Study Group Report 2014

General Symposium

"What Does It Mean to Internationalize?: Where the Toyo University International Research Center for Philosophy Has Been, and Where It Is Going"
September 24 2014

Symposium co-hosted with Center for Academic Research Promotion

"Contact between Traditional Knowledge and Modern Science"
November 8 2014

 1st Unit

• Study Meeting in Hungary (April 24-25 2014):
  "The International Association for Inoue Enryo Research, 1st Unit"
• 1st Meeting of Study Group Series “Views of Humanity and the World in the Meiji Period”(May 14 2014):
  Gereon Kopf "Ethics of Expression: An Application of the Non-dualism found in Buddhist Philosophy to Contemporary Questions"
• 2nd Meeting of Study Group Series “Views of Humanity and the World in the Meiji Period”(June 11 2014):
  Kouhei Yoshida "The Transformation of the Study of the Mind: Nishida Kitarō’s ‘Cultivation’ and ‘Inquiry"
• 3rd Meeting of Study Group Series “Views of Humanity and the World in the Meiji Period”(July 9 2014):
  Masahiko Okada "Studies on the History of the Bonreki Movement: The Development of Buddhist Science in 19th Century Japan"
• 4th Meeting of Study Group Series “Views of Humanity and the World in the Meiji Period”(October 8 2014):
  Naoki Ideno “The Meiji Period and Natural Disasters”
• 5th Meeting of Study Group Series “Views of Humanity and the World in the Meiji Period”(November 12 2014):
  Masato Shirai “The views of humanity and worldviews found in An Inquiry Into the Good”
• International Lecture(September 10 2014):
  Ulrich Sieg “The Ambiguity of the Good. German Professors in the “War of the Minds””
• Collaborative Research between Dongguk University (Korea) and Toyo University (Japan)(November 6 2014):
  First Research Conference
• Research Trip Report (June 14 2014):
  the Symposium "Critique of Japanese Buddhism" at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies
• Annual Conference (September 13 2014) : 
  "3rd Annual Meeting of the International Association for Inoue Enryo Research"

 2nd Unit

• 3rd “Methodologies” Study Group Session (April 19 2014): 
  Masahiro Yamaguchi. “Issues and Methods in German Idealism: Toward Overcoming Modern Philosophy.
• "A Philosophy post-Fukushima " (May 30 2014): 
  Satomi Horikiri. Driven out of a Nuclear TownMovie Screening and Lecture.
• 4th “Methodologies” Study Group Session (June 21 2014): 
  Hiroyuki Watanabe. “Spinoza’s ‘Methodology.’”
• 4th Web International Meeting (October 11 2014) : 
  Pierre-Francois Moreau “Reason and Experience: On the Methods of Spinoza”(Ohnishi Yoshitomo, Watanabe Hiryoyuki, Fujii Chikayo)
• "A Philosophy post-Fukushima " (September 24 2014): 
  Osamu Nishitani. “Technology and Catastrophe”
• The Lecture Meeting of “Methodology” Study (October 25 2014): 
  Katsuzo Murakami. “‘The Method of Transcendence: The Way of Descartes’”
• Symposium of "A Philosophy post-Fukushima " (September 24 2014): 
  Hisayo Takada, Shimpei Murakami. “Energy after the Fukushima Disaster and the True Meaning of Richness”

 3rd Unit

• 1st Meeting of Study Group Series  (July 5 2014): 
  Minoru Sonoda, Hitoshi Miyake. “Formations of Written Religious Sacred Texts and Their Meaning: A Consideration for Tools for Creating Multicultural Harmonious Coexistence”

• 2nd Meeting of Study Group Series  (October 18  2014): 
  Fumio Enomoto, Toshio Horiuchi. “Formations of Written Religious Sacred Texts and Their Meaning: A Consideration for Tools for Creating Multicultural Harmonious Coexistence” 

• 3rd Meeting of Study Group Series  (October 21  2014): 
  Kazunobu Matsuda. “Formations of Written Religious Sacred Texts and Their Meaning: A Consideration for Tools for Creating Multicultural Harmonious Coexistence” 

• 1st Study Group Session “Coexistence with Nature: Its Modes and Expression” (July 12 2014): 
  Takumi Eto. “The Influence of Flemish Painting on Italian Portrait Painting of the Classical Period: Especially on the Works of Leonardo da Vinci.”
• 2nd Study Group Session “Coexistence with Nature: Its Modes and Expression” (July 26 2014): 
  Tomotaro Kaneko. “The Entrainment Technique: David Dunn’s Site-Specific Music”
• 1st and 2nd Meetings of Study Group Series, “Thoughts on Multicultural Harmonious Co-existence” ( October 22, November 19 2014): 
  “Thoughts on Multicultural Harmonious Co-existence”
• Symposium  (November 29 2014): 
  "The Effects of Meditation upon Spirituality" 
• Internatonal Symposium  (December 13 2014 ): 
  "Toward a Philosophy of Co-existence: A Dialog with Iran Islam – The Philosophy of Izutsu Toshihiko" 
• Research Trip Report  (May 27 2014): 
  “Toward the Kyosei of Humanity, Society, and Nature” 
• Research Trip Report  (August 17-25　2014): 
  Overseas Research: “Study Meeting on Multicultural Harmonious Co-existence and Participating in an International Conference in Austria” 
• Research Trip Report  (December 30 2014 to January 2, 2015): 
  Fieldwork in Japan: A Fact-Finding Survey on Multicultural Harmonious Co-existence Seen in Religious Events of Kyoto and Nara, and an Interview Survey with Priests