The Centro Italiano di Ricerche Fenomenologiche was set up in Rome on 6 October 1974 by a group of scholars who met as the local section of The International Husserl and Phenomenological Research Society, whose aims were presented at the inaugural meeting by A.T. Tymieniecka. The IHPRS is an affiliate of the world Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning (Belmont, Mass.). The Italian Center enjoys the support of well known scholars from various academic environments (Rome, Siena-Arezzo, Catania, Macerata, Padua, Genoa, Palermo, Naples, Messina, Trieste, Viterbo, Parma, Pisa, Bari) who are inspired by their common desire for renewal. The scope of the Center, which it shares with The World Institute, is in fact that of developing a new philosophy of man in the culture of our times and, more particularly, in Italy, where the lack of a valid philosophical orientation as become apparent ever since the end of historicism.