Senji Tanaka

タナカセンジ | Senji Tanaka

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Associate Professor
Other affiliations (2)：

Research field (1)： Philosophy and ethics

Research keywords (1)： Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Biology

Research theme for competitive and other funds (1)：

Papers (14)：

TANAKA SENJI. Rethinking the unification of biology: A critical examination of the Evolutionary Synthesis and a reflection on morphodynamics for unifying various approaches of biology. Morphologia. 2017. 39. 2-21
SUZUKI G. DAICHI, TANAKA SENJI. A phenomenological and dynamic view of homology: Homologs as persistently reproducible modules. Biological Theory. 2017. 12. 3. 169-180
TANAKA SENJI. Reconsidering the Theory of Punctuated Equilibria. Philosophy of Science. 2015. 48. 2. 75-91
TANAKA SENJI. Biological individuation: The cases of organisms and species. Philosophy. 2015. 134. 55-77
TANAKA SENJI, TAKAHASHI AKINORI. The biostratigraphic origin of the theory of punctuated equilibria. Proceedings of the CAPE International Workshops, 2012 (CAPE Studies in Applied Philosophy & Ethics Series, Vol.1). 2013. 1. 111-126

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MISC (7)：

TANAKA SENJI. Book Review: Yuichi Amitani, "The Origin of Reason" (Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 2017) ". Philosophy of Science. 2017. 50. 1/2. 137-140
TANAKA SENJI, AKINORI TAKAHASHI. Individuation in paleontology. Taiwan Conference on Scientific Individuation in the Physical, Biological and Experimental Sciences. 2014
TANAKA SENJI, SATO NAOKI. Can biological phenomena be explained by physics and chemistry?. Biological Science. 2013. 65. 1. 2-9
TANAKA SENJI. Animals and domestic ehics in 19th-century America. The Japanese Journal of the History of Biology. 2007. 78. 71-75
TANAKA SENJI. Miscellaneous thoughts of summer session: Monkeys in Arashiyama and primatology. The Japanese Journal of the History of Biology. 2007. 78. 88-90

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Books (9)：

よくわかる哲学・思想
ミネルヴァ書房 2019 ISBN:9784623084104
An Introduction to Philosophy of Biology
Keiso Shobo 2016 ISBN:9784326102549
Moral Psychology
Shunjusha 2016 ISBN:9784393323656
The Evolved Apprentice
Keiso Shobo 2013 ISBN:9784326199648
Introduction to the Philosophy of Science: Readings and Discussions
Keio University Press 2013 ISBN:9784766421026

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Lectures and oral presentations (43)：

Consciousness and organisms
(第13回生物学基礎論研究会 2019)
コメントと総括
(日本進化学会第21回大会 2019)
細胞の意思:生命現象を理解するための擬人化手法の導入
(日本動物学会関東支部第71回大会 2019)
果てしない生物学基礎論の可能性と広い射程のその中で-理性の起源を問いなおす-
(第11回生物学基礎論研究会シンポジウム「なぜ生物学が哲学の問題になるのか、あらためて考える」 2017)
The theory of evolution: From a viewpoint of philosophy of biology
(第49回ゲーテ自然科学の集いシンポジウム「進化論という思想-ゲーテ形態学と生物学の哲学」 2016)

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Education (3)：

2005 - 2008 Kyoto University Graduate School of Letters Philosophy and History of Science
2003 - 2005 Kyoto University Graduate School of Letters Philosophy and History of Science
1999 - 2003 Kyoto University Faculty of Letters Philosophy and History of Science

Work history (13)：

2015/04/01 - 現在 Keio University Faculty of Letters Assistant Professor
2015/04/01 - 2017/03/31 The University of Tokyo College of Arts and Sciences Lecturer (part-time)
2014/04/01 - 2015/03/31 Showa no Mori School of Nursing Lecturer (part-time)
2014/04/01 - 2015/03/31 Taisho University Lecturer (part-time)
2014/04/01 - 2015/03/31 Tokyo City University Lecturer (part-time)

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Committee career (18)：

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Awards (1)：

2013/11/02 - The Japanese Association for Philosophy of Science The Japanese Association for Philosophy of Science Promotion Award Microorganisms and essentialism: A critical examination of the homeostatic property cluster view of the species category

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