ISP
Place Cardinal Mercier 14/L3.06.01
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Professeur
ISP
Place Cardinal Mercier 14/L3.06.01
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Academic Positions
Since 2020 – Professor of early modern philosophy, UCLouvain
2004-2020 – Maître de conférences in philosophy, Sorbonne Université
2015-2016 – Research Fellow (on secondment), Laboratoire d'Etudes du Monothéismes, CNRS, Villejuif
2010-2014 – Head of the Department of Philosophy and Sociology, Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi
2006-2010 – Adjunct professor, Faculty of History, Institut Catholique de Paris
2003-2004 – Teaching and Research Assistant (ATER), EPHE, Section des Sciences Religieuses, Paris
2001-2003 – Fellow at the French School of Higher Hispanic Studies (Casa de Velázquez), Madrid
1999-2001 – Adjunct professor, Faculty of Theology, Institut Catholique de Lille
1997-2001 – Research Fellow (Aspirant), FNRS, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Visiting Positions
2021 – Visiting professor (master), Higher School of Economics, Moscow (Высшая школа экономики)
2019 – Holder of the cátedra francesa, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Brazil
2016-20 – Visited professor (master), Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi
2015 – Visiting professor (master), Renmin University, Suzhou, China
2009 – Visiting professor, Pontificia Universidade Católica, Santiago de Chile
Degrees
2003 – PhD in Religious Studies, EPHE, Paris / PhD in Philosophy & Letters, Université Libre de Bruxelles (co-promotion)
1997 – DEA en Etudes Politiques, EHESS, Paris
1996 – MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History, University of Cambridge
1994 – Bachelor in Political Science, Université Libre de Bruxelles
1994 – Bachelor in Philosophy, Université Libre de Bruxelles
| Year | Label | Educational Organization |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | (missing information) | Université Libre de Bruxelles |
| 1994 | (missing information) | Université Libre de Bruxelles |
| 2004 | Doctorat | Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes |
| Name | ID |
|---|---|
| Main concepts and Trends in Philosophy | LFILO1160 |
| History and Texts of Philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance | LFILO1235 |
| History and Texts of Philosophy of Modern Times | LFILO1240 |
| Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy (Advanced Studies) | LFILO2143 |
| Metaphysics (Advanced Studies) | LFILO2231 |
| Modern Philosophy (Advanded Studies) | LFILO2252 |
| Students' conference | LFILO2802 |
| Philosophy and ethics in motor science | LFSM1106 |
| Political Thought | LPPE1101 |
My research focuses on the Renaissance and modern scholastic tradition (15th to 18th centuries), with the following main objects:
1. The history of Jesuit philosophy and scholastic theology, especially in the context of the seventeenth century, after the great founding generation of Fonseca and Suárez: current research projects on Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza, Pietro Sforza Pallavicino, Sebastián Izquierdo. This was the subject of my dissertation (2003) and a large number of subsequent studies.
2. The development of scholastic schools and traditions (Thomism, Scotism, Nominalism) in the early modern tradition, both from a textual and institutional perspective. This has given rise to several publications, both on Thomism and Scotism. I am currently working on the textual presence of nominalism in the seventeenth century.
3. The study of modern academic manuscripts: methods of composition and circulation, and the link with printed courses. I am currently preparing a collective catalog of French scholastic manuscripts for the period 1500-1800 (more than 5000 documents), as part of a project entitled Nova Gallia Scholastica.
4. The study of colonial philosophy in Brazil, based on a number of unpublished philosophy and theology courses. I am preparing a brief catalog of preserved manuscripts and a monograph on teaching institutions and traditions in colonial Brazil.
Schmutz, Jacob. Compte-rendu de: Ralph Dekoninck & Agnès Guiderdoni (eds), Maximilian Sandaeus, un jésuite entre mystique et symbolique (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2019). In: Revue de l'histoire des religions, Vol. 239, no.3, p. 535-538 (2022). doi:10.4000/rhr.12099.
SCHMUTZ, Jacob. John Austin SJ (1717–84), The First Irish Catholic Cartesian?. In: Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, Vol. 88, no.1, p. 239-271 (2020). doi:10.1017/S1358246120000168.
SCHMUTZ, Jacob ; DVORAK, Petr. Introduction: Special Issue on Baroque Scholasticism. In: American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 93, no.2, p. 187-189 (2019). doi:10.5840/acpq2019932178.
Schmutz, Jacob. Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza, the Scholastic Godfather of Modernity. Teachers, Students, Manuscripts, and the Making of a Philosophical Classic in Early-Modern Europe. In: Lukas Novak, Daniel D. Novotny, Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza (1538-1641). System, Sources and Influence, Brill: Leiden, 2024, approx. 60 p.. 9789004253339 (Accepté/Sous presse).
Schmutz, Jacob. Second Scholasticism as History of Philosophy. In: Langella, Simona; Ramis Barceló, Rafael, ¿Qué es la Segunda Escolástica? (Colección Instituto de Estudios Hispánicos en la Modernidad (IEHM); 23), Editorial Sindéresis: Madrid - Porto, 2023, p. 33-54. 978-84-19199-67-6.
SCHMUTZ, Jacob ; ANFRAY, Jean-Pascal. Jesuit Philosophy. In: Dana Jalobeanu; Charles T. Wolfe, Encyclopedia of Early-Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, Springer, 2020, p. 1-10. 978-3-319-20791-9. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_611-1.
SCHMUTZ, Jacob. De Paris à Harvard : Pierre d’Ailly et l’éthique du commandement divin. In: Jean-Patrice Boudet, Monica Brînzei, Fabrice Delivré, Hélène Millet, Jacques Verger et Michel Zink, Pierre d’Ailly, un esprit universel à l’aube du XVe siècle (Actes de colloques), Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres: Paris, 2019, p. 321-350. 978-2877543804.