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The 1st meeting of "Philosophy and Ethics of Enhancement"

25 March, 2008 └Enhancement Permalink

On March 14, the first meeting of “Philosophy and Ethics of Enhancement” was held. The speaker was Prof. Jun Matsuda at Shizuoka University and the title of his talk was “Cyborg ethics and beyond.”


Toward an Imaginary Solidarity: International Symposium "The Public World Opened by Women"

24 March, 2008 KITAGAWA Sakiko, KO Young Ran Permalink

From March 1 to 3, the international symposium "The Public World Opened by Women" was held in Kobe. This symposium was co-organized by "Kyoto Forum" and UTCP.

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Jacques Derrida, The University without condition

22 March, 2008 └Philosophy and University, NISHIYAMA Yuji, Publications Permalink

The Japanese translation of Jacques Derrida's The University without Condition was published. This was translated by Yuji Nishiyama, and he wrote a long expository essay "Jacques Derrida and Education."

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UTCP Booklet3 Passages of the Epochs : Walter Benjamin Today

21 March, 2008 NAKAJIMA Takahiro, KOBAYASHI Yasuo, MORITA Dan, Publications Permalink

The third volume of the UTCP booklet Passages of the Epochs : Walter Benjamin Today under the edition of Kobayashi Yasuo came out.

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Report: Marco Filoni, The Philosophy of Sunday

20 March, 2008 TAKADA Yasunari, NISHIYAMA Yuji, Visiting Speaker Series Permalink
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Takanori Hayao Between Jewish and Israel: Aporias of Nation

18 March, 2008 HAYAO Takanori, Publications Permalink

Takanori Hayao published Between Jewish and Israel: Aporias of Nation (Seidosha).

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Shiro Miyashita Democracy Reading Books

18 March, 2008 MIYASHITA Shiro, Publications Permalink

Shiro Miyashita published Democracy Reading Books (Tosui Shobo).

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17 March, 2008 GOHARA Kai, UTCP on the Road Permalink

This article exists only in Japanese.


UTCP Education Program "Brain Sciences and Ethics" Seminar 1, Session 10

13 March, 2008 └Seminar 1: Reading Levy's Neuroethics, YOSHIDA Kei, Brain Sciences and Ethics Permalink

New report on our activities:
In Session 10 of the 1st Seminar: "Reading Levy's Neuroethics", we discussed the chapter 7: "The neuroscience of free will".

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UTCP Education Program "Brain Sciences and Ethics" Seminar 2, Session 11

13 March, 2008 └Seminar 2: Reading Gazzaniga's The Ethical Brain, Brain Sciences and Ethics Permalink

New report on our activities:
In Session 11 of the 2nd Seminar: "Reading Gazzaniga's The Ethical Brain", we read the chapter 10.

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UTCPBooklet2 What are the Classics in Our Time ?

10 March, 2008 HANEDA Masashi, NAKAJIMA Takahiro, MURAMATSU Mariko, KOBAYASHI Yasuo, TAKADA Yasunari, MIYASHITA Shiro, OKAYAMA Hajime, ONUKI Takashi, SAITO Mareshi, Publications Permalink

The second volume of the UTCP booklet What are the Classics in Our Time? under the edition of Nakajima Takahiro and Kobayashi Yasuo came out.


Forum “The Limits of the Image(-Theory): Mythos and Logos

10 March, 2008 MORITA Dan Permalink

The second meeting of the forum on the problematic of the “image” was held at the University of Kyoto under the sponsorship of Okada Atsushi’s laboratory of the University of Kyoto. The presenters were:
Hashimoto Azusa (The National Museum of Art, Osaka)
Yoneda Naoki (University of Tokyo Graduate School, The National Art Center, Tokyo)
Ueo Masamichi (Nagoya University of Art)
Morita Dan (UTCP)
Terada Kuniyuki (Osaka University, JSPS fellow)
Ohashi Kantaro (Assistant, University of Tokyo)


Report: Tom Cohen seminar 'Climate Change' and the Humanities

10 March, 2008 MIYAZAKI Yusuke, Visiting Speaker Series Permalink
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UTCP Seminar Series "Thomas Metzinger with Stephan Schleim"

10 March, 2008 YOSHIDA Kei, OGUCHI Mineki, Brain Sciences and Ethics Permalink

From the 21st to the 29th of February we had a series of seminars with the participation of Thomas Metzinger (University of Mainz) and Stephan Schleim (University of Bonn), where we were able to discuss a variety of problems in neuroethics. Below is their brief report.

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Report: Francisco Naishtat seminar: Psychoanalysis traces in the theory of historical knowledge

10 March, 2008 Visiting Speaker Series Permalink

Dan Morita is discussing Francisco Naishtat’s paper in relation to the difficulties and the possibilities of creating a passage from Walter Banjamin’s Passagenwerk to Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis.

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Montaigne, Essais

7 March, 2008 MIYASHITA Shiro, Publications Permalink

Montaigne Essais 3 translated by member of UTCP Miyashita Shiro.


Philosophy and Ethics of Enhancement

3 March, 2008 └Enhancement Permalink

If there is a possibility to recover a brain with decreased functions, doesn’t it mean that it is also possible to improve the functions of a healthy brain?
The development in neuroscience opens up new possibilities for its technological application to medicine, pharmacy and engineering.

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Report: Lichtung in the age of globalisation -- Francisco Naishtat seminar "The world and the time"

3 March, 2008 Visiting Speaker Series Permalink

At the end of February we had the opportunity to hear the presentations of Tom Cohen and Francisco Naishtat. Despite their different approaches the problematic they treated was surprisingly shared. It would be possible to discern here two approaches of self-criticism in the humanities of 21st century.

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星期六的时间性——专题讨论会“哲学与大学——人文科学的未来”

3 March, 2008 KOBAYASHI Yasuo, └Philosophy and University, FUJITA Hisashi, MIYAZAKI Yusuke, NISHIYAMA Yuji Permalink

2008年2月23日,UTCP的专题讨论会“哲学与大学——人文科学的未来”在驹场校区召开(主持人:宫崎裕助、西山雄二)

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“The Saturday Temporality” – Symposium “Philosophy and the University – The Future of the Humanities”

3 March, 2008 KOBAYASHI Yasuo, └Philosophy and University, FUJITA Hisashi, MIYAZAKI Yusuke, NISHIYAMA Yuji Permalink

The symposium was a part of the open joint study “Philosophy and the University” , whose main objective was to reexamine the understanding of the university of various philosophers as well as well as the relationship between philosophy and the system and ideals of the university.

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