Luis Xavier López

P.hD. in Philosophy from the University of Navarra, Spain. His areas of specialty are classical Arab-Islamic philosophy, ancient philosophy and its medieval Arab-Islamic reception, and German idealism. His areas of interest are classical Islamic philosophy and theology, the theory of argumentation, ethics, epistemology and philosophy of mind, the philosophy of religion, aesthetics and the philosophy of art and the philosophy of culture. He is a member of the National System of Researchers level 2 of the National Council for Science and Technology (CONACyT), associate director of the Aquinas and the Arabs International Working Group (www.AquinasAndTheArabs.org) and editor of Tópicos, Revista de philosophy.

He is a full-time professor-researcher at the School of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Pan American University. He is also a professor of Arabic-Islamic philosophy and tutor in the Masters and Doctorate Program in Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He is a professor of Islamic thought at the Hebraic University of Mexico. He has been a visiting researcher at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas, Austin, and a fellow researcher at the Center of Theological Inquiry, in Princeton, New Jersey.