José Luis Villacañas Berlanga (born in 1955) is a Spanish political philosopher and historian of political ideas.

Born in Úbeda on 10 June 1955,[1] he studied in the Colegio de la Sagrada Familia in his native town.

[2] He graduated in Philosophy in the University of Valencia in 1977; he later obtained his PhD in Philosophy with Realismo empírico e idealismo trascendental en la filosofía teórica de Kant.

Los niveles de uso y de justificación in the same university.

[2][3] He has been full professor in the University of Murcia (UM) and, since 2009, in the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).