Researcher basic information

• Ph.D, University of Wuppertal, Nov. 2003

• https://researchmap.jp/read0125809?lang=en

• https://jglobal.jst.go.jp/detail?JGLOBAL_ID=200901043807928634

• 50287950

• 200901043807928634

• phenomenology
• mediation
• consciousness
• Ego
• intersubjectivity
• self
• Japanese philosophy
• enactive approach
• enactivism
• difference
• neuroscience
• self-awareness

• Humanities & Social Sciences, Philosophy and ethics

• Bachelor's degree program, School of Humanities and Human Sciences
• Master's degree program, Graduate School of Humanities and Human Sciences
• Doctoral (PhD) degree program, Graduate School of Humanities and Human Sciences

Research activity information

• Feb. 2023, Hokkaido University, 2022 Hokkaido University President's Award for Education and Research
  TAGUCHI, Shigeru, Others, Japan
• Jul. 2010, Yamagata University, Best Teacher Award
  Shigeru Taguchi, 受賞理由：氏は前期に『ドイツ語ⅠA』、後期に『ドイツ語ⅡA』の授業を担当し、平成21年度の「学生による授業改善アンケート」では総合評価がそれぞれ4.67、4.76という高い評価を得ている。氏は学生とのコミュニケーションをうまくはかっており、『ドイツ語ⅡA』のアンケートでは、「コミュニケーション」の設問項目で4.94という極めて高い評価を得ている。このように、氏と学生の信頼関係が構築されている授業であることが推察される。, Others, Japan

• Enactive and Mediation-Focused Management: A Philosophical Reinterpretation of Nonaka's Knowledge Creation Theory
  Shigeru Taguchi
  Hitotsubashi Business Review, 74, 1, 22, 34, Toyo Keizai Shinposha, 30 Jun. 2026, [Invited], [Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese, Research society, 43102861;43102862;47537082
• Tanabe, Hajime (1885–1962)
  Shigeru Taguchi; Yasuhiko Sugimura
  Encyclopedia of Phenomenology, 1, 8, Springer Nature Switzerland, 28 Mar. 2026, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [International Magazine]
  English, In book, 43102862;43102861;47537082;47537081
• Intermediacy and Self-Alienation: Rethinking Hajime Tanabe’s Philosophy of Mediation
  Shigeru Taguchi
  蘇る田辺哲学──田辺元生誕140周年記念論集, 80, 100, 法政大学出版局, 10 Dec. 2025, [Invited], [Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author]
  Japanese, In book, 43102862;43102861;47537082
• The Logic of Non-Oppositional Selfhood: How to Remain Free from Dichotomies While Still Using Them
  Shigeru Taguchi
  Open Philosophy, 8, 1, 20250081, 20250081, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 31 Oct. 2025, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited], [Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author], [International Magazine]
  English, Scientific journal, In recent years, increasing philosophical attention has been given to an approach that does not begin with self and other as separated individuals, but rather takes relationality as the starting point for thinking about self and other. However, this shift in thinking is not as straightforward as it might initially appear. Various pitfalls lie hidden in the attempt to conceptualize the self and other relationally. Without carefully identifying and relativizing these pitfalls, theories of relational selfhood may easily fall into another form of extremity, distinct from the substantialization of the individual. This article examines several characteristic modes of argument employed by philosophers who explore relational selfhood and alterity. Particular attention is given to the rhetorical use of the expression neither–nor as a strategy for rejecting both poles of a binary opposition and for dislocating fixed dichotomies. I then consider how such a dismantling of oppositional schemas can function as a procedure for exposing lived experiences obscured by those very schemas. Finally, I argue that the task is not to erase such oppositional structures entirely, but rather to stand within the very site of their generation – still utilizing them, while at the same time becoming free from them., 43102861;43102862;47537081;47537082
• The concept of ‘maemuki’ and its philosophical implications: The dynamics of adversity-driven positivity
  Shigeru Taguchi; Katsumasa Miyazaki; Nobuo Kurata; Kenji Hirose; Makiko Yamada
  Cognitive Studies, 32, 3, 339, 351, Japanese Cognitive Science Society, Sep. 2025, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
  Japanese, Scientific journal, The term maemuki is a commonly used and straightforward expression in Japanese. However, our research reveals that it carries unexpectedly profound philosophical implications. This paper first presents the fundamental hypothesis that maemuki is closely related to adversity. Second, we empirically examine this hypothesis through a corpus-based analysis of Japanese texts. Third, we undertake a philosophical investigation of the relationship between adversity and maemuki across various contexts. To illustrate this relationship, we analyze the maemuki attitudes of athletes, adventurers, and terminal cancer patients as significant examples. Athletes and adventurers, by deliberately immersing themselves in adversity, attain a higher-order form of maemuki. Terminal cancer patients, despite their limited life expectancy, can still embody maemuki. These cases suggest that adversity and maemuki are not merely opposing forces that negate each other. Instead, adversity acts as a driving force for maemuki, while maemuki integrates adversity into one’s life through a dynamic process of mutual mediation. Furthermore, drawing on Han-Pile’s study of the medio-passive nature of hope and linguistic analyses of the middle voice, we characterize maemuki as a mental attitude that is neither purely active nor purely passive but possesses a middle-voice-like structure. Through this analysis, we contend that maemuki is a complex and multilayered concept of positivity—one that does not reject adversity but is mediated and conditioned by it, revealing a depth beyond simple optimism., 47537082
• “AI in Human Society Program” as a Challenge of Recurrent Education in Hokkaido University
  Takeshi TANEMURA; Shigeru TAGUCHI; Haruka CHIWAKI; Naoko ISHIKAWA; Shishin KAWAMOTO
  Journal of JSEE, 73, 1, 1_80, 1_85, Japanese Society for Engineering Education, Jan. 2025, [Peer-reviewed], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese, Scientific journal
• The Potential of the Concept of 'Mediation': Tanabe's Philosophy in a Contemporary Context
  Shigeru Taguchi
  Nihon Tetsugakushi Kenkyu, 20, 90, 121, 京都大学文学研究科日本哲学史専修, Aug. 2024, [Invited], [Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese, Research institution, 43102862;43102861;47537082;47537081
• Reality of Affordances: A Category-Theoretic Approach
  Hirota, Ryuzo; Saigo, Hayato; Taguchi, Shigeru
  ALIFE 2024: Proceedings of the 2024 Artificial Life Conference, -, -, -, -, The International Society for Artificial Life, 22 Jul. 2024, [Peer-reviewed], [Last author], [International Magazine]
  English, International conference proceedings, The concept of affordance, proposed by James J. Gibson as an opportunity for action offered by the environment to the organism, has been adopted in various fields, including psychology, neuroscience, and robotics. However, different interpretations exist as to whether it is a feature of a relation between the environment and the organism and therefore cannot exist independently of the organism, or a “resource” that exists in the environment independent of the organism’s presence and is waiting to be used, or both, or neither. In this paper, we defend the position that affordances are both relational and resources using a category-theoretic approach. This idea is formalized by the concept of “natural transformations” in category theory, which are structure-preserving transformations between “functors” – mathematical expressions representing “seeing from a particular perspective.” We propose that formalizing the realism of affordance in terms of natural transformations offers a more rigorous and lucid understanding of this concept. Furthermore, our formalization enables us to relate the reality of affordances to a broader context, especially the shift in the meaning of “reality” in modern physics. Our category-theoretic approach offers a potential solution to the problems and limitations associated with existing set theory-based frameworks for affordances, paving the way for a future theory that better accounts for the openended interplay between organisms and their environments., 43102862;43102861
• Self as a monoid: a category-theoretic approach to autonomy
  Hirota, Ryuzo; Saigo, Hayato; Taguchi, Shigeru
  Proceedings of the Annual Conference of JSAI, 38, -, -, The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, May 2024, [Peer-reviewed], [Last author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese, In book, 43102861;43102862
• Nishida, Kitarō (1870–1945)
  Shigeru Taguchi
  Encyclopedia of Phenomenology, 1, 11, Springer International Publishing, 07 Mar. 2024, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited], [Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author], [International Magazine]
  English, In book, 43102861;47537081;43102862
• Ur-Ich, as a Concept in Phenomenology
  Shigeru Taguchi
  Encyclopedia of Phenomenology, 1, 9, Springer International Publishing, 21 Feb. 2024, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited], [Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author], [International Magazine]
  English, In book, “Ur-Ich” is Husserl’s term for the problem dimension concerning the “I” that appears when we go deeper than transcendental phenomenology at the first stage. It is disclosed mainly in two contexts: the radicalized reduction to the primal streaming in the theory of temporalization and the radicalized epoché regarding the validity of intersubjectivity. It is an apparent misunderstanding to interpret it as a trans-individual metaphysical ego beyond empirical egos or as a solipsistic ego that creates other egos out of itself. Instead, it signifies a fundamental phenomenon of being I, without which the transcendental self-disclosure of the primal life and the experience of “being with others” would not be possible., 43102861;27958802
• How to Become Conscious of Consciousness: A Mediation-Focused Approach
  Shigeru Taguchi
  Geniusas, S. (eds) Varieties of Self-Awareness. Contributions to Phenomenology, vol 121. Springer, Cham., 193, 211, Springer International Publishing, 20 Sep. 2023, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited], [Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author], [International Magazine]
  Japanese, In book, 43102862;43102861;27958802
• The monoid-now: a category theoretic approach to the structure of phenomenological time-consciousness
  Shigeru Taguchi; Hayato Saigo
  Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1237984, 1237984, Frontiers Media SA, 05 Sep. 2023, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [International Magazine]
  English, Scientific journal, Human consciousness is characterized by constant transitions in time. On the other hand, what is consciously experienced always possesses the temporal feature of “now.” In consciousness, “now” constantly holds different contents, yet it remains “now” no matter how far it goes. This duality is thematized in Husserlian phenomenology as “the standing-streaming now.” Although this phrase appears contradictory in everyday language, it has a structure that can be clearly understood and formalized. In this paper, we show that this structure can be described as a monoid in category theory. Furthermore, monoids can be transformed into the coslice category, which corresponds to the way of perceiving present moments as juxtaposed in succession. The seemingly contradictory nature of the “now” as both flowing and standing can be precisely structured and comprehended through the monoid, while the perspective of the “now” as discrete points on a timeline can be effectively formalized using the coslice category. This framework helps us more precisely understand the differences between ordinary consciousness and meditative consciousness, specifically the experience of the “eternal now.” We illustrate how the meditative states of consciousness presented in the early Buddhist scriptures (Pali Canon) and Dōgen’s Shōbōgenzō remarkably reflect a monoid structure., 43102862;43102861;27958802
• Reformalizing the notion of autonomy as closure through category theory as an arrow-first mathematics
  Hirota, Ryuzo; Saigo, Hayato; Taguchi, Shigeru
  Artificial Life Conference Proceedings, 2023, MIT Press Direct, 24 Jul. 2023, [Peer-reviewed], [Last author], [International Magazine]
  English, International conference proceedings, Life continuously changes its own components and states at each moment through interaction with the external world, while maintaining its own individuality in a cyclical manner. Such a property, known as “autonomy,” has been formulated using the mathematical concept of “closure.” We introduce a branch of mathematics called “category theory” as an “arrow-first” mathematics, which sees everything as an “arrow,” and use it to provide a more comprehensive and concise formalization of the notion of autonomy. More specifically, the concept of “monoid,” a category that has only one object, is used to formalize in a simpler and more fundamental way the structure that has been formalized as “operational closure.” By doing so, we show that category theory is a framework or “tool of thinking” that frees us from the habits of thinking to which we are prone and allows us to discuss things formally from a more dynamic perspective, and that it should also contribute to our understanding of living systems., 43102861;43102862;27958802
• Why the Body is Necessary for Consciousness: Toward a World of Bodily Potential Experiences
  Taguchi, Shigeru
  Kagaku (Science), 93, 6, 492, 495, Iwanami Shoten, 25 May 2023, [Invited], [Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese, 43102861
• The Landscape of Knowing Opened by ‘Mediation’: The intersection of Latour, Tanabe's philosophy, and phenomenology
  Taguchi, Shigeru
  Gendai-shiso, 51, 3, 185, 193, Seidosha, 27 Feb. 2023, [Invited], [Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese, Scientific journal, 27958802
• Hajime Tanabe's Concept of "Mediation" and its Potentials
  Taguchi, Shigeru
  The Age of Crisis and Tanabe's Philosophy: Essays Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of Hajime Tanabe's Death, 97, 116, Hosei University Press, 30 Nov. 2022, [Invited], [Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author]
  Japanese, In book, 27958802
• Superposition mechanism as a neural basis for understanding others.
  Wataru Noguchi; Hiroyuki Iizuka; Masahito Yamamoto; Shigeru Taguchi
  Scientific Reports, 12, 1, 2859, 2859, 21 Feb. 2022, [Peer-reviewed], [Last author], [International Magazine]
  English, Scientific journal, Social cognition has received much attention in fields such as neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science, and philosophy. Theory-theory (TT) and simulation theory (ST) provide the dominant theoretical frameworks for research on social cognition. However, neither theory addresses the matter of how the concepts of "self" and "other" are acquired through the development of human and nonhuman agents. Here, we show that the internal representations of "self" and "other" can be developed in an artificial agent only through the simple predictive learning achieved by deep neural networks with the superposition mechanism we herein propose. That is, social cognition can be achieved without a pre-given (or innate) framework of self and other; this is not assumed (or is at least unclear) in TT and ST. We demonstrate that the agent with the proposed model can acquire basic abilities of social cognition such as shared spatial representations of self and other, perspective-taking, and mirror-neuron-like activities of the agent's neural network. The result indicates that the superposition mechanism we propose is a necessary condition for the development of the concepts of "self" and "other" and, hence, for the development of social cognition in general., 27958802
• Mediated Freedom: From the perspective of mediation-based phenomenology
  Shigeru Taguchi
  Gendai Shiso, 49, 9, 41, 51, Seidosha, Aug. 2021, [Invited], [Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese, Scientific journal, 27958802
• Disconnection and connection between outside and inside: Towards the nature of cognition and life
  Shigeru Taguchi
  Cognitive Studies, 28, 2, 211, 216, Japanese Cognitive Science Society, Jun. 2021, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese, Scientific journal, 27958802
• Crosstalk between Existential Phenomenological Psychotherapy and Neurological Sciences in Mood and Anxiety Disorders
  Lehel Balogh; Masaru Tanaka; Nóra Török; László Vécsei; Shigeru Taguchi
  Biomedicines, 9, 340, 27 Mar. 2021, [Peer-reviewed], [Last author], [International Magazine]
  English, Scientific journal, Psychotherapy is a comprehensive biological treatment modifying complex underlying cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and regulatory responses in the brain, leading patients with mental illness to a new interpretation of the sense of self and others. Psychotherapy is an art of science integrated with psychology and/or philosophy. Neurological sciences study the neurological basis of cognition, memory, and behavior as well as the impact of neurological damage and disease on these functions, and their treatment. Both psychotherapy and neurological sciences deal with the brain; nevertheless, they continue to stay polarized. Existential phenomenological psychotherapy (EPP) has been in the forefront of meaning-centered counseling for almost a century. The phenomenological approach in psychotherapy originated in the works of Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Binswanger, Medard Boss, and Viktor Frankl, and it has been committed to accounting for the existential possibilities and limitations of one’s life. EPP provides philosophically rich interpretations and empowers counseling techniques to assist mentally suffering individuals by finding meaning and purpose to life. The approach has proven to be effective in treating mood and anxiety disorders. This narrative review article demonstrates the development of EPP, the therapeutic methodology, evidence-based accounts of its curative techniques, current understanding of mood and anxiety disorders in neurological sciences, and a possible converging path to translate and integrate meaning-centered psychotherapy and neuroscience, concluding that the EPP may potentially play a synergistic role with the currently prevailing medication-based approaches for the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders.
• Phenomenological Theory of Evidence Meets Statistics: In Search of the Fundamental Structure of Experience
  Taguchi, Shigeru; Otsuka, Jun; Saigo, Hayato
  Tetsugaku Ronso, 47, 47, 20, 34, Kyoto University, Aug. 2020, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese, Scientific journal, 27958802
• Deepening phenomenology through category theory: The monism of morphism, monadology, and the Self
  Taguchi, Shigeru; Saigo, Hayato
  Gendai Shiso, 48, 9, 202, 214, Seido Sha, Jul. 2020, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese, Scientific journal, 27958802
• Mediation-based phenomenology: Neither subjective nor objective
  Shigeru Taguchi
  Metodo: International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy, 7, 2, 17, 44, Dec. 2019, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited], [Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author], [International Magazine]
  English, Scientific journal, In this paper, I propose a possible reinterpretation of phenomenology using a newly defined concept of ‘mediation.’ First, I address the question: What are the ‘things themselves’ that are given as the result of the phenomenological epoché? I would answer that they are neither material objects nor merely subjective experiences, but rather specific occurrences of ‘mediations.’ Second, under the influence of the Japanese philosopher Hajime Tanabe, I will define ‘mediation’ as a non-separable occurrence of differentiating and connecting. Third, I shall claim that the concept of ‘phenomenon’ itself should be reinterpreted in terms of its character of mediation. Then, I will discuss central issues in phenomenology such as intentionality, time, and inter-subjectivity in order to test the applicability of the proposed concept of mediation. To conclude, I shall summarize the potential of the idea that phenomenology can be reinterpreted using the concept of mediation., 11784023
• Extreme obviousness and the "zero-person" perspective: Why is the problem of the "primal I" fundamental for transcendental phenomenology?
  Shigeru Taguchi
  Metodo: International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy, s1.3, 15, 37, Dec. 2019, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [International Magazine]
  English, Scientific journal, Transcendental reflection does not simply withdraw from natural life and go somewhere else. On the contrary, it is a self-elucidation of natural life performed within this life itself. However, natural life has an inherent automatic system for concealing itself. Therefore, in order to make manifest the truly natural state of natural life, we need a deliberate method of outfoxing the natural attitude as it constantly tries to trick us. If so, the transcendental perspective is closely related to Husserl’s perplexing concept of “primal I”. It expresses a primitive perspective of our experience that cannot be identified with the first-person perspective. Phenomenology is not merely an investigation of experience from the first-person point of view, but a philosophical thinking from a “zero person” perspective that makes it possible for us to understand the relativity of our own first-person experience, and how it is related to other first-person experiences and the third-person perspective., 11784023
• A transformed view of reality resulting from Bayesian theory: Comments on Asai's article
  TAGUCHI Shigeru
  Japanese Psychological Review, 62, 1, 16, 24, Nov. 2019, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese, Scientific journal, Asai (2019) discusses a transformation of the view of reality resulting from the Bayesian theory of inference. The current paper offers philosophical interpretations concerning the significance, scope, and possible development of Asai’s discussion, which are especially based on a phenomenological point of view. Asai’s Bayesian view of reality is closely related to phenomenology. It implies a denial of determinism and naive realism. However, these traits of Asai’s view can signify a more moderate and scientific attitude. What an individual experiences as reality is the effect of certain filters that his or her experience has. Asai calls this effect “attention”; however, it is better described as “consciousness.” His interpretation of reality as mutual interference of waves is convincing and closely matches the quantum theoretical view of reality. Finally, such a transformation of the view of reality can positively affect the view of “mental disorder.” The aim of psychiatric treatment should not be to conform patients to the “only one same reality” (which is illusory), but to gear (or accommodate) different realities to each other., 11784023
• Spatial Representation of Self and Other by Superposition Neural Network Model
  Wataru Noguchi; Hiroyuki Iizuka; Shigeru Taguchi; Masahito Yamamoto
  Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference 2019, 531, 532, Jul. 2019, [Peer-reviewed], [International Magazine]
  English, International conference proceedings
• The Problem of Meaning in AI and Robotics: Still with Us after All These Years
  Tom Froese; Shigeru Taguchi
  Philosophies, 4, 2, 1, 14, Apr. 2019, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited], [Last author], ［Internationally co-authored］, [International Magazine]
  English, Scientific journal, In this essay we critically evaluate the progress that has been made in solving the problem of meaning in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. We remain skeptical about solutions based on deep neural networks and cognitive robotics, which in our opinion do not fundamentally address the problem. We agree with the enactive approach to cognitive science that things appear as intrinsically meaningful for living beings because of their precarious existence as adaptive autopoietic individuals. But this approach inherits the problem of failing to account for how meaning as such could make a difference for an agent’s behavior. In a nutshell, if life and mind are identified with physically deterministic phenomena, then there is no conceptual room for meaning to play a role in its own right. We argue that this impotence of meaning can be addressed by revising the concept of nature such that the macroscopic scale of the living can be characterized by physical indeterminacy. We consider the implications of this revision of the mind-body relationship for synthetic approaches., 11784023
• Free Energy Principle and Visual Consciousness
  Masatoshi Yoshida; Shigeru Taguchi
  The Brain & Neural Networks, 25, 3, 53, 70, Japanese Neural Network Society, Sep. 2018, [Invited], [Last author]
  Japanese, Scientific journal, 11784023
• Tanabe Hajime: Philosophy of Mediation, Chap.V: Philosophy of Death and the Essence of Reality
  TAGUCHI Shigeru
  Shiso, 1123, 96, 120, 岩波書店, Nov. 2017, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese, Scientific journal, 11784023
• Defining Sameness by Difference: A Phenomenological Investigation
  Shigeru Taguchi
  日本認知科学会大会発表論文集(CD-ROM), 34th, 343, 349, Sep. 2017, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
  Japanese, Research society, The aim of this article is to propose a universal method to
  fundamentally understand what “sameness” means, and how
  it is possible to subsist. We could not perceive anything if
  there were no difference at all in our experience. Our
  experience of the same thing is essentially mediated by
  multiple differences. Given that differences are ubiquitous
  and fundamental, “sameness” can be interpreted as “nulled
  difference.” To perceive something as a same thing means
  that in our experience, there occur counteractions to certain
  differences. The same is the effect of such counteractions to
  differences, which makes a contrast with straightforward
  differences. This contrast — which is a sort of difference
  again — distinguishes the same from its background
  differences. Accordingly, I claim that sameness can be
  defined by (and reduced to) difference. To support this claim,
  I refer to empirical experimental knowledge concerning
  fixational eye movement, vision of toads, neural adaptation,
  and the nature of neuron., 11784023
• The Irrationality of a Closed Individual: The Riddle of Otherness in Husserl and Nishida
  TAGUCHI Shigeru
  Nishida Tetsugakukai Nenpo, 14, 34, 50, Jul. 2017, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese, Scientific journal, 11784023
• Mediation, Essence, and Streaming: A Reply to the Reviews
  TAGUCHI Shigeru
  Husserl Studies in Japan, 14, 140, 169, Mar. 2017, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese, Scientific journal
• Monadology and Primal Fact: A Train of Thought in "The Phenomenology of Intersubjectivity"
  TAGUCHI Shigeru
  Husserl Studies in Japan, 14, 64, 81, Mar. 2017, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese, Scientific journal
• Non-Contextual Self: Husserl's Concept of "Primal I" and Nishida's Concept of the Self
  TAGUCHI Shigeru
  Fudan Journal (Social Sciences), 59, 1, 47, 56, Feb. 2017, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
  Chinese, Research institution
• 如其所是的实在：西田和田边论现象与中介
  田口 茂; 谢恒 译
  日本哲学与思想研究（2017）, 2017, 265, 276, 2017, [Lead author, Corresponding author]
  Chinese, Scientific journal
• Tanabe Hajime: Philosophy of Mediation. Chapter 4: Metanoetics and Dialectic of Evil
  TAGUCHI Shigeru
  Shiso, 1113, 80, 102, 岩波書店, Jan. 2017, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
  Japanese, Scientific journal
• Using category theory to assess the relationship between consciousness and integrated information theory
  Naotsugu Tsuchiya; Shigeru Taguchi; Hayato Saigo
  Neuroscience Research, 107, 1, 7, Jun. 2016, [Peer-reviewed], [International Magazine]
  English, Scientific journal, One of the most mysterious phenomena in science is the nature of conscious experience. Due to its subjective nature, a reductionist approach is having a hard time in addressing some fundamental questions about consciousness. These questions are squarely and quantitatively tackled by a recently developed theoretical framework, called integrated information theory (IIT) of consciousness. In particular, IIT proposes that a maximally irreducible conceptual structure (MICS) is identical to conscious experience. However, there has been no principled way to assess the claimed identity. Here, we propose to apply a mathematical formalism, category theory, to assess the proposed identity and suggest that it is important to consider if there exists a proper translation between the domain of conscious experience and that of the MICS. If such translation exists, we postulate that questions in one domain can be answered in the other domain; very difficult questions in the domain of consciousness can be resolved in the domain of mathematics. We claim that it is possible to empirically test if such a functor exists, by using a combination of neuroscientific and computational approaches. Our general, principled and empirical framework allows us to assess the relationship between the domain of consciousness and the domain of mathematical structures, including those suggested by IIT.
• Inside is Outside, Outside Is Inside: Husserl, Nishida, and Tanabe
  TAGUCHI Shigeru
  Basho, 15, 1, 20, 西田哲学研究会, Apr. 2016, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
  Japanese, Scientific journal
• Can the Lived Experience of Living Beings Be Approached through Inference?
  Taguchi, Shigeru
  CONSTRUCTIVIST FOUNDATIONS, 11, 2, 215, 216, Mar. 2016, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [International Magazine]
  English, Scientific journal
• Tanabe Hajime: Philosophy of Mediation Chapter 3: His Collapsed Theory of State and the Fate of Reason
  TAGUCHI Shigeru
  Shiso, 1102, 80, 103, 岩波書店, Feb. 2016, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
  Japanese, Scientific journal
• On the backward Flow of Time: The Mediating Structure of Time in Tanabe Hajime's Philosophy
  TAGUCHI Shigeru
  Japanese Philosophy, 16, 46, 62, 昭和堂, Dec. 2015, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
  Japanese, Scientific journal
• Husserl's Monadology and the Concept of Ur-Ich
  TAGUCHI Shigeru
  Revue de philosophie française, 20, 29, 43, Aug. 2015, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
  Japanese, Scientific journal
• Non-Contextual Self: Husserl's Concept of 'Ur-Ich' and Nishida's Concept of 'Self'
  TAGUCHI Shigeru
  Joukyou, 4, 6, 140, 157, 情況出版, Aug. 2015, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
  Japanese
• Non-being Self as Mediator in Tanabe Hajime's Philosophy
  TAGUCHI Shigeru
  Taiwan Journal of East Asian Studies, 12, 1, 25, 40, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Jun. 2015, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [International Magazine]
  English, Scientific journal
• Ideas Concerning Phenomenology of Mediation: With and Beyond Husserl
  TAGUCHI Shigeru
  Heidegger-Forum, 9, 37, 48, Heidegger-Forum in Japan, May 2015, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese, Scientific journal, 11784023
• Tanabe Hajime: Philosophy of Mediation. Chapter 2: The Scope of his Theory of State and the Development of the ‘Logic of Species’
  TAGUCHI Shigeru
  Shiso, 1089, 103, 124, Dec. 2014, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
  Japanese, Scientific journal
• Speculation and Reason in Whitehead's Philosophy: On the Significance of 'Anarchy'
  TAGUCHI Shigeru
  Riso, 693, 43, 54, 理想社, Sep. 2014, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
  Japanese, Scientific journal
• Mediational Character of Evil and Methodic Function of Intuition: "Between" Schelling and Tanabe
  TAGUCHI Shigeru
  Schelling-Jahrbuch, 21, 15, 24, 日本シェリング協会 ; 1993-, Nov. 2013, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
  Japanese, Scientific journal
• Mediation and Its Drive: The Controversy between Nishida and Tanabe on the Philosophical "Seeing"
  TAGUCHI Shigeru
  Report of the JSPS research project on "Intercultural Phenomenology" (20320007), 9, 22, Jun. 2013, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
  Japanese, Symposium
• On My Work "The Problem of 'Ur-Ich' in Husserl": Four Main Points
  Shigeru TAGUCHI
  Husserl Studies in Japan, 10, 13, 30, Mar. 2013, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
  Japanese, Scientific journal
• Tanabe Hajime: Philosophy of Mediation. Chapter 1: The Formation of the ‘Logic of Species’ and the Mediational Role of Evil
  TAGUCHI Shigeru
  Shiso, 1067, 6, 26, Mar. 2013, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
  Japanese, Scientific journal
• Reduction to Evidence as a Liberation of Thinking: Husserl’s Idea of Phenomenology and the Origin of Phenomenological Reduction
  TAGUCHI Shigeru
  Metodo. International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy, 1, 1, 1, 11, Jan. 2013, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [International Magazine]
  English, Scientific journal
• Reduction to the One and the Mediating Character of the "Name": An Attempt at Interpretation of Honen's Thought
  TAGUCHI Shigeru
  Variety of Japanese Philosophy, 44, 63, Dec. 2012, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
  Japanese, Research society
• Substitution as a Definition of "I": Uniqueness of the Subject and Relentless Universality
  Shigeru TAGUCHI
  Modern Thought: Special Issue "Levinas", 40, 3, 208, 223, Feb. 2012, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese, Scientific journal
• Logic of "Turning/Transformation": The Emergence of Tanabe's Original Thinking and a Logic as Ethics
  Shigeru TAGUCHI
  Thought (Shiso), 1053, 144, 164, Jan. 2012, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese, Scientific journal
• Transcendental Egology and Its Methodological Insight: Kant, Fichte, Philosophy of Mind, and Phenomenology
  Shigeru TAGUCHI
  Kant Studies in Japan, 12, 107, 122, Jul. 2011, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese, Scientific journal
• The Art of Sobering from ‘Certainty’: On Maturana & Varela’s The Tree of Knowledge
  Shigeru Taguchi
  Gendai Shiso, 39, 9, 210, 213, Jun. 2011, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese, Scientific journal
• Die Medialität der Evidenz und das Fremde der Vernunft: Eine Überlegung anhand des Immanenz- und Transzendenzbegriffs bei Husserl
  Taguchi, Shigeru
  Tani, T. & Nitta, Y. (Ed.): Aufnahme und Antwort: Phänomenologie in Japan I (Orbis Phaenomenologicus, Perspektiven Bd.23), 118, 133, Mar. 2011, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [International Magazine]
  German
• ドイツ語学習の意義--職業訓練としての語学教育の可能性 (平成21年度・22年度山形大学教養教育(基盤教育)ベストティーチャー賞受賞記念)
  田口 茂; タグチ シゲル
  山形大学高等教育研究年報, 5, 12, 16, 山形大学高等教育研究企画センター, Mar. 2011, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese, Research institution
• Reduction to Evidence and Its Liberating Function: Husserl's Discovery of Reduction Reconsidered
  Shigeru Taguchi
  Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Husserl Circle, June 21-23, 2010, 144, 155, Jun. 2010, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
  English, International conference proceedings
• "Reason" Aroused By Discomfort: A Phenomenological Essay On Interculturality
  Shigeru Taguchi
  Gendai Shiso, 38, 7, 86, 99, May 2010, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese, Scientific journal
• Unrefusability of the Actual: A Redefinition of Experience on the Basis of Husserl's Concept of Evidence
  Shigeru TAGUCHI
  Husserl Studies in Japan, 8, 15, 26, Mar. 2010, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese
• Mediational Character of the Picture: A Phenomenological Analysis on the Basis of Husserl's and Fiedler's Philosophy
  Shigeru Taguchi
  Grant Report: Construction of the Philosophy of Media, 22, 29, Mar. 2010, [Lead author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese, Research society
• Ethics of "Seeing": Redefinition of "Reason" in Husserl
  Shigeru Taguchi
  Gendai Shiso, 37, 16, 36, 50, 青土社, Dec. 2009, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese
• From Henological Reduction to a Phenomenology of the "Name": A Reinterpretation of Japanese Pure Land Thought
  TAGUCHI Shigeru
  Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy 4: Facing the 21st Century, 51, 64, May 2009, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [International Magazine]
  English, Scientific journal
• Ethics of "Sacrifice": A Reflection on the Problem of Organ Transplantation
  Shigeru Taguchi
  Grant Report: Contribution of Applied Phenomenology to Contemporary Problems concerning Life, Body, and Mind, 302, 317, Mar. 2009, [Lead author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese
• Skepticism and Reason: The Movement of Phenomenological Thinking in Husserl and Levinas
  Shigeru Taguchi
  Tetsugaku Ronshu, 36, 17, 36, 上智大学哲学会, Oct. 2007, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese, Scientific journal
• Transformation of "Reason" in Phenomenology: Husserl and Levinas
  Shigeru Taguchi
  Tohoku Tetsugakukai Nenpou, 23, 33, 45, 東北哲学会, May 2007, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese, Scientific journal
• Kitaro Nishida on Free Will: An Essay on the Problem of Freedom and Evil
  Shigeru Taguchi
  Nishida Tetsugakukai Nenpou, 3, 87, 101, Jul. 2006, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
  Japanese
• Die doppelte Transzendenz des Lebens. Die Transzendenz des Ich und die Erfahrung des Anderen bei Husserl
  Shigeru Taguchi
  Sepp, Hans Rainer; Yamaguchi, Ichiro (Hg.): Leben als Phänomen. Die Freiburger Phänomenologie im Ost-West-Dialog, Koenigshausen und Neumann, Würzburg, 46, 59, May 2006, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [International Magazine]
  German, Research society
• Individual and What goes beyond Individual: Husserl on Self-Awareness of Individuality
  Shigeru Taguchi
  Phenomenology of Self-Awareness: Life and Knowledge, Eds. Nitta, Y., Kawamoto, H., Kyoto, Sekaishisousha, 58, 71, Jun. 2005, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese
• The Mediational Character of Evidence and ‘the Other of the Theoretic’: Self-Dismantlement of the Scheme ‘Immanence/Transcendence’ in Husserl
  Shigeru Taguchi
  Husserl Studies in Japan, 3, 219, 228, Mar. 2005, [Lead author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese
• Monads’ Perspective beyond Monads: On the ‘Shadow of Thinking’ in Husserl’s and Leibniz’ Monadology
  Shigeru Taguchi
  Genshogaku Nenpou, 21, 25, 35, 日本現象学会, 2005, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese, Scientific journal
• Awakening Reason: Knowledge and Ethics in Levinas and Husserl
  Shigeru Taguchi
  France Tetsugaku Shiso Kenkyu, 10, 170, 182, 日仏哲学会, 2005, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese
• Unique Multiplication of the I: The Problem of Intentional Modification and Monadization in Husserl
  Shigeru Taguchi
  Genshogaku Nenpou, 20, 15, 27, 日本現象学会, 2004, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese, Scientific journal
• Individuation und Ich-Gemeinschaft. Das Problem der Vielheit der ichlichen Individuen bei Husserl
  Shigeru Taguchi
  Subjektivität - Verantwortung - Wahrheit. Neue Aspekte der Phänomenologie Edmund Husserls, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 57, 73, 2002, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [International Magazine]
  German
• Self as Negativity: A Phenomenological Interpretation of the Selfhood of Life
  Shigeru Taguchi
  Gendai Shiso, 29, 17, 185, 197, 2001, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese, Scientific journal
• Obviousness of being the I: The Deepening of the Methodical Seeing and the Problem of Ur-Ich in Husserl
  Shigeru Taguchi
  Shiso, 916, 60, 79, 岩波書店, 2000, [Lead author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese
• Monad and Temporalization. Husserl's Theory of Monadological Intersubjectivity and Original Genesis of the I
  Shigeru Taguchi
  Is the Subject Still Dead? Documentation of the 1st Annual Conference of the Collegium Philosophiae Transatlanticum at State University of New York at Stony Brook, September 2-7, 1999, II, 143, 147, 1999, [Lead author, Corresponding author], [International Magazine]
  English, International conference proceedings
• Temporality and Individuality: Leibniz, Husserl, Whitehead
  Shigeru Taguchi
  Process Thought, 8, 3, 13, 1998, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese, Scientific journal
• Reduction and What is not Life: A Reflection on Husserl's Phenomenological Reduction
  Shigeru Taguchi
  Riso, 661, 13, 23, 理想社, 1998, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese, Scientific journal
• Primal Mode of Inter-Monad: Husserl’s Theory of Empathy Revisited
  Shigeru Taguchi
  Philosophia, 85, 69, 82, 早稲田大学哲学会, 1997, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese, Scientific journal
• Monad and ‘Window’: An Approach to Husserl’s Theory of Intersubjectivity
  Shigeru Taguchi
  Tegsugaku, 48, 278, 287, 日本哲学会, 1997, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese, Scientific journal
• Husserl's Concept of 'Monad': Correlation and Realization
  Shigeru Taguchi
  Genshogaku Nenpou, 11, 193, 204, 1996, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese, Scientific journal
• Husserl’s Monadology: An Inseparable Structure of Intersubjectivity and World
  Shigeru Taguchi
  Tetsugaku Sekai, 17, 81, 92, 早稲田大学大学院文学研究科哲学専攻, 1994, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese, Research institution

• 生きるとは「いかに壊れるか」である──現象学者の見たオートポイエーシス論
  田口 茂, 精神療法, 52, 2, 69, 70, 05 Apr. 2026, [Invited], [Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  金剛出版, Japanese, Introduction scientific journal, 43102862;43102861;47537082;47537081
• Thinking About Consciousness Through Interaction with AI
  Shigeru Taguchi, Smart News Media Research Institute Research Activities, Feb. 2025, [Invited], [Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author]
  Smart News Media Research Institute, Japanese, Others, 43102861;43102862;47537082
• 意識の謎はどこまで解けたか
  島田祥輔; 田口茂(監修); 鈴木啓介(監修), ニュートン, 43, 8, 90, 99, 07 Aug. 2023, [Domestic magazines]
  株式会社ニュートンプレス, Japanese, Introduction commerce magazine, 43102861
• "Crisis for Youth" and Returning to the Body
  TAGUCHI, Shigeru, Voice, 530, 150, 157, Jan. 2022, [Invited], [Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  PHP Institute, Japanese, Introduction commerce magazine
• Toward a New Place Where the Eyes of Philosophers and the Eyes of Scientists Intersect
  Shigeru Taguchi; Jun Tani; Yoji Kiyota; Youichiro Miyake, Journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 36, 3, 361, 373, May 2021, [Invited], [Domestic magazines]
  The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Japanese, Introduction scientific journal, 27958802;32846046
• Interdisciplinary Education and Research Initiatives at the Center for Human Nature, Artificial Intelligence, and Neuroscience
  TAGUCHI, Shigeru, 第6回 人文・社会科学系研究推進フォーラム報告書, 77, 86, Mar. 2021, [Invited], [Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  Hokkaido University, Japanese, Meeting report
• Establishment and Recent Activities of the Center for Human Nature, Artificial Intelligence, and Neuroscience (CHAIN)
  Taguchi, Shigeru, Annual review of the Phenomenological Association of Japan, 36, 151, 156, 2020, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [Domestic magazines]
  the Phenomenological Association of Japan, Japanese, Others
• Symposium report: Absolute Nothingness: Nishida and Tanabe
  TAGUCHI Shigeru, The Newsletter of Nishida Philosophy Association, 17, 3, 5, Oct. 2019, [Invited]
  Japanese, Meeting report
• Strange feeling aroused by the simulated experience of the Beast
  Taguchi, Shigeru, Theo Jansen Exhibition Catalogue, 2019, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
  Japanese, Others
• Articles: E.Husserl, K.Held, D.Mahnke
  TAGUCHI Shigeru, Dictionary of German Philosophy, 2019, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited]
  Japanese, Others
• 特集「自由エネルギー原理入門」
  島崎 秀昭; 吉田 正俊; 田口 茂; 磯村 拓哉; 田中 琢真; 大羽 成征; 乾 敏郎, 日本神経回路学会誌, 25, 3, 51, 52, Sep. 2018
  日本神経回路学会, Japanese
• Commentary
  TAGUCHI Shigeru, Nitta, Yoshihiro Phenomenology, Jan. 2013, [Invited]
  Japanese, Introduction other
• 書評：村上靖彦著『治癒の現象学』
  田口 茂, 図書新聞, 3026, 5, 5, Aug. 2011, [Invited]
  Japanese, Book review
• コペンハーゲン大学・主観性研究センターとフッサール生誕150周年記念学会（2009年）について
  田口 茂, 現象学年報, 26, 153, 158, Nov. 2010, [Invited]
  Japanese, Introduction scientific journal
• Center for Subjectivity Research (University of Copenhagen) and the Conference: "Self, Ego, Person: Commemorating Husserl's 150th Anniversary" (2009)
  Shigeru TAGUCHI, Annual Review of the Phenomenological Association of Japan, 26, 26, 153, 158, 2010
  日本現象学会, Japanese
• 自我の近さと暗さ──フッサールの「原自我」論と思考することの責任──
  田口 茂, 創文, 524, 23, 26, Oct. 2009, [Invited]
  創文社, Japanese, Introduction commerce magazine
• 書評：村上靖彦著『自閉症の現象学』
  田口 茂, 実存思想論集, XXIV, 177, 180, Jul. 2009, [Invited]
  Japanese, Book review
• もうひとつの理性──合理性への陶酔に抗して
  田口 茂, 朝日新聞（大阪本社版）夕刊, Apr. 2007, [Invited]
  Japanese, Others
• 書評：山口一郎著『存在から生成へ──フッサール発生的現象学研究』（知泉書館、二〇〇五年）
  田口 茂, 現象学年報, 22, 181, 184, Nov. 2006, [Invited]
  Japanese, Book review