Motohide Saji

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Motohide Saji


Graduate School of International Relations

International University of Japan

777 Kokusai-cho Minami Uonuma-shi

Niigata 949-7277

Japan

81.25.779.1111 (overseas) / 025.779.1111 (domestic)



Employment


Associate Professor, January 2010-present. International University of Japan, Graduate School of International Relations, International Peace Studies Program.


Assistant Professor, September 2006-December 2009. International University of Japan, Graduate School of International Relations, International Peace Studies Program.



Education


Ph.D. in Political Science, The University of Chicago, December 2006.

Advisors: Patchen Markell (Chair), Charles Larmore, and Michael Forster



Interests


Political Philosophy

Modern Japanese Philosophy and Political Thought



Publications


Journal Articles

  • "On the division between reason and unreason in Kant." Human Studies: A Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences 32, no. 2 (June 2009): 201-223
  • "Three aspects of the self-opacity of the empirical subject in Kant." Philosophy & Social Criticism 35, no. 3 (March 2009): 315-337
  • "On tensions in Kant’s account of reason in politics." Textual Practice 20, no. 4 (December 2006): 679-702

Book Chapters

  • "To experience differently: on one strand of Kant's anthropology." Massimo Canevacci (ed.) Polyphonic Anthropology (InTech, 2012), pp. 57-80.
  • "On an East Asian community, or Kant’s cosmopolitan right reconsidered." Nam-Kook Kim (ed.) Globalization and Regional Integration in Europe and Asia (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2009), pp. 123-142.


Teaching


« International University of Japan »


Courses taught (in English):

  • Human Rights and Global Justice
  • INGOs and Global Civil Society
  • Global Civil Society
  • Peace, War, and the Development of Modern Japan

« The University of Chicago »


Teaching Assistant:

  • Classics of Social and Political Thought I (undergraduate)
  • Classics of Social and Political Thought III (undergraduate)
  • To Hell with the Enlightenment (undergraduate)

Guest Lecturer:

  • Colloquium on Modern Japanese History: Reconsideration of Taisho Democracy (graduate)


Conferences

  • Paper presentation at the War and Peace in the Era of Globalization: Experiences from Europe and Asia conference, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea (June 2007).
  • Paper presentation at the Thinking the Present conference at University of California, Berkeley (May 2005).


Grants


Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research / Granting Agency: Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology / Research Title: Toward Cosmopolitanism in the Contemporary World: A Kantian View / Grant Number: 20730107 / Research Leader: Motohide Saji (solo) / Grant Period: FY 2008-2009 / Grant Amount for FY 2008: ¥910,000 (direct and indirect costs included); the same for FY 2009



Memberships


The American Political Science Association