José María Torralba

José María Torralba is Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at the University of Navarra and director of the Civic Humanism Center for character and professional ethics at the Institute for Culture and Society. He is Associate Director of the Master's Program in Christianity and Contemporary Culture. From 2013 to 2022, he served as Director of the Core Curriculum Institute, where he currently coordinates the Great Books Program. He studied Philosophy in Valencia and Navarra, and received the Extraordinary Degree and Doctoral Award, as well as the National End of Studies Award. He has been a visiting scholar at the universities of Oxford, Munich, Chicago, Leipzig, and Notre Dame. His research has focused on the philosophy of Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Anscombe, and, more recently, Thomas Aquinas. He has published works on ethics, action theory, character education, humanistic education, and the mission of universities. In 2022, he published "Una educación liberal. Elogio de los grandes libros" (Encuentro; Portuguese translation: Quadrante, 2023). Among other collective volumes, he has co-edited "Theories of Action and Morality: Perspectives from Philosophy and Social Sciences" (Olms, 2016), "Literature and Character Education in Universities: Theory, Method, and Text Analysis" (Routledge, 2021), and "Ways of Being Bound: Perspectives from Post-Kantian Philosophy and Relational Sociology" (Springer, 2022). He has been awarded three six-year research periods (CNEAI-ANECA). He has supervised five doctoral dissertations (two under international co-tutelle) and is currently supervising three more. He has participated in five projects funded by the Spanish National Plan for Scientific Research, serving as principal co-investigator in one of them. He leads the research group “Ethics, Character, and Human Action” at the University of Navarra. He has been evaluator for ANECA, ANID (Chile), Programa Margarita Salas, and several universities. In 2021, he received an overall rating of “Excellent” for his teaching performance (Programa DOCENTIA, ANECA). In 2025, the Great Books Program of the Core Curriculum Institute, which he helped design and currently coordinates, received the Expanded Reason Award. He serves on the board of the Association for Core Texts and Courses and advises universities in various countries on their humanistic education programs. In the area of outreach, he gives lectures and seminars on philosophical, cultural and educational topics and also collaborates with media outlets. Full curriculum vitae: https://unav.academia.edu/JoseMTorralba/CurriculumVitae