Café & Forum

 
　　　　　　　La Fontaine du dialogue（Busato）
　　　　　　　　2015.10.20 @Angers


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Sci-Phi Café SHE (Science & Human Existence): 2011～, in Tokyo

1. Science and philosophy: Overview (2011.11.24-25)

2. Determinism and free will (2012.4.17-18)

3. The Normal and the Pathological (2012.9.11-12)

4. Brain and mind, or consciousness (2012.11.29-30)

5. Vitalism (2013.3.26-27)

6. Intestinal microbiota (2013.9.10-11)

7. Gene (2014.4.3-4)

 

8. Intelligent design (2014.11.27-28)

9. Science and religion: The case of Auguste Comte (2016.3.10-11)

10. Plant (2016.11.17-18)

11. Ernst Haeckel (2017.6.16)

12. Minimal cognition (2017.10.27)

13. Theaetetus, or science viewed from Plato (2018.6.15)

14. Technique, according to Heidegger (2019.4.12)

15. Louis Pasteur's Footsteps (2022.10.5)

16. Anaximander (2023.3.8)

17. A joint review of the book From Immunity to Science as Philosophy by Hidetaka Yakura (2023.11.17)

18. What is at stake in the consciousness study? (2024.3.14)

Café PAWL (Philosophy As a Way of Life): 2014～, in Tokyo

1. Diogenes of Sinope (2014.3.28)

2. Epicurus (2014.11.21)

3. Epictetus (2016.3.8)

4. Aristotle (2016.11.11)

5. Socrates (2017.6.9)

6. Phaedo of Plato (2017.10 21)

7. On Life of Tolstoy (2018.6.8)

8. Happiness of Alain Badiou (2022.9.28)

9. Happiness and antiphilosophy (2023.3.1)

10. The Symposium of Plato and mysticism (2023.11.14)

11. Thinking about the "improvement of the understanding" with Spinoza (2024.3.12)

Sci-Phi Café SHE in Sapporo: 2016～

1. Philosophy for science & science for philosophy (2016.3.2)

2. Gene (2016.11.8)

3. Healing (2017.6.3)

4. Inner life (2017.10.6)

5. Minimal requirements for cognition (2018.6.2)

6. Technique (2018.10.27) 

7. Plants (2019.3.23)

8. On the book A Meditative Life of an Immunologist in Paris by Hidetaka Yakura (2022.10.29)

9. Anaximander (2023.2.25)

10. On the book From Immunity to Science as Philosophy by Hidetaka Yakura (2023.10.21)

11. Thinking about how to see things and how to live from Plato's philosophy (2024.4.6)

Bergson Café (Read French Texts and Discuss): 2017～, in Tokyo

1. Pierre Hadot « La philosophie comme manière de vivre », Exercices spirituels et philosophie antique (Albin Michel, 2002) pp. 289-304 (2017.6.24 & 7.1)

2. Pierre Hadot  « Apprendre à vivre », Exercices spirituels et philosophie antique (Albin Michel, 2002) pp. 19-38 (2017.10.14 & 21)

3. Pierre Hadot  « Apprendre à dialoguer », Exercices spirituels et philosophie antique (Albin Michel, 2002) pp. 38-47 (2018.6.9 & 16) 

4. Pierre Hadot  « Apprendre à mourir », Exercices spirituels et philosophie antique (Albin Michel, 2002) pp. 48-60 (2018.11.9 & 15)  

5. Pierre Hadot  « Apprendre à lire », Exercices spirituels et philosophie antique (Albin Michel, 2002) pp. 60-74 (2019.5.21 & 28) 

6. Alain Badiou's Métaphysique du bonheur réel (PUF, 2015) Chapter 1 (2022.9.28)

7. Alain Badiou's Métaphysique du bonheur réel (PUF, 2015) Chapter 2 (2023.3.1)

8. Jean-François Mattéi, Les présocratiques, Les La pensée antique (PUF, 2015) (2023.11.8)

9. Jean-François Mattéi, Les présocratiques, Les La pensée antique (PUF, 2015) (2024.3.6)

Paris Café: 2017～, in Paris

1. Penser à la relation entre la science et la philosophie (2017.9.2)

2. Penser le problème de la cognition minimale (2019.1.11)

Sci-Phi Forum FPSS (Forum of Philosophy of Science for Scientists) : 2017～, in Tokyo 

1. The First FPSS (2017.6.10) 
　 Discussion on the policy of the Forum

2. The Second FPSS (2017.10.28)
　a) Muta, Y: History and present situation of science communication in Japan 
　b) Shiraishi, H: Recomendation of life-style of Mr. Yakura from the age of 50
　c) Hayashi, Y: Position of philosophy in fusion of humanities and sciences---A view from physical education
　d) Saga, T: Biodiversity and agriculture 

3. The Third FPSS (2018.6.30)
　a) Hayashi, Y: Philosophy as a "play of logos"
　b) Onai, T: Proposal of "time being-labor being theory"
　c) Shiraishi, H: Towards fusion of science and philosophy by "mindfulness"

4. The Fourth FPSS (2018.11.17)
　a) Ito, A: On teleology
　b) Iwakura, Y: Technological progress in developmental engineering and human existence

5. The Fifth FPSS (2019.5.18)
   a) Hayashi, Y: Is 'philosophy as a way of life' possible today?
   b) Ato, M: Is it possible for active scientists to philosophize?

6. The Sixth FPSS (2019.11.9)
　a) Takeda, Y: On the essential difference between science and technology--from the practitioner's perspective
　b) Takeda, K: On consciousness from the viewpoint of neuropsychology

7. The Seventh FPSS (2022.10.1)
　a) Yakura, H: Series "Science & Philosophy" Presocratics-1
　b) Watanabe, M: Altered states of consciousness and unconsciousness

　c) Iwanaga, Y: Talk session on the book A Meditative Life of an Immunologist in Paris by H Yakura

8. The Eighth FPSS (2023.3.4)
　a) Yakura, H: Series "Science & Philosophy" Presocratics-2
　b) Hisanaga, S: Gene and individuality

　c) Ichikawa, H: The basic ways of humans and science

9. The Ninth FPSS (2023.11.11)
　a) Yakura, H: Series "Science & Philosophy" Presocratics-3
　b) Muta, Y: Harry Collins, Rethink Expertise: How useful is professional knowledge to civil society?

　c) Kimura, T: Was there no philosophy in Japanese technology, or have we left it behind? --Questions of a technologist

10. The Tenth FPSS (2024.3.9)
　a) Yakura, H: Series "Science & Philosophy" Presocratics-4
　b) Kimura, T: Was there no philosophy in Japanese technology, or have we left it behind? --Questions of a technologist <Discussion>

　c) Saga, T: Thinking about science for society--Questions from a former engineering researcher

11. The Eleventh FPSS (2024.7.13)
　a) Yakura, H: Series "Science & Philosophy" Presocratics-5
　b) Ito, A: Teleology and science: A perspective opened up by Kant's theory of organisms

　c) Hayashi, Y: On the interstice between the academic and the "ultimate": A consideration from the philosophy of physical education