Dr Jose Hernandez to be CCIG Visiting Fellow

Political philosopher Jose Hernandez will be visiting CCIG as a Santander - Abbey Fellow, from July through December 2009. Dr Hernández teaches in Madrid at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). He has published many essays and contributions, mainly in Spanish, on the relations between intellectual history and political philosophy with special attention to the idea of toleration. Dr Hernandez graduated in Philosophy in 1987 and received his PhD in 1995. He also has a Master in Political Theory and Constitutional Law. In 1993 together with a group of Spanish and Latin-American scholars he founded the leading Spanish-language journal in the field of political philosophy, Revista International de Filosofia Politica, of which he has been the academic secretary in the last 15 years. Dr Hernandez is author of a book on Thomas Hobbes, El retrato de un dios mortal (The portrait of a mortal god) (2002), and is currently working on a new book on Toleration, one of the chapters of which would be the controversy between Las Casas and Sepulveda. He has been a visiting professor at a number of Universities in Spain and Latin American, and a visiting scholar at The John Hopkins University (Baltimore, USA).