Areas of
Specialization:
Philosophy of Biology
Philosophy of Science
Areas of
Competence:
History of Biology
History of Science
Education
September 2003-
University of British Columbia, Department of Philosophy
Major: Philosophy of Science, especially philosophy of biology
April 2001-Present (absence)
Kyoto University Graduate
School of Letters (Doctoral course), Department of Philosophy and History of
Science
Advisor: Soshichi Uchii, Professor
Major: Philosophy of Science,
especially Philosophy of Biology
April 1998-March 2001
Kyoto University Graduate
School of Letters (Master's course), Department of Philosophy and History of
Science
Obtained Degree: Master of
Letters (Shushi [Bungaku]), 2001
Advisor: Soshichi Uchii,
Professor
Major: Philosophy of Science,
especially Philosophy of Biology
April 1995-March 1998
Obtained Degree: Master of
Arts (Gakujutsu), 1998
Advisor: Tetsuhiko Shinagawa,
Associate Professor
Major: Philosophy, especially
phenomenological study of science
April 1991-March 1995
Obtained Degree: Bachelor’s
degree of Liberal Arts (Sogokagaku), 1995
Advisor: Kaoru Narisada,
Professor
Major: Philosophy of Science
March 1991
Graduated from
Teaching experiences
January 2004-
Teaching Assistant at the University of British Columbia
September -December 2003
Teaching Assistant at the University of British Columbia (for a symbolic logic course [PHIL 220])
My job is marking papers.
April 2002 to March 2003
Teaching assistant at Kyoto University (for an introductory course
of philosophy of science for undergraduates)
My job is making quizzes with a professor and marking test papers.
August 1995 to March 1998
Part-time lecturer of philosophy at Hiroshima City Medical Association Nursing School, Japan
Publications
Articles
2003 “Karl Popper on the Scheme of Evolution” PHS Newsletter, no.50 (issued by the department of Philosophy and History of Science, Kyoto University, Japan) http://www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/phisci/Newsletters/newslet_50.html
2002 "Ernst Mayr's Biological Species Concept," Journal of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science, vol.29, No.2, pp.23-28 (Japanese)
1999 "Thinking Framework of "Species Problem," Seibutugakushi kenkyu [The Japanese Journal of the History of Biology], No.62, pp.1-6 (Japanese)
Presentations
July 2003 "Natural
Function and its History of Selection," Kyoto Colloquium for the
Philosophy of Science, Kyoto, Japan
July 2003 "Function and Accidental Doubles," ISHPSSB 2003 meeting,
Vienna, Austria
April 2003 "The Etiological Theory of Natural Functions," Creative
Philosophers' Society, Nagoya, Japan
February 2003 "The Concept of Function in Evolutionary Biology," The
21st Century COE Program: PaSTA [Plurality, and Science, Technology, Art]
workshop, Kyoto, Japan
June 2001 “Ernst Mayr's Biological Species Concept”, Japan Association for
Philosophy of Science, Nagano, Japan
Translations
2000 Translation of Joseph
Rouse “Knowledge and Power” into Japanese (the original published in
1987, Cornell University Press; co-translator, in charge of Chapters 3, 5, and
6),
1997 Translation of O.
Hoeffe’s lecture “Zur Ethik des Atomzeitalters: Neun Thesen”into
Japanese (the original lecture given at
Theses
2001 “Ernst Mayr’s Biological
Species Concept,” Master’s Thesis,
1998 “Phenomenological Study
of Science,” Master’s Thesis,
1995 “On Theories of Animal
Systematics,” Graduate Thesis, Hiroshima
Grant, Scholarships
2003 Graduate Entrance
Scholarship (from University of British Columbia)
April 2001-Present The Japan Scholarship Foundation (First Category)
April 1995-March 1997 The Japan Scholarship Foundation (First Category)
Academic Memberships
The International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB)
Philosophy of Science Society,
Biological Unit of the History of Science Society of Japan
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(c)Yuichi Amitani