The opening session featured the participation of Dídac Ramírez, rector of the Universitat de Barcelona, Josep Montserrat, dean of the UB's Faculty of Philosophy and president of the Catalan Society of Philosophy, and Mayor of Vilafranca Pere Regull.

The Faculty of Humanities lecturers who took part were: Xavier Baró, vice dean of the Faculty, who discussed the death of Nieremberg; Albert Moya, director of studies, who talked about the religion of art in young Hegelian thought; Xavier Escribano, who reflected on the phenomenology of illness; Bernat Torres, who examined Plato's Philebus dialogue; and Gabriel Fernández and Andrea Rodríguez, who delivered the following presentations, respectively: "El rol fundamental de la alteridad en la experiencia humana" (The fundamental role of otherness in the human experience) and "De la experiencia de la dignidad al final de la vida en la fenomenología de la corporalidad de K. Toombs" (On experiencing dignity at the end of life in K. Toombs' phenomenology of corporeality). In addition, the session on Friday 27 was also attended by first-year Humanities and Cultural Studies students.

Aside from the presentations on contemporary philosophy, the congress also included six specific symposiums: three revolving around three philosophers –Francesc Xavier Llorens i Barba, Jacques Derrida and René Descartes– and another three on German idealism, ethics and politics and gustatory aesthetics.

The Catalan Philosophy Congress aims to discuss problems currently posed by philosophy. To do so, experts in Catalan culture from across Catalonia were invited to take part. In addition to the universities, other participating entities included the Institute for Catalan Studies, Catalan Society of Philosophy, Ferrater Mora Chair and Institute of Law and Technology, as well as a number of entities from Valencia and the Balearic Islands.