Yes, FIPSAS adopted modern "tech" standards for advanced specialties (deep, cave, wrecks, helium mixtures, ECC rebreathers, etc.).
But here we are discussing basic training: for this, FIPSAS maintained a thorough approach, where at the very first course a complete set of information and training is given, well beyond American-style OW courses.
Regarding "philosophy", I think that it is a concept typical to DIR/GUE. Most other agencies do not even attempt to teach any "philosophy", despite many years ago in FIPSAS there was an attempt to adopt the "philosophy" developed by Jacques Mayol, usually know as the "homo delphinus" theory.
This was mostly related with free diving (which, at the time, was a core part of the first-degree course: the first half of the course, lasting three months, was entirely done free diving, and only during the last three months scuba systems, mostly pure-oxygen CC rebreathers, were used).
When the training program was revised, reducing the length of the first course to "just" three months, and replacing the ARO CC rebreathers with single-tank OC systems with BCD, the free-diving part was reduced, and the philosophical and behavioural training for exploiting the mammalian reflexes (the core concept of the "homo delphinus" theory) was substantially removed. So no "philosophical" training is currently given in first-degree FIPSAS courses...
This was moved to specialised free-diving courses, and to the "Apnea Academy" founded by Umberto Pellizzari.
It must be noticed that the old "homo delphinus" philosophy, which was taught here when I followed my first degree course, is conflicting strongly with the GUE-DIR philosophy.
But I would not go too much OT discussing the strong differences between these two philosophies...
