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On 30th-31st July, University of Tokyo hosted a symposium on Philosophy of Mind and Mental Illness at its Komaba Campus. This post describes the talks presented at the symposium.

On 19th and 20th March 2016, the 10th BESETO Conference was held in Seoul National University. The BESETO conference are organized by University of Pekin, Seoul National University and, the University of Tokyo, and has annually been hosted by each university. In this year, from UTCP, five participants gave the presentations on their philosophical research.

We published the 2nd volume of UTCP-Uehiro Booklet, Philosophy of Disability & Coexistence: Body, Narrative, and Community, edited by Kohji Ishihara and Minae Inahara.

Tsuyoshi Nakayama and Yukihiro Nobuhara (eds.), The Encounter of Psychiatry and Philosophy was published.

On January 31st, we hold a one-day international workshop event, “Ethical Issues in Psychiatry Workshop.” Half of the talks were given by philosophers/ethicists, and the other half were given by active clinicians, which characterizes the interdisciplinary nature of the workshop.

The 7th BESETO Conference of Philosophy was held on January 5 and 6, 2013 at Seoul National University.

On 20th November, 2012, Dr Joel Krueger, a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, gave a talk entitled ‘Emotions and Social Perception: Lessons from Moebius Syndrome’.

On Saturday 6th of October 2012, the 7th Meeting of the Study Group “Philosophy of Disability and Co-existence” on ‘Phenomenology of Disability’ was held.

The Uehiro Research Division for Philosophy of Co-existence Opening Symposium "Ethics in Change" was held at the University of Tokyo on 16 June 2012. The symposium addressed the idea of co-existence between human beings, between human beings and nature, between human beings and technology, and between science and humanities. It brought these concepts together in a novel philosophical approach that encouraged an enthusiastic and fruitful discussion, a discussion that inspired deeper thought in this subject area, yet traversed the multitude of ideas with ease. Associate Professor Shinji Kajitani (University of Tokyo) was the leading moderator of the symposium.

Center for Subjectivity Research (CFS), University of Copenhagen and UTCP hold a joint workshop “Mind, Consciousness, and Body” at the University of Copenhagen.

Technology Assessment Seminar was held on May 28, 2010.

The 4th BESETO Conference of Philosophy was held on 7 and 8 January, 2010.

In the 16th TCCP Colloquium Kohji Ishihara discussed social implications of research in developmental disorders.

UTCP Workshop “Sustainability and Ethics: Towards Establishment of New Metrics” was held on November 10, 2009.

The international conference "Brain Matters: New Directions in Neuroethics" was held on September 24-26, 2009 in Halifax, Canada. Koji Ishihara, Mineki Oguchi, and Yu Nishitsutsumi of UTCP participated in the conference. The conference was mainly organized by the Novel Tech Ethics research team at Dalhousie University.

We published the eighth volume of the UTCP Booklet, Enhancement, Society, Humanity.

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