Shunsuke Sugimoto

Keio University
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    On Being Conscious as a Basic Liberty
    American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (1): 24-26. 2024.
    Crutchfield and Redinger (2024) maintain that “being conscious is a basic liberty,” and infer from this that without informed consent, deep sedation, by intruding upon one’s consciousness, is an in...
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    The Why be moral? question, which dates back to ancient Greece, has been controversial in Japan since the formulation of the Pritchard's Dilemma, with criticism that it is a pseudo-issue and various interpretations based on self-interest and the meaning in life being raised. This book examines various positions on a reason to be moral and defends the standpoint of practical reason.
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    Ethics in Responsible Investment: How to Incorporate Ethics into Investment Analysis
    Revue Roumaine de Philosophie 62 (1): 15-22. 2018.
    This paper examines ethics in finance, specifically related to responsible investment. In recent years, socially responsible principles are becoming the de facto standard not only for socially responsible but also for profitable investing. For instance, the United Nations developed the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) in 2006, which require institutional investors to incorporate ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) issues into investment analysis and decision-making processes. T…Read more
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    Philippa Foot's Theory of Practical Rationality without Natural Goodness
    Journal of Philosophical Ideas (CCPEA2016 Special Issue). 2017.
    In my paper, I partially defend Philippa Foot’s view in answering the question ‘why be moral?’ In her book, Natural Goodness(2001) and her final paper, “Rationality and Goodness” (2004), Foot proposes two ideas: Ethical Naturalism and, what I call, the ‘Anti-Humean Theory of Practical Rationality’. In answering the question ‘why be moral?’, I argue that we should abandon the former and adopt the latter. In Section I, I discuss Foot’s Anti-Humean Theory of Practical Rationality. In Section II, I …Read more