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Participants from the recent IAJP panels at the APA Eastern Conference in New York City, January 2019: Participants in the 1st panel:
Left to right: John Krummel (chair, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, IAJP president), Richard Stone (Hokkaido University), Dennis Stromback (Temple University), Jonathan McKinney (University of Cincinnati), Steve Bein (University of Dayton), Maki Sato (University of Tokyo), James McRae (Westminster College), Zhang Ligeng (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), and Ralf Müller (Hildesheim University).

Participants in the 2nd panel: Left to right:
Victor Forte (Albright College), Steve Bein (University of Dayton), John Krummel (chair, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, IAJP president), and Ralf Müller (Hildesheim University):

The International Association of Japanese Philosophy is very happy with the turnout and success of our sessions at the World Congress of Philosophy held in Beijing, China, this past week. We had eight sessions, all very well attended. We are also proud to announce that the IAJP has been accepted as a member of Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie (International Federation of Philosophical Societies) (FISP), which sponsors the World Congress. This means that we will most certainly be participating in the next World Congress in Melbourne, Australia in 2023.

The International Association of Japanese Philosophy is very happy with the turnout and success of our sessions at the World Congress of Philosophy held in Beijing, China, this past week (August 13-20, 2018). We had eight sessions, all very well attended.

IAJP 2017 Conference: Globalizing Japanese Philosophy from East Asia to the World:
Our 2nd international IAJP conference held at Taipei, Taiwan, July 27-28, 2017, was a huge success with participants from all over the world:

January 13th, 2017

1/13/2017

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IAJP at the APA Eastern Conference, January 4-7, 2017, Baltimore, Maryland at the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel

Panel 1: Wednesday Jan 4 afternoon, 1:00-3:00pm at G2D
Environmental Philosophy – John Krummel (Hobart and William Smith Colleges), Chair

James McRae (Westminster College), “Mutual Flourishing: Japanese Environmental Philosophy and the Current Ecological Crisis.”
Leah Kalmanson (Drake University), "Pure Land Ecology: Taking the Supernatural Seriously in Environmental Philosophy"
Yu Inutsuka (University of Tokyo), "Sensation, Betweenness, Rhythms: Watsuji's Environmental Philosophy and Ethics in Conversation with Heidegger"
John W.M. Krummel (Hobart and William Smith Colleges), comment & questions

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International Conference on Japanese Philosophy Opening up Japanese Philosophy: The Kyoto School and After

1/15/2016

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Our first IAJP (International Association of Japanese Philosophy) International conference was a big success. We had 3 full days of panel sessions from morning to late afternoon. We had participants from all over the world: including not just Japan but also from other parts of Asia (Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Korea, Phillippines), Europe (both Western and Eastern), North America, and South America. Thanks to CY Cheung who worked very hard in organizing the conference. Also thanks goes to Anton Sevilla for setting up the venue for IAJP. There are talks already for another conference next year at a different location.

IAJP at the APA Eastern Conference, January 2016, Washington, DC:

Panel I: Nishida and Watsuji: Wednesday Jan 6 3:00-6:00pm
Chair: John Krummel (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
Part 1 (3pm-4:15pm)

Yingjin Xu (Fudan University, China): “What if Wittgenstein Could Speak Japanese or Even Read Nishida?”
Graham Mayeda (University of Ottawa, Canada): “The Philosopher and the Aesthete: The Similarities and Differences between the Approach of Kuki and Nishida to Religious Experience”
Yuko Ishihara (University of Copenhagen): “Limits of Transcendental Inquiry: The Turn Towards Place in Heidegger and Nishida”

Part 2 (4:20pm-5:50pm)

Carolyn Culbertson (Florida Gulf Coast University): “The Genuine Possibility of Being-with: Watsuji, Heidegger, and the Primacy of Betweenness”
James McRae (Westminster College): “Watsuji Tetsurō and the Unified Theory of Ethics”
Steve Bein (University of Dayton): “Does Climate Change Threaten Being-in-the-World?: a Watsujian and Greimassian Analysis”
Maki Sato (University of Tokyo, Yale University), “In Between Universalism and Particularism”

Panel 2: Topics in Japanese Philosophy: Ancient to Contemporary Friday Jan 8 7:00pm-10:00pm
Chair: Leah Kalmanson (Drake University)
Part 1 (7pm-8:15pm)
Tomoko Iwasawa (Reitaku University, Japan), “The Japanese Kami and Sense of the Sacred”
John Tucker (East Carolina University), “Jin in Tokugawa Confucianism”
Bernard Stevens (Université Catholique de Louvain), “Maruyama Masao and Hannah Arendt” [canceled]
Part 2 (8:20pm-9:35pm)
Curtis Rigsby (University of Guam), “Being and Nothingness in Japan and Beyond”
Anton Luis Sevilla (Kyushu University), “The Educational Possibilities of the Kyoto School of Philosophy”
Takeshi Morisato (University of Leuven), “Metanoesis in Japanese Philosophy: A Way to the Open Community of World Philosophies”

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IAJP sessions at the 2014 Eastern APA:

7/14/2015

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Dec. 28: What is Japanese Philosophy?
Chair: John Krummel (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)

John Krummel (HWS): Philosophy and Japanese Philosophy in the World
Curtis Rigsby (University of Guam): Japanese Philosophy: Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide
Leah Kalmanson (Drake University): What is Tetsugaku?: Japanese Negotiations with the Philosophy-Religion-Pagan Paradigm via Western Colonialism
Ralf Mueller (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany/Kyoto University): Japanese Philosophy—Historiographical or Systematic Specifics?
Bret Davis (Loyola University Maryland): What is (Japanese) Philosophy?

Dec. 29: Topics in Japanese Philosophy
Chair: Leah Kalmanson (Drake University)

Mitsuo Toyoda (Tokyo Institute of Technology): Overcoming Catastrophic Experiences: The Power of Philosophical Dialogue in Schools in Sendai
Takushi Odagiri (Duke University/University of Iowa): Biopolitics of World History: Karatani’s Recent Works
Raquel Bouso (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain): Topological Thinking in a Global and Deterritorialized World
James Mark Shields (Bucknell University): Toward the Creative Nothing: Revisiting Japanese Buddhist-Anarchist Thought
Shigenori Nagatomo (Temple University): Nishida’s Theory of Acting-Intuition

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January 13th, 2017

International Conference​ on Japanese Philosophy Opening up Japanese Philosophy: The Kyoto School and After

IAJP at the APA Eastern Conference, January 2016, Washington, DC:

IAJP sessions at the 2014 Eastern APA:

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