SHUHEI SHIMAMURA

Last Updated :2025/11/07

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

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. ★, Normativity of meaning: An inferentialist argument (coauthored with Tuomo Tiisala), 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