Páll Skúlason (4 June 1945 – 22 April 2015) was a professor of philosophy and former Rector of the University of Iceland.
[1] Born and raised in Akureyri, in northern Iceland, Páll Skúlason graduated from highschool in 1965.
He studied philosophy at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium, earning a BA in 1967 and a doctorate in 1973.
His doctoral dissertation, Du cercle et du Sujet: problème de compréhension et de méthode dans la Philosophie de Paul Ricœur, considered the philosophy of French philosopher Paul Ricœur.
Páll became a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Iceland in 1971 and was appointed Professor in 1975.