Journal Articles (Peer-reviewed)

• Hayashi Y. [in Japanese] accepted

• Yoneoka et al. [in Japanese] accepted

• Hayashi, Y., Sato, R. The Unity of Consciousness and the Practical Ethics of Neural Organoid Research. Neuroethics 18(3), 2025.

• Niikawa T, Hayashi Y, Sawai T “A Teleological Approach to the Ontological Status of Human Cerebral Organoids” AJOB Neuroscience, 14(2): 204-206, 2023.

• Niikawa T, Hayashi Y, Shepherd J, Sawai T “Human Brain Organoids and Consciousness” Neuroethics, 15(1), 2022.

• Sawai T, Hayashi Y, Niikawa T, Shepherd J, Thomas E, Lee TL, Erler A, Watanabe M, Sakaguchi H “Mapping the Ethical Issues of Brain Organoid Research and Application” AJOB Neuroscience, 13(2):81-94, 2022.

• Hayashi, Y. “Split-brain Consciousness and the Phase Transition View” Tetsugaku-Kagakushi Ronso 16:101-125, 2014.

Other Articles

• Hayashi Y, Oida Y, Murakoshi T “The Problems of Brain Organoids: A Report [in Japanese]” Saitama Ika Daigaku Zasshi, 49(2): 53-61, 2023.

• Hayashi, Y. “On the Significance of Phenomenal Consciousness” The Proceedings of the 6th BESETO Conference of Philosophy 193-199, 2012.

• Hayashi, Y. “Split-brain and Personal Identity [in Japanese]” Kagakushi-Kagakutetsugaku 23: 107-119, 2010. 

Book Chapter

• Wordmap: Philosophy of Mind [in Japanese]

• Critical Thinking for Children [in Japanese], in preparation

Translation

• Jakob Hohwy The Predictive Mind [with others]

3/2024

• Unconscious Pain: A Tentative Framework for Discussion, Philosophy of Medicine: Approaches and Perspectives, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Great Hall, Sofia, Bulgaria. (Online Participation) (Invited)

11/2023

• Two Models of Consciousness and Practical Ethics of Neural Organoid Research [with Ryoji Sato], Tokyo Forum of Analytic Philosophy, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. (Invited)

9/2023

• Moral Enhancement through Indirect Modulation of Emotion [in Japanese], Workshop on Moral Enhancement, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

8/2023

• Moral Enhancement through Indirect Modulation of Emotion, Closed Workshop at National Singapore University, Singapore (Online participation).

• A Critical Assessment of the Methodology in Ethics of Consciousness, Closed Workshop at National Singapore University, Singapore (Online participation).

7/2023

• A Report on the Practice of Japanese Literacy Education (Reading Comprehension) in a Medical School [Poster Presentation with colleagues, in Japanese] Igaku Kyoiku Gakkai, Nagasaki, Japan.12/2022

Mostly for the first year medical students.

• Japanese Literacy (Reading Comprehension)

• Neurophilosophy: An introduction 

• Neuroethics/Bioethics

• Medical English (Reading)

• Medical English (Academic Writing)

• Clinical Reasoning

• Hospital Tour

• Communication with Elderly People

• Presentation

I also teach junior-college nurse students and grad students.