Fellows 2023

Toshiro Terada

Professor of Philosophy, Sophia University Tokyo

Resident at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften:

September 2023

Research topic at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften:

»Theory and Practice of Cosmopolitanism in the Contemporary World«

Research partner:

Toshiro Terada is a guest at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften at the invitation of Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, Professor of Philosophy at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.

I aim to think philosophically about the significance of cosmopolitanism, particularly in Japanese society. I am also interested in identifying the significance of philosophy in democratic societies that are now suffering from populism.

Scholarly profile of Toshiro Terada

Toshiro Terada has been a professor of philosophy at Sophia University in Tokyo since 2010. Due to his research on German philosophy, especially on the practical philosophy of Immanuel Kant, he has been invited to visit German universities several times - including the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (2007) and the Free University of Berlin (2019). In the academic year 2016/07 he was an exchange professor at Hope College in Michigan.

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Main areas of research:

Practical philosophy; Philosophy of Immanuel Kant; Theory and Practice of philosophical dialogue

Selected publications:

»Recent Developments and Challenges of Kant Studies in Japan«, in: Beatrix Himmelmann and Camilla Serck-Hanssen (ed.), Court of Reason, De Gruyter, 2021.
»Human rights and personal dignity«, in: Philosophical Studies, Department of Philosophy in Sophia University, 2021.
Tetsugakutaiwa to Kyoiku (Philosophical dialogue and education), Osaka University Press, 2020.
Dosureba Senso ha nakunarunoka: Kant no Eienheiwaron wo yominaosu (How can we put an end to wars? Rereading Kant’s Perpetual Peace), Gendaishokan Publishers, 2019.

Toshiro Terada

Scholarly profile of Toshiro Terada

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