Patrick Cabanel is a French historian, director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études and holder of the chair in Histoire et sociologie des protestantismes. He mainly writes on the history of religious minorities, the construction of a secularised French Republic and French resistance to the Shoah.
Pierre Hadot was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy specializing in ancient philosophy, particularly Epicureanism and Stoicism.
Sandra Laugier is a French philosopher, who works on moral philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of language, gender studies, and popular culture. She is a full professor of philosophy at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a Senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. She currently serves as the deputy director of the Institut des sciences juridique et philosophique de la Sorbonne. In 2014, she received the title of the Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur. In 2022, she was awarded the Grand Prix Moron by the Académie française.
Jules Vuillemin was a French philosopher, Professor of Philosophy of Knowledge at the prestigious Collège de France, in Paris, from 1962 to 1990, succeeding Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Professor emeritus from 1991 to 2001. He was an Invited Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, New Jersey (1968).
Alain Le Boulluec is a contemporary French patristics scholar working mainly in the sphere of Clement of Alexandria and of Origen of Alexandria.
André Gagné is a Canadian professor of theology at Concordia University.
Luc de Heusch was a Belgian filmmaker, writer, and anthropologist, professor emeritus at the Université libre de Bruxelles. His 1967 film Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival.
Xavier Tilliette was a French philosopher, historian of philosophy, and theologian. A former student of Jean Wahl and of Vladimir Jankélévitch, he was a member of the Society of Jesus (1938) and professor emeritus at the Catholic Institute of Paris (1969), having taught also at the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome (1972), the Lateran University, and the Centre Sèvres in Paris.
Robert Brisart, was a Belgian philosopher. He was professor at the University of Luxembourg, and at the Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis in Brussels. His works mainly focused on Husserl's phenomenology. He also published on the comparison between analytic philosophy and phenomenology.
Simon Claude Mimouni is a French biblical scholar. He published first on Christian legends surrounding the assumption of Mary, then worked on fragments of Jewish–Christian gospels associated with the 3rd and 4th century "judaizing" Christian sects (2006). He is known for his theory of continuity between Jewish early Christianity and the later sects of Nazarenes and Ebionites.
Geneviève Hasenohr is a French philologist and prolific scholar of medieval and Renaissance French literature. She has authored or contributed to more than forty books, written at least fifty academic articles and reviews, and prepared numerous scholarly editions.
Micheline Albert (1925-–2014) was a French Syriac scholar. After earlier degrees in physics and chemistry she studied under André Dupont-Sommer, François Graffin, Antoine Guillaumont and later François Dolbeau, becoming the director of research of the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique. Micheline Albert was involved with Michel Tardieu and Alain Le Boulluec in the Laboratoire des Etudes Monothéistes where she directed the Christianismes Orientaux team. Albert worked successively on James of Sarug, Philoxenus of Mabbug, Sophronius of Jerusalem, Dadisho Qatraya, Joseph Hazzaya and Barhebraeus, which she regularly presented in Guillaumont's Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes seminars. She was married with five children.
Christian Jambet is a French philosopher and Islamologist. He was a student of Henry Corbin. His work has engaged with Nizari Isma'ilism and has explored the thought of Avicenna, Mulla Sadra, and Nasir al-Din al-Tusi among others. In his treatment of these thinkers, he notes the lasting influence of figures associated with Neoplatonism such as Plotinus and Proclus(cf Theology of Aristotle).
Gilbert Dahan is a French historian of religions, director of research at the CNRS and at the École pratique des hautes études. He is notably a recognized medievalist. His work has renewed studies on the exegesis of the Bible in the Christian West during the Middle Ages.
Jean-Pierre Mahé is a French orientalist, philologist and historian of Caucasus, and a specialist of Armenian studies.
Dominique de Courcelles is a French historian of ideas.
Ilsetraut Hadot in Berlin, is a philosopher and historian of philosophy who specialised in Stoicism, Neoplatonism and more generally in Ancient Philosophy.
Charles Perrot, was a French Roman Catholic priest and biblical scholar, He served as honorary professor of New Testament at the Catholic Institute of Paris. A specialist in contemporary Judaism of Jesus, Perrot has been known for his studies of the historical Jesus and the New Testament.
Madeleine Scopello is a French historian of religion. She is director of research at the CNRS and director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études. She also teaches at the Institut catholique de Paris, Faculty of History.
Emmanuel Faye is a philosopher and historian of French philosophy. A specialist in the Renaissance and Descartes, he has also published several critical studies on Heidegger and his reception.
