Since its inception, analytic philosophy has failed to attain dominance in Japan. However, the 21st century seen gain traction among Japanese philosophers. This paper, which examines status quo of Japan since 2000, consists two parts. The first part deals primarily with organizations—specifically, relevant associations, journals, conferences, universities, and publishers are illustrated. second...

___________________________________________ I propose to reconsider Gilbert Ryle’s thesis in 1956 in his introduction to The Revolution of Philosophy that “the story of twentieth-century philosophy is very largely the story of this notion of sense or meaning” and, as he writes elsewhere, the “preoccupation with the theory of meaning is the occupational disease of twentieth-century Anglo-Saxon a...

one of the greatest philosophers of western tradition, spinoza, in ethics, explained the nature of passions and presented some cures for them. george eliot, a great novelist in the nineteenth century and the translator of spinoza’s works, was strongly influenced by spinoza’s philosophy and of course in some cases surpassed him. in this essay, i try to explain that although in the case of cures ...

Although logical positivism had been known before World War II, it was introduced into academic philosophy in Japan only after it. In this process, the US philosophers who came to order participate American Studies Seminar played an important role (Section 2). The first generation of Japanese analytic philosophers, were born 1920s and 1930s, began have some influence 1960s, them published origi...