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26Analytic philosophy in Japan 1933–2000Asian Journal of Philosophy 1 (1): 1-24. 2022.Although logical positivism had been known before World War II, it was introduced into academic philosophy in Japan only after it. In this process, the US philosophers who came to Japan in order to participate in American Studies Seminar played an important role. The first generation of Japanese analytic philosophers, who were born in the 1920s and 1930s, began to have some influence in the 1960s, and some of them published original works of high quality in the 1970s. The second generation of an…Read more
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10Time, Brain and LanguageAnnals of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science 28 33-54. 2019.
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450Philosophy of mental time — A theme introductionAnnals of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science 28 1-8. 2019.(First paragraphs.) — The notion of “mental time” refers to the experience and awareness of time, including that of past, present, and future, and that of the passing of time. This experience and awareness of time raises a number of puzzling questions. How do we experience time? What exactly do we experience when we experience time? Do we actually experience time? Or do we infer time from something in, or some aspect of our experience? And so forth. These and many related questions in the “philo…Read more
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385Professor Quine on Japanese ClassifiersAnnals of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science 9 (3): 111-118. 1998.
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331Perceiving Abstract Objects: Inheriting Ohmori Shozo's Philosophy of PerceptionIn S. Watanabe (ed.), Logic and Sensibility, Keio University Press. 2012.
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597Frege and the Idea of Formal LanguageAnnals of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science 12 (1): 15-23. 2003.
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213Indirect Passives and Relational Nouns (I)Keio Gijuku Daigaku Gengo Bunka Kenkyu-Sho Kiyou 43 19-42. 2012.
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4Ronri no tetsugaku (edited book)Kōdansha. 2005.二〇世紀、論理学と哲学を横断して起きた「知の革命」。パラドクス・無限・不完全性と完全性・言語と論理・計算機科学と論理学などをキーワードに、論理をめぐる哲学探究の刺激に満ちた現在を、気鋭の著者陣が解説する。
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261Russell on PluralityIn CARLS Series of Advanced Study of Logic and Sensibility, Vol. 4, Keio University. pp. 273-282. 2011.
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283How Are Language Changes Possible?In M. Okada (ed.), Ontology and Phenomenology: Franco-Japanese Collaborative Lectures, Keio University. pp. 75-96. 2009.
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6Seiyō seishinshi ni okeru gengo to gengokan: keishō to sōzō (edited book)Hatsubaijo Keiō Gijuku Daigaku Shuppankai. 2006.言語学などの専門家による学際的研究の成果.
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1285Towards an Ontology of the RainbowPolitics and Society (Central China Normal University) 1 (1): 59-84. 2013.There are some objects of perception that are either too far from us to touch or that cannot be touched at all. Typical examples are the sky and the various phenomena that appear in the sky such as rainbows and sunsets. This paper is concerned with the ontological status of the rainbow. Does it exist when it is not actually perceived? Does it exist even when it is not possibly perceived? My conclusion is that a rainbow is a physical event, and that, although it is recognized as a rainbow by its …Read more
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226Indirect Passives and Relational Nouns (III)Keio Gijuku Daigaku Gengo Bunka Kenkyu-Sho Kiyou 46 71-110. 2015.
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18Philosophy of Science in Japan 1996-2000Annals of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science 10 (2): 81-89. 2001.
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404On the Concept of a Token GeneratorAnnals of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science 21 37-55. 2013.There is a widely shared account of the distinction between types and tokens, which might be termed the standard account. However, it has some surprising consequences that are not always realized. According to the standard account, a type is a contingent abstract object that can be created by us, but it does not allow any change and can never be destroyed once it is created, because it is an abstract object. I would like to present an alternative account of types and tokens, according to which t…Read more
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673Towards a Semantics of Japanese Existential SentencesIn M. Okada (ed.), Essays in the Foundations of Logical and Phenomenological Studies (Interdisciplinary Series on Reasoning Studies, Vol. 3), Keio University. pp. 67-96. 2007.
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263Indirect Passives and Relational Nouns (II)Keio Gijuku Daigaku Gengo Bunka Kenkyu-Sho Kiyou 44 21-42. 2013.
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Philosophy of Mathematics |
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Philosophy of Language |
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