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TIFAS Aims & Scope

The Totteridge Institute for Advanced Studies was founded as a virtual Institute with the aim of sponsoring collaborative academic studies in the Arts and Sciences, largely by means of theoretical investigations and wide-ranging discussions.

At its inception the Institute was envisaged as embracing a special role in the encouragement of speculative hypotheses and their critical examination. Among its aims is the search for unifying principles in all aspects of knowledge.

The fundamental philosophy of the Totteridge Institute is stated in its motto: “Notitia Ens Rationis” (‘Knowledge is the Product of Reason’) which distinguishes knowledge from ‘information’.

The Institute is currently under the direction of Professor Patrick A Riley, Emeritus Professor of Cell Pathology UCL, and embraces a Faculty of eminent experts in biomedicine and related disciplines.