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    The Buddhist Sengzhao’s Roots in Daoism: Ex Contradictione Nihil.Takaharu Oda - forthcoming - Logica Universalis.
    Sengzhao (c.374–414) was a Chinese Neo-Daoist who converted to Mahāyāna Buddhism, and few people doubt his influence on Chinese Buddhist philosophy. In this article, provided his Neo-Daoism (xuanxue) and Madhyamaka Buddhism, I will present how Sengzhao featured a symbolic meaning of ‘void’ (śūnya) as rooted originally in Daoism. The Daoist contradictions, in particular between ‘being’ (you) and ‘nothing [non-being]’ (wu), are essential to the development of his doctrine of ‘no ultimate void’ (不真空論, Buzhenkonglun). To understand what Sengzhao meant by ‘void’, (...)
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    Buddhist Ethics: A Pragmatist Account.Takaharu Oda - 2022 - Contemporary Pragmatism 19 (3):293-309.
    This article will consider how and why a pragmatist way of thinking is inferred in the Buddhist ethical discourse of curing the sick. This medical analogy, where the Buddha as a medical doctor acts upon the sick, contains a profound implication that the sick need not understand the reason for their sickness, insofar as they are cured or enlightened. What is taken to be pragmatism is critically clarified in this Buddhist context. There being a dissimilarity in terms of the respective (...)
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  3. Berkeley on Voluntary Motion: A Conservationist Account.Takaharu Oda - 2018 - Ruch Filozoficzny 74 (4):71–98.
    A plausible reading of Berkeley’s view of voluntary motion is occasionalism; this, however, leads to a specious conclusion against his argument of human action. Differing from an unqualified occasionalist reading, I consider the alternative reading that Berkeley is a conservationist regarding bodily motion by the human mind at will. That is, finite minds (spirits) immediately cause motions in their body parts, albeit under the divine conservation. My argument then comports with the conservationist reading from three perspectives: (i) theodicy that the (...)
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    Zen Buddhist and Christian Views of Causality: A Comparative Analysis.Takaharu Oda - 2020 - Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review 11 (2):133-160.
    This article presents a new approach to Japanese Zen Buddhism, alternative to its traditional views, which lack exact definitions of the relation between the meditator and the Buddha’s ultimate cause, dharma. To this end, I offer a comparative analysis between Zen Buddhist and Christian views of causality from the medieval to early modern periods. Through this, human causation with dharma in the Zen Buddhist meditations can be better defined and understood. Despite differences between religious traditions in deliberating human causal accounts, (...)
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    Irish Philosophy in the Age of Berkeley: Volume 88.Kenneth L. Pearce & Takaharu Oda (eds.) - 2020 - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    This volume presents a selection of new articles examining the state of Irish philosophy during the lifetime of Ireland's most famous philosopher, Bishop George Berkeley (1685-1753). The thinkers examined include Berkeley, Robert Boyle, William King, William Molyneux, Robert Molesworth, Peter Browne, Jonathan Swift, John Toland, Thomas Prior, Samuel Madden, Arthur Dobbs, Francis Hutcheson, Mary Barber, Constantia Grierson, Laetitia Pilkington, Elizabeth Sican, and John Austin. This interdisciplinary collection includes attention both to local Irish concerns and to Ireland's relation to the broader (...)
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    Preface.Kenneth L. Pearce & Takaharu Oda - 2020 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 88:1-6.
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    Semiotics against transubstantiation: Peirce’s reception of Berkeley.Takaharu Oda - 2021 - In Jason Cronbach Van Boom & Thomas-Andreas Põder (eds.), Sign, Method and the Sacred. New Directions in Semiotic Methodologies ‎for the Study of Religion. De Gruyter. pp. 147-170.
    This article argues that George Berkeley’s (1685–1753) interpretation of scientific and religious language was significantly received in C.S. Peirce’s (1839–1914) pragmatist semiotic.1 To this end, their similar views against transubstantiation in the Eucharist (Lord’s Supper, Holy Communion) will be considered. Berkeley being an Anglican bishop and Peirce’s life being linked to the Episcopal Church,2 a chief emphasis will be placed upon Peirce’s deriving his pragmatic method from Berkeley’s philosophy of language. At least three times, Peirce reviewed Berkeley’s works, including Manuscript (...)
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    Izutsu’s Zen Metaphysics of I-Consciousness vis-à-vis Cartesian Cogito.Takaharu Oda & Alessio Bucci - 2020 - Comparative Philosophy 11 (2).
    Chief amongst the issues Toshihiko Izutsu broached is the philosophisation of Zen Buddhism in his book Toward a Philosophy of Zen Buddhism. This article aims to critically compare Izutsu’s reconstruction of Zen metaphysics with another metaphysical tradition rooted in Descartes’ cogito ergo sum. Putting Izutsu’s terminological choices into the context of Zen Buddhism, we review his argument based on the subject-object distinction and establish a comparison with the Cartesian cogito. A critical analysis is conducted on the functional relationship between subject (...)
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    A Pragmatic Bishop: George Berkeley's Theory of Causation in De motu.Takaharu Oda - 2022 - Dissertation, Trinity College, Dublin
    In this doctoral thesis, I will argue that in his De motu (1721, ‘On motion’), Bishop George Berkeley (c.1684–1753) develops a pragmatist theory of causation regarding mechanical theories outlined previously with Newtonianism. I place chief emphasis on the importance of logic and mathematics in Berkeley’s scientific approach, on which the other levels of semantics, epistemology, and mechanics build up. On my rendering, Berkeley’s pragmatic method to conceive or mathematically imagine causation makes sense in terms of mechanical causes or ‘mathematical hypotheses’. (...)
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    Seibutsugaku to seimeikan =.Takaharu Oda - 2013 - Tōkyō-to Chiyoda-ku: Baifūkan.
    大学の文科系、理科系を問わずすべての学生を対象にした、教養教育のための生物学のテキストである。本書の目的のひとつは、学習を通して「生命」という概念について主体的に問いかけ考えられるようになることである 。生物学が発展してきた経緯と基本概念となる科学的生命観について科学史や科学論から説き明かす。そしてDNAの構造と機能からみた生物のしくみ、進化のプロセス、ダーウィンの進化論からドーキンスの利己的遺伝子 までを現代生物学の知見をもとに解説する。近年、注目を浴びているiPS細胞に至る研究の歴史と意義についての興味深い解説、さらに生物と環境のあり方について学際的視点にたって論じるなど、新しい時代の生物学を 概観している。.
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  11. Tom Jones, George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021). 648 pp. £28. [REVIEW]Takaharu Oda - 2022 - Eighteenth-Century Ireland 37 (1):202-205.
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  12. The Uncertainty of the Global Earth in the History of Progress. [REVIEW]Takaharu Oda - 2017 - Society and Politics 11:187–189.
    Is the shape of the Earth really a globe? Reading closely, the author of this voluminous paperback (first published as hardcover in 2015), historian David Wootton, does not take for granted the fact that the Earth is round or spherical. However, this does not mean that he is a relativist. And it is interesting to consider why he regards science as progress against any relativist view of the history of science. -/- On the whole, the book is an extraordinary contribution (...)
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    What is Pragmatism in the Postnarrativist Philosophy of Historiography? Kuukkanen, Jouni-Matti (2015), Postnarrativist Philosophy of Historiography, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 239pp, ISBN 978-1-137-40986-7. [REVIEW]Takaharu Oda - 2019 - Acta Baltica Historiae Et Philosophiae Scientiarum 7 (1):152-158.
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