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Miyahara Katsunori
| Center for Human Nature Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience | Associate Professor |
| Research Center of Mathematics for Social Creativity | Associate Professor |
Researcher basic information
■ Degree■ URL
researchmap URLホームページURL■ Various IDs
Researcher number
- 00772047
Research Keyword
- Philosophy of cognitive science
- enactivism
- enactive approach
- Philosophy and ethics of AI
- phenomenology
- embodied cognition
- self
- skill
- habit
- consciousness
- perception
- pain
Career
■ CareerCareer
- Apr. 2024 - Present
Hokkaido University, Center for Human Nature, Artificial Intelligence, and Neuroscience (CHAIN), Associate Professor - Apr. 2020 - Mar. 2024
Hokkaido University, Center for Human Nature, Artificial Intelligence, and Neuroscience (CHAIN), Specially Appointed Lecturer, Japan - Sep. 2018 - Mar. 2020
University of Wollongong, School of Liberal Arts, Post-doctoral Researcher, Australia - Apr. 2016 - Mar. 2020
The University of Tokyo, 総合文化研究科, 学術研究員 - Aug. 2016 - Aug. 2018
Harvard University, Department of Philosophy, Fellow in Philosophy, United States - Apr. 2016 - Jul. 2016
Rikkyo University, College of Arts, 兼任講師 - Apr. 2013 - Mar. 2016
Rikkyo University, College of Arts, 日本学術振興会特別研究員（PD） - Apr. 2013 - Mar. 2014
Sophia University, Center for Language Education and Research, 非常勤講師
- Apr. 2008 - Mar. 2013, The University of Tokyo, 総合文化研究科, 広域科学専攻 博士課程
- Apr. 2006 - Mar. 2008, The University of Tokyo, 総合文化研究科, 広域科学専攻 修士課程
- Apr. 2001 - Mar. 2006, The University of Tokyo, College of Arts and Sciences
Research activity information
■ Awards■ Papers
- Embodying the narrative self, narrating the embodied self
Shogo Tanaka; Sotaro Shimada; Katsunori Miyahara
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 28 Apr. 2026, [Peer-reviewed], [International Magazine]
English, Scientific journal - Narrative Imprisonment
Katsunori Miyahara; Shogo Tanaka
Topoi, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 06 Nov. 2025, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited]
English, Scientific journal, 44081520;49731080 - Instrumental, Intrinsic, and Functional Scarcity
Katsunori Miyahara; Hayate Shimizu
Philosophy & Technology, 38, 3, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 11 Jul. 2025, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal, 37060174 - Attentional bias towards smartphone stimuli is associated with decreased interoceptive awareness and increased physiological reactivity.
Yusuke Haruki; Katsunori Miyahara; Kenji Ogawa; Keisuke Suzuki
Communications psychology, 3, 1, 42, 42, 17 Mar. 2025, [Peer-reviewed], [International Magazine]
English, Scientific journal, Excessive smartphone use has been linked to negative psychological outcomes and may also be associated with cognitive impairments and disruptions in mind-body interaction, though the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we investigated attentional bias towards marginal smartphone stimuli and its relationship with interoceptive awareness and physiological cue reactivity in healthy young adults. Fifty-eight participants completed a letter detection task with varying perceptual loads, during which task-irrelevant smartphone-related or scrambled images were presented in the background. Cardiac responses were recorded to assess physiological reactivity. Participants also completed two questionnaires for interoceptive awareness and self-report smartphone addiction. Using a designed and automated clustering based on behavioural responses, participants were classified into two groups: one group exhibited distraction from smartphone background only under low perceptual load, while the other showed consistent attentional bias regardless of load. Notably, the latter group reported significantly lower interoceptive awareness and higher smartphone addiction scores. Additionally, they exhibited heart rate acceleration in response to smartphone stimuli, indicating heightened arousal, whereas the former group showed heart rate deceleration. These findings demonstrate that consistent attentional bias towards smartphone stimuli is associated with reduced interoceptive awareness, specifically a decreased tendency to notice and trust internal bodily sensations, and increased physiological reactivity. - Bridging Perception and Language: A Systematic Benchmark for LVLMs' Understanding of Amodal Completion Reports.
Amane Watahiki; Tomoki Doi; Taiga Shinozaki; Satoshi Nishida; Takuya Niikawa; Katsunori Miyahara; Hitomi Yanaka
CogSci, 2025
International conference proceedings - Empathy through Listening
SEISUKE HAYAKAWA; KATSUNORI MIYAHARA
Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 11, 2, 287, 302, Cambridge University Press (CUP), 12 Nov. 2024, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author], [International Magazine]
English, Scientific journal, We often seek empathy from others by asking them to listen to our stories. But what exactly is the role of listening in empathy? One might think that it is merely a means for the empathizer to gather rich information about the empathized. We shall rather argue that listening is an embodied action, one that plays a significant role in empathic perspective-taking. We make our case via a descriptive analysis of a paradigm case of empathy mediated by listening or what we can call empathy through listening. On our view, empathy through listening involves three distinctive features: (1) dynamic unfolding, (2) collaboration, and (3) mutual perspective reshaping. Listening contributes to this process by initiating and sustaining a feedback loop of receptivity that occurs between empathizing and empathized agents., 44081520 - Neural correlates of phenomenological attitude toward perceptual experience
Satoshi Nishida; Hiro Taiyo Hamada; Takuya Niikawa; Katsunori Miyahara
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 10 Jul. 2024
Abstract
Phenomenology is one of the most promising approaches to study conscious experience. It holds that a rigorous study of conscious experience requires a transition in the subject from the “natural attitude” (NA) to the “phenomenological attitude” (PA). NA describes our ordinary stance, in which our attention is directed at external objects and events. PA is a distinctive, reflective stance in which our attention is directed at our conscious experience itself. Despite its theoretical importance in philosophy and science of consciousness, the neural mechanisms underlying PA remain unknown. To clarify this point, we developed a novel behavioral task in which participants alternate between NA and PA in relation to their stimulus-evoked subjective experiences. Participants are presented with two sentences and requested to identify the one that best captures their experience. These sentences are designed to induce either NA or PA. We found that participants had lower error rates but slower reaction times in the PA condition compared to the NA condition, suggesting a difference beyond task difficulty. Using fMRI, we also found that multivoxel activation patterns in the premotor cortex, posterior parietal cortex, supplementary motor area, and cerebellum successfully classified the task conditions. Furthermore, the activation strength in these regions was lower in the PA condition, indicating that PA depends on neural processes that suppress action-related information. These findings provide the first evidence for the neural signature of PA, contributing to a better understanding of phenomenological method and its underlying neural mechanisms.
Significance statement
Phenomenology is one of the most promising approaches to study conscious experience. A key step is a transition from the natural attitude (NA)—where our attention is directed at external objects and events—to the phenomenological attitude (PA)—where our attention is directed toward our conscious experience itself. However, the neural processes underlying PA remain unclear. This study aimed to clarify this point by analyzing fMRI signals measured during a cognitive task that forced participants to repeatedly alternate between NA and PA. We observed that multiple action-related brain regions exhibited different activation patterns between NA and PA. Our findings provide the first neuroscientific evidence that illuminates the core process of the phenomenological method. - Narrative self-constitution as embodied practice
Katsunori Miyahara; Shogo Tanaka
Philosophical Psychology, 38, 4, 1731, 1755, Informa UK Limited, 25 Nov. 2023, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
English, Scientific journal, 44081520 - What’s wrong with treating a large language model as an agent?
Katsunori Miyahara
第37回人工知能学会全国大会論文集, Jun. 2023, [Lead author, Corresponding author]
Japanese - Who tailors the blanket?
Keisuke Suzuki; Katsunori Miyahara; Kengo Miyazono
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, e213, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Oct. 2022, [International Magazine]
English, Scientific journal, Abstract
The gap between the Markov blanket and ontological boundaries arises from the former's inability to capture the dynamic process through which biological and cognitive agents actively generate their own boundaries with the environment. Active inference in the free-energy principle (FEP) framework presupposes the existence of a Markov blanket, but it is not a process that actively generates the latter. - Situated self-awareness in expert performance: a situated normativity account of riken no ken
Katsunori Miyahara; Miguel Segundo-Ortin
Synthese, 200, 192, Apr. 2022, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited], [Lead author], ［Internationally co-authored］, [International Magazine]
English, Scientific journal, 31657423 - Functions of consciousness: conceptual clarification
Takuya Niikawa; Katsunori Miyahara; Hiro Taiyo Hamada; Satoshi Nishida
Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2022, 1, Oxford University Press (OUP), 29 Mar. 2022, [Peer-reviewed], [Corresponding author]
English, Scientific journal, Abstract
There are many theories of the functions of consciousness. How these theories relate to each other, how we should assess them, and whether any integration of them is possible are all issues that remain unclear. To contribute to a solution, this paper offers a conceptual framework to clarify the theories of the functions of consciousness. This framework consists of three dimensions: (i) target, (ii) explanatory order, and (iii) necessity/sufficiency. The first dimension, target, clarifies each theory in terms of the kind of consciousness it targets. The second dimension, explanatory order, clarifies each theory in terms of how it conceives of the explanatory relation between consciousness and function. The third dimension, necessity/sufficiency, clarifies each theory in terms of the necessity/sufficiency relation posited between consciousness and function. We demonstrate the usefulness of this framework by applying it to some existing scientific and philosophical theories of the functions of consciousness. - The Pragmatic Intelligence of Habits
Katsunori Miyahara; Ian Robertson
Topoi, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 29 Jan. 2021, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author]
English, Scientific journal - Wax On, Wax Off! Habits, Sport Skills, and Motor Intentionality
Massimiliano Lorenzo Cappuccio; Katsunori Miyahara; Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza
Topoi, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 20 Nov. 2020, [Peer-reviewed]
Scientific journal - Developing a short-term phenomenological training program: A report of methodological lessons
Katsunori Miyahara; Takuya Niikawa; Hiroaki Hamada; Satoshi Nishida
New Ideas in Psychology, 58, Aug. 2020, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
English, Scientific journal, We discuss our attempts to develop a short-term phenomenological training program for training naïve participants in phenomenological skills. After reviewing existing methodologies for collecting phenomenological data and clarifying the benefit of the short-term training approach, we present two training programs and two experiments that tested their effectiveness. Experiment 1 tested the two-stage training program, which consists of (i) the illusion training which instructs participants to describe the experience of a visual illusion and (ii) the guidance training which offers individualized feedbacks for improving their description. This program proved effective, but also excessively skill-demanding. Experiment 2 tested the one-stage training program, consisting only of the illusion training; it was easier to use, but exhibited a smaller training effect. The paper concludes by delineating methodological lessons from the experiments focusing on three themes: (i) Individual difference in phenomenological aptitude; (ii) Bounded transferability of phenomenological skills; (iii) Active intervention in the learning process. - A new experimental phenomenological method to explore the subjective features of psychological phenomena: its application to binocular rivalry
Takuya Niikawa; Katsunori Miyahara; Hiro Taiyo Hamada; Satoshi Nishida
Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2020, 1, Oxford University Press (OUP), 01 Jan. 2020, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal,Abstract
The subjective features of psychological phenomena have been studied intensively in experimental science in recent years. Although various methods have been proposed to identify subjective features of psychological phenomena, there are elusive subjective features such as the spatiotemporal structure of experience, which are difficult to capture without some additional methodological tools. We propose a new experimental method to address this challenge, which we call the contrast-based experimental phenomenological method (CEP). CEP proceeds in four steps: (i) front-loading phenomenology, (ii) online second-personal interview, (iii) questionnaire survey, and (iv) hypotheses testing. It differs from other experimental phenomenological methods in that it takes advantage of phenomenal contrasts in collecting phenomenological data. In this paper, we verify the validity and productivity of this method by applying it to binocular rivalry (BR). The study contributes to empirical research on BR in three respects. First, it provides additional evidence for existing propositions about the subjective features of BR: e.g. the proposition that the temporal dynamics of the experience depend upon subject-dependent parameters such as attentional change. Second, it deepens our understanding of the spatiotemporal structures of the transition phase of BR. Third, it elicits new research questions about depth experience and individual differences in BR. The presence of such contributions demonstrates the validity and productivity of CEP., 31657488 - Missing Out On the Radicalism of Neurophenomenology?
Katsunori Miyahara
CONSTRUCTIVIST FOUNDATIONS, 11, 2, 368, 370, Mar. 2016, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited]
English, Scientific journal - Phenomenology of enaction: thing-perception and other-perception as embodied action
Katsunori Miyahara
東京大学大学院総合文化研究科, Nov. 2015, [Peer-reviewed]
Japanese, Doctoral thesis - Perceiving other agents: Passive experience for seeing the other body as the other’s body
Katsunori Miyahara
現象学年報, 31, 23, 32, 日本現象学会, Nov. 2015, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Perception and the problem of access to other minds
Nivedita Gangopadhyay; Katsunori Miyahara
PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 28, 5, 695, 714, Jul. 2015, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Phenomenology of suboptimal seeing: Towards an enactive unification of the sciences of perception
Katsunori Miyahara
MORALIA, 20-21, 211, 232, 東北大学倫理学研究会, 2014, [Invited]
Japanese, Research institution - Embodied Cognition of Others : Defending the Theoretical Value of a Radical Interaction Theory of Social Cognition
Katsunori Miyahara
哲学・科学史論叢, 14, 205, 234, 東京大学教養学部哲学・科学史部会, 2012, [Peer-reviewed]
Japanese, Research institution - Neo-pragmatic intentionality and enactive perception: a compromise between extended and enactive minds
Katsunori Miyahara
PHENOMENOLOGY AND THE COGNITIVE SCIENCES, 10, 4, 499, 519, Dec. 2011, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - In What Sense Is Perception Active? : A Phenomenological Response to Enactivism
Katsunori Miyahara
Archive for philosophy and the history of science, 12, 143, 172, 東京大学教養学部哲学・科学史部会, 2010, [Peer-reviewed]
Japanese, Research institution - Perception and concept: a phenomenological argument for non-conceptual content
Katsunori Miyahara
Perception and concept: a phenomenological argument for non-conceptual content, 25, 125, 132, 日本現象学会, 2009, [Peer-reviewed]
Japanese, Scientific journal
- 身体性から見る人間とAIの相違点
宮原克典, 公益財団法人トヨタ財団 広報誌, 50, Jan. 2026, [Invited], [Lead author], [Domestic magazines]
Japanese - In praise of habits – so much more than mindless reflexes
Ian Robertson; Katsunori Miyahara, Aeon Psyche, 26 Jul. 2021, [Invited], [International Magazine]
English, Introduction commerce magazine - Inside Moebius: living without facial expression
Jonathan Cole; lated by; Katsunori Miyahara, 現代思想, 38, 12, 230, 245, 2010, [Invited]
青土社, Japanese, Others
- Discerning Genuine and Artificial Sociality: A Technomoral Wisdom to Live with Chatbots
Miyahara, Katsunori; Shimizu, Hayate, Chapter 22 "Discerning Genuine and Artificial Sociality: A Technomoral Wisdom to Live with Chatbots"
Springer, May 2026, 373–387, English, Chatbots powered by large language models (LLMs) are increasingly capable of engaging in what seems like natural conversations with humans. This raises the question of whether we should interact with these chatbots in a morally considerate manner. In this chapter, we examine how to answer this question from within the normative framework of virtue ethics. In the literature, two kinds of virtue ethics arguments, the moral cultivation and the moral character argument, have been advanced to argue that we should afford moral treatment to social robots. However, we propose a moral character argument against the view that we should afford moral treatment to LLM-based chatbots drawing on the notion of practical wisdom. Practical wisdom in this context consists in the skill to discern genuine and artificial sociality. Drawing on ideas from phenomenological philosophy, we argue that this involves the ability to distance oneself from direct social perception and the ability to widen one’s awareness over one’s apparently social interactions. We conclude by suggesting that this skill is a kind of technomoral wisdom required to live well with advanced, social AI systems., 37060174, [Peer-reviewed], [Contributor] - Symbol Emergence Systems: An Interdisciplinary Discussion about Cognition, Language and Society
Miyahara, Katsunori; Niikawa, Takuya, Part 4-2 Enactivism: Cognition as non-representational, embodied action; Part 5-5 Emerging ethics: The future of ethics from the symbol emergence systems perspective
Springer, Mar. 2026, [Contributor] - Care Ethics and Beyond: Moral, Epistemological, and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Miyahara, Katsunori, Chapter 14 Enacting Epistemic Respect: Reconciling Care and Respect
Palgrave Macmillan Cham, Jan. 2026, 44081520, [Contributor] - Considering, Questioning and Reimagining Harmony
Yuko Ishihara; Katsunori Miyahara, Chapter 8 Real harmony of the self: Enactivism and the Kyoto School
Bloomsbury Publishing, Oct. 2025, 9781350453234, 44081520, [Contributor] - Knowers and Knowledge in East-West Philosophy: Epistemology Extended (Palgrave Studies in Comparative East-West Philosophy)
Karyn L. Lai, Chapter 15 "Dreyfus and Zeami on embodied expertise"
Palgrave Macmillan, 02 Oct. 2021, 3030793486, 385, 345–366, English, Scholarly book, [Peer-reviewed], [Contributor] - Body schema and body image : new directions
Ataria, Yochai; Tanaka, Shogo; Gallagher, Shaun, Chapter 18 Body-schema and pain (pp. 301–315)
Oxford University Press, Jun. 2021, 9780198851721, xxix, 353 p., 301–315, English, Scholarly book, [Peer-reviewed], [Contributor] - Habit: Pragmatist Approaches from Cognitive Neurosciences to Social Sciences
Miyahara, Katsunori; Ransom, Tailer G; Gallagher, Shaun, What the situation affords: Habit and heedful interrelations in skilled performance (pp. 120–136)
Cambridge University Press, Dec. 2020, English, Scholarly book, We explore different modes of experience in performance, including various experiences of flow, heedful performance, and habit. In contrast to conceptions that take habit to be automatic or a more-or-less rote repetition of behavior, Dewey and Merleau-Ponty consider habit to be a general bodily responsiveness to the world. Dewey's conception of intelligent habit involves a thoughtful attitude of care and attunement to the parameters of the task. Merleau-Ponty likewise describes habit as being both motor and perceptual. Habit is an open and adaptive way in which the body learns to cope with familiar situations in ways that involve some degree of heedful performance. The deployment of a motor habit, for example, adapts to the specific contour of the situation – different situations make different demands on how the habitual task, here and now, ought to be achieved. This conception of habit meshes well with ecological affordance-based accounts of action and perception., ［Internationally co-authored］, [Peer-reviewed], [Contributor] - 共生のための障害の哲学II
宮原克典, 痒みの現象学試論：アトピー性皮膚炎の当事者研究の試み
東京大学大学院総合文化研究科附属 共生のための国際哲学研究センター, Mar. 2016, 158, 143-154, Japanese, Scholarly book, [Contributor] - Still Lives: Narratives of Spinal Cord Injury
Jonathan Cole
法政大学出版局, Oct. 2013, [Joint translation] - 知の生態学的転回第1巻 身体：環境とのエンカウンター
佐々木正人, 第9章 『頭の外』で考えることはできるか？
東京大学出版会, Jun. 2013, 283, 197-218, Japanese, Scholarly book, [Contributor] - Action, Perception and the Brain: Adaptation and Cephalic Expression.
Katsunori Miyahara, Chapter 5 Neo-pragmatism and Enactive Intentionality (with Shaun Gallagher)
Palgrave-Macmillan, 2012, 117-146, English, Scholarly book, [Contributor] - The Phenomenological Mind: An Introduction to Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science
Shaun Gallagher; Dan Zahavi
勁草書房, Dec. 2011, Japanese, Scholarly book, [Joint translation] - メルロ=ポンティ――はじまりの哲学／哲学（KAWADE 道の手帖）
メルロ=ポンティ『行動の構造』：著作解題
河出書房新社, Feb. 2010, Japanese, General book, [Contributor]
- Embodied agency at the cellular scale: a body-schema perspective on testate amoeba behaviors
Katsunori Miyahara; Norihiko Kamaya
International Conference on Embodied Cognitive Science 2025, 12 Nov. 2025, English, Oral presentation
10 Nov. 2025 - 14 Nov. 2025, 44081520 - Testate amoeba and the body-schema: An embodied approach to minimal agency
Katsunori Miyahara; Norihiko Kamaya
3rd Annual Web Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind (ISPSM 2025), 27 Oct. 2025, The International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind, English, Oral presentation
25 Oct. 2025 - 27 Oct. 2025, 44081520, [International presentation] - What are we asking when we ask about artificial agency?
Katsunori Miyahara
3rd Workshop on Philosophy and AI, 11 Oct. 2025, English, Invited oral presentation
11 Oct. 2025 - 12 Oct. 2025, [Invited] - Respect for human autonomy in Human-AI decision making: an evaluative framework
Katsunori Miyahara
Conference 2025 "Responsible AI in Health Care", 12 Sep. 2025, English, Oral presentation
11 Sep. 2025 - 12 Sep. 2025, 37060174 - Non-neural body-schema in testate amoeba
Katsunori Miyahara
Living Intelligence @CASIP, 02 Sep. 2025, English, Invited oral presentation
02 Sep. 2025 - 03 Sep. 2025, 44081520, [Invited] - Hermeneutical reflection for reclaiming our humanity
Katsunori Miyahara
Workshop "Envisioning the future of AI society: From a technical to a technosocial vision", 21 Jul. 2025, English, Invited oral presentation
21 Jul. 2025 - 24 Jul. 2025, 49366339, [Invited] - 偽情報・誤情報がむしばむ自律性 関係的自律の視点から
宮原克典
第39回人工知能学会全国大会, 28 May 2025, Japanese, Oral presentation
27 May 2025 - 30 May 2025, 37060174;49731080 - 記述文選択タスクによる大規模視覚言語モデルのアモーダル補完能力の評価
綿引周; 土井智暉; 篠崎大河; 西田知史; 新川拓哉; 宮原克典; 谷中瞳
言語処理学会 第31回年次大会, 13 Mar. 2025, Japanese, Oral presentation
10 Mar. 2025 - 14 Mar. 2025 - エナクティヴィズムと触覚のメソドロジー
宮原克典
触覚の社会学研究会ワークショップ「触覚論のメソドロジー」, 10 Feb. 2025, Japanese
10 Feb. 2025 - 10 Feb. 2025 - 痛みと痒みの現象学
宮原克典
第1回かゆみの哲学研究会, 07 Feb. 2025, Japanese, Oral presentation
06 Feb. 2025 - 07 Feb. 2025, 福岡県福岡市, [Invited], [Domestic Conference] - エポケーとは何をすることか：実証的アプローチの可能性
宮原克典; 新川拓哉; 濱田太陽; 西田知史
日本現象学会 第46回研究大会, 16 Nov. 2024, Japanese, Oral presentation
16 Nov. 2024 - 17 Nov. 2024, 49731080;44081520 - 主体感はどう⽣成されるか：意図と環境のダイナミズムを探る
宮原克典
第22回日本神経理学療法学会, 29 Sep. 2024, Japanese, Nominated symposium
28 Sep. 2024 - 29 Sep. 2024, [Invited] - Making AI respect human autonomy
Katsunori Miyahara
International workshop on philosophy and ethics of AI, 06 Sep. 2024, English, Invited oral presentation
06 Sep. 2024 - 07 Sep. 2024, 37060174, [Invited] - Discerning genuine and artificial sociality
Katsunori Miyahara; Hayate Shimizu
The 5th Conference of Philosophy of AI (PhAI 2023), 16 Dec. 2023, English, Oral presentation
15 Dec. 2023 - 16 Dec. 2023, 37060174 - A virtue ethics argument for the moral standing of LLMs?
Katsunori Miyahara; Hayate Shimizu
1st Annual Web Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind (ISPSM), 24 Nov. 2023, English, Oral presentation
24 Nov. 2023 - 02 Dec. 2023, 37060174 - Enacting respect in empathy
Katsunori Miyahara
New Directions in Situated Cognition, 30 Nov. 2023, Chinese Academy of Science Institute of Philosophy, English, Invited oral presentation
30 Nov. 2023 - 01 Dec. 2023, Chinese Academy of Science Institute of Philosophy, China, [Invited], [International presentation] - Enacting respect in empathy
Katsunori Miyahara
International Conference on Embodied Cognitive Science (ECogs 2023), 13 Nov. 2023, English, Invited oral presentation
13 Nov. 2023 - 17 Nov. 2023, [Invited] - On respect in empathy: an enactive proposal
Katsunori Miyahara
Exploring New Dimensions of Empathy and Care Ethics, 18 Oct. 2023, English, Invited oral presentation
16 Oct. 2023 - 18 Oct. 2023, [Invited] - 物語的自己の身体性
宮原克典
日本認知科学会第40回大会, 09 Sep. 2023, Japanese, Public symposium
07 Sep. 2023 - 09 Sep. 2023, 31657489, [Invited], [Domestic Conference] - Exploring neural signature of the phenomenological attitude toward conscious experience
Katsunori Miyahara; Hiro Hamada; Takuya Niikawa; Satoshi Nishida
Consciousness Research Network 2023, 26 Aug. 2023, English, Poster presentation
26 Aug. 2023 - 28 Aug. 2023 - Sympathy for LaMDA: Moral considerations for large language models?
Katsunori Miyahara; Hayate Shimizu
The 23rd biennial international conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, 07 Jun. 2023, Society for Philosophy and Technology, English, Oral presentation
07 Jun. 2023 - 10 Jun. 2023, 国立オリンピック記念青少年総合センター, Japan, [International presentation] - 大規模言語モデルを主体として扱うことの何がいけないのか？
宮原克典
2023年度人工知能学会全国大会（第37回）, 06 Jun. 2023, 人工知能学会, Japanese, Public symposium
06 Jun. 2023 - 09 Jun. 2023, 熊本城ホール(熊本県熊本市) ＋ オンライン, Japan, 37060174, [Domestic Conference] - Narrative self and the habituality of the body
Katsunori Miyahara
ENSO Seminar Series, 18 May 2023, English, Invited oral presentation
18 May 2023, According to narrative views of the self, we construct our identity by developing self-narratives. Many also hold that our identity as an embodied subject is shaped through bodily interactions with the world. However, existing theories of the self leave it largely unclear how self-narratives and the body work together in this process. I present a novel account on this issue by drawing on Merleau-Ponty’s conception of the body and habits. For him, the body has an inherent tendency to cultivate an organization of habits through its history of engagement with the world. Furthermore, these organizations of habits shape the subject’s general relationship with the world. I argue that the narrative self is grounded in this habituality of the body in two respects. First, narrative self-conceptions are typically informed by reflections upon pre-existing habitual patterns of interactions. Second, self-narrating is typically itself an embodied and embedded practice involving pre-existing narrative habits. I conclude by sketching some implications of this account of the relationship between embodiment and the narrative self for future research on the self., 31657489, [Invited] - Narrative self-constitution as an embodied practice
Katsunori Miyahara
Cognition and Self: Traditions and Dialogues, 09 May 2023, NTU Center for Traditional and Scientific Metaphysics, English, Invited oral presentation
08 May 2023 - 09 May 2023, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, Province of China, [Invited], [International presentation] - The Zoom-mediate life in social-distancing
Katsunori Miyahara
Experiences of social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic, 17 Mar. 2023, English, Nominated symposium
17 Mar. 2023, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, [Invited], [International presentation] - How the body and the world shape our mind
宮原克典
TEDxOtemachi 2023, 11 Mar. 2023, TEDxOtemachi, Japanese, Public discourse
[Invited] - Narrative self-constitution as an embodied skill
Katsunori Miyahara
Minds in Skilled Performance: Conference and Roundtable, 12 Dec. 2022, English, Invited oral presentation
12 Dec. 2022 - 13 Dec. 2022, 31657423;31657489, [Invited] - ワークショップ「AIに主体性を帰属させること：学際的アプローチの中間報告」
長坂真澄; 新川拓哉; 竹下昌志; 池原優斗; 濱田太陽
科学基礎論学会 2022年度 秋の研究例会, 06 Nov. 2022, 科学基礎論学会, Japanese, Public symposium
慶應義塾大学, 本WSでは、人間がAIに主体性を帰属させる実践をめぐる諸問題について、哲学、倫理学、科学技術社会論の観点から議論を提起する。長坂は、哲学史における惑星運動と不動の動者をめぐる議論を手掛かりに、身体的及び非身体的な人工物が、いかなる条件ものとで、我々にとって主体として現れるようになるのかを考察する。新川は、先端科学技術によって生み出された人工的存在者がどのような意味で「主体」とみなされうるのかを整理し、その倫理的な位置づけについて論じる。竹下は、人工主体と人間の関係だけでなく、そこに非ヒト動物を含めた三者の相互関係という観点から、人工主体との関係のあり方について論じる。特に人工主体と非ヒト動物（特にイヌ）のあいだの友情関係の可能性について検討する。池原は、人間と非人間を区別しないことで知られるブルーノ・ラトゥールのアクターネットワーク理論の観点の人工主体への応用可能性について論じる。濱田は、text2image技術の進展によって、AIが従来は人間主体に特権的だと見なされてきた創造的な役割を担いつつあることをふまえて、人類のデータを使って学習する人工主体が人間社会に与える影響について論じる。, 37060174, [Domestic Conference] - Habit and narrative selfhood
Katsunori Miyahara
Tokyo Forum of Analytic Philosophy, 08 Jul. 2022, English
31657489;31657423, [Invited] - Habit and narrative selfhood
Katsunori Miyahara
The 1st Hokkaido-Tartu Philosophy Workshop, 21 Jun. 2022, English
20 Jun. 2022 - 21 Jun. 2022, 31657489;31657423, [Invited] - Exploring a virtue ethics approach to AI ethics
Katsunori Miyahara
日本人工知能学会第36回全国大会, 16 Jun. 2022, Japanese, Public symposium
14 Jun. 2022 - 17 Jun. 2022, 31657423, [Domestic Conference] - Flow and two-fold-being-in-the-world
Yuko Ishihara; Katsunori Miyahara
Problematising harmony, disrupting harmony: perspectives from philosophical traditions, 20 May 2022, English
19 May 2022 - 20 May 2022, 31657423, [Invited] - Embodied habits and narrative selfhood
Katsunori Miyahara
ECogS Seminar Embodied Cognitive Science Unit at OIST, 25 Nov. 2021, English
31657423, [Invited] - Empathic perspective-taking, mental simulation, and receptivity
Katsunori Miyahara; Seisuke Hayakawa
95th Joint Session 2021, English, Oral presentation
16 Jun. 2021 - 18 Jun. 2021, 31657423 - Situated self-awareness in expert performance: A situated normativity account of riken no ken
Katsunori Miyahara
Rethinking Conscious Agency Talk Series at University of Barcelona, 21 May 2021, English
31657423, [Invited] - Re-thinking Empathy: From Simulation to Reception
Miyahara, Katsunori
Deakin Philosophy Online Seminar, 20 Aug. 2020, English, Public discourse
[Invited] - 現象学はエナクティヴィズムのために何ができるのか
宮原克典
日本現象学会第37回研究大会, 07 Nov. 2015, Japanese, Nominated symposium
[Invited], [Domestic Conference] - Enactive perception, optic ataxia and visual agnosia
Katsunori Miyahara
2nd UTokyo Workshop on Philosophy of Perception, 24 Oct. 2015, English, Oral presentation
[International presentation] - 痒みの現象学
宮原克典
共生のための障害の哲学第16回研究会「アトピー性皮膚炎：当事者研究と医療人類学」, 04 Jul. 2015, Japanese
[Domestic Conference] - Enactive phenomenology and the sciences of perception
Katsunori Miyahara
The 5th meeting of the Organisation of Phenomenological Organisations “Phenomenology and the Problem of Meaning in Human Life and History, 12 Dec. 2014, English, Oral presentation
[International presentation] - Perceiving other agents: Passive experience for seeing the other body as the other’s body
宮原克典
日本現象学会第36回研究大会, 29 Nov. 2014, English, Oral presentation
[Domestic Conference] - Passive embodiment for experiencing other minds as other minds
Katsunori Miyahara
2014 Spindel Conference “Alternative Models of the Mind”, 23 Oct. 2014, English, Poster presentation
[International presentation] - Social perception and the problem of other minds
Katsunori Miyahara
23rd World Congress of Philosophy, 10 Aug. 2013, English, Oral presentation
[International presentation] - Direct social perception and the problem of access to other minds
Katsunori Miyahara
Workshop "Embodiment and Intersubjectivity", 07 Oct. 2012, English, Invited oral presentation
[Invited], [Domestic Conference] - Interactive skills for social understanding
Katsunori Miyahara
Dansk Filosofik Selskabs Årsmøde, 03 Mar. 2012, English, Oral presentation
[Domestic Conference] - Does the two-visual systems hypothesis refute the enactive model of perceptual consciousness?
Katsunori Miyahara
International Association of Phenomenology and Cognitive Sciences (IAPCS), 19 Oct. 2011, English, Oral presentation
[International presentation] - 拡張した心と人工物の存在論
河野哲也; 染谷昌義; 植原亮; 宮原克典
応用哲学会2011年度臨時研究大会, 24 Sep. 2011, Japanese, Public symposium
[Domestic Conference] - 身体化された新プラグマティズム：常識的機能主義における志向性理解の検討
宮原克典
日本哲学会第70回大会, 14 May 2011, Japanese, Oral presentation
[Domestic Conference] - 知覚の行為性：エナクティブ主義と現象学
宮原克典
日本科学哲学会第42回大会, 21 Nov. 2009, Japanese, Oral presentation
[Domestic Conference] - Perception and concept: a phenomenological argument for non-conceptual content
Katsunori Miyahara
10 Jan. 2009, English, Oral presentation
[International presentation] - 知覚と概念――メルロ=ポンティ現象学を手掛かりとした非概念主義の擁護
宮原克典
日本現象学会第30回研究大会, 08 Nov. 2008, Japanese, Oral presentation
[Domestic Conference]
- 大学院共通授業科目（教育プログラム）：人間知・脳・AI教育プログラム, 2024年, 修士課程, 大学院共通科目
- 大学院共通授業科目（教育プログラム）：人間知・脳・AI教育プログラム, 2024年, 修士課程, 大学院共通科目
- 大学院共通授業科目（教育プログラム）：人間知・脳・AI教育プログラム, 2024年, 修士課程, 大学院共通科目
- 大学院共通授業科目（一般科目）：複合領域, 2024年, 修士課程, 大学院共通科目
- 大学院共通授業科目（一般科目）：複合領域, 2024年, 修士課程, 大学院共通科目
- 大学院共通授業科目（教育プログラム）：人間知・脳・AI教育プログラム, 2024年, 修士課程, 大学院共通科目
- 大学院共通授業科目（一般科目）：複合領域, 2024年, 修士課程, 大学院共通科目
- 思索と言語, 2024年, 学士課程, 全学教育
- Nordic Society for Phenomenology
- PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE SOCIETY, JAPAN
- THE PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION OF JAPAN
- THE PHENOMENOLOICAL ASSOCIATION OF JAPAN
- Enactive approach to the narrative self
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
01 Apr. 2026 - 31 Mar. 2030
宮原 克典; 香川 璃奈; 新川 拓哉; 田中 彰吾; 石原 悠子; 早川 正祐; 坂井 愛理
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Hokkaido University, 26K00084 - Narrative Consciousness Studies: Pioneering a New Framework for Consciousness
科学研究費助成事業
Apr. 2024 - Mar. 2027
新川 拓哉; 宮原 克典
日本学術振興会, Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (B), 神戸大学, Coinvestigator, 24H00808 - Developing an enactive epistemology and ontology: Affectivity, autonomy, and consciousness
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
01 Apr. 2023 - 31 Mar. 2026
宮原 克典; 新川 拓哉; 早川 正祐
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Hokkaido University, 23K00001 - Envisioning the future of AI society: from a technological to a technosocial vision
二国間交流事業
Apr. 2025 - Mar. 2026
日本学術振興会, セミナー, 北海道大学・デルフト工科大学, Principal investigator, 220254401 - 人間と人工主体の共存のあるべき姿を学際的に問うための新たな枠組み『人工主体学』の構築に向けて
特定課題「先端技術と共創する人間社会」
Apr. 2022 - Mar. 2025
宮原克典; 新川拓哉; 宮園健吾; 田口茂; 長坂真澄; 佐藤亮司; 和田幹彦; 金井良太; 鈴木啓介; 濱田太陽; Mark Miller; Olaf Witkowski
公益財団法人トヨタ財団, Principal investigator - Interdisciplinary Study to Elucidate Cognitive Effects Induced by the Absence of Reality in Cyber Information
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
30 Jun. 2022 - 31 Mar. 2024
西田 知史; 宮原 克典; 新川 拓哉; 濱田 太陽
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory), National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, 22K19819 - 内観の認識論的地位の解明―現代哲学と神経科学による学融合的アプローチ
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Apr. 2021 - Mar. 2024
新川 拓哉; 宮原 克典; 濱田 太陽; 西田 知史
今年度は以下の三つの研究を主に実施した。
（１）意識経験の内観の理論のサーベイを行った。具体的には、意識経験の内観の理論には、外界の事物の知覚と類比的なメカニズムが内観の際にも働いているとする知覚説、意識経験を実現するメカニズムのうちに内観の機構が包含されており、意識経験そのものが内観的判断の構成要素になっているとする直知説、意識経験についての内観は、意識経験のうちに現れている世界のあり方からその意識経験それ自体のあり方を推論することに基づくとする推論説という三つの立場があることを明らかにした。
（２）現象学的な反省として特徴づけられるタイプの内観を支える神経メカニズムを特定するための神経科学的な実験研究を設計し、準備的な実験を行った。
（３）Declan Smithiesが提案する意識と内観の関係についての理論を検討・評価し、その問題点を特定した。なお、この研究成果の一部は、千葉大学の小草泰氏との共著でAsian Journal of Philosophyという学術誌に"A challenge to the phenomenal sufficiency thesis"というタイトルの書評論文として発表した。
その他にも関連研究として、内観によって捉えられる意識の現象学的特徴と道徳的地位の関係や、意識の機能についての概念的明確化についての研究を実施した。それぞれの研究成果の一部は、研究分担者と共著で"Human Brain Organoids and Consciousness"とFunctions of consciousness: conceptual clarification"という論文に組み込み、海外学術誌より発表した（詳細は研究業績を参照）。
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Kobe University, 21K00011 - The Embodied Self: From Minimal to Narrative
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
Apr. 2020 - Mar. 2024
田中 彰吾; 浅井 智久; 今泉 修; 宮原 克典; 村田 憲郎
本研究の目的は、脳－身体－環境の相互作用から創発する現象として自己をとらえる「身体化された自己」の概念のもとで、ナラティヴ・セルフ（物語的自己）について、将来の実証科学的研究を推進する理論モデルを構想することにある。従来、身体性にもとづく自己の科学的研究はミニマル・セルフ（最小自己）の哲学的理論をもとに進められてきたが、この概念は、自己経験が時間性のもとで物語として編成されていく過程への着目を欠いている。そこで本研究では、身体性への着目を残すことで従来の科学的な自己研究との連続性を保ちつつ、現象学的哲学に依拠してナラティヴ・セルフの理論モデルを新たに提示する。
2020年度は４年計画の１年目であり、主に理論面で次のような成果を得た。(a)ミニマル・セルフとナラティヴ・セルフを身体性において架橋する「身体イメージ」に着目して研究を進めた。身体イメージは、一方でミニマル・セルフを支える身体図式にトップダウンに影響を及ぼし、他方で自己イメージの基盤となってナラティヴ・セルフをボトムアップに構成する。この点を、現象学的精神医学者Ｆ・ファノンの著作を手がかりに明らかにした（Ataria & Tanaka, 2020）。(b)ナラティヴ・セルフは、特定の自己イメージに沿って環境を構成し、その環境と身体的相互作用を繰り返すことで形成・修正されるとの着眼を得た。ナラティヴ・セルフはたんに自己についての言語的な語りだけで構成されるわけではなく、語りの内容に見合う生活環境を形成し、それに対応する生活習慣が形成されることで十全に機能する（例：アスリートとしての自己イメージは、生活環境を整えアスリートらしい生活習慣を形成することで、ナラティヴ・セルフとして機能するようになる）。この論点については、現在論文として内容を取りまとめており、今年度の成果として見込んでいる。
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Tokai University, Coinvestigator, 20H04094 - Developing a habit-centred paradigm of philosophy and science of mind
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Apr. 2020 - Mar. 2023
宮原 克典; 新川 拓哉; 吉田 正俊; 濱田 太陽; 石原 悠子; 早川 正祐; 西田 知史
本研究では，現象学，プラグマティズム，日本哲学，身体性認知の観点を取り入れて，習慣とはどのようなものであるかを明らかにし，また，認知や行為を習慣に基づいた働きとして捉え直す。さらに，習慣を中核にすえた心のモデルが神経科学や人工知能研究に対してもつ帰結を考察する。本年度の主な研究実績は以下の4点である。
①共感を習慣に基づいた働きとして捉え直す研究を継続した（分担者早川との共同研究）。昨年度末の時点で国際誌に論文を投稿し，6月に国際学会で発表をおこない，議論を前進させることができた。だが残念ながら，年度内に査読結果が返ってこなかった。
②物語的自己意識の形成における習慣の働きを明らかにする研究を進めた。哲学や心理学で唱えられている「物語的自己」の理論によると，私たちの自己意識は過去の経験や行為を物語にまとめあげる「語り」の働きによって形成される。このような語りにおいて身体的な習慣形成の力が重要な役割を果たしている可能性を検討した。現在，論文を準備中である。
③世阿弥の芸道論と現代哲学／心理学の観点を組み合わせて，技と習慣の関係を考察する研究を推進した。現代の哲学者ヒューバート・ドレイファスは専門技能（expertise）を洗練された感覚運動的習慣として説明する。しかし，身体は次々に新たな習慣を身につけて成長するばかりのものではない。本研究では，世阿弥の「初心」の概念に基づいて，ドレイファスの技能論が健康で力強い身体像を暗黙の前提としていることを明らかにした。また本年度の研究では，世阿弥の離見の見を生態心理学の観点をまじえて分析する研究も，ほぼまとめあげられた。
④「意識の機能」にかんする理論を体系的に理解するための枠組みを提案する研究をおこなった（分担者西田・新川・濱田との共同研究）。本研究には意識研究を習慣の観点と結びつけるための予備的考察となる可能性が期待される。
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Hokkaido University, Principal investigator, 20K00001 - Feasibility study toward establishing a platform for analyzing and debating the ethical implications of the creation of artificial agents
R&D Program “Responsible Innovation with Conscience and Agility”
Sep. 2020 - Mar. 2021
鈴木俊洋; 長井志江; 蔵田伸雄; 宮原克典; 八重樫徹; 佐藤亮司; 宮園健吾; 山田真希子; 新川拓哉; 林禅之; 石原悠子; 飯塚博幸; 澤井努; 草野原也; 猪ノ原次郎; リチャード・ストーン; 侯 乃祯
ロボットや人工知能、脳オルガノイドなどは、人工的に作られたものでありながら、近い将来、技術発展によってある種の「主体」として扱われうるレベルに達する可能性がある。こうした「人工主体」が社会に入り込んでいくとき、そこには深刻な倫理的問題が生じうる。こうした問題を討議するためには、市民・政策決定者・科学者など多様な関係者にとって有用な〈議論のプラットフォーム〉（議論の土台となる原理的な概念的枠組み）を創出し、様々な形で社会に実装していく作業が必要である。本企画調査では、そのようなプロジェクトの計画・デザインを集中的に行う。まず技術的現状や国内外の関連する議論の調査を行い、それにもとづいて、哲学者・倫理学者・科学者・企業研究者による緊密なチームで徹底的な討議を行い、議論すべき問題や方向性の絞り込み、論点の整理、将来の技術発展のありうるフェイズに対応したプロジェクトの具体的なデザインを行う。
Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society (RISTEX), Feasibility Studies, Hokkaido University, Competitive research funding, JPMJRX20JF - Neurophenomenology on the Structures of Consciousness
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Apr. 2018 - Mar. 2021
Niikawa Takuya
This research project has five achievements. (1) A training program for the abilities of phenomenological reflection has been developed and is being improved for practical use. (2) We developed an experimental phenomenological method of comparing similar experiences and describing the differences through interviews, and used this method to identify the structural features of binocular rivalry experience. (3) We designed and conducted an experiment to explore the neural basis of phenomenological reflection; we are now analyzing the data. (4) We analyzed and systematically classified the concept of "functions of consciousness", which is the key to the study of the structure of consciousness. (5) In order to specify the scope of subjects to which neurophenomenology is available, we developed a framework for comparing and evaluating theories of consciousness and clarified the relationship between some theories.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Hokkaido University, Coinvestigator, 18K00032 - 二人称的パースペクティヴとは何か：認知哲学への現象学的アプローチによる哲学的考察
海外特別研究員
Aug. 2016 - Aug. 2018
宮原克典
日本学術振興会, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding - Theoretical modeling of self-consciousness and social understanding on the basis of qualitative research on perspective-conversion experiences
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
01 Apr. 2015 - 31 Mar. 2018
Tanaka Shogo; Darren Langdridge; Denis Francesconi; Luca Tateo; Marc Applebaum; Shaun Gallagher; Susi Ferrallelo; Thomas Fuchs; Lee Wei-Lun; Yochai Ataria
This project aims to propose a theoretical model of self-consciousness and social understanding on the basis of qualitative research on “perspective-conversion experience,” which is designed for a participant to experience one’s own body through visual perspectives located outside of it using video camera and HMD. Analyzing the interview data of eight participants, it is suggested that perspective-conversion experience may split the participant’s self-awareness into two: (a) the self that is identified with the outer perspective, and (b) the self that derives from somatosensory perception. Although we are accustomed to imagine ourselves from another person’s perspective in our daily life, visually perceiving our own body from outer perspectives could promote the spatial split and/or extension of the self.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research, Tokai University, 15K12634 - 科学的意識研究の方法論的基礎の哲学的検討：プロセス論的アプローチの確立に向けて
挑戦的萌芽研究
Apr. 2016 - Mar. 2018
新川拓哉
科学研究費補助金, Competitive research funding - An ecological turn of knowledge: an ecological phenomenology for the restoration of human environment
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
01 Apr. 2012 - 31 Mar. 2017
KONO Tetsuya; KASHIWABATA Tatsuya; SAKO Hitoshi; KOKURYO Yoshiki; MIYAHARA Katsunori; GALLAGHER Shaun; ROY Jean Michel
This research aims at understanding from the viewpoint of the ecological phenomenology all human activity as circulative interactions between body-subject and the environment and trying to establish philosophical and theoretical ground for a comprehensive human environmental science. We have focused on the issue of how to construct a middle-scale human environment that is suitable for human wellbeing and environmental sustainability. During our 5 years research, we have achieved many splendid results, for examples a series of anthology, papers, presentations, symposiums, workshops, and invited lectures, as shown in “study results” and largely contributed to the formation of a new field of positivistic phenomenology of the environment.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Rikkyo University, 24242001 - 他者認知と情動：情動の志向的役割の学際的研究
特別研究員（PD）
Apr. 2013 - Mar. 2016
宮原克典
日本学術振興会, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding - Perception and the social environment
デンマーク政府奨学金
Sep. 2011 - Mar. 2012
Katsunori Miyahara
Principal investigator, Competitive research funding - 知覚・概念・行為――現象学、認知的観 点、プラグマティズムを利用した経験の分析
特別研究員（DC1）
Apr. 2008 - Mar. 2011
宮原克典
私は2010年1月より2011年1月まで日本学術振興会優秀若手研究者海外派遣事業により、米国フロリダ州立セントラルフロリダ大学哲学科よおいて、Shaun Gallagher教授の指導のもと、研究活動を行った。滞在中、近年、認知科学と心の哲学の領域で大きな注目を沿びている「拡張する心」という考え方との関連において、「志向性」概念をめぐる哲学的問題の考察を進めた。認知科学や分析系の心の哲学の諸研究では、世界のなかでの心の位置づけに開して、心は「頭の中」に宿るとする「内在主義」の見方が標準的なものとして前提されることが多い。それに対して、「拡張する心」あるいは拡張主義の見方によると、認知や経験は(脳以外の)身体や環境内の事物をその物理的基盤とすることができる。現在、内在主義と拡張主義のあいだでは、認知や経験の位置をめぐって、哲学者と認知科学者を巻き込んだ活発な論争が繰り広げられているが、私の研究は、拡張主義の見方を十分に確立するためには、そこに前提される新行動主義的/道具主義的な志向性観を再考し、代わりに身体性の現象学の見方を取り人れた新ブラグマティズムの志向性観を採用する必要があるという見方を提唱した。この研究は、これまでの論争に新たな視点を導入するものだとGallagher教授からは高い評価を得ている。その研究成果は、現在、雑誌Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciencesに投稿中(査読中)であるが、Gallagher教授からは「間違いなく掲載されるだろう」との見通しをいただいている。この研究に基づいて、Gallagher教授との共同研究も行い、そこでは身体的な新プラグマティズムの志向性観と社会的認知の理論の関連性を検討した。
日本学術振興会, 特別研究員奨励費, 東京大学, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, 08J00148
Social Contribution Activities
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『AIという名の鏡：機械思考の世界で人間らしさを見失わないために』出版記念イベント「AI時代の人間らしさを考える」
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北海道大学CoSTEP
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