Professor Benedikt Löwe has been elected as one of three Vice-Presidents of the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences to serve for four years.
Lucy Cavendish Bye-Fellow and DoS in Mathematics Professor Benedikt Löwe has been elected as one of the three Vice Presidents of the International Humanities Council (Conseil International de la Philosophie et des Sciences Humaines, CIPSH) by the CIPSH Executive Committee.
CIPSH is the global council for the humanities, founded in 1949 upon suggestion of Sir Julian Huxley, the first Director-General of UNESCO, to act as an intermediary between UNESCO and the learned societies and national academies, extending UNESCO's action in the domain of the humanities.
Today, CIPSH is the umbrella organisation of the global Unions of all arts and humanities disciplines, e.g., CISH (Comité international des Sciences Historiques), FISP (Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie), UIA (Union Internationale des Académies), WAU (World Anthropological Union), and many more. It coordinates the international works and researches carried out by a huge constellation of centres and networks of scholars. It favours the exchange of knowledge among faraway scholars and fosters the international circulation of scholars, in order to improve the communication among specialists from different disciplines, enforce a better knowledge of cultures and of the different social, individual and collective behaviours and bring to the fore the richness of each culture and their fruitful diversity.
Earlier this year, Benedikt was elected to the Academia Europaea in recognition of his academic excellence in the field of logic and philosophy of mathematics.