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2816Engineering Ethics on FukushimaInternational Journal of Humanities and Social Science 3 (3). 2013.In this paper, we discuss the problems of Tohoku earthquake in terms of engineering ethics. But as“engineers,”we also count seismologists. This is because, simply thinking, the recent disaster is partially attributable to seismologists. Through the discussion, including an overview of the earthquake, we reach the conclusion endorsing the abolition of nuclear power plants.
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2461Should We Draw a Line Between Business And Ethics?The ACERP 2011 Conference Proceedings 1 (1): 195-208. 2011.Referring to the difference between Stakeholder Theory and Shareholder Theory, the ethical direction for companies to take is deeply discussed.
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1353Quantum Physics Seen from a Perspective of the HumanitiesThe Basis: The Annual Bulletin of ResearchCenter for Liberal Education (Musashino University) 7 171-193. 2017.Although written in Japanese, an overall picture of quantum physics is drawn, which would surely be useful for beginners as well as researchers of the humanities.
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1140Modern Philosophy and GenderPhilosophical Studies (University of Tokyo) 27 151-164. 2008.Written in Japanese, the overall picture of the thoughts of modern philosophers, namely Hume, Kant, and Mill, is put forward.
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993Three Utilitarians: Hume, Bentham, and MillIAFOR Journal of Ethics, Religion and Philosophy 1 (1): 65-78. 2013.The aim of this paper is to clarify the relationship of three thinkers, Hume, Bentham, and Mill in the context of utilitarianism. Through discussion, we shall figure out how and why utilitarianism is trustworthy.
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974The History of Biology and its Importance for Gender StudiesGÉNEROS –Multidisciplinary Journal of Gender Studies 5 (2). 2016.The aim of this paper is to call the attention, especially that of feminists, to the current progress in biology. It appears gender studies still confine themselves to outdated ideas of sex chromosomes like XX, XY (§10). However, science has been making progress. It no longer sticks to such matters as XX, XY. Its interest is now in Sry, a kind of gene (§11), and MIS, a kind of sex hormone (§14). Abnormalities of sex chromosomes are no longer evidence to deny the biological approaches, for exampl…Read more
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908On Practical SyllogismsPhilosophical Studies 26 149-162. 2008.Although written in Japanese, 実践的三段論法について(On Practical Syllogisms)pursues a logical form of the practical syllogism.
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871Special Theory of Relativity Seen from a Perspective of the HumanitiesThe Basis: The Annual Bulletin of ResearchCenter for Liberal Education (Musashino University) 8 (2018): 141-162. 2018.Although written in Japanese, an overall picture of special theory of relativity is drawn, which would surely be useful for beginners as well as researchers of the humanities.
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706Die Geschlechtstheorie Freuds: Ihre Neuartigkeit und Anwendung auf den FeminismusHACETTEPE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF FACULTY OF LETTERS 33 (2): 150-167. 2017.Not a few feminist writers, such as Kristeva, Irigaray, and Chodorow, have dealt with Freud’s psychoanalysis so far, but it is not clear to what degree the Freudian theory grounds their arguments, because Freud himself developed his psychoanalysis mainly for the male mental world (Seelenleben). In this paper, we shall follow Freud’s train of thought exclusively from this angle. After the geneses of Pcpt.-Cs., id, ego, and super-ego (W-Bw, Es, Ich, and Über-Ich, respectively) are treated (§§7-10)…Read more
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612The Constitution of Space and Time in the Aufbau Viewed from a Kantian PerspectiveJournal of the Philosophy of Science Society, Japan 47 (1): 19-36. 2014.The foremost aim of this paper is to realize the fourth part of the Aufbau. This part, which provides an actual phenomenalistic constitution system, is interpretable from a Kantian perspective (§§1-4). But Carnap plotted to overcome Kant’s old style of philosophy as well. We review this aspect of his constitution, focusing on space (§§7-13) and time (§§5-6), especially.
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605The Confirmation of Singular Causal Statements by Carnap’s Inductive LogicLogica Year Book 2011 (?). 2012.The aim of this paper is to apply inductive logic to the field that, presumably, Carnap never expected: legal causation. Legal causation is expressible in the form of singular causal statements; but it is distinguished from the customary concept of scientific causation, because it is subjective. We try to express this subjectivity within the system of inductive logic. Further, by semantic complement, we compensate a defect found in our application, to be concrete, the impossibility of two-place …Read more
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531THE MAXIM OF SUICIDE: ONE ANGLE ON BIOMEDICAL ETHICSASIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES and HUMANITIES 1 (3). 2012.Addressing the question in the form of Kant’s maxim, this paper moves on to a more controversial topic in biomedical ethics, physician-assisted suicide. However, my conclusion is tentative, and what is worse, negative: I partially approve suicide. It does not imply a moral hazard. The situation is opposite: in the present times, terminal patients seriously wish it. I, as an author, put an emphasis on this very respect. Now suicide is, for certain circles, nothing but justice. The arguments of th…Read more
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451Cloning Centering at EgoismThe Basis : The Annual Bulletin of Research Center for Liberal Education 9 245-260. 2019.Cloning research caught a great deal of attention when Dolly the sheep was born (§4). While some fear surrounded the attainment (§§14-15), Wilmutʼs research itself has grown well, providing a less vicious manner to gain ES cells (§12). In this article, we review the progress of cloning research along with the concern of medical circles about its application to reproductive cloning, that is to say, making replicas of human beings (§§16-21). Note that all the content is ascribed to the author alon…Read more
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444BELIEF IN CAUSATION: ONE APPLICATION OF CARNAP’S INDUCTIVE LOGICAcademic Research International 3 (1). 2012.This paper takes two tasks. The one is elaborating on the relationship of inductive logic with decision theory to which later Carnap planned to apply his system (§§1-7); this is a surveying side of this article. The other is revealing the property of our prediction of the future, subjectivity (§§8-11); this is its philosophical aspect. They are both discussed under the name of belief in causation. Belief in causation is a kind of “degree of belief” born about the causal effect of the action. As …Read more
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420Carnap’s Thought on Inductive LogicPhilosophy Study 2 (11). 2012.Although we often see references to Carnap’s inductive logic even in modern literatures, seemingly its confusing style has long obstructed its correct understanding. So instead of Carnap, in this paper, I devote myself to its necessary and sufficient commentary. In the beginning part (Sections 2-5), I explain why Carnap began the study of inductive logic and how he related it with our thought on probability (Sections 2-4). Therein, I trace Carnap’s thought back to Wittgenstein’s Tractatus as wel…Read more
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417Man as Woman : Beauvoir’s Gender Theory in terms of a Sartrian PhilosophyJournal of Humanities Chiba University 48 1-30. 2019.Although written in Japanese, this article deals with what the gender theory is all about by reference to Beauvoir's Le Deuxième Sexe. Sartre's works are also heavily cited to clarify the background of Beauvoir's philosophy.
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416Will, Maxim and the Moral LawTetsugaku-Zasshi 123 (795): 227-246. 2008.Although written in Japanese, 意志・格率・道徳法則(Will, Maxim and the Moral Law)pursues the logical connection of these Kantian tools in ethics. Note: the structure of the uploaded document is not the same as the published one.
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392On AnalyticityPhilosohical Studies, The University of Tokyo 22 285-302. 2004.Although written in Japanese, 分析性について(On Analyticity) pursues the problem of analyticity discussed in philosophy of language from a Kantian perspective.
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379Belief as ProbabilityPhilosophical Studies 25 107-120. 2007.Although written in Japanese, 確率としての信念(Belief as Probability) pursues a good explanation of Ramsey's subjective theory of probability.
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379Le sens du travail et la philosophie d'Alexandre KojèveProblemata 9 (2): 63-79. 2018.One can work for another person, probably for all the others in an ethical way, and not for money. This is the main idea pursued in this article. When it comes to labour, we are inclined to deal with Marx. But even Marx apparently did not notice this ethical side of labour, because his focus was mainly on the creation of value, which was common among thinkers at that time, such as Locke and Smith. In contrast, Hegel consistently tackled the same issue from another angle: ethics. In terms of this…Read more
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358THE NORMATIVITY OF THE MENTAL: ZANGWILL AND A CONSERVATIVE STANDPOINT OF PHILOSOPHYInternational Journal of Arts and Sciences 4 (7). 2011.This paper is devoted to defending philosophical studies of mind, especially traditional ones. In my view, human mentality is a dialogue with myself, which has a social aspect that is never explained nor predicted by scientific studies. We firstly derive this picture from Descartes’ classical argmuments (§§2-3), and then develop it in the context of Kantian ethics (§4). Some readers think this combination arbitrary. However, these two philosophers agree on mind/body dualism (§5), and further, th…Read more
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348What is the reason for the action for?: a comment on Suzuki’s two papers and his review of Logic of my mind, 2nd edJournal of the Philosophy of Science Society, Japan 47 (1): 19-36. 2021.This article handles a series of articles written by Suzuki (2016a; 2016b; 2018), in which he put forward the anti-psychologism, a new standpoint of action theory. This standpoint, however, has lost the path Anscombe originally opened up, seemingly. Anscombe’s point (called “Anscombe’s motif” in this article) was: the agent him/herself responds, by revealing his/her original motive, to the question “Why did/do you do…?” Leaving this ground, in modern theories, one sees an unfamiliar idea like a …Read more
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344Phases of the ethical judgement seen from a viewpoint of motivismDissertation, University of Tokyo. 2009.Although written in Japanese, 動機説の観点から見た倫理的判断の諸相(Phases of the ethical judgement)has formed my original ideas on action theory, ethics, and so on.
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320Das Recht auf Wissen: Philosophische Untersuchungen der globalen ErwärmungProblemata 7 (1): 192-215. 2016.Hans Jonas and Arne Næss have argued that philosophers need not be concerned with natural sciences even when they talk about enviromental issues like global warming (§1). However, believing sciences blindly is in itself unphilosophical. So we think, in this paper, the other way around: We consider the current view of global warming, which was reported by the IPCC, critically. The so-called AR4 is divided into two parts. One is about the industrial revolutions (§§5-9); the other is about the gree…Read more
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310What is the Statistical Inference? : An Invitation to Carnap's inductive LogicThe Basis : The Annual Bulletin of Research Center for Liberal Education 12 91-117. 2022.Although written in Japanese, what the statistical inference is philosophically investigated.
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305Gödel's Incomplete Theorem: a sequel to Logic and Analytic PhilosophyThe Basis : The Annual Bulletin of Research Center for Liberal Education 11 81-107. 2021.Although written in Japanese, this article handles historical and technical survey of Gödel's incompleteness theorem thoroughly.
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298Legal Mind - from an ethical point of viewJournal of Applied Ethics and Philosophy 1 41-55. 2009.Although written in Japanese, 法的思考(Legal Mind)pursues a good explanation of how we can apply the so-called practical syllogism to the legal manner of thought.
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235Ethically good action and its NormPhilosophical Studies 24 151-164. 2006.Although written in Japanese, 倫理的に正しい行為と規範(Ethically good action and its Norm)pursues a Kripkean-Humean style explanation of morally good action.
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220On the Net: Baran, Dreyfus, Merleau-Ponty, and AustinThe Basis : The Annual Bulletin of Research Center for Liberal Education, Musashino University 10 183-201. 2020.The Internet was born in 1960’s, then Internet ethics appeared as a branch of information ethics. It seems, however, our status on the Net is not yet scrutinized. We investigate this problem with the help of philosophers like Dreyfus, Merleau-Ponty, and Austin.
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159The General Form of Empirical Synthetic JudgementsPhilosophical Studies 23 223-236. 2005.Although written in Japanese, 経験的綜合判断の一般的形式(The General Form of Empirical Synthetic Judgement)pursues the general logical form of the Kantian empirical synthetic judgements.
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