I'm a philosopher working on questions that have to do with human natural language. My research areas include philosophy of language, philosophy of linguistics, epistemology, natural language semantics, and pragmatics.
I teach at the Department of Anthropology and Philosophy at Nanzan University. I'm also affiliated with the Nanzan Center for Linguistics.
I earned PhD in Philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park. Before that I did my undergraduate work at Osaka University, a large public school in the southwest of Japan, where a Merleau-Ponty scholar was its president until recently. My senior thesis advisor was a Fichte/Hegel scholar. I still believe I could toil through Kant's Critiques with a gigantic German dictionary and luxurious time. I also spent three quarters at the University of California, Los Angeles as a visiting student.
授業やゼミに関する情報、日本語での研究紹介などは南山大学和泉研究室のウェブサイトへ
Articles
Yu Izumi 2023 Pejorative Language as Virtual Downgrade (in Japanese) Annals of Ethics 72.
Yu Izumi 2021 The Alleged "Non-Specificity" in Japanese Nominals with Floating Numeral Quantifiers, Nanzan Linguistics 16, 19-32
Hiromi Arai, Yu Izumi, Ju Heechul, Katsuhito Nakasone, Hitomi Yanaka 2021 A Sample Dataset of Tweets in Japanese: Toward the Automatic Detection of Hate Speech in Social Media (in Japanese), The Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing
Yu Izumi 2019 The Pragmatics of 'Dojin' (In Japanese), Metaphysica: The Journal of Philosophy and Ethics, 50 63-73
Yu Izumi 2019 What's Wrong with Discriminatory Words? (In Japanese), Annuals of Ethics 68 81-85
Yu Izumi, Shun Tsugita, Masaharu Mizumoto 2019 Knowing How in Japanese, Nanzan Linguistics 14 9-24
Yu Izumi, Masashi Kasaki, Yan Zhou, and Sobei Oda 2018 Definite Descriptions and the Alleged East-West Variation in Judgments about Reference, Philosophical Studies, vol.175(5), 1183-1205, DOI: 10.1007/s11098-017-0902-9 (preprint)
Yu Izumi 2018 Generics and Sexual Harassment (in Japanese) Tetsugaku 69 32-43
Yu Izumi and Shintaro Hayashi 2017 Expressive Small Clauses in Japanese, The Proceedings of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics
Yu Izumi 2017 "Drop Dead, Japan!!!": The Semantics of the Japanese Swear Word Shine, Philosophia OSAKA 12 39-51
Yu Izumi 2013 Contextualism and Japanese Knowledge Attributions, Metaphysica: The Journal of Philosophy and Ethics 44, 99-111
Yu Izumi 2012 Preliminary Remarks on Descriptions (in Japanese) Tetsugaku no Tankyuu 39, 49-60
Yu Izumi 2011 Interpreting Bare Nouns: Type-Shifting vs. Silent Heads, The Proceedings of the 21st Semantics and Linguistics Theory Conference 481-494
Yu Izumi 2010 Descriptivism with World Pronouns, Contemporary and Applied Philosophy 2 10017-10029
Yu Izumi 2008 Some Remarks on an Implementation of the Burgean View of Proper Nouns, The Proceedings of the XXII World Congress of Philosophy 39, 79-88
Books
Yu Izumi 2022 (Bad) Introduction to Philosophy of (Bad) Language, Chikuma Shobo (in Japanese)
This is my first trade book, and it covers some of the basic topics discussed in the philosophy of language literature, but it does so almost exclusively using Japanese texts and examples familiar to the Japanese readership, unlike other philosophy of language textbooks written in Japanese. The book title is ambiguous, and the adjective "warui" (bad) may be interpreted as predicating of "language" or "Introduction".
和泉悠 2022『悪い言語哲学入門』ちくま新書（紹介ページ）
Yu Izumi 2016 Names and Objects: The Semantics of Proper Names and Bare Nominals, Keiso Shobo (ISBN: 4326102578)
和泉悠 2016 『名前と対象：固有名と裸名詞の意味論』 （勁草書房より発売中 サンプル公開されています）
Book chapters
Introduction to Experimental Philosophy Takayuki Suzuki ed. (Yu Izumi, Chapter 3 "Experimental Philosophy of Language") Keiso Shobo, 2020 (『実験哲学入門』)
Ethno-Epistemology: New Directions for Global Epistemology Masaharu Mizumoto, Jonardon Ganeri, Cliff Goddard eds. (Masaharu Mizumoto, Shun Tsugita, and Yu Izumi, Chapter 2 "Knowing How and Two Knowledge Verbs in Japanese") Routledge, 2020
Theories of Generative Grammar from the Perspectives of Japanese Studies, Mamoru Saito, Daiko Takahashi, Kensuke Takita, Masahiko Takahashi, Keiko Murasugi eds. (Yu Izumi, Chapter 9 "The Semantics of Japanese Bare Nouns") Kaitakusha 2020 (『日本語研究から生成文法理論へ』)
Frontiers in Metaethics, Ryo Chonabayashi ed. (Yu Izumi, Chapter 10 "The Semantics of Deontic Modals"), Keiso Shobo 2019 (『メタ倫理学の最前線』)
New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: JSAI-isAI 2017 Workshops Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence, S. Arai, al. eds. (Yu Izumi and Shintaro Hayashi, “Expressive Small Clauses in Japanese” 188-199) Springer 2018
Thinking about Trust: From Leviathan to AI Tora Koayama ed. (Yu Izumi, Heechul Ju, and Katsuhito Nakasone, "Hate Speech and Trust") Keiso Shobo 2018 (『信頼を考える』)
Dissertation
Yu Izumi 2012 The Semantics of Proper Names and other Bare Nominals, University of Maryland, College Park