SHUHEI SHIMAMURA

Last Updated :2025/06/04

Affiliations, Positions
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Associate Professor
E-mail
shuheishiroshima-u.ac.jp

Basic Information

Major Professional Backgrounds

  • 2007/04, 2009/03, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Special Postdoctoral Researcher
  • 2010/04, 2013/03, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Special Postdoctoral Researcher
  • 2014/04, 2016/03, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
  • 2017/04, 2023/03, Nihon University, Assistant Professor
  • 2023/04, 2024/03, Nihon University, Associate Professor
  • 2024/04/01, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Associate Professor

Academic Degrees

  • The University of Tokyo
  • The University of Tokyo
  • PhD, The University of Tokyo

Research Keywords

  • Agency
  • Propositional Attitudes
  • Content Externalism
  • First Person Privilege
  • Self-Knowledge

Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Communication IＢ
  2. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 4Term, Communication IIＢ
  3. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 4Term, Philosophy A
  4. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Introductory Seminar for First-Year Students
  5. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 2Term, Modern Thought
  6. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 3Term, Seminar in Comparative Philosophy
  7. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 2Term, Contemporary Philosophy I
  8. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 2Term, Contemporary Philosophy II
  9. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 4Term, Contemporary Philosophy

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. Normativity of meaning: An inferentialist argument, Synthese, 202(4), 20231003
  2. The Transparency of Desire as Motivation, Review of Analytic Philosophy, 1(1), 19-50, 202105
  3. A First-Order Sequent Calculus for Logical Inferentialists and Expressivists, Logica Yearbook 2018, 211-228, 201908
  4. A nonmonotonic modal relevant sequent calculus, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 10445, 570-584, 2017
  5. Inferentialism: A normative, pragmatist theory of meaning, Kagaku tetsugaku (Philosophy of Science), 48(2), 93-109, 201512
  6. Why Should We Know Our Own Minds?: Avowal, Rational Agency, and the First-Person Privilege, Kagaku tetsugaku (Philosophy of Science), 45(2), 29-46, 201212
  7. Knowing One’s Own Mind: Resolving a Philosophical Dilemma concerning Self-Knowledge of Propositional Attitudes, PhD dissertation (The University of Tokyo), 201110
  8. Semantic Inferentialism and Social Externalism, Proceedings of the 4th BESETO Conference of Philosophy: The Future of Philosophy in East Asia, 489-500, 201001
  9. ‘Loyalty’: A Theoretical Consideration toward Effective Protection of Whistleblowers, Ouyou Rinri Tetsugaku Ronshu (The Journal of Applied Ethics and Philosophy), 4(4), 112-128, 200907
  10. Two Aspects of Content: Semantic Inferentialist’s Reconciliation of Authoritative Self-Knowledge and Content Externalism, Proceedings of the Workshop on Bob Brandom’s Recent Philosophy of Language: Towards an Analytic Pragmatism, 444, 134-143, 200904
  11. Self-Knowledge and Rationality: an Approach appealing to our Capacity of Critical Reasoning, Ronshu (Philosophical Studies), 27(27), 168-181, 200903
  12. The Problem of Self-Knowledge and the ‘Extension- Determination Approach’, Journal of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science, 110(36), 19-29, 200902
  13. To What Extent is Neo-Expressivism Effective to the Problem of Self-Knowledge?: a Critical Discussion on D. Bar-On, Speaking My Mind, Ronshu (Philosophical Studies), 26(26), 218-231, 200803
  14. A Defense of Crispin Wright's 'Extension-Determination Approach', Ronshu (Philosophical Studies), 25(25), 230-242, 200703

Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation

  1. Thoroughgoing Logical Expressivism, Shuhei Shimamura, Thought, Reason, Logic: Celebrating Three New Books, 2024 Canadian Society for Epistemology Annual Meeting and Book Launch Party, 2024/09/13
  2. A Nonmonotonic Sequent Calculus for Expressing Relevance as Minimality, Shuhei Shimamura, Services to Logic: 50 Years of the Logicians’ Liberation League, 2019/11/26
  3. Substantial Self-Knowledge in Practical Deliberation, Shuhei Shimamura, 2019/11/10
  4. The Transparency of Our Own Desires, Shuhei Shimamura, Rationality, Representation, and Reality
  5. Expressing Relevances: A Logical Expressivist Approach to Relevances in Material Inferences, Shuhei Shimamura, Hamburg-Japan Workshop, 2018/08/25
  6. A First-Order Sequent Calculus for Logical Inferentialists and Expressivists, SHIMAMURA Shuhei, LOGICA 2018, 2018/06/20
  7. A Nonmonotonic Modal Relevant Sequent Calculus, SHIMAMURA Shuhei, LORI VI (6th International Conference on Logic, Rationality and Interaction), 2017/09/12
  8. A Nonmonotonic Sequent Calculus with Downward Conditional, SHIMAMURA Shuhei, SOCREAL 2016 (4th International Workshop on Philosophy and Logic of Social Reality), 2016/10/29
  9. Externalism, Dry Earth, and Inferentialism, SHIMAMURA Shuhei, 2015/10/10
  10. Articulating One’s Own Desires, Shimamura Shuhei, The 64th Northwest Philosophy Conference, 2012/10
  11. The Limits of Transparency and Self-Knowledge of Desires, Shimamura Shuhei, The 63th Northwest Philosophy Conference, 2011/11
  12. Immediacy of the Self-Attribution of Intention and Transparency Theory, Shimamura Shuhei, Annual meeting of Philosophy of Science Society, Japan, 2010/11
  13. Content Externalism and Immediacy of Self-Knowledge, Shimamura Shuhei, Workshop, The Frontiers of the Debate on Self-Knowledge: Possibilities of Rational, Practical Approaches, at fall regular meeting of the Japan Association for the Philosophy of Science, 2010/11
  14. Commitments and Perspectival Duality: a Defense of a Radically Normative Analysis of Actions, Shimamura Shuhei, Kant-Abend, 2010/04
  15. Semantic Inferentialism and Social Externalism, Shimamura Shuhei, The 4th BESETO Conference of Philosophy: The Future of Philosophy in East Asia, 2010/01
  16. Self-Knowledge and Rational Agency, Shimamura Shuhei, Annual meeting of the Philosophical Association of Japan, 2009/05
  17. Two Aspects of Content: Semantic Inferentialist’s Reconciliation of Authoritative Self-Knowledge and Content Externalism, Shimamura Shuhei, Towards Analytic Pragmatism: Workshop on Bob Brandom’s Recent Philosophy of Language, 2009/04
  18. Self-Knowledge and Neo-Expressivism: a Critical Notice, Shimamura Shuhei, Annual meeting of Philosophy of Science Society, Japan, 2008/10
  19. Self-Knowledge and the ‘Extension-Determination Approach’, Shimamura Shuhei, Annual meeting of Philosophy of Science Society, Japan, 2006/10

External Funds

Acceptance Results of Competitive Funds

  1. 2024/04/01, 2027/03/31
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  2. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, An interdisciplinary study of human agency: taking vulnerability and interdependency seriously, 2015/04/01, 2018/03/31
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  3. 2010/04, 2013/03
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  4. 2007/04, 2009/03