Sander Griffioen (born 31 May 1941) is a Dutch philosopher, and Emeritus Professor for intercultural philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.
Born in Loenen aan de Vecht, Griffioen studied at the Vrije Universiteit, where in 1971 he received his MA cum laude in Political economy, in 1975 another MA in Philosophy,[1] and in 1976 his PhD cum laude with a thesis entitled "De roos en het kruis: De waardering van de eindigheid in het latere denken van Hegel" (The Rose and the Cross: The valuation of the finiteness in the later thought of Hegel).
From 1976 to 1979 he was Senior Member at the Toronto Institute for Christian Studies.
[3] Back at the Vrije Universiteit in 1979 he was appointed lector and teach philosophy from 1979 to 2002.
At the Vrije Universiteit in 2002 he was appointed Professor for Intercultural Philosophy until his retirement in 2006.