The International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies (French: Conseil international de la philosophie et des sciences humaines; ICPHS/CIPSH) is a non-governmental organization within UNESCO.
It embraces hundreds of learned societies in the field of philosophy, human sciences and related subjects.
[1] CIPSH was founded at a first General Assembly held in January 1949 upon suggestion by Sir Julian Huxley, the first Director-General of UNESCO.
Current Editors-in-Chief are Maurice Aymard and Luca Scarantino.
[4] [5] In 2018, ICPHS created the CIPSH Chairs programme, designed to highlight and encourage existing research networks of centres of research in the humanities and to attract greater attention to the humanities worldwide and enhanced recognition of their importance in contemporary society.