| Position | Associate Professor |
|---|---|
| Faculty | Aesthetics |
| Graduate School | Aesthetics |
| Department | Aesthetics |
Career
| October 2013: | Ph.D., Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo |
| April 2024: | Appointed to the Faculty of Letters, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo |
Research Areas
Western Aesthetics
1) Establishment of Modern Aesthetics
Researching the conditions for the establishment of Baumgarten’s aesthetics, the founder of modern aesthetics, focusing on the theory of truth and employing a conceptual historical method from the perspectives of logic, ontology, and epistemology.
2) The Modal Ontology of the Possible
Studying how artworks and fiction—"possible things” created by human techniques that lack necessity or reality of existence—have been positioned and theorized within metaphysical ontology and cosmology from ancient to modern times, from the perspective of modal ontology.
3) Establishment of Modern Hermeneutics
Examining the continuities and discontinuities between the hermeneutics of Schleiermacher, the founder of modern hermeneutics, and earlier hermeneutics, and exploring how this became the theoretical foundation for philosophical hermeneutics from the late 19th century onward.
