Tetsuji Iseda

Tetsuji Iseda ( Japanese 伊 勢 田 哲 治 , Iseda Tetsuji ; * 1968 in Japan ) is a Japanese philosopher of science.

He studied philosophy with a focus on ethics at the University of Kyoto , where he obtained his bachelor's degree in 1991 and his master's degree in 1993. In 2001 he did his PhD with Frederick Soupe at the University of Maryland with a thesis entitled Socialization of Epistemology: For a Better Relationship between Epistemology and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge . Since 1999, he has been assistant professor and later associate professor at the School of Computer Science and Science at Nagoya University in Japan. Since 2008 he has been professor at the Graduate School for Letters at the University of Kyoto . His main research interests are philosophy of science, epistemology and (applied) ethics as well as the sociology of scientific knowledge.

Works

• Socialization of Epistemology: For a Better Relationship between Epistemology and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge , Uni Maryland, PhD-Thesis, 2001
• Giji-Kagaku to Kagaku no Tetsugaku (philosophy of science and pseudoscience). Nagoya University Press. (Japanese), 2003
• Ninshikiron wo Shakaika Suru (Socialization by Epistemology). Nagoya University Press. (Japanese), 2004
• Tetsugaku Shiko Training (Training in Philosophical Thought). Chikuma Shobo (Japanese), 2005

Published books

• Hokoritakai Gijutusha ni Narou (Let's Be Engineers With Proud), Associate Editor Kotaro Kuroda, Kazuhisa Todayama and Tetsuji Iseda, Nagoya University Press. (Japanese), 2004
• Seimeirinrigaku to Korishugi (Bioethics and Utilitarianism), Associate Editor Tetsuji Iseda and Noriaki Katagi, Nakanisiya Shuppan (Japanese), 2006

Web links

• Iseda Tetsuji on the Kyōto University website (Japanese, English)