An analysis of joint action in terms of fictionalism and with regard to the emergence of obligation

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K01993
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Philosophy/Ethics
• Research Institution: Nagoya University
• Principal Investigator: Tamura Hitoshi 名古屋大学, 人文学研究科, 教授 (40188438)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 自己犠牲 / キリスト教 / 倫理学 / ジョン・ロック / デイヴィド・ヒューム / 社会哲学 / 虚構 / 演技

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I made a comparative study of the conceptions of morality in Locke's Christian ethics and Hume's non-Christian ones. I pointed out the significance of Hume's account of indirect passions as an analytic explication of moral feelings in a non-Christian way. But I also suggested that at the end of Dialogues concerning Natural Religion Hume might have been theoretically necessitated to accept the conception of a cosmic intelligent being, something like God, as the foundation for human natural freedom from the present political power structures.
I translated Kendall Walton's Mimesis as Make-Believe into Japanese, and published it in 2016. This is to be considered as a basis for the fictionalist concept of moral obligation.
I have completed a book-length study, What is Self-Sacrifice: a philosophical investigation. I am going to publish it in 2018.

Free Research Field

哲学・倫理学