Study Group Report 2012

International Symposium to Commemorate the 125th Anniversary of the Foundation of Toyo University

"Philosophy facing a globalized world "
September 16 2012

1st Unit

• 1st Study Group Session (June 27 2012): 
  Yasushi Murayama, "Foreign philosophy professors at the University of Tokyo in the Meiji period"
• 2nd Study Group Session (July 27 2012): 
  Tsutomu Sagara, "Problem of 'Reality' at the first period of the philosophy in Japan"
• 3rd Study Group Session (September 13 2012): 
  Wu Zhen, "Dissemination of Chinese Moral Books in Modern Japan and its Influence"
• 4th Study Group Session (October 31 2012): 
  Shougo Iwai, "How to think 'Japan' : loyalty and filial piety in Inoue Enryo"
• 5th Study Group Session (November 28 2012): 
  Atsushi Sato, "Traditional Buddhism in Inoue Enryo"
• 6th Study Group Session (December 7 2012): 
  Katsuhito Inoue, "Philosophy society in the Meiji period"
• 7th Study Group Session (December 13 2012):
  Wu Guanghui, "The Current State of Research on Modern Japanese Philosophy in China"
• 8th Study Group Session (March 14 2013):
  Kunitsgu Kosaka, "Inoue Enryo's Sogan Theory and Spinozism"
• Study Meeting (June 30 2012): 
  Study Meeting in France of the International Association of Inoue Enryo Research
• Workshop (July 11 2012):
  "Nishida Kitaro's Philosophy of Religion : from the standpoints of Christianity and Buddhism" (Gereon Kopf, Kunitsugu Kosaka, Samoa Ishii)
• Web International Lecture (co-organized with the University of Strasbourg):
  "Chinese Studies and Western Studies in the modern Japan:around Nakae Chōmin" (Yoshida Kouhei)
• Annual Conference (September 15 2012) : 
  "Inaugural General Assembly and Symposium: The Internationality of Inoue Enryo"

2nd Unit

• 1st Study Group Session (April 23 2012) : 
  Katsuzo Murakami, "On 'Meditatio' as the Cartesian Method of Metaphysics"
• 1st Conference on "A philosophy of post-Fukushima" (July 4 2012): 
  Jean-Pierre Dupuy, "Rational Choice before the Apocalypse"
  Masaki Ichinose, "Harmfulness of Radiation Problems : What Can Philosophy Say for Reconstruction ?"
• 2nd Conference on "A philosophy of post-Fukushima" (September 22 2012): 
  Etienne Tassin, "Fukushima is now. Twelve Proposals for Political Philosophy of an Ecological Crisis"
• 3rd Conference on "A philosophy of post-Fukushima" (October 6 2012): 
  Hiroyuki Yoshino, Yuko Kida, Kasumi Hikita, "Rest or Refuge: On Actual Situation of Fukushima"
• 4th Conference on "A philosophy of post-Fukushima" (October 19 2012): 
  Hitomi Kamanaka, "Around the Film Living with Internal Exposure"
• 5th Conference on "A philosophy of post-Fukushima" (March 12 2013): 
  Tetsuya Takahashi, "Responsibility and victimization since the Fukushima nuclear accident"
  Katsuzo Murakami, "A philosophy of post-Fukushima : progress and issues"
• 2nd Web International Meeting (October 15 2012) : 
  Intuition and Reflection as Method of Philosophy
  Ichiro Yamaguchi, Akinobu Kuroda, Jocelyn Benoist, Mitshiro Okada, Georg Stenger, Katsuzo Murakami
• Symposium
  "Time and Space of the Concept of 'Law': in search of the Diversity and its Possibilities of 'Law'"

3rd Unit

• 1st Study Group Session (May 23 2012): 
  Bahman Zakipour, "Relation between Mahayana Buddhism and Iranians"
• 2nd Study Group Session (July 4 2012): 
  Mari Miyamoto, "Bhutan : Making a Nation as a Happy Society"
• 3rd Study Group Session (October 3 2012): 
  Jayandra Soni, "Intercultural Relevance of Some Moments in the History of Indian Philosophy"
• 4th Study Group Session (October 25 2012): 
  Yoshiaki Yauchi, "'Coexistence' in the Thought of Anselmus"
• 5th Study Group Session (October 31 2012): 
  Yasushi Ishida, "Body-Mind Relationship from the point of view of Placebo Effects"
• 6th Study Group Session (March 28 2012): 
  Akihisa Matsushima, "The mind-body problem and view of life in French Philosophy"
  Keiko Suenaga, "Significance of the body in thought history"
• Study Meeting (August 23-30 2012): 
  Study Meeting and Field Work for Multicultural Coexistence in Bhutan
• Symposium (November 6 2012): 
  Towards a Philosophy of Co-Existence: A Dialog with Islam