About
The Institute for Philosophy and the New Humanities convenes graduate students and distinguished scholars from The New School, the University of Bonn (Germany), the Kyoto Institute of Philosophy (Japan), and other institutions for intensive five-day seminars on pressing questions in contemporary philosophy and the humanities. Seminars run during the fall semester, with additional seminar work in the spring, and now take place both in New York and Kyoto.
Housed within The New School for Social Research (NSSR), the Institute for Philosophy and the New Humanities was established with generous assistance from the Udo Keller Foundation, and through the collaboration of Markus Gabriel, chair for epistemology, modern and contemporary philosophy, and director of the International Centre for Philosophy at the University of Bonn; Paul Kottman, professor of comparative literature and chair of liberal studies at NSSR; and Zed Adams, associate professor of philosophy at NSSR. In 2025, the collaboration was joined by Yasuo Deguchi, dean and professor at the Graduate School of Letters at Kyoto University and co-chairperson of the Kyoto Institute of Philosophy.
