In seminar 5 of the UTCP Education Program "Brain Sciences and Ethics", we examine Moral Minds by Marc D. Hauser. In session 13 of this seminar, we discussed chapter 7 (pp. 357-418).

On June 22, 2009, we held the seventh session of the seminar “Secularization, Religion, State.”

In this month’s colloquium, John O'Dea gave a paper on the phenomenon known as “confabulation”, based largely on William Hirstein’s recent monograph, Brain Fiction.

In seminar 5 of the UTCP Education Program "Brain Sciences and Ethics", we examine Moral Minds by Marc D. Hauser. In session 12 of this seminar, we discussed the latter half of chapter 6 (pp. 334-356).

On May 18, 2009, we held a symposium "Modernism as movement" with New York University and East China Normal University. We had discussions in Chinese and English.

Takahiro Nakajima published Zhuangzi from Iwanami Shoten Publishers.

In seminar 5 of the UTCP Education Program "Brain Sciences and Ethics", we examine Moral Minds by Marc D. Hauser. In session 11 of this seminar, we discussed the former half of chapter 6 (pp. 307-335).

On June 15, 2009, we held the sixth session of the seminar “Secularization, Religion, State”.

In seminar 5 of the UTCP Education Program "Brain Sciences and Ethics", we examine Moral Minds by Marc D. Hauser. In session 10 of this seminar, we discussed the latter half of chapter 5 (pp. 272-303).

On June 10th, Dr. William Shang (Shinichi Yasuda) from the University of Tokyo gave a talk titled “Images from the Past: Imagination and Reality seen in Visual Records”. The lecture was part of the UTCP Academic English program.

In seminar 5 of the UTCP Education Program "Brain Sciences and Ethics", we examine Moral Minds by Marc D. Hauser. In session 9 of this seminar, we discussed the former half of chapter 5 (pp. 242-272).

On June 4, 2009, the ninth lecture on Understanding Islam was held. The speaker was Francis Guinle, Professor Emeritus at the University Lyon 2, and the title of his talk was “Intercultural Exchanges between Western Europe and the Arab World: A Utopia?”.

On April 21, the first Komaba Brain Café, titled "Healing Dementia by Eating!? Between Food and Medicine," was held at Italian Tomato Café Jr., Komaba Campus, The University of Tokyo. “Komaba Brain Café” aims at providing venues for a free and active dialogue with those who are interested in brain science, neuroscience, and neuroethics.

On May 25, 2009, UTCP and the Todai-Yale Initiative invited Haun Saussy, Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University, to give a talk titled “Two Perspectives on the ‘Thing’ in Poetry: Where Fenollosa and Pound Diverge.”

In seminar 5 of the UTCP Education Program "Brain Sciences and Ethics", we examine Moral Minds by Marc D. Hauser. In session 8 of this seminar, we discussed the latter half of chapter 4 (pp. 201-241).

On 1st June, 2009, we held the forth session of the seminar “Secularization, Religion, State”.

Here are published Frontiers of Janapese Philosophy 4: Facing the 21st Century (edited by LAM Wing-Keung and CHEUNG Ching-yuen, Nanzan Institute for Religion & Culture, Nagoya, 2009).

In seminar 5 of the UTCP Education Program "Brain Sciences and Ethics", we examine Moral Minds by Marc D. Hauser. In session 7 of this seminar, we discussed the former half of chapter 4 (pp. 163-200).