| Project/Area Number |
19K00107
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 01040:History of thought-related
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| Research Institution | Shimane University |
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Principal Investigator |
Cheyne Peter 島根大学, 学術研究院人文社会科学系, 准教授 (90542382)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2023)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥3,250,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥750,000)
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| Keywords | theory of matter / theory of life / S. T. Coleridge / Immanuel Kant / F. J. W. Schelling / philosophical idealism / philosophy of energy / Coleridge / Schelling / dynamical idealism / philosophy of life / theories of matter / idealistic philosophy / 19th-century thought / 18th century philosophy / 17th century philosophy / Romanticism / 19th-century philosophy / German idealism / theories of life / intellectual history / dynamic philosophy / idealist philosophy / Cambridge Platonism / philosophy of biology / philosophy of matter / idealist philosophies / Living Ideas |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
The project aims to shed new light on the idealist theory of life and its roots in the theory of matter. This focus on life and matter constitutes an innovative approach to modern philosophical idealism. The focus will be historical in particular, examining evolving theories of life as they developed in, and arguably gave rise to, the main idealist schools of philosophy in Britain and Germany, and evolved through thinkers in France and the Dutch Republic. Three principal objectives stem from the central aim, each concerning a distinct period in the developing theory of life.
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The Principal Investigator wrote an introduction and two chapters for a book, Matter and Life in Coleridge, Schelling, and Other Dynamical Idealists. Other members produced one chapter each. This book will be published by Springer Nature. The book studies theories of the heart, metaphysics of powers, race, evolution of species, the definition of life, etc. The PI has also published an article in Japanese on Coleridge and the theory of matter. He also published an article relating Coleridge's theory of life to the theory of matter. He also started a cross-faculty research group called Living Ideas at Shimane University. The PI gave a paper to the group on his 'Schema of Value Realization'. The Living Ideas cross-faculty research group has hosted and has forthcoming talks on architecture, literature, fossil science, medicine, justice, mathematics, encyclopedia creating, bioscience, and many topics related to this Kakenhi project on Living Ideas: Dynamic Philosophies of Life and Matter.
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
This project showed how idealist philosophy from 1650-1850 anticipated 20th- and 21st-century physics, as both saw matter arising from energy. It also examined historical theories of what life is and how it arises. Socially significant, it highlights the value of ecology and circulation of energy.
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