Center for Applied Ethics and Philosophy
Director : Shunichi MIYAJIMA
(Professor, Division of Humanities / Research Group of Philosophy and Religious Studies / Laboratory of Religious Studies and Indian Philosophy)
| Specialized field | Phenomenology of Religion, Friedrich Heiler, Death and Life Studies, Spirituality, Bioethics | |
| Research subject | Theories and Methods in Religious Studies. History of the Comparative Study of Religion. Spirituality and Religion. Bioethics Research including Perspectives of Death and Life Studies. | |
Deputy Director : Tomohiko Kondo
(Associate Professor, Division of Humanities / Research Group of Philosophy and Religious Studies / Laboratory of Philosophy and Ethics)
| Specialized field | Ancient Greek and Roman ethics, History of ancient Greek and Roman thought | |
| Research subject | My research has been focused on the topic of fate and free will in Hellenistic and Roman philosophy. My ambition is to contribute something, through the study of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, to the reconstruction of the history of Western thought and also to the reorganization of ethical theory. | |
Steering Committee Member : Nobuo Kurata
(Professor, Division of Humanities / Research Group of Philosophy and Religious Studies / Laboratory of Philosophy and Ethics)
| Specialized field | Applied ethics, ethics, history of occidental philosophy | |
| Research subject | bioethics(genethics, cloning),environmental ethics(obligation for future generation),ethics of science and technology (risk, social problems of GMO),Kantian philosophy and ethics, normative ethics, metaethics, STS | |
Steering Committee Member : Shigeru TAGUCHI
(Professor, Division of Humanities / Research Group of Philosophy and Religious Studies / Laboratory of Philosophy and Ethics)
| Specialized field | Phenomenology, Japanese philosophy, interdisciplinary study of consciousness | |
| Research subject | Self, ego, consciousness, intersubjectivity. I am investigating these concepts and phenomena on the basis of Husserl’s phenomenology and Nishida’s and Tanabe’s philosophy, as well as through interdisciplinary joint researches with neuroscientists, mathematicians, robotics researchers, and information scientists. | |
Steering Committee Member : Jun-ichiro KAWAHARA
(Professors, Division of Human Sciences / Research Group of Psychology / Laboratory of Psychology)
| Specialized field | Cognitive Psychology (attention, memory, perception of attractiveness, stress) | |
| Research subject | Attention and memory mechanisms underlying human behavior. Internal and external factors (such as fatigue and stress) modulating cognitive functions. | |
Steering Committee Member : Eijun SENAHA
(Professor, Division of Humanities / Research Group of Cultural Representations / Laboratory of European and American Literature)
| Specialized field | Literature in English, Gender & Sexuality Studies | |
| Research subject | English literature and film studies, especially on the representations of power relations in sex, gender and sexuality as they include not only women's but masculinities as well as queer studies. | |
Steering Committee Member : Masataka MURAMATSU
(Professor, Division of Humanities / Research Group of Philosophy and Religious Studies / Laboratory of Philosophy and Ethics)
| Specialized field | Modern French philosophy | |
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Steering Committee Member : Mayumi MIZUTAMARI
(Professor, Division of Humanities / Research Group of Cultural Representations / Laboratory of Visual and Modern Culture)
| Specialized field | Gender, History of thought | |
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Steering Committee Member : Katsuhiko SANO
(Associate Professor, Division of Humanities / Research Group of Philosophy and Religious Studies / Laboratory of Philosophy and Ethics)
| Specialized field | Logic | |
| Research subject | My research area is non-classical logics (in particular, modal logic) and their application. I am also interested in semantics of interrogatives (especially, inquisitive semantics), logical analyisis of puzzles on agents' knowledge and belief, and history of logic (especially, Alan Turing's thought). | |
Steering Committee Member : Kengo MIYAZONO
(Associate Professor, Division of Humanities / Research Group of Philosophy and Religious Studies / Laboratory of Philosophy and Ethics)
| Specialized field | Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Psychiatry, Aesthetics, Epistemology, Early Modern Philosophy | |
| Research subject | My main research areas are philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, and philosophy of psychiatry. I have been working on the philosophical issues about rationality and irrationality. | |
Steering Committee Member : COKER Caitlin Christine
(Associate Professor, Division of Humanities / Research Group of Cultural Diversity Studies / Laboratory of Cultural Anthropology)
| Specialized field | Anthropology, Embodiment, Performance Studies, Affect Theory | |
| Research subject | I do Anthropology. This is research in which one dives into the lives and worlds of a certain group of people in certain place(s) and thinks about what it is to be alive, weaving what they have gained from these practical experiences into a creative and philosophical work of nonfiction. | |
Graduate Program in Applied Ethics
Deputy Director : Nobuo Kurata
(Professor, Division of Humanities / Research Group of Philosophy and Religious Studies / Laboratory of Philosophy and Ethics)
| Specialized field | Applied ethics, ethics, history of occidental philosophy | |
| Research subject | bioethics(genethics, cloning),environmental ethics(obligation for future generation),ethics of science and technology (risk, social problems of GMO),Kantian philosophy and ethics, normative ethics, metaethics, STS | |
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