Updated on 2023/12/01

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Stone, Richard
 
Affiliation
Faculty of International Research and Education, School of International Liberal Studies
Job title
Assistant Professor(non-tenure-track)
Degree
博士（文学） ( 2021.03 北海道大学文学研究科 )

Research Experience

  • 2022.04
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    Now

    Waseda University   School of International Liberal Studies   Assistant Professor (Non-tenure Track)

  • 2021.08
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    2022.03

    Hokkaido University   Nitobe College (Graduate Course)   Specially Appointed Assistant Professor

Education Background

  • 2016.04
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    2021.03

    Hokkaido University   Graduate School of Letters   Division of Philosophy and Cultural Sciences  

    Philosophy and Ethics (Doctoral Program)

  • 2014.04
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    2016.03

    Hokkaido University   Graduate School of Letters   Division of Philosophy and Cultural Sciences  

    Philosophy and Ethics

  • 2008.08
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    2012.12

    University of Nevada, Reno  

Committee Memberships

  • 2020.01
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    Now

    European Journal of Japanese Philosophy  EJJP Editorial Committee (Book Review Editor)

Professional Memberships

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    Network on Naturalism, Modernity, and Civilization

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    European Network of Japanese Philosophy

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    Nishida Philosophy Association

Research Areas

  • History of thought / Philosophy and ethics

Research Interests

  • Nishidian Philosophy

  • Selfhood and Personal Identity

  • Contemporary Ethics

  • Japanese Philosophy

 

Papers

  • The Politics of Pure Experience: Individual and State in An Inquiry into the Good

    Richard Stone

    Asian Studies   11 ( 3 ) 177 - 202  2023.09  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author

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    In this contribution, I shall attempt to clearly work out the political implications of Nishida Kitaro’s theory of pure experience in An Inquiry into the Good. This effort comes in response to the multitude of vastly different claims about the political meaning and dangers of Nishida’s early philosophy. Is it an implicit foundation for Japanese nationalism and the seeds of the controversial political philosophy he would work out later? Or is it a subtle attempt to critique the nationalist philosophy and educational policies surrounding Nishida while he was writing in the Meiji era? Or, perhaps most obviously, is this work unconnected with any and all political matters (including those that Nishida would face later on in his life)? In this paper, I shall argue that, although there is good reason to endorse any of these claims, ultimately a balanced assessment will find that Nishida’s early philosophy was indeed apolitical in nature, and that attempts to claim the contrary inevitably either go beyond textual evidence or miss key elements of his thought. Yet, as I shall further argue, being apolitical hardly means that Nishida’s work has no political consequences. Instead, for better or worse, the defining characteristic of Nishida’s early political philosophy is its capacity to allow readers to transcend such political issues.

    DOI

  • Pure experience revisited: A critical reassessment of Nishida Kitaro's radicalization of William James' empiricism

    Richard Stone, Andrea Altobrando

    The Philosophical Forum    2023.03  [Refereed]

    DOI

  • Living in the Age of the Automatic Sweetheart: A Brief Survey on the Ethics of Sexual Robotics

    Richard Stone

    Journal of Applied Ethics and Philosophy   13 ( 1 ) 21 - 30  2022.04  [Refereed]

  • Nishida Kitarō’s Two True Selves: Revisiting Self, Meaning, and Method in an Inquiry Into The Good

    Richard Stone

    Journal of Japanese Philosophy   8 ( 1 ) 47 - 71  2022  [Refereed]

    DOI

  • 大西祝における個人と国家との関係の一考察―「良心」概念の分析を通して

    哲学年報   67 ( 1 ) 1 - 20  2021.11

    Authorship：Lead author

  • The Middle Path and Pure Experience: A Re-Evaluation of the “Beginning” of Modern Japanese Philosophy

    Richard Stone

    The Journal of East Asian Philosophy   1 ( 1-2 ) 15 - 29  2021.05  [Refereed]

    DOI

  • Self-Abandonment as Self-Realization

    Richard Stone

    The Realizations of the Self    2018.11

  • Independence and Self-Realization: The Background of the Early Nishida’s Individualism”

    Richard Stone

    European Journal of Japanese Philosophy   3   31 - 56  2018.09  [Refereed]

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Books and Other Publications

  • The Realizations of the Self

    ( Part： Joint editor)

    Palgrave MacMillan  2018.11

Presentations

  • Monsters and Metaphysics: Rethinking Philosophy’s Relation to the Supernatural with Inoue Enryo as a Guide

    Richard Stone

    (Workshop) Alternative Approaches to Phenomenology and Metaphysics 

    Presentation date： 2023.02

  • A Reconstruction of Onishi Hajime's Concept of Conscience: What is the Moral Ideal?

    Richard Stone

    北海道大学哲学会・北海道哲学会共催研究発表会 

    Presentation date： 2022.12

  • 大西祝における個人と国家との関係―「良心」概念の分 析を通して」

    リチャード・ストーン

    北海道大学哲学会 

    Presentation date： 2019.12

  • Re-Evaluating the "Beginning" of Japanese Philosophy: Inoue Tetsujiro, Inoue Enryo, and Nishida Kitarō

    Richard Stone

    5th anuual conference for the European Network of Japanese Philosophy 

    Presentation date： 2019.08

  • The True Self and the I-novel: Re-reading an Inquiry into the Good in the Context of Early Modern Japanese Literature

    Richard Stone

    American Philosophical Association Eastern Conference (International Association for Japanese Philosophy Session) 

    Presentation date： 2019.01

  • Life-Problems: Individualism and Questions of the Meaning of Life in Meiji Japan

    Richard Stone

    First International Conference on Philosophy and Meaning in Life 

    Presentation date： 2018.08

  • The Problem of the Individual in An Inquiry into the Good – as seen from the perspective of Meiji Individualism

    Richard Stone

    Northern Japanese Philosophy Research Group 

    Presentation date： 2017.08

  • “Historical Embodied Action and the Emergence of the Self: Nishida’s Theory of the Historical Body

    Richard Stone

    International Conference on Japanese Philosophy: The Kyoto School and After 

    Presentation date： 2016.10

  • The Development of the Term Self-Awareness: Through the Lens of Tanabe’s Criticism of Nishida

    Richard Stone  [Invited]

    Annual Conference of the Nishida Philosophy Association 

    Presentation date： 2015.07

    Event date：
    2015.07
    　
    　

  • Self-Abandonment as Self-Realization

    Richard Stone

    International Conference: The Self and its Realizations 

    Presentation date： 2015.05

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Misc

  • （研究ノート）セックスロボットをめぐる倫理的問題 : 「表象の問題」と「治療としての可能性」を中心に

    Richard Stone

      13   45 - 57  2022.06  [Refereed]

    Rapid communication, short report, research note, etc. (scientific journal)  

    DOI

  • TARB book review: Takeshi Morisato, Faith and Reason in Continental and Japanese Philosophy: Reading Tanabe Hajime and William Desmond

    Richard Stone

    Tokyo Academic Review of Books   12   1 - 1  2021.03

    DOI

 

Syllabus

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Teaching Experience

  • Studies in Individualism

    Waseda University  

    2022.10
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    Now
     

  • Modern Japanese Philosophical Thought

    Waseda University  

    2022.10
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    Now
     

  • The Ethics of Environment and Technology

    Waseda University  

    2022.04
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    Now
     

  • Freshman Seminar B

    Waseda University  

    2022.04
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    Now
     

  • Ethics and Citizenship

    Waseda University  

    2022.04
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    Now
     

  • Introduction to Ethics

    Waseda University  

    2022.04
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    Now
     

  • 哲学

    浦河十字看護専門学校  

    2021.11
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    2021.12
     

  • English Seminar (Advanced): An Introduction to Philosophical Thinking

    Hokkaido University  

    2021.04
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    2021.07
     

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Internal Special Research Projects

  • Conscience in the Meiji Period: Focusing on Onishi Hajime

    2022  

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    In this research project, I aimed to provide a reconstruction of Onishi Hajime’s (大西祝, 1864-1901) notion of conscience (良心) and, in doing so, grant scholars both internationally and abroad a new foothold with which to consider the development of modern Japanese ethical thought. With the help of this funding, I was able to engage in precise textual research on Onishi’s thought and establish the three core elements that make up his thought as an amalgamation of (1) a Kantian notion of reason, (2) Relational Ontological Principles, and (3) Teleological Views of Evolution. The results of this investigation have been presented first at the Hokkaido Philosophy Association’s Bi-Annual Research Group under the title “A Reconstruction of Onishi Hajime’s Concept of Conscience: What is the Moral Ideal? (大西祝における良心概念の再構築―道徳的理想とは何か？).” Additionally, two scholarly articles are currently being prepared for submission to international journals.