Yuko Ishihara

Japanese Philosophy & Phenomenology

Yuko Ishihara, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the College of Global Liberal Arts at Ritsumeikan University in Osaka, Japan. Her research areas include the Kyoto School philosophy and classical phenomenology, with a specific interest in transcendental philosophy. She is currently working on the topic of play and how modern philosophers, both eastern and western, have turned to the notion of play to overcome the metaphysics of subjectivity.

Yuko’s first book ‘Intercultural Phenomenology’ was released in January 2024, through Bloomsbury publishing.

Selected Talks:
– From Human Agency to ‘Natural’ Agency (2021)
– Beyond Being-in-the-world: Projective and Open Awareness (2020)
– Reflecting on the Non-Reflective: Nishida Kitaro on Philosophical Reflection (2018)
– Awakened Realism: Insights from Japanese Philosophy (2016)
– Ueda on Philosophical Reflection (2016)

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