1933. More info here.

Tribute to Josep-Maria Terricabras

Last April, Josep-Maria Terricabras, professor of Philosophy at the University of Girona, founder of the Ferrater Mora Chair, professor much loved by generations of students and an inescapable public reference of Catalan civil society in recent times, left us. On October 9, the University of Girona, through its Philosophy Department and Studies, the Faculty of Letters and the Ferrater Mora Chair itself, paid tribute to him in the Aula Magna Modest Prats of the University of Girona. Here you can see the report, photographs and videos of the event.


Guest Professors

  • 2025 : Boris Cyrulnik
  • 2025 : Joan Fontcuberta
  • 2025 : Axel Honneth
  • 2024 : Bonnie Honig
  • 2024 : Achille Mbembe
  • 2023 : Hélène Cixous
  • 2022 : Gilles Lipovetsky
  • 2020 : Judith Butler
  • 2018 : Allen Buchanan
  • 2018 : Boaventura de Sousa Santos
  • 2017 : Lluís Duch
  • 2016 : Jane Goodall
  • 2015 : John Searle
  • 2015 : Daniel C. Dennett
  • 2014 : Giorgio Agamben
  • 2013 : Jordi Savall
  • 2013 : Zygmunt Bauman
  • 2012 : John Urry
  • 2011 : Agnès Varda
  • 2011 : Peter Sloterdijk
  • 2011 : Rafael Moneo
  • 2009 : Josep Fontana
  • 2008 : Gianni Vattimo
  • 2008 : Joseph Stiglitz
  • 2007 : Ernst Tugendhat
  • 2006 : Michael Nyman
  • 2005 : Agnes Heller
  • 2005 : Seyla Benhabib
  • 2003 : Peter Singer
  • 2002 : Edgar Morin
  • 2001 : Hans Heinz Holz
  • 2001 : Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
  • 2000 : Theo Angelopoulos
  • 1999 : Leszek Kolakowski
  • 1998 : Alain Touraine
  • 1997 : Leonardo Boff
  • 1996 : Richard Rorty
  • 1996 : David Harvey
  • 1995 : Mario Bunge
  • 1995 : Karl-Otto Apel
  • 1994 : Donald Davidson
  • 1993 : Ilya Prigogine
  • 1993 : Eric Hobsbawm
  • 1992 : Noam Chomsky
  • 1992 : Miquel Batllori
  • 1991 : Adam Schaff
  • 1991 : L. A. Santaló
  • 1990 : Paul Ricoeur
  • 1990 : Willard V. Quine
  • 1989 : Josep Ferrater Mora