Program

11-5 WEDS

Welcoming Remarks 12:30-13:00

• Michael Dietrich (Dartmouth College, ex-president of ISHPSSB)
• Togo Tsukahara (Kobe University, Chair of Organizing Committee)

Afternoon (1) 13:00-15:00

Emerging Philosophy of Biology in East Asia (1)(Organizer: Shunkichi Matsumoto) Abstracts

• Senji Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan): The Ethical Problems From a Biological Point of View
• Grant Yamashita (Arizona State University, US): Germ, Soma, and Richard Owen
• Ryota Morimoto (Keio University, Japan): Evolutionary Theory from Information Theoretical Point of View
• Michael Dietrich (Dartmouth College, US): Motoo Kimura and the End of Panselectionism

Afternoon (2) 15:30-17:30

Emerging Philosophy of Biology in East Asia (2) (Organizer: Shunkichi Matsumoto) Abstracts

• Neven Sesardic (Lingnan University, China): Intelligent Design and the Argument from Improbability
• Hisashi Nakao (Kyoto University, Japan): Cultural Evolutionary Theory in a Philosophical Perspective
• Dayk Jang (Dongduk Women's University, Korea): Modularism: From an Evo Devo Perspective
• Shunkichi Matsumoto (Tokai University, Japan): Critical Examination of the Logic of Evolutionary Psychology

Evening 18:00-20:00

11-6 THURS

Morning 10:00-11:30

Afternoon (1) 14:00-16:00

Systematic Biology and the Species Problem (Organizer: Nobuhiro Minaka) Abstracts

• Nobuhiro Minaka (Natl. Inst. Agro-Environ. Sci. / Univ. of Tokyo): Introduction - Once again, what is a species?
• Akira Sasaki (Graduate University for Advanced Studies): The principle of species discretization [tentative]
• Keiichi Onoyama (A philosophical scientist of our village Earth) The systemic concept of species
• Shigeru Kuratani (Center for Developmental Biology, RIKEN): Homology, recapitulation, and evolutionary novelties

Afternoon (2) 16:00-18:00

Neuroethics: East and West (Organizer: Osamu Sakura) Abstracts

• Taichi Isobe (University of Tokyo): Neuroethical Problems about BMI (Brain-Machine Interface): Implications from Technology Itself and Researchers Engaging It
• Mayu Yamaguchi (University of Tokyo): The Contribution of Biological Knowledge to Changing "Illness" Idea
• Koji Ishihara (University of Tokyo): Neuroethics in Japanese context
• Eric Racine (University of Montreal): Pragmatic neuroethics and international controversies in neuroethics: From mind-reading to neurosurgical stimulation

11-7 FRI

Afternoon (1) 13:00-15:00

History of Eugenics in East Asia (Organizer: Yoko Matsubara) Abstracts

• Yuehtsen Juliette Chung (Assistant Professor of History, National Tsing Hua University,Taiwan, ROC): Nationalism Versus Colonialism: Eugenics and Biopolitics in China and Hong Kong, 1890's -1990's
• Sumiko Otsubo Sitcawich (Associate Professor of History, Metropolitan State University, U.S.A.): Rethinking Modernities: A Perspective of Eugenics in Japan
• Maiko Watanabe (Research Fellow, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Japan): Eugenic Intention of Antenatal Testing and Women's Experience in Japan

Afternoon (2) 15:30-17:30

Japanese Biology in Colonial Imperial Universities (Organizer: Togo Tsukahara and Akihisa Setoguchi) Abstracts

• Manyong Moon (Chonbuk National University, South Korea):Nationality of Biology?: A Butterfly-taxonomy in the colonial Korea
• Tatsushi Fujihara (assistant professor, Kyoto University): Rice Breeding in the Japanese Empire
• Lisa Onaga (graduate student, Cornell University): Silk Dispatch From Japan to Siam: The Staging and Extension of Sericultural Expertise