The Doctoral Programme "Contemporary Philosophical Thought" is in force since the 2007-2011 academic year and was given a Mention of Excellence in November 2011, in the same way as the Doctoral Programme from which it comes had a Quality Mention given by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports from May 2003 until its phase out.
It is relevant in the described experience the verification of the teaching staff exchange and mobility ties that the Doctoral Programme currently in force, and the ordinary work of the departments involved, has been carrying out in the last years: both through its research seminars devoted in the first place to promote stays and the meeting of teaching staff and doctorate candiates: being through other kinds of invitations (course openings; organisation repeated of a "Professor Seminar" ad hoc; occasional participation in usual courses, etc...).
From the doctoral programmes that serve as background and the Master's Degree in Contemporary Philosophical Thought, the current Doctoral Programme has enjoyed a revelant international network at its service.
Below there is arelation of some of the foreign collaborating professors and their corresponding universities:
- Prof. Luís Villoro (UNAM. Mexico)
- Prof. Garzón Valdés (Univ. Mainz)
- Prof. Edgar Morin (U. Paris)
- Prof. J. C. Laursen (U. California River Side)
- Prof. D., Gilies (King’s College London)
- Prof. Peter K. Machamer (U. Pittsburg)
- Prof. Colin Hopwson (London School of Economics)
- Prof. Jorge Velásquez (UAM Mexico)
- Prof. Patrick Nerhot (U. Turin)
- Porf. Anil Gupta (U. Pittsburg)
- Thomas Gil (Technische Universität Berlin)
- Gaetano Rametta (University of Padua)
- Ramón Rodríguez (Complutense University of Madrid)
- Óscar Nudler (CONECYT, Argentina)
- Jean-Claude Bourdin (University of Poitiers)
- Elliot Sober (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- Isabel Cabrera (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
- Carlos-Ulises Moulines Castellví (University of Múnich)
- Vincenzo Traverso (Université Jules Verne, Francia)
- Eduardo Rivera López (University Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires)
- José Zalabardo (University College London)
- Nathalie Ferrand (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris)
- Marcelo Sabatés (Kansas State University)
- Brian McGuinness (Università degli Studi di Siena)
On the other hand, lecturers of the programme are part of the editorial committees, are editors or associate editors of international journals, of Steering Committees of scientific associations of international character and have been invited over to give lectures in doctoral and master's degree programmes and to carry out research stays in several international universities.
