Thank you!

Last week I visited Beijing for the first time to attend a conference and give my presentation on Pierce and enlightenment. Great city!

The 21st International Conference of the International Association of Women Philosophers starts from next Friday in Hongo, Tokyo.

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Can we conceive the emergence and dominance of analytic philosophy as “bureaucratization” of philosophy?

I feel like The Utopia of Rules (2015) is the most underrated book of David Graeber. The analysis remains quite relevant and explains how we are “stuck” in the trichotomy of sovereignty, bureaucracy, and charismatic power, the idea to be developed in his later book with D. Wengrow.

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I am now heading to Kyoto to attend the meeting of the American Philosophy Forum of Japan. This year’s theme is “Emersonian Perfectionism and the Tragic Sense,” and the keynote lecture will be given by René V. Arcilla and Paul Standish.

a street inside the campus bordered by a line of ginkgo trees

the photogenic ginkgo street in our campus

Cool! I’ve never tried it but writing a poem seems like a great way to illustrate and digest a philosophical theory.

The original video had almost no sound but it seems bluesky automatically amplified the noises when uploaded.

trying to give my cat a lecture on Plato’s allegory

a bowl of mazesoba noodle with oyster on top

donuts featuring pokemon

oyster-mazesoba and pokemon donuts

fyi this book is well known to Peirce scholars for triggering the Harris-Peirce debate.

Études sur la dialectique dans Platon et dans Hegel by Paul Janet

Interesting work by Paul Janet (1861). I would love to read an updated version of this book written by some contemporary scholar.

Sakana Teishoku

500yen lunch in UTokyo