Talks

Refereed

(2014). "A Case Study: Are Philosophical Claims Justified by Intuition?" 37th Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, Aug 10-16. (This is the same talk in English as given in Japanese at the 6th Annual Meeting of the Japan Association for the Contemporary and Applied Philosophy.)

(2014). (with Tora Koyama) "Creating New Waves in Philosophy of Trust." (refereed by abstract), Second Conference on Contemporary Philosophy in East Asia, Kyoto University Japan, Aug 28-29.

(2014). (with Fabio Dalla Libera, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Tora Koyama) "Trust and Artifacts." (refereed by abstract), Robo-Philosophy 2014 – Sociable Robots and the Future of Social Relations, Aarhus University, Denmark, Aug 22.

(2014). "How Plausible is Sellars' Criticism of the Myth of the Given?" (refereed by abstract, in Japanse), 73th Annual Meeting of the Philosophical Association of Japan, Hokkaido University, Japan, Jun 29.

(2013). (with Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins) "Re-articulating the A Priori-A Posteriori Distinction." (refereed by abstract, in Japanese), 46th Annual Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Society Japan, Housei University, Japan, Nov 24.

(2013). “Knowledge between Languages?: How to do Epistemology in Japanese.” (refereed by abstract) Epistemology for the Rest of the World, An International Conference on Epistemology, Linguistic Diversity & Cultural Diversity, Tokyo Satellite Office, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, Aug 9. (slides)

(2013). “Is Epistemological Disjunctivism Viable?” 57th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association, University of Victoria, Jun 4.

(2012) “In Defense of the E = K Thesis.” 49th Annual Meeting of the Western Canadian Philosophical Association, University of Victoria, Oct 21.

(2012). “Epistemic Standards and the Locality of Skepticism.” (refereed by abstract) First Conference on Contemporary Philosophy in East Asia, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Sep 9.

(2011). “Virtue Epistemology and Environmental Luck.” (refereed by abstract) Canadian Society for Epistemology, University of Sherbrooke, Nov 12; (2012) 56th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association, University of Waterloo, May 27.

(2011). “The Knowledge-Action Principle and Isolated Secondhand Knowledge.” 34th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Austria, Aug 11.

(2011). (with Gillman Payette) “The Many Dimensions of Contextualism in Epistemology.” (refereed by abstract), 14th Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, France, Jul 25 (Payette didn’t attend, and I represented both of us).

(2011). (with Gillman Payette) “Epistemic Closure, Contextualism and the Truth Matching Account of Knowledge.” 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy, University of Manitoba, May 27 (I didn’t attend, and Payette represented both of us); 48th Annual Meeting of the Western Canadian Philosophical Association, University of Lethbridge, Oct 22.

(2010). “A Solution to the Problem of Easy Knowledge.” 47th Annual Meeting of the Western Canadian Philosophical Association, University of Calgary, Oct 31, 2010.

(2004). “Contextualism and Skepticism.” (refereed by abstract, in Japanese) 37th Annual Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Society Japan, Kyoto University, Japan, Oct 2.

Invited

(2014). "The Trustworthiness of Artifacts in Light of Philosophical and Psychological Analyses of Trust." 1st Meeting of Social Intelligence Research Group 2014, Osaka University, Japan Jul 2.

(2014). "Varieties of Epistemic Dependence." 1st Veritas Philosophy Conference, Underwood International College, Yonsei University, Korea, Jun 8..

(2014). "Virtue Epistemology Multiplied." Tokyo Forum for Analytic Philosophy, University of Tokyo, Japan, Apr 25.

(2014). "Epistemological Disjunctivism and Skepticism." (in Japanese) Kyoto Colloquium for the Contemporary Philosophy, Kyoto Campus Plaza, Japan, Jan 11.

(2013). “Virtue Ethics, Situationalism, and Contextualism: The Context-Sensitivity of Virtue Attributions.” (in Japanese) Moral Psychology Colloquium: 2nd Workshop ‘Virtue Ethics and Situationism,’ University of Tokyo, Japan, Sep 28.

(2012). "What is Liberalism Good for?" Departmental Talk, University of British Columbia, Oct 12.

(2010). “Enriching the Framework of Experimental Philosophy.” International Conference, How and Why Economists and Philosophers Do Experiments: Dialogue between Experimental Economics and Experimental Philosophy, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan, Mar 28.

(2010). “Introduction to Experimental Philosophy.” International Conference, How and Why Economists and Philosophers Do Experiments: Dialogue between Experimental Economics and Experimental Philosophy, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan, Mar 27.

(2010). “Introduction to Experimental Philosophy I and II.” (in Japanese, Two Concussive Talks) International Conference, How and Why Economists and Philosophers Do Experiments: Dialogue between Experimental Economics and Experimental Philosophy, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan, Mar 26.

(2009). “The Challenge from Experimental Philosophy.” (in Japanese) 1st Annual Meeting of the Japan Association for the Contemporary and Applied Philosophy , Kyoto University, Japan, Apr26.

Others

(2014). "Are Philosophical Claims Justified by Intuition?, (in Japanese) Meta-Philosophy Workshop: Is Intuition Necessary for Philosophy?, 6th Annual Meeting of the Japan Association for the Contemporary and Applied Philosophy, Kansai University, Japan, May 10. (slides)

(2014). "Reliability and Trustworthiness: From a Perspective of Recent Epistemology." 2nd Meeting of Anshin Science & Technology Research Group, Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies, Japan, Mar 21.

(2013). "The Philosophy of the Feeling of Presence." The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers-Human Communication Science (IEICE-HCS), Osaka University, Japan, Nov 9, 2013.

(2013). "Reasons for Belief and Reasons for Action." Workshop on the Unity of Epistemic Reasons, 57th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association, University of Victoria, Jun 4, 2013.

(2012). (with Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins) “The Traditional Conception of the A Priori, and Recent Challenges.” Conference on The Roles of Experience in A Priori Knowledge, University of Cologne, Germany, Oct 13–14; (2012) Departmental Talk, University of Alberta, Nov 15; (2012) Departmental Talk, University of Calgary, Nov 16 (Jenkins is invited to these conference and talks, and I didn’t attend).

(2009). "Gettier Case Lotterized: Barn Case is a Lottery Case.” Departmental Talk, University of Calgary, Dec 11.

(2007). “A Critical Examination of Michael Williams’ Epistemology.” (in Japanese) 35th Forum of Young Philosophical Researchers, National Youth Center, Japan, Jul 22.

(2004). “Three Forms of Cartesian Skepticism.” (in Japanese) 32nd Forum of Young Philosophical Researchers, Hachiōji Seminar House, Japan, Jul 18.

(2003). “Skepticism as an Underdetermination Problem.” (in Japanese) 22nd Meeting of Kwansei Gakuin Philosophical Society, Japan, Oct 17.

Commentaries

(2014). on Hossein Dabbagh, "Moral Intuitions and Emotional Experiences." Kyoto Moral Psychology Workshop, Kyoto University, Japan, Jul 27.

(2012). on Glen Hoffmann, “Infallibility about the Self.” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association, University of Waterloo, May 27.

(2011). on Tim Kenyon, “Noninferentialism and Testimony-Based Belief.” 48th Annual Meeting of the Western Canadian Philosophical Association, University of Lethbridge, Oct 23.

(2010). on Roger Clarke, “Belief, Assertion, Context.” 47th Annual Meeting of the Western Canadian Philosophical Association, University of Calgary, Oct 29.

(2007). on Blake Roeber, “Against the “Bucket Brigade” View of Testimonial Knowledge.” University of Calgary Graduate Philosophy Conference, Sep29.