Radical Empiricism as Pluralism: Comparative Genealogical Approach with James=Nishida Relation as its Axis

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520016
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Philosophy/Ethics
• Research Institution: Kobe University
• Principal Investigator: KAZASHI NOBUO 神戸大学, その他の研究科, 教授 (20264921)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): SUZUKI Izumi 東京大学, 大学院人文社会系研究科, 准教授 (50235933) ; SAITO Naoko 京都大学, 大学院教育学研究科, 准教授 (20334252) ; UEHARA Mayuko 京都大学, 大学院文学研究科, 教授 (40465373)
• Research Collaborator: FESMIRE Steven グリーンマウンテン大学, 教授 ; ARISAKA Yoko ハノーヴァー哲学研究所, 研究員
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 多元主義 / 根本的経験論 / 近代日本思想

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The most valuable result lies in our having been able to confirm the fact that the importance of the pluralist perspective for social and political philosophy was clearly thematized not only in Chomin Nakae of the Meiji period but also in Masao Maruyama, most representative political thinker of post-war Japan; especially in Maruyama, the significance of pluralism as represented by James and Dewey in American pragmatism was firmly grasped at in his understanding of the nature of political reality.
Furthermore, we called into question philosophical problems regarding the pluralist construction of social reality in such concrete and urgent problems as concerning the so-called evaluation of radiation damage.

Free Research Field

哲学