Waseda Philosophy Research Group (WPRG)

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Organizers: Ryo Ito (Associate Professor, Waseda University), Masahiro Morioka (Professor, Waseda University), Tony Cheng (Associate Professor, Waseda University), and Thomas Spiegel (Professor, Miyazaki International University)

Contact: morioka[a]waseda.jp; ryo.ito[a]waseda.jp

 

16th Seminar

14 May, 2025
Doudja Boumaza (Université Grenoble Alpes and Keio University)
"Bergson and analytic philosophy of memory: Is episodic memory involved in action?"

15th Seminar

16 April, 2025
Arto Tammenoksa (Tampere University, faculty of education, doctoral student in philosophy of education) and Tapio Santala (Tampere University, faculty of social sciences, doctoral student in philosophy)
"Empty transcendence – Capitalism is a passive nihilism"

14th Seminar

31 March, 2025
Matthew J. Dennis (Assistant Professor in Ethics of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
"The Ethics of Generative AI in Health & Medicine: Beyond Privacy, Reliability, Data Sensitivity"
Simone Sommer Degn (Postdoc, PhD | Department of Culture and Learning, Aalborg University, Denmark)
Philosophical Analysis of the Relationship Market – Can You Buy Love and Friendship?

13th Seminar

22 January, 2025
John O'Dea (University of Tokyo, Professor)
"The Mental Properties of Others"

12th Seminar

8 January, 2025
Thomas Spiegel (Waseda University, JSPS)
"Do Philosophers need to find relevant what they publish?"

11th Seminar

13 November, 2024
Tony Cheng (Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Associate Professor)
"Transcendental Arguments in the 21st Century"

10.5th Special Seminar

8 November, 2024
Jan Deckers (Newcastle University, Professor)
"What is artificial, and why would it matter?"

10th Seminar

25 September, 2024
Laÿna Droz (University of Tokyo, Project Assistant Professor)
"Thinking in terms of flows: From ecology to sustainability"

9th Seminar

10 July, 2024
Joshua Schmitz (Waseda University, visiting Ph.D. student)
"The Good Life and Value Theory"

8th Seminar

12 June, 2024
Ayumu Shigeta (Tokyo Institute of Technology, JSPS research fellow)
"On the Blind in Epistemology"

7th Seminar

1 May, 2024
Robert Sinclair (Soka University, Professor)
"Habits, Growth, and the Search for a Cosmopolitan Identity: Some Deweyan Reflections"

6th Seminar

17 April, 2024
Akiko Frischhut (Sophia University, Professor)
"Awareness Without Time"

5th Seminar

11 March, 2024
Maya Ishikawa (Waseda University, Ph.D. student)
"Feminist Aesthetics and Asia"

4th Seminar

24 January, 2024
Tony Milligan (The Philosophy of Ethics with the Cosmological Visionaries project, King’s College London, senior researcher)
"Mortal Longings"

3rd Seminar

17 January, 2024
Richard Stone (Waseda University, Lecturer)
"The Moralization of Monsters in the Meiji Period: Inoue Enryō’s Mystery Studies as a Moral Philosophy"

2nd Seminar

6 December, 2023
Masahiro Morioka (Waseda University, Professor)
"Phenomenology of the Animated Persona"

1st Seminar

1 November, 2023
Thomas J. Spiegel (Waseda University, JSPS/Humboldt Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow)
"Stupidity"