PERSONAL:
Date of Birth: Feb. 1, 1961
Place of Birth: Himeji, Japan
Marital Status: Married
EMPLOYMENT:
Apr. '21 - Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Toyota technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan.
Apr. '99 - Associate Professor, Toyota technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan.
Apr. '18 - Part-time Lecturer, Kinjo Gakuin University, Nagoya, Japan.
Apr. '04 - Part-time Lecturer, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan.
Apr. '04 - Mar. '05 Part-time Lecturer, Mie University, Tsu, Japan.
Apr. '96 - Mar. '99 Part-time Lecturer, Eichi University, Amagasaki, Japan.
Apr. '95 - Mar. '99 Part-time Lecturer, Kobe Gakuin University, Kobe, Japan.
Apr. '94 - Mar. '99 Part-time Lecturer, Hannan University, Osaka, Japan.
EDUCATION:
Apr. '79 - Aug. '86 Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
Major: Philosophy. BA: Mar. '84. MA: Mar. '89.
Sep. '86 - Jun. '88 The University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California,
U. S. A. Major: Philosophy.
Aug. '88 - Aug. '97 The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, U. S. A.
Major: Philosophy. MA: May '91. Ph.D.: Dec. '97.
DISSERTATION: A Study of Plato's Metaphysics in the Republic
Adviser: Paul Woodruff
AREA OF SPECIALIZATION: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Applied Ethics
AREA OF COMPETENCE: Logic, Ethics, Medieval Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy,
Analytic Philosophy
AWARDS:
Sep. '86 - Jun. '87 Fellowship from the Japanese Ministry of Education
Aug. '95 - May '96 Oldright Fellowship from the Department of Philosophy, the
University of Texas at Austin
Aug. '96 - May '97 Oldright Fellowship from the Department of Philosophy, the
University of Texas at Austin
Nov. '18 Teaching Excellence Award (for logic course) from Toyota Technological Institute
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
1. Japanese Translation of Bruce J. Malina's Windows on the World of Jesus: Time Travel to Ancient Judea.
Tokyo: Shinkyo Publishing, 1999.
2. Japanese Translation of Jean Vanier's Becoming Human. Tokyo: Shinkyo Publishing, 2005.
3. Asano, Kozi. ed. Jean Vanier no Kotoba: Kouwa to Intabyu (Jean Vanier's Words:
Talks and Interviews). Tokyo: Shinkyo Publishing, 2012.
4. Japanese Translation of Monika Hellwig's Understanding Catholicism. Tokyo: Nanso Publishing, 2012.
5. Japanese Translation of Hillel Steiner's Essays on Rights. Tokyo: Shinkyo Publishing, 2016.
6. Asano, Kozi. A Vegetarian Philosopher's Introduction to Animal Ethics(in Japanese). Kyoto: Nakanishiya Publishing, 2021.
Book Contributions:
1. Morinaga, Matsushima, and Koide eds. Ethics for Living Today(in Japanese). Tokyo: Maruzen
Publishing, 2019. "Which Is Better, Nuclear Power or Renewable Energy?" pp. 62-65,
"What Does Silent Spring Tell Us About the Use of Pesticides?" pp. 74-75, "Is It All
Right to Make Wolves Extinct for the Sake of Development of Nature?" pp. 76-77,
"Should Trees Have Standing?" pp. 78-79, and "How Should Disability Welfare Be? From
Large Institutions To Community-Based Care," pp. 220-221.
2. Miyazono, Ohtani, and Noritate eds. Causation, Animals, and Property: Dialogues about Ichinose's
Philosophy(in Japanese). Tokyo: Musashino University Press, 2020. "Chapter 11: How to
Understand Our Relationship with Dogs," pp. 239-57.
3. Matsushima and Miyajima eds. Medical Ethics for Pharmacy Students(in Japanese). Tokyo: Maruzen
Publishing, 2021. "Personhood and Human Rights," pp. 66-67, "Cloning Technology," pp. 114-15, and
"Ethics of Animal Experiments," pp. 128-9.
Articles:
1. "Degrees of Reality in Plato: Part I." Aichi (Kobe University) 10 (1993): (1)-(14).
2. "Degrees of Reality in Plato: Part II." Hannan Ronshu: Humanities and Natural
Science (Hannan University) 30, No. 2 (1994): 17-34.
3. "The Philosophers and the Sight-Lovers: Plato's Republic Book V, 474c-480a" (in Japanese).
Tohoku Tetsugakukai Nempo (The Tohoku Philosophical Society) 10 (1994): 15-27.
4. "Recent Interpretations of 'Incomplete Predicates' in Plato's Theory of
Forms: Nakahata and White" (in Japanese). Hannan Ronshu: Humanities and
Natural Science (Hannan University) 31, No. 1 (1995): 1-11.
5. "Objects of Mathematics in Plato's Republic" (in Japanese). Shisaku (Tohoku
University) 28 (1995): 103-25.
6. "Two Arguments for Forms in Plato: Conflicting Appearances and One over Many."
Hannan Ronshu: Humanities and Natural Science (Hannan University)
32, No. 1 (1996): 79-96.
7. "The Simile of the Line in Plato's Republic VI." Sapientia (Eichi University) 31
(1997): 207-34.
8. "Two Arguments for Forms in Plato: Conflicting Appearances and One over Many" (in Japanese).
Aichi (Kobe University) 14 (1997): 111-24.
9. "Mathematics and Dialectic in Plato's Republic VI-VII." Sapientia (Eichi
University) 32 (1998): 117-42.
10. "Labor Theory of Property: Reappraisal of Lockean Theory" (in Japanese). The Chubu
Tetsugakukai Nenpo (The Chubu Society of Philosophy) 35 (2003): 1-16.
11. "John Locke's Theory of Private Property: A Critical Reconstruction" (in Japanese).
Toyota Technological Institute Discussion Paper No. 06-1 (2006): 1-93.
12. "Will as the Ground of Inheritance" (in Japanese). Philosophia Iwate 40 (2008): 31-44.
13. "Is Inheritance Morally Justified?" (in Japanese).
Toyota Technological Institute Discussion Paper No. 3 (2009): 1-69.
14. "McCaffery's Case against the Estate Tax" (in Japanese).
Toyota Technological Institute Discussion Paper No. 4 (2009): 1-38.
15. "A Criticism of Morimura's Argument against Inheritance" (in Japanese).
Toyota Technological Institute Discussion Paper No. 5 (2010): 1-26.
16. "Libertarian Arguments for and against the Sales of Organs" (in Japanese).
Toyota Technological Institute Discussion Paper No. 6 (2011): 1-24.
17. "P. Singer on the Ogligation to Assist: How does the existence of many other
wealthy people affect my obligation?"(in Japanese).
Tohoku Tetsugakukai Nempo (The Tohoku Philosophical Society) 28 (2012): 49-61.
18. "P. Singer on the Ogligation to Assist: How is Distance Morally Relevant?"(in Japanese).
Annual Review of the Kansai Philosophical Association 20 (2012): 68-79.
19. "P. Singer and D. Miller on the Duty to Help the World's Poor"(in Japanese).
Philosophia Iwate 44 (2012): 1-13.
20. "P. Singer on Our Duty to Assist the Distant Needy" (in Japanese).
Toyota Technological Institute Discussion Paper No. 7 (2013): 1-62.
Reprinted in Alpha SYNODOS vol. 289 (Jul. 2021): 21-71, vol. 290 (Aug. 2021): 106-64, and vol. 291 (Sep. 2021): 165-248.
21. "A Critical Examination of J. Rawls's View on International Assistance" (in Japanese).
Toyota Technological Institute Discussion Paper No. 8 (2014): 1-30.
Reprinted in Alpha SYNODOS vol. 292 (Oct. 2021): 54-90, vol. 293 (Nov. 2021): 118-47, and vol. 294 (Dec. 2021): 75-97.
22. "T. Pogge and D. Miller on Global (International) Justice" (in Japanese).
Toyota Technological Institute Discussion Paper No. 9 (2015): 1-22.
Reprinted in Alpha SYNODOS vol. 295 (Jan. 2022): 82-94, vol. 296 (Feb. 2022): 65-76, and vol. 297 (Mar. 2022): 67-85.
23. "Against Animal Experiments" (in Japanese).
Department of Biomedical Ethics and Public Policy, Osaka University.
Medicine, Life, Ethics and SocietyVol. 12 (2015): 49-58.
24. "A Defense of Ethical Vegetarianism" (in Japanese). The Chubu
Tetsugakukai Nenpo (The Chubu Society of Philosophy) 46 (2014): 108-119.
25. "Carruthers' Contractarian Arguments Against the Moral Standing of Animals" (in Japanese).
Toyota Technological Institute Discussion Paper No. 10 (2016): 1-17.
26. "Against Animal Experiments".
Toyota Technological Institute Discussion Paper No. 11 (2016): 1-11.
27. "Can Degrees of Personhood Provide an Ethics of Animal Experiments?" (in Japanese).
Toyota Technological Institute Discussion Paper No. 12 (2016): 1-13.
28. "Dolphin Drive Hunt at Taiji in Wakayama Prefecture" (in Japanese).
Department of Biomedical Ethics and Public Policy, Osaka University.
Medicine, Life, Ethics and SocietyVol. 13 (2016):15-31.
29. "Left-Libertarian Theory of Justice" (in Japanese).
Toyota Technological Institute Discussion Paper No. 13 (2016): 1-20.
30. "Ethics of Animal Experiments" (in Japanese).
Toyota Technological Institute Discussion Paper No. 14 (2017): 1-14.
31. "Development of Factory Farming" (in Japanese).
Toyota Technological Institute Discussion Paper No. 15 (2017): 1-37.
32. "Animal Rights: Indirect Duty View Reconsidered" (in Japanese).
Philosophia Iwate 49 (2018): 27-40.
33. "D. Miller on our Responsibility to the Global Poor."
Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy Vo. 51 (2018): 7-11.
34. "Animal Rights Theory and Wild Animals" (in Japanese).
Toyota Technological Institute Discussion Paper No. 17 (2019): 1-22.
35. "A Rawlsian Theory of Human and Animal Rights."
Toyota Technological Institute Discussion Paper No. 18 (2019): 1-12.
36. "Reverence for Life: What Does It Mean?"
Toyota Technological Institute Discussion Paper No. 19 (2020): 29-37.
37. "Animal Rights Theory and the Problem of Predation" (in Japanese).
Theory of Law 39 (2021): 3-18.
38. "Animal Rights Theory and Buddhism"
Tohoku Tetsugakukai Nempo (The Tohoku Philosophical Society) 37 (2021): 65-77.
39. "Responses to Iseda's Comments, Ise's Comments and Honjo's Comments" (in Japanese).
Toyota Technological Institute Discussion Paper No. 23 (2021): 41-69.
40. "Responding to Ichinose's Comments and Furusawa's Comments" (in Japanese).
Theory of Law 40 (2021): 193-203.
41. "An Ordinance of Elephant Rights in Ojai, California" (in Japanese).
Toyota Technological Institute Discussion Paper No. 30 (2023): 35-46.
42. "The Causal Ineffectiveness Problem and the Phone Bill Problem of Vegetarianism" (in Japanese).
Toyota Technological Institute Discussion Paper No. 31 (2024): 55-77.
Translations:
1. English Translation of Miho Ogino's "Job and Gender." Women and Health in
Japan (Osaka) No. 14, Autumn Issue (1994): 9-11.
2. Japanese Translation of Louis Mackey's "Slouching Toward Bethlehem:
Deconstructive Strategies in Theology." Fukuin to Sekai (Tokyo) Dec.
Issue, 1994: 17-35.
3. Japanese Translation of C. D. C. Reeve's "The Naked Old Women in the
Palaestra: A Dialogue Between Plato and Lasthenia of Mantinea."
Aichi (Kobe University) 11 (1994): 75-87.
4. Japanese Translation, with Introduction, of Antiphon's The Second Tetralogy.
Hannan Ronshu: Humanities and Natural Science (Hannan University) 31, No. 3 (1996): 9-24.
5. Japanese Translation of 12 Sections from Bruce J. Malina's Windows on
the World of Jesus: Time Travel to Ancient Judea. Fukuin to Sekai
(Tokyo) Jan.-Dec. Issues, 1997.
6. Japanese Translation of F. M. Cornford's "The Doctrine of Eros in Plato's Symposium."
Gengo Bunka (Eichi University) 1 (1998): 1-21.
7. Japanese Translation (with Naoto Chatani) of Louis Mackey's "The Mediator
Mediated: Faith and Reason in Augustine's De Magistro."
Fukuin to Sekai (Tokyo) Jun. Issue, 1999: 28-45.
8. Japanese Translation (with Naoto Chatani) of G. E. L. Owen's "Particular and General."
Aichi (Kobe University) 15 (1999): 82-106.
9. English Translation of Yasuo Iwata's "Aristotle on Natural Teleology."
In Nature in Medieval Thought: Some Approaches East and West, edited by Chumaru
Koyama, 1-21. Leiden: Brill, 2000.
10. Japanese Translation of F. Pataut's "Anti-Realist Perspective on Language, Thought,
Logic, and the History of Analytic Philosophy: An Interview with Michael Dummett."
Shiso (Iwanami Publishing) 954 (Oct., 2003): 73-105.
11. Japanese Translation of Jean Vanier's "Interview with Jean Vanier."
Fukuin to Sekai (Tokyo) Jan. Issue, 2007: 56-61.
12. Japanese Translation (320-35, 505-56) of Stockholm International Peace Research
Institute ed. SIPRI Yearbook 2006: Armaments, Disarmaments, and International
Security. Hiroshima: Hiroshima University Press, 2007.
13. Japanese Translation of Austen Ivereigh's "Ending A Chain of Violence."
Fukuin to Sekai (Tokyo) Feb. Issue, 2008: 37-41.
14. Japanese Translation of Jean Vanier's "The Friend of the Poor."
Medicine and the Gospel (Japan Christian Medical Association) November/December
Issue, 2009: 43-46.
Reviews and Others:
1. "Japanese Bibliography on Socrates and Plato for 1975-95: Part I." Hannan
Ronshu: Humanities and Natural Science (Hannan University) 32, No. 3 (1997):
81-96.
2. "Japanese Bibliography on Socrates and Plato for 1975-95: Part II." Hannan
Ronshu: Humanities and Natural Science (Hannan University) 33, No. 1 (1997):
53-67.
3. "Japanese Bibliography on Socrates and Plato for 1975-95: Part III."
Hannan Ronshu: Humanities and Natural Science (Hannan University) 33, No. 2
(1997): 79-95.
4. Review of Gail Fine, On Ideas: Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's Theory of
Forms (in Japanese). Ningen Bunka (Eichi University) 1 (1998): 211-16.
5. Review of T. K. Seung, Kant's Platonic Revolution in Moral and Political
Philosophy (in Japanese). Ningen Bunka (Eichi University) 2 (1999): 219-24.
6. "Thoughts in Spring" (in Japanese). Midorigaoka Church Newsletter (Midorigaoka
Catholic Church) 77 (March, 2001): 4.
7. "What Makes a Good Lecture?" (in Japanese).
TTI FD Newsletter (Toyota Technological Institute) 1 (Sep. 2005): 4.
8. "A Brief Biography of Jean Vanier: Part I & Part II" (in Japanese).
Fukuin to Sekai (Tokyo) May Issue, 2006: 59-66; June Issue, 2006: 56-61.
9. "Teaching Philosophy: My practice and suggestions"(in Japanese). The Chubu
Tetsugakukai Nenpo (The Chubu Society of Philosophy) 39 (2007): 41-53.
10. "A Retreat at l'Arche, Trosly"(in Japanese). Medicine and the Gospel
(Japan Christian Medical Association) May/June Issue, 2009: 48-50.
11. "Jean Vanier's Thought"(in Japanese). Fukuin to Sekai
(Tokyo) Sep. Issue, 2009: 50-55.
12. "Changing One's Way of Life" (in Japanese).
TTI Library & Information Center News (Toyota Technological Institute) 6
(Oct. 2009): 1.
13. Review of Tetsuji Iseda's Learning Animal Ethics in a Cartoon (in Japanese).
Journal of Applied Ethics and Philosophy (Hokkaido University) 9 (2016): 33-36.
14. "Lord, Have Mercy on Us: Thinking of Meat Eating from a Christian Perspective"(in Japanese).
Fukuin to Sekai (Tokyo) Sep. Issue, 2019: 6-10.
15. Review of Michael J. Sandel's The Tyranny of Merit (in Japanese).
Toyota Technological Institute Discussion Paper No. 20 (2021): 91-104.
16. Review of Dominique Lestel's Apologie du Carnivore (in Japanese).
Toyota Technological Institute Discussion Paper No. 21 (2021): 43-65.
17. "Review of Shinichiro Inaba's Lectures on Ethics in Contemporary Society" (in Japanese).
Toyota Technological Institute Discussion Paper No. 22 (2021): 55-64.
18. "Which do You Prefer, A Society that Kills Animals or A Society that Doesn't?" (in Japanese)
Synodos Library.
19. "From Basic Human Rights to Basic Animal Rights" (in Japanese).
Japan Institute of Constitutional law. A Word of the Week Dec. 13, 2021.
20. "Review of Feature Articles of "Thinking on Carnism" in Review of Contemporary Thought" (in Japanese).
Toyota Technological Institute Discussion Paper No. 25 (2022): 47-116.
21. "Japanese Bibliography on Animal Ethics" (in Japanese).
Toyota Technological Institute Discussion Paper No. 26 (2022): 39-54.
22. "Basic Human Rights and Basic Animal Rights: A Choice Not to Eat Meat" (in Japanese).
HUG Vol. 1 (2023): 46-53.
23. "Review of Hiroko Yatsu's Animals: Symbiotic Ethics of Humans and Environment" (in Japanese).
Toyota Technological Institute Discussion Paper No. 27 (2023): 27-37.
24. "Review of Yoko Kito's Animals as Our Neighbors" (in Japanese).
Toyota Technological Institute Discussion Paper No. 28 (2023): 1-42.
25. "Review of Masaaki Sasaki's True Characters of 'Animal Rights' Movement" (in Japanese).
Toyota Technological Institute Discussion Paper No. 29 (2023): 19-50.
PRESENTATIONS:
Jun. '87 "Thrasymachus' Position in the Republic" (in Japanese). At the
Colloquium, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
Mar. '92 Comments on Prof. G. R. F. Ferrari's paper, "True Love and the
Limits of Persuasion in Plato's Phaedrus." At the Ancient Philosophy
Workshop, University of Texas at Austin, U. S. A.
Feb. '93 "The Philosophers and the Sight-Lovers." At the Ancient Philosophy
Workshop, University of Oklahoma, U. S. A.
Oct. '93 "The Philosophers and the Sight-Lovers: Plato's Republic Book V,
474c-480a" (in Japanese). At the Tohoku Philosophical Society, Tohoku
University, Sendai, Japan.
Mar. '96 "Two Arguments for Forms in Plato: Conflicting Appearances and
One over Many" (in Japanese). At the Tokyo Association of Greek Philosophy,
Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan.
Jun. '96 "Two Arguments for Forms in Plato: Conflicting Appearances and
One over Many" (in Japanese). At the Classical Society of Japan, Osaka
Gakuin University, Osaka, Japan.
May '99 "Mathematical Numbers and Ideal Numbers: Self-Predication of Universals" (in Japanese).
At the Philosophical Association of Japan, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan.
Oct. '02 "Labor Theory of Property: Reappraisal of Lockean Theory" (in Japanese).
At the Chubu Society of Philosophy, Tokai Gakuen University, Nagoya, Japan.
May '05 "Lockean Proviso: What does it amount to?" (in Japanese).
At Aichi Society for Legal Philosophy, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan.
Oct. '05 "Lockean Proviso: What does it amount to?" (in Japanese).
At the Tohoku Philosophical Society, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
Oct. '06 "Teaching Philosophy: My Practice and Some Suggestions" (in Japanese).
At the Chubu Society of Philosophy, Sugiyama Jogakuen University, Nagoya, Japan.
Apr. '07 "John Locke on Inheritance" (in Japanese).
At the Society for Jurisprudence, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan.
May '07 "John Locke on Inheritance: Interpretation and Criticism" (in Japanese).
At the Philosophical Association of Japan, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.
Apr. '08 "Contemporary Japanese Arguments for Inheritance: A Critical Assessment" (in
Japanese). At the Institute for Social Ethics, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan.
Jul. '08 "Will as the Ground of Inheritance" (in Japanese).
At the Iwate Philosophical Association, Iwate University, Morioka, Japan.
Oct. '08 "Does Utilitarianism Support Inheritance?" (in Japanese).
At the Japanese Society for Ethics, Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Japan.
Oct. '08 "Does Utilitarianism Support Inheritance?" (in Japanese).
At the Tohoku Philosophical Society, Akita University, Akita, Japan.
Dec. '08 "McCaffery's Case against the Estate Tax" (in Japanese).
At Aichi Society for Legal Philosophy, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan.
Jan. '09 "McCaffery's Case against the Estate Tax" (in Japanese).
At the Society for Jurisprudence, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan.
Jan. '10 "A Criticism of Morimura's Argument against Inheritance" (in Japanese).
At Tokyo Society for Legal Philosophy, Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan.
Feb. '10 "A Criticism of Morimura's Argument against Inheritance" (in Japanese).
At the Society for Jurisprudence, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan.
May '10 "A Criticism of Morimura's Argument against Inheritance" (in Japanese).
At Aichi Society for Legal Philosophy, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan.
Oct. '10 "Is Inheritance a Pareto Improvement?" (in Japanese).
At the Chubu Society of Philosophy, Nagoya Bunri University, Inazawa, Japan.
Dec. '10 "Human Dignity as Seen in Religions: Contents and Measures" (in Japanese).
At the Faculty Development Meeting of Human Dignity Courses, Nanzan University,
Nagoya, Japan.
Dec. '10 "Libertarian Arguments for and against the Sale of Organs" (in Japanese).
At Kyoto Society for Bioethics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
May '11 "Libertarian Arguments for and against the Sale of Organs" (in Japanese).
At Aichi Society for Legal Philosophy, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan.
Jun. '11 "Libertarian Arguments for and against the Sale of Organs" (in Japanese).
At Tokyo Society for Legal Philosophy, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan.
Jun. '11 "P. Singer on the Ogligation to Assist: How is Distance morally relevant?" (in
Japanese). At Kyoto Society for Bioethics, Kyoto Women's University, Kyoto,
Japan.
Oct. '11 "P. Singer on the Ogligation to Assist: Is the Obligation to Assist an
Incomplete Duty?" (in Japanese). At the Japanese Society for Ethics, Toyama
University, Toyama, Japan.
Oct. '11 "P. Singer on the Ogligation to Assist: How is Distance morally relevant?" (in
Japanese). At Kansai Philosophical Association, Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan.
Oct. '11 "P. Singer on the Ogligation to Assist: How does the existence of many other
wealthy people affect my obligation?" (in Japanese).
At the Tohoku Philosophical Society, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki, Japan.
Dec. '11 "P. Singer and D. Miller on the Duty to Help the World's Poor" (in Japanese).
At the Society for Jurisprudence, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan.
Mar. '12 "P. Singer and T. Pogge on the Duty to Help the World's Poor" (in Japanese).
At Kyoto Society for Bioethics, Kyoto Women's University, Kyoto, Japan.
May '12 "Singer and Pogge on the Duty to Help the World's Poor" (in Japanese).
At the Philosophical Association of Japan, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
May '12 "P. Singer and T. Pogge on the Duty to Help the World's Poor" (in Japanese).
At Aichi Society for Legal Philosophy, Chukyo University, Nagoya, Japan.
Jun. '12 "T. Pogge and D. Miller on Global Justice" (in Japanese).
At Tokyo Society for Legal Philosophy, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan.
Jul. '12 "P. Singer and D. Miller on the Duty to Help the World's Poor" (in Japanese).
At the Iwate Philosophical Association, Iwate University, Morioka, Japan.
Sep. '12 "Utilitarian Happiness? On Satoshi Kodama's Introduction to Utilitarianism"
(in Japanese). At Kyoto Society for Bioethics, Joint Review Session of Satoshi
Kodama's Introduction to Utilitarianism, Kyoto Women's University, Kyoto, Japan.
Oct. '12 "T. Pogge's Theory of Global Justice and J. Rawls's The Law of Peoples"
(in Japanese). At the Japanese Society for Ethics, Japan Women's University, Tokyo, Japan.
Oct. '12 "T. Pogge's Theory of Global Justice and J. Rawls's The Law of Peoples"
(in Japanese). At the Tohoku Philosophical Society, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
Mar. '13 "Explanatory Nationalism in J. Rawls's The Law of Peoples" (in Japanese).
At Kyoto Society for Bioethics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Mar. '13 "Explanatory Nationalism in J. Rawls's The Law of Peoples" (in Japanese).
At the Society for Jurisprudence, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan.
Jun. '13 "D. Miller on Our Responsibility to the Global Poor" (in Japanese).
At Kyoto Society for Bioethics, Shiga University, Ohtsu, Japan.
Aug. '13 "D. Miller on Our Responsibility to the Global Poor".
At XXIII World Congress of Philosophy, University of Athens, Greece.
Sep. '13 "A Defense of Ethical Vegetarianism" (in Japanese).
At the Chubu Society of Philosophy, Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Japan.
Oct. '13 "S. Freeman's Interpretation of Rawls's The Law of Peoples: Our Duty to Assist Burdened
Soceities." (in Japanese).
At Aichi Society for Legal Philosophy, Chukyo University, Nagoya, Japan.
Dec. '13 "Is Ethical Vegetarianism a Theory or an Intuition?: On Ichinose's "Screaming of Animals"" (in Japanese).
At Kyoto Society for Bioethics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Feb. '14 "Justice of the Initial Distribution of Natural Resources" (in Japanese).
At the Society for Jurisprudence, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan.
May '14 "Just Person and Just State: Comments on Usami's Chapter on Aincient Greek Political Thought" (in Japanese).
At the Society for Jurisprudence, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan.
Jun. '14 "Against Animal Experiments" (in Japanese).
At Kyoto Society for Bioethics, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan.
Jun. '14 "On the Claim that Freedom is the Possession of Things: Once Again on Justice of the Initial
Distribution of Natural Resources" (in Japanese).
At Tokyo Society for Legal Philosophy, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan.
Jun. '14 "Ethics of Animal Experiments: Ichinose's Idea of Degrees of Personhood" (in Japanese).
At the Philosophical Association of Japan, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
Aug. '14 "Against Animal Experiments".
At the 13th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies,
Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan.
Oct. '14 "Justification of the Basic Human Rights" (in Japanese).
At the Tohoku Philosophical Society, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
Nov. '14 "Human Rights and Animal Rights" (in Japanese).
At the Society of Philosophy, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Dec. '14 "Carruthers' Contractarian Arguments against the Moral Standing of Animals" (in Japanese).
At Kyoto Society for Bioethics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
May '15 "Reinventing Lockean Theory of Property: A Challenge of Left-libertarianism." (in Japanese).
At Aichi Society for Legal Philosophy, Chukyo University, Nagoya, Japan.
Jul. '15 "Intra-generational or Inter-generational Equality?: Steinerian Exercises."
At XXVII World Congress of the International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy,
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington D.C., U. S. A.
Sep. '15 "Left-libertarian Theory of Justice" (in Japanese).
At Kyoto Society for Bioethics, Shiga University, Ohtsu, Japan.
Oct. '15 "What are the Grounds of Basic Human Rights?" (in Japanese).
At the Society for Jurisprudence, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan.
Dec. '15 "Dolphin Drive Hunt at Taiji in Wakayama Prefecture" (in Japanese).
At Kyoto Society for Bioethics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
May '16 "A criticism of Utilitarian Arguments for Eating Meat" (in Japanese).
At the Philosophical Association of Japan, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Jun. '16 "Welfare without Ground: A Review of Tachibanaki's Inequality of Japan in the 21st Century"
(in Japanese). At Kyoto Society for Bioethics, Joint Review Session of Toshiaki Tachibanaki's
Inequality of Japan in the 21st Century, Kyoto Women's University, Kyoto, Japan.
Jul. '16 "Ethics of Animal Experiments" (in Japanese).
At Center for Applied Philosophy and Ethics Workshop on Animal Ethics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Sep. '16 "Justice of Immigration" (in Japanese).
At Kyoto Society for Bioethics, Kyoto Women's University, Kyoto, Japan.
Oct. '16 "Justice of Immigration" (in Japanese).
At the Society for Jurisprudence, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan.
Mar. '17 "Development of Factory Farms: Part 1, Beef Cattle and Cows" (in Japanese).
At Kyoto Society for Bioethics, Kyoto Women's University, Kyoto, Japan.
Jul. '17 "Animal Rights: The Indirect Duty View Reconsidered" (in Japanese).
At the Iwate Philosophical Association, Iwate University, Morioka, Japan.
Sep. '17 "Do No Harm: On the Indirect View of this Principle."
At the 5th Japanese-Chinese Philosophical Forum, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan.
Dec. '17 "Tsunami-tendenko, Interpretation of Happiness and Prioritarianism: A Review of the 1st part of Yoshiki Wakamatsu ed. Utilitarianism Strikes Back."
At Society of Jurisprudence, Kyoto Bioethics Society and Japanese Society for Utilitarian Studies
Joint Review Session of Yoshiki Wakamatsu ed. Utilitarianism Strikes Back, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan.
Mar. '18 "Animal Rights and the Problem of Wild Animals" (in Japanese).
At Kyoto Society for Bioethics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Jul. '18 "A Rawlsian Theory of Human and Animal Rights."
At the 1st IVR (International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy) Japan International Conference, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan.
Aug. '18 "Is It O.K. to Keep an Animal?"
At XXIV World Congress of Philosophy, China National Convention Center, Beijing.
Sep. '18 "The Problem of Predation" (in Japanese).
At Kyoto Society for Bioethics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Oct. '18 "Animal Rights Theory and the Problem of Predation" (in Japanese).
At Aichi Society for Legal Philosophy, Chukyo University, Nagoya, Japan.
Nov. '18 "Animal Rights Theory and the Problem of Predation" (in Japanese).
At Workshop "Developments of Animal Rights Theory" of the Annual Conference of Japanese Association of Legal Philosophy, University of Tokyo, Japan.
Mar. '19 "Is It Permissible to Extinguish Wolves?" (in Japanese)
At Kyoto Society for Bioethics, Kyoto Women's University, Kyoto, Japan.
Sep. '19 "Reverence for Life: What Does It mean?"
At the 6th International Forum of Sino-Japanese Philosophy, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Oct. '20 "Animal Rights and Buddhism"
At Workshop "Animal Ethics and Religions" of the Tohoku Philosophical Society, Zoom Meeting.
Jan. '21 "Review of Michael J. Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?" (in Japanese).
At the Society for Jurisprudence, Zoom Meeting.
Sep. '21 "Author's Response" (in Japanese).
At Kyoto Society for Bioethics, Joint Review Kozi Asano's A Vegetarian Philosopher's Introduction to Animal Ethics, Zoom Meeting.
May '22 "Animal Rights Theory: Review and Prospect" (in Japanese).
At Workshop "Philosophically Considering Animal Ethics" of the Philosophical Association of Japan, Kyushu University and Zoom Meeting.
Sep. '22 "Discussions of Cultured Meat in Review of Contemporary Thought Feature Issues: Thinking on Carnism" (in Japanese).
At Project Meeting of ELSI/RRI Research of Cellular Agriculture Technology toward Sustainable Society, Kyoto University and Zoom Meeting.
Nov. '23 "The Causal Ineffectiveness Problem and the Phone Bill Problem of Vegetarianism" (in Japanese).
At the 3rd Fall Meeting of the Philosophical Association of Japan, Zoom Meeting.
INVITED and PUBLIC LECTURES etc.:
Mar. '09 "Jean Vanier: His Life and Thought" (in Japanese).
At Asian Health Institute Hospital, Aichi, Japan.
Dec. '17 "Mr. Ichinose's Animal Ethics and the Problem of Companion Animals" (in Japanese).
At the Workshop of Causation, Animals and Property: Dialogues with Ichinose Philosophy, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Oct. '21 "Basic Animal Rights: War or Coexistence with Animals?" (in Japanese)
At the Study Meeting of Justice and Peace Committee, Catholic Nagoya Diocese.
May '22 "Basic Human Rights" (in Japanese)
At the Study Meeting of Justice and Peace Committee, Catholic Nagoya Diocese.
Oct. '22 A Talk Show "Frontiers of Animal Ethics as Considered from Movies and Philosophy" (in Japanese)
At the 4th Marche Friendly to the Earth and Animals, Canal Park Sasashima.
Feb. '23 "Our Diets and Animals" (in Japanese)
At the Study Meeting of Justice and Peace Committee, Catholic Nagoya Diocese.