Kei Yoshida, the former UTCP project lecturer, has published his monograph, Rationality and Cultural Interpretivism: A Critical Assessment of Failed Solutions, from Lexington Books.

Kei Yoshida, a former UTCP project lecturer, published an article, “Re-politicising philosophy of science: A continuing challenge for social epistemology,” in Social Epistemology.

During summer vacation, young scholars at UTCP will introduce their research interests and works on this series of blog, UTCP Juventus, during the vacation. This time, Kei Yoshida introduces his research.

It is now summer vacation. Young scholars at UTCP will introduce themselves on this series of blog, UTCP Juventus, during the vacation. This time, Kei Yoshida introduces himself.

Technology Assessment Seminar was held on May 28, 2010.

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.

On April 21, 2010, Prof. Jie-Hyun LIM gave a talk titled “Victimhood Nationalism in Contested Memories: National Mourning and Global Accountability.”

On December 7, Dr. Tobias Cheung (Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin and Institute for Culture and Science, Humboldt-University, Berlin) gave a talk "How Humans Became Organisms: Some Reflections on the Transition from the Soul-Body-Problem to the Organism-Milieu-Interface."

It is now summer vacation. Young scholars at UTCP will introduce themselves on this blog during the vacation. This time, Kei Yoshida introduces himself.

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

　From March 20th till 22nd, I participated in the 11th Annual Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable held at Emory University, Atlanta. Below is its report.

In seminar 5 of the UTCP Education Program "Brain Sciences and Ethics", we examine Moral Minds by Marc D. Hauser. In session 1 of this seminar, we discussed Prologue & the first half of chapter 1 (pp. xvii-31).

This article exists only in Japanese.

New report on our activities: In Session 8 of the 3rd Seminar: "Reading Prinz's The Emotional Construction of Morals", we discussed the chapter 5: "Dining with Cannibals".

We published the fourth volume of the UTCP Booklet, Utopia: Here and There.

It is now summer vacation. So young scholars at UTCP will introduce themselves on this blog during the vacation. Some will do so in English, but others will not. We are sorry about that. This time, Kei Yoshida introduces himself.

2008年3月28日到29日，在纽约大学召开了研讨会“Age of Comparison”，通过哲学的、方法论的考察探讨比较和比较可能性。

New report on our activities:
In Session 12 of the 1st Seminar: "Reading Levy's Neuroethics", we discussed the chapter 9 "The neuroscience of ethics".

New report on our activities:
In Session 11 of the 1st Seminar: "Reading Levy's Neuroethics", we discussed the chapter 8 "Self-deception: The normal and the pathological".

From March 22 to 31, Yasuo Kobayashi, Takahiro Nakajima, UTCP fellows (Dennitza Gabrakova, Misato Ido, Wang Qian, Kei Hirakura, and Kei Yoshida), and Satoru Hashimoto (the former UTCP fellow, currently Ph.D. student at Harvard University) visited New York University.

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".

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.

New report on our activities:
In Session 9 of the 1st Seminar: "Reading Levy's Neuroethics", we discussed the chapter 6: "The 'self' of self-control".

New report on our activities:
In Session 8 of the 1st Seminar: "Reading Levy's Neuroethics", we discussed the chapter 5: 'The neuroethics of memory'.

New report on our activities:
In Session 7 of the 1st Seminar: "Reading Levy's Neuroethics", we discussed the chapter 4: 'Reading minds/controlling minds'.

New report on our activities:
In Session 6 of the 1st Seminar: "Reading Levy's Neuroethics", we discussed the chapter 3: 'The presumption against direct manipulation'.

New report on our activities:
In Session 5 of the 1st Seminar: "Reading Levy's Neuroethics", we discussed the chapter 3: 'The presumption against direct manipulation'.

On November 11, I made a presentation at the 40th annual meeting of Philosophy of Science Society, Japan (at Chuo University, Tokyo). The title of my presentation is "Sociology as a political project: Fuller, bioliberalism, value-freedom." Below is its brief report.

New report on our activities:
In Session 4 of the 1st Seminar: "Reading Levy's Neuroethics", we discussed the chapter 2: 'Changing our minds'.

New report on our activities:
In Session 3 of the 1st Seminar: "Reading Levy's Neuroethics", we discussed the chapter 1: 'Peering into the mind'.

New report on our activities:
In Session 2 of the 1st Seminar: "Reading Levy's Neuroethics", we discussed the chapter 1: 'Peering into the mind'.

UTCP Education Program "Brain Sciences and Ethics" started last week. In this program, we have two seminars: the 1st Seminar is "Reading Levy's Neuroethics" and the 2nd one is "Reading Gazzaniga's The Ethical Brain".

Yesterday we had a talk by Dr. John O'Dea. John is a post-doc at the University of Tokyo, and he specializes in the philosophy of mind. A caveat is in order here. I am no specialist in the philosophy of mind. Thus my report might contain some serious misunderstanding.