PUBLICATIONS

Tetsuya Kono's
Philosophy and Ethics Office

Books

Collaborations

  • 2017 Noda, K., Yamamoto, Y., and Morita, K. (eds.) Environmental Human Sciences. (in Japanese) Tokyo: Beiseisha publisher.
  • 2017 Noda, K. (ed.) Correspondence: Mind in concord with Nature and the Environment. (in Japanese) Minerva publisher.
  • 2017 Saeed, N. and Rsnani, H. (eds.) History, Theory and Practice of Philosophy for Children: International Perspectives (Routledge Research in Education), Routledge.
  • 2016 Fatić, A. and Amir, L. (Eds.) Practicing Philosophy. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • 2016 Bang, J. and Winther-Lidqvist, D. (Eds.) Nothingness: Philosophical Insights into Psychology (History and Theory of Psychology). New Brunswick and London: Transaction publisher.
  • 2016 Ito, T. (ed.) Philosophy of Mind-Body/Body-Mind Relationship and of the Environment: Thinking through Traditional Asian Thought. (in Japanese) Tokyo： Kyukoshokan publisher.
  • 2016 Noda, K. and Okuno, K. (eds.) Thought on Birds and humans. (in Japanese) Bensei publisher.
  • 2016 Hirai, Y. et al (eds.) Dissecting Bergson’s Matter and Memory. (in Japanese) Tokyo: Shosishinsui publisher.
  • 2016 Ishihara, K. et al. (eds.) Philosophy of Psychiatry. 3 Vols. (in Japanese) Tokyo: the University of Tokyo Press.
  • 2016 Takeshi Morisato (ed.) Critical perspective on Japanese Philosophy, authored, Chisokudo Publications /Createspace Independent Publishing Platform.
  • 2015 Nakamura, Y. (ed.) School Administration and School Library. (in Japanese) Itsukishobo publisher.
  • 2015 Kono, T. at al. Philosophy for Children. (in Japanese) Mainichi Journal Press.
  • 2014 Muganuma, T., Katoda, H., & Kono, T. (eds.) Designing a Society for Pluralistic coexistence. (in Japanese) Tokyo: Gendaishoin publisher.
  • 2014 Matsuba, S. and Nishimura, Y. (eds.) Phenomenological nursing research. (in Japanese) Tokyo: Igakushoin publisher.
  • 2013 Ishihara, K.(ed.) A Research on“Tojisha Research Method.” (in Japanese) Tokyo: Igakushoin publisher.
  • 2013 Shoji, Y. et al. (eds.) Autonomy and Welfare. (in Japanese) Tokyo: Gendaishoin publisher.
  • 2013 Nakayama, T. (ed.) An Encounter of Philosophy with Psychiatry. (in Japanese) Tokyo: Tamagawa University Press.
  • 2013 Murata, J., Sasaki, M., Kono, T., and Someya, M. (eds.) Ecological Turn of Knowledge. 3 Vols. (in Japanese) Tokyo: The University of Tokyo Press.
  • 2008 Kanamori, O. (ed). Comtemporary French Epistemology. (in Japanese) Tokyo: Keio University Press.
  • 2008 Kono, T., Someya, M. and Saito, N. (eds.) The Ontology of the Environment.(in Japanese) Tokyo: Shunjyu-sha publisher.
  • 2008 Murata, J. (ed.) Brain/Mind, Iwanami series of the philosophy vol.5. (in Japanese) Tokyo: Iwanami-shoten publisher.
  • 2006 Murata, J. (ed.) The Philosophy of Technology for the Symbiosis. (in Japanese) Tokyo: Miraisha publisher.
  • 2004 Nobuhara, Y. (ed.) The Philosophy of Mind. Vol.2. (in Japanese) Keiso-shobo publisher.
  • 2002 Watanabe, T., Murata, J., and Takahashi, M. (ed.). The Philosophy of Psychology. (in Japanese) Kitaoji-publisher.
  • 2000 Fornefeld, B. and Dederich, M. (Hrsg.). Menschen mit geistiger Behinderung neu sehen lernen: Asien und Europa im Dialog über Bildung,Integration und Kommunikation. Düsseldof: Verlag selbstbestimmtes leben.

Recent Translations

  • 2014 Nakamura, K. A Disability of the Soul: An Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan. (original text, Cornell University Press, 2003) translated by Isihara, K., T. Kono et al., Tokyo: Igakushoin publisher.
  • 2014 Lipman, M. Thinking in Education. 2ed ed. (original text, Cambridge University Press, 2003) translated by T. Kono et al., Tokyo: Tamagawa University Press.
  • 2014 Lipman, M.et al. Philosophy in the Classroom. (original text, Temple University Press, 1980) translated by T. Kono et al., Tokyo: Kawade-shobo-shinsha publisher.
  • 2013 Cole, J. Still Lives：Narratives of Spinal Cord Injury. (original text, MIT press, 2006) translated by T. Kono et al., Tokyo: Hosei University Press.
  • 2011 Nussbaum, M. Liberty of Consciousness: In Defense of American’s Tradition of Religious Equality. (original text, Basic Book, 2008) translated by T. Kono et al., Tokyo, Keio University Press.
  • 2010 Nussbaum, M. Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law. (original text, Princeton University Press, 2004), translated by T. Kono et al., Tokyo, Keio University Press.
  • 2008 Banister, P. et al.(eds.) Qualitative Methods in Psychology.(original text, Free University Press, 1995), translated by Y. Igarashi, T. Kono et al., Tokyo: Sinyosha.
  • 2005 Danziger, K. Naming the Mind: How Psychology Found Its Language.(original text, Sage publisher, 1997), translated by T. Kono et al., Tokyo: Edition Keiso-shobo.
  • 2004 Gibson, J.J. Reason for Realism: Selected Essays of James J. Gibson.(original text, Laurence Erlbaum, 1982), translated by A. Sakai et T. Kono, Tokyo: Keiso-shobo.
  • 2000 Lombardo, T., The Reciprocity of Perceiver and Environment (original text, LEA, 1987), translated by T. Kozaki, A. Sakai & T. Kono et al., Tokyo: Keiso-shobo.
  • Kono, Tetsuya. (2022) “My Ghost is Intertwined in the Networks: The Problem of Agency and Boundary of Self in Cyberspace”, Philosophy & Cultural Embodiment, Vol.2. (1), pp.31-40. DOI:10.14992/00022149

Recent Articles

  • 2017 “An Ethics for a Society without Exclusion. Shiso. vol.1118, pp.55-70.
  • 2016“Tetsuro Watsuji and Care Ethics: Can they corroborate?”, Critical perspective on Japanese Philosophy , authored by Takeshi Morisato, Chisokudo Publications /Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, pp.363-383.
  • 2016 “Philosophical Practice in Japan” Practicing Philosophy. Fatić, Aleksandar and Amir, Lydia (Eds.) Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.182-202
  • 2015 “A Comment on Andrew C. Papanicolaou’s “BEYOND EDDINGTON’S ARGUMENT”“Integrative Psychology and Behavioral Science, 49, pp. 9-18. DOI 10.1007/s12124-014-9264-4
  • 2014“Extended Mind and After: Socially extended mind and Actor-network”Integrative Psychology and Behavioral Science , 48, pp.48–60. DOI: 10.1007/s12124-013-9242-2.
  • 2012 “Culture, Wilderness, and Homelessness: Eco-Phenomenology 2”Phenomenology and Human Experience. Eds.Chung-chi Yu and Kwok-ying Lau, Nordhausen: Verlag Traugott Bauts GmbH, pp.33-43.
  • 2010 “Personality and Irrationality in Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy”Chiasmi international , 12 (Dec. 2010), pp.261-272.
  • 2010 “The ‘extended mind’ approach for a new paradigm of psychology”, Integrative Psychology and Behavioral Science , 44(2010), pp.329-339.
  • 2009 “Qu’y-a-t-il dans le cerveau?: philosophie du mental écologique.” Ebisu, Études japonaises , 40/41 (2008-2009), numéro spécial, maison Franco-Japonaise, 175-187.
  • 2009 “Social Affordances and the Possibility of Ecological Linguistics”, Integrative Psychology and Behavioral Science , 43(2009), pp.356-373.
  • 2009 “Eco-Phenomenology: Body and Environment”, The Applied Phenomenology, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of Phenomenology for East-Asian Circle , September 2009, pp.73-85.
  • 2009 “Qu’y-a-t-il dans le cerveau?: philosophie du mental écologique.” Ebisu, Études japonaises, 40/41 (2008-2009), numéro spécial, maison Franco-Japonaise, pp.175-187.

Joint research (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science grants)

▼2017‒2021 JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area)
I am serving as the principal investigator for Planning Group C01-P01 of “Construction of the Face-Body Studies in Transcultural Conditions: Cross-Cultural Facial and Body Expression”, which is responsible for developing a “Comparative Phenomenology of Face and Corporeal Expression”. This planning group will analyze from a phenomenological perspective, starting with the views of Edmund Husserl, how physical expression is an embodiment of cultural and social systems and how that defines the intersubjective relationships between individuals, as well as how the physical subject becomes conscious of and interprets the cultural and social systems already integrated into the physical self, how it uses or rejects those systems, and how it transforms them. From this analysis, we intend to develop a general theory of facial and body expression that will provide a theoretical basis for this entire area of innovative scientific research by attempting to establish a comparative phenomenological methodology to look at variations and transformations in embodiment in different social and cultural systems.

▼2017‒2021 JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) (17H00903)
“Laying the Philosophical Foundation for the Study of Case Studies in Ecological Phenomenology and Building an Archive”. Principal investigator. When human beings resolve individual problems with their surroundings, they create and redesign fields of promoted action between the environment and themselves. “Field of promoted action” is a term from ecological psychology signifying the field of actions and learning being promoted in order to adjust the relationship between the environment and the self, thereby resolving the problem. The purpose of this research is to clarify the theoretical structure of basic environmental units relevant to solving various problems by analyzing, collecting and categorizing processes of creating and redesigning fields of promoted action from the perspective of ecological phenomenology and to prepare a framework for archiving examples of those environmental units for study.

▼2016‒2018 JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (16H03091)
“Social Basis of Psychiatry: An interdisciplinary study of the significance and impact of the dialogical approaches to psychiatry”. Research project member. Given new developments in community-based dialogical approaches to psychiatry, the purpose of this research is to question psychiatry’s basic assumptions by evaluating the impact of these approaches on how psychiatry is practiced and understood. Using a methodology based mainly on field studies, this research will explore the impact and significance of dialogical approaches on psychiatry and other fields by clarifying their structure and characteristics.

▼2016‒2018 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (16H03338)
“Theoretical and Applied Research on the Development of Younger Researchers and Gender Equality in the Field of Philosophy”. Principal investigator. The purpose of this research, which will mainly be performed by the members of Philosophical Association of Japan’s Working Group on Supporting Gender Equality and Young Researcher Development (WG), is to implement philosophical and theoretical improvements related to gender equality and the training of younger researchers in the field of philosophy and thought and, at the same time, to develop methods to ensure further progress on these issues.

▼2016‒2018 Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research (16K13151)
“Global Dissemination of a New Eastern Mind-Body Theory and Ecological Embodiment Model”. Principal investigator. (Direct expenses ¥2,600,000.) This research will deconstruct philosophy of mind and mind sciences from the perspective of an ecological embodiment model that merges a new Eastern mind-body theory, philosophy of mind and mind sciences, and globally disseminate a new paradigm for philosophy of mind and mind sciences.