The speaker of the 25th TCCP was Iván Darío González-Cabrera (The University of Tokyo). The title of his presentation was "Explaining morality: The 'is-ought' problem and the naturalistic fallacy".

The graduate workshop of the philosophy of mind held on March 25th at the University of Birmingham Philosophy Department, and four UTCP researchers made presentations in the workshop. Here is a brief report about it.

We held a series of lectures by Dr. Lisa Bortolotti (University of Birmingham) for five days from the 23rd to 29th of October 2010.

The annual meeting of Japan Association for Philosophy of Science was held at Senshu University on June 12-13, 2010. I made a presentation "The 'brain' in the ‘male/female brain’ discourse" at the workshop "What is neuroscience literacy?" in this conference.

TCCP, or Tokyo colloquium of cognitive philosophy, is an English-only seminar which is held as a place for active discussions among UTCP fellows who are interested in neurophilosophy, neuroethics and various related areas.

At Florey Neuroscience Institutes in Melbourne, 6 UTCP members and Prof. Neil Levy had talks at Workshop “Brain Science and Ethics” held on March 23, 2010. This workshop was the final event of the UTCP Program in Brain Sciences and Ethics.

TCCP, or Tokyo colloquium of cognitive philosophy, is an English-only seminar which is held as a place for active discussion among UTCP fellows who are interested in neurophilosophy, neuroethics and various related topics.

TCCP, or Tokyo colloquium of cognitive philosophy, is an English-only seminar which is held as a place for active discussions among UTCP members who are interested in neurophilosophy, neuroethics and various related topics.

Susan Blackmore's Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction was translated into Japanese by Yukihiro Nobuhara, Haruka Tsutsui and Yu Nishitsutsumi.

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

In the 17th colloquium of TCCP, Iva Georgieva gave a paper on the problems of human identity in the virtual space. It was based on the Sherry Turkle's book Life On the Screen: Identity in the Age of Internet.

The 32nd Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society was held at Nagoya Congress Center on 16-18 September, 2009.

On March 27, Haruka Tsutsui and Mineki Oguchi gave talks at the CUNY cognitive science sympsium.

Junichi Kushita and Shuhei Shimamura presented at the Tokyo Colloquium of Cognitive Philosophy (TCCP).

In seminar 5 of the UTCP Education Program "Brain Sciences and Ethics", we examine Moral Minds by Marc D. Hauser. In session 5 of this seminar, we discussed the latter first half of chapter 3 (pp. 111-138).

The 11th and 12th Tokyo Colloquium of Cognitive Philosophy (TCCP) was held in the autumn of 2008.

The program of the 10th TCCP was a presentation by Petter Johansson, a JSPS postdoctoral fellow (http://www.lucs.lu.se/petter.johansson).

New report on our activities: In Session 7 of the 3rd Seminar: "Reading Prinz's The Emotional Construction of Morals", we discussed the chapter 5: "Dining with Cannibals".

The program of the 9th TCCP was text reading. We read chapter 2 of J. J. Prinz’s book Gut Reactions: A Perceptual Theory of Emotion (2004).

The Program of the 8th TCCP was a presentation by John O’Dea, a research fellow of UTCP. The title of his presentation was "Is there an Ethical Problem with Neuromarketing?" As indicated in the title, it was a review of the background and current state of Neuromarketing; i.e., the commercial use of neuroscientific knowledge or technology for the purpose of manipulating public opinion. Neuromarketing is one of hot topics within neuroethics, though there are not yet many neuroethical papers on neuromarketing. Assessing several studies on neural features of consumers and examples of actual commercial uses, O’Dea concludes that there’s no ethical problem with neuromarketing.

　　The program of the 7th TCCP was text reading, and we read the preface and chapter 1 of J. J. Prinz’s book Gut Reactions: A Perceptual Theory of Emotion (2004).