Ryo Chonabayashi | Faculty List | Soka University

Associate Professor

Ryo Chonabayashi

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Faculty of Letters Department of Human Studies

Graduate School of Graduate School of Letters Humanities Major

Ikeda Research Institute for Soka Education

Specialized Field	Philosophy and Ethics
Research theme	(1) Metaethics and metanormativity (naturalistic moral realism, the relationship between practical normativity and cognitive normativity, the particularism vs. generalism debate, etc.) (2) Applied ethics (medical ethics [informed consent], ethics of urban environments, welfare ethics, suicide, etc.) (3) Others (ethics of belief, the nature of faith, the social impact of the humanities, the contemporary development of Buddhism, etc.)
Subjects in charge	Introduction to Humanities, Philosophy I, Introduction to Philosophy, Contemporary Civilization Theory, Metaethics, etc.
Seminar Theme	(1) Examination of controversies in contemporary philosophical fields (especially ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics) (2) Analysis and consideration of social issues using philosophy (consideration of philosophical issues related to social welfare, etc.)
Main career, work history, and academic background	Tokyo Soka University, Faculty of Faculty of Letters, Department of Humanities (Bachelor of Humanities) University of Bristol, MA in Philosophy Cardiff Graduate School of Philosophy (PhD in Philosophy) Cardiff University, Postgraduate Lecturer
Affiliated academic societies and organizations	Japanese Philosophical Association, Japanese Society for Ethics, Japanese Society for the Philosophy of Science, Japanese Association of Applied Philosophy, Japanese Society of British Philosophy
Main Papers and Publications	Single author Can Ethics Become a Science? - A Defense of Naturalistic Metaethics (Keiso Shobo, 2016) Edited by The Frontier of Metaethics (Keiso Shobo, 2019) Co-author Aiming for the Revival of the Humanities: An Invitation to Human Studies (Keiso Shobo, 2018) paper "A survey of philosophical arguments about the evils of suicide" (Society and Ethics, no. 32, 2017) "Two Strategies for Defending Naturalistic Moral Realism" (Law and Philosophy, no. 2, 2016) "Debates over moral particularism: Recent trends" (Contemporary and Applied Philosophy, vol. 6, 2015) etc. "Moral Explanation of Moral Judgments", 2023, Theoria, vol. 89, Issue 6, pp. 891-909.
Message	[For] the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs (George Eliot, Middlemarch).
others	Hobbies: Spitz

Specialized Field	Philosophy (mainly ethics)
Research theme	1) Metaethics (realism and anti-realism, naturalism and non-naturalism, ethics and empirical science, the relationship between normative properties and other properties, metaethical problems of moral particularism, etc.) ②Other ethics (medical explanations, welfare ethics, suicide, ethics of apology, etc.) 3) Other philosophy-related research (the nature of faith, Tsunesaburo Makiguchi 's theory of value, the relationship between Buddhism and philosophical issues, etc.)
research content	Current Research Projects (1) Defence of localist moral realism (examination of the explanatory role of moral values such as justice and injustice, mercy and cruelty in comparative politics and social psychology) (2) Research on the relationship between moral properties and other properties (examination of issues surrounding the instantiation of moral properties within the framework of moral particularism) (3) Research on the ethics of apology (when to apologize, when not to apologize, insincere apologies)
Research and Education Policy	Regarding research, I would like to carefully work on research topics that interest me and that I believe to be valuable, even if I don't see immediate results. As for my educational policy at the graduate school, I would like to provide students with as much useful knowledge as possible that I have gained as a researcher, but I think there are many things I don't understand about the students' research topics, so I would like to teach with the stance of "learning together."
Message	If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me, regardless of whether you plan to go to graduate school or not. (If you send me an email, I will reply.)

Research theme	On Tsunesaburo Makiguchi 's theory of value

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