Enactive Cognition and Japanese Philosophy

WORKSHOP: Enactive Cognition and Japanese Philosophy

Kyoto University, Graduate School of Letters

Yoshida Campus, Yoshida Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto

Venue: Large Conference Room (B1F), Faculty of Letters Building (文学部校舎地下大会議室)

Workshop Schedule — Saturday, 14 November 2026 (Time JST)

09:45–09:55  Opening

09:55–10:40  Jay McKinney (Carleton College) — Online

The Figure-Ground Reversal of Radical Embodied Cognitive Science

10:40–11:25  Artur Gromadzki (Kyoto University)

One, Two, or Maybe Neither. The Possible Landscape of Comparison between Japanese Philosophy and the Enactive Approach

11:25–11:45  Break

11:45–12:30  Konrad Werner (University of Warsaw)

The (Lacking) Ontology of Enactment. In Search of a New Categorial Framework

12:30–13:15  Christian Halstead (Fordham University)

Nothing, Rather than Something: Nishida’s Answer to the Fundamental Question of Metaphysics

13:15–14:30  Lunch Break

14:30–15:15  Patrick Grüneberg (Kanazawa University)

Transcendental Conditions of Selfhood: Generating First-Person Significance

15:15–16:00  KONISHI Yoshia (The University of Tokyo)

After Secularization, Even Beyond Impersonality: Reading Keiji Nishitani on Science through Evan Thompson

16:00–16:20  Break

16:20–17:05  Richard Stone (Tokyo City University)

Nishida, Autopoiesis, and the Logical Formulation of Biological Individuals

17:05–17:50  Matthew A. Izor (Santa Clara University)

Naturalizing Pure Experience: Emergent Form in the Philosophy of Nishida

17:50–18:35  David Walsh (University College Cork) — Online

The Work of Art for Nishida Kitarō and Alva Noë

18:35–18:45  Closing

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Registration (for online participation / Zoom)

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf4nd842Xy7OtyRIFYAvHZEZUVbWljSMtbWbaLbybPYXAiANw/viewform?usp=dialog

(No fees, free participation)

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Organized by: 

Artur Gromadzki, Department of Japanese Philosophy, Kyoto University

Richard Stone, Department Of Design And Data Science, Tokyo City University

Inquiries/contact: [email protected]