HIROTAKA SUGITA

Last Updated :2024/04/10

Affiliations, Positions
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Associate Professor
E-mail
hiro9525hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Basic Information

Major Professional Backgrounds

  • 2012/04/01, 2013/03/31, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Education, Assistant Professor
  • 2013/04/01, 2018/03/31, Ehime University, Lecturer
  • 2018/04/01, 2019/03/31, Ehime University, Associate Professor
  • 2019/09/01, 2020/03/31, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Education, Associate Professor

Educational Backgrounds

  • Hiroshima University, 2007, 2009
  • Hiroshima University, 2009, 2012

Academic Degrees

  • Hiroshima University
  • Hiroshima University

Research Keywords

  • moral education
  • evidence-based educational policy and practice
  • bioethics
  • Wittgenstein
  • philosophy of education

Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 1Term, Research Tutorial IIB
  2. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Introductory Seminar for First-Year Students
  3. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 1Term, Seminar in Philosophy of Education I
  4. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 1Term, Seminar in Philosophy of Education II
  5. 2024, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Graduation Thesis
  6. 2024, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Supervised Seminar in Philosophy of Education
  7. 2024, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Supervised Seminar in Philosophy of Education
  8. 2024, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Directed Study in Philosophy of Education
  9. 2024, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Directed Study in Philosophy of Education
  10. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 1Term, Methodology on Moral Education
  11. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 1Term, Methodology on Moral Education
  12. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 1Term, Methodology on Moral Education
  13. 2024, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Practical Seminar for the Teaching Profession
  14. 2024, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Practical Seminar for the Teaching Profession
  15. 2024, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Practical Seminar for the Teaching Profession
  16. 2024, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Practical Seminar for the Teaching Profession
  17. 2024, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Practical Seminar for the Teaching Profession
  18. 2024, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Practical Seminar for the Teaching Profession
  19. 2024, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Practical Seminar for the Teaching Profession
  20. 2024, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Practical Seminar for the Teaching Profession
  21. 2024, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Practical Seminar for the Teaching Profession
  22. 2024, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Practical Seminar for the Teaching Profession
  23. 2024, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Practical Seminar for the Teaching Profession
  24. 2024, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Practical Seminar for the Teaching Profession
  25. 2024, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Practical Seminar for the Teaching Profession
  26. 2024, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Second Semester, Advanced Study in Education
  27. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, Research Methods and Ethics for Educational Sciences(Japanese Class) Students enrolled before AY 2023
  28. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, Research Methods and Ethics for Educational Sciences(Japanese Class)Students enrolling in AY 2024 or later
  29. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 2Term, Special Lecture on Philosophy of Education I
  30. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 2Term, Special Lecture on Philosophy of Education II
  31. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Special Study
  32. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Second Semester, Special Study
  33. 2024, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Second Semester, Research into Educational Joint Research
  34. 2024, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , 2Term, Pre- Practicum of University Teaching
  35. 2024, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , 4Term, Pre- Practicum of University Teaching
  36. 2024, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , First Semester, Research into University Classwork Structure Theory
  37. 2024, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , First Semester, Teaching Practicum I
  38. 2024, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Second Semester, Teaching Practicum II
  39. 2024, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , First Semester, Teaching Practicum III
  40. 2024, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , First Semester, Special Study
  41. 2024, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Second Semester, Special Study

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. Commentary: Norms in Inferentialism, Norms in Education, Journal of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science, 51(1-2), 51-56, 20240330
  2. Can Chance be Tamed by Probabilistic Data?: On the Ontological Weakness of Education, E-Journal of Philosophy of Education: International Yearbook of the Philosophy of Education Society of Japan, 7, 61-69, 20221021
  3. ★, Re-envisioning personhood from the perspective of Japanese philosophy: Watsuji Tetsuro's Aidagara-based ethics, Educational Philosophy and Theory, 20210309
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  4. Philosophy of Education in a New Key: Voices from Japan, Educational Philosophy and Theory, 20200816
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  5. ★, How Did "Validity" Enable the Criticism of Scientific Truth?: A Brief Genealogy from Herman Lotze to Emil Lask, Studies in the Philosophy of Education, 120, 58-76, 20191110
  6. ★, Reexamining the Relationship between "Nature" and "Norm" in Neo-Pragmatism, Bulletin of John Dewey Society of Japan, 60, 131-140, 20191001
  7. ★, On the Possibility of "Mediation" in Moral Education : The Implications of Hajime Tanabe's Thoughts on the Foundations of Mathematics and Logic, Forum on modern education, 17-23, 20180908
  8. Re-examination of Moral Education in the Classes for All Subjects Based on Intellectual Virtues, The research for methods of moral education, 1-10, 2017
  9. ★, On the Ethical Traits Demanded of Educators Confronted with Evidence : Intellectual Virtue in Virtue Epistemology, The Japanese journal of educational research, 82(2), 229-240, 20150600
  10. ★, The Bearing of Wittgenstein's "Rule-Following Paradox" on Moral Education : John McDowell's Therapeutic Philosophy and His Re-examination of the Practical Syllogism, 35-54, 2015
  11. On the Difficulty of Understanding Children's Reasoning : An examination of Cora Diamond's "The Difficulty of Reality and the Difficulty of Philosophy", 47-56, 20120000
  12. The Otherness of Children in Understanding Moral Education as Initiation into Practices : A Focus on the Views of J. McDowell and R. Brandom, 41-50, 20111100
  13. Relational Aspect of the Concept of a Person : Analytic-Philosophical Critique on the Reductive Arguments about Personhood in Bioethics, 93-102, 20110000
  14. ★, The logical status of the "inner" expressed in language games: examining the possibilities of communication with severely disabled children, Studies in the philosophy of education, 20-38, 20100000

Publications such as books

  1. 2023/07/31, Philosophy of Education in Dialogue between East and West: Japanese Insights and Perspectives, Language and Education, Routledge, 2023, 7, Scholarly Book, Single work, English, Masamichi Ueno, Hiromi Ozaki, Masaki Takamiya, Mitsutoshi Takayanagi, Sunji Lee, Yuhi Fujita, Michiko Aoyagi, Hirotaka Sugita, Shigeki Izawa, Jeremy Rappleye, 978-1032220543, 160, 92, 107
  2. 2021/05/27, Community-based Lesson Study. Lesson Study-based Teacher Education: The Potential of the Japanese Approach in Global Settings, Lesson Study with Multiple Stakeholders: Community-based Lesson Study, Routledge, 2021, Scholarly Book, Joint work, 英語, Nariakira Yoshida, Hirotaka Sugita, Shota Kumai, Atsushi Fukuda, 978-0367478452, 240, 183-198

Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation

  1. Doing philosophy of education in Japan: Activities, challenges and future perspecptives, Morimichi Kato, Yasushi Maruyama, Mika Okabe, Masamichi Ueno, Hiromi Ozaki, Reiko Muroi, Hirotaka Sugita & Masaki Takamiya, PESA (Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia) Conference 2023, 2023/12/07, Without Invitation, English, Aukland, New Zealand
  2. Evidence-based Education in Japanese Contexts: Toward an Ontological Plurality of Technics, Hirotaka Sugita, International Conference on Evidence-based Education, 2023/11/18, With Invitation, English, Beijing Normal University, Beijing
  3. How is the critique of bio-power in education possible?, Hirotaka Sugita, Reiko Muroi, Koki Hiraishi, Tomoka Toraiwa, 50TH PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION SOCIETY OF AUSTRALASIA HYBRID CONFERENCE, 2022/12/08, Without Invitation, English, Sydney
  4. Relationality as Human Condition: On Aidagara or Betweenness against Totalitarianism, Hirotaka Sugita, The 30th Global Justice Workshop, 2022/11/30, With Invitation, English, Sun Yat-sen University
  5. Dynamism of the Disclosure of the World and Transformation of the Self: From the Perspective of Japanese Philosophy, Hirotaka Sugita, Asian Link of Philosophy of Education, Winter 2021 Seminar, 2021/02/21, Without Invitation, English, Asian Link of Philosophy of Education, Seoul National University (Online)
  6. Pedagogical Aspects of Two Uses of 'Analogy' in the Later Wittgenstein's Method of Philosophy, sugita hirotaka, PESA Conference 2018, 2018/12/10, Without Invitation, English
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  7. A Narrative Approach to Moral Reasoning in Japanese 'Moral Lesson' Classes, sugita hirotaka, The 12th Anniversary Conference of Asia-Pacific Network for Moral Education, 2018/04/29, Without Invitation, English
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  8. The Difficulty of Seeing the World Differently: A Pedagogical and Ethical Aspect of Persuasion, sugita hirotaka, PESA (Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia) Annual Conference, 2017/12/04, Without Invitation, English
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  9. On the Role of Perception in Practical Reasoning: Some Implications of the McDowell-Dreyfus Debate for Moral Education, sugita hirotaka, Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain Annual Conference, 2014/03, Without Invitation, English
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  10. The Logico-Grammatical Status of the Inner and its Implication for Understanding Otherness of Offspring: Rethinking Wittgenstein' s Philosophy of Mind, sugita hirotaka, Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain Annual Conference, 2011/04, Without Invitation, English
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  11. Wittgensteinian Approach to the Concept of Person: Attitude toward the Other, sugita hirotaka, International Workshop for Young Researchers: Knowing Self, Knowing Other, 2011/01, Without Invitation, English
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  12. Possibilities of Wittgensteinian Philosophy of Education: in Japanese Context, Yasushi MARUYAMA, Yoshitsugu HIRATA, Hirotaka SUGITA, Kenichiro YAMAGISHU, Fukutaro WATANABE, International Network of Philosophers of Education, 2008/09, Without Invitation, English
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