The Institute for Philosophical Studies – Europe (IPSE) is a research institute with a mission to promote new epistemological approaches in relations to the issues of interculturality and cultural interpenetration. The Institute is using a variety of angles and disciplinary fields to attack the issues, from local to the global scale.
The researchers involved in the work of IPSE come from different cultural and disciplinary backgrounds, but they share the epistemological principles and ethical values of paradigmatic plurality in all its aspects.
In addition, IPSE mobilizes academics of different disciplines and different traditions, both Afro-Asian and Euro-American, not only as complementary sources of knowledge, but as a necessary one in the conditions of the moving world.
In this way, IPSE ensures the provision of an adapted and renewed research infrastructure. It works to ensure that not only scientific logistics are adapted to the needs of its researchers, but also to make the research accessible and useful to the public.
IPSE aims to bring together the different research traditions as well as different related cultural traditions.
It aims to contribute to the emergence of a non-exclusive and delivered thought, free of ethnocentrism and cultural prejudices. To do this, IPSE does the following:
Sets specific axes of research to promote interdisciplinarity and multidisciplinary research around ethical and epistemological questions, gathered by the problems of interculturality
Involves different universities and academic institutions in the joint projects
Organizes research activities to promote the different works: conferences, programs, cycles, colloquiums, seminars, workshops, publications etc.