We have added information on how to register for the upcoming CAPE Seminar, “Formal Approaches to Ethics and Political Philosophy,” scheduled for December 14.
Those who wish to attend are kindly requested to complete the registration process in advance.

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248th CAPE Lecture
Date: November 11th, 2025 (Tuesday) 17:00-18:30
Place: Meeting Room at the 1st floor (at Bldg. 8 of map)
Speaker: Professor Caspar Hare（MIT）
Title: The Possibility of Intractable Disagreement

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The CAPE lecture “Can Perception Be Unconscious?” by David Zapero, originally scheduled for October 24 at 4:00 PM, will now begin at 5:00 PM.

A Formal Approach to Normative Ethics and Political Philosophy (In Japanese)
Date: December 14th, 2025 (Sunday) 13:00-17:00
Place: Meeting Room at the 1st basement floor, Kyoto, University, Yoshida Campus (No.8 of map)
Lecturer: Susumu Cato (Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo)

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Kyoto International Workshop on Space Ethics 2025
Date: November 15th, 2025 (Saturday) 14:00-16:45
Place: Lecture Room 2, Faculty of Letters Main Building, Yoshida Campus, Kyoto University.(No.8 of map)

Organizers: Tetsuji Iseda and Yuya Shimizu
The Center for Applied Philosophy and Ethics, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University

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247th CAPE Lecture
Date: October 24th, 2025 (Friday) 16:00-17:30
Place: Meeting Room at the 1st floor (at Bldg. 8 of map)
Speaker: David Zapero (Bonn)
Title: Can Perception Be Unconscious?

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246th CAPE Lecture
Date: October 7th, 2025 (Tuesday) 17:00-18:30
Place: Meeting Room at the 1st floor of Bunkomo, Kyoto, University, Yoshida Campus (at Bldg. 7 of map)
Speaker: Moritz Lehr (former Senior Quest Designer at CD PROJEKT RED)
Title: Introduction to Interactive Moral Storytelling

244th CAPE Lecture
Date: September 22th, 2025 (Monday) 13:30-15:00
Place: Meeting Room at the 1st floor, Kyoto, University, Yoshida Campus (at Bldg. 8 of map)
Speaker: Neri Marsili (Univ Minimalistersidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia(UNED))
Title: Trusting the Wrong Sources: Pseudo-Experts and Belief in Conspiracy Theories

245th CAPE Lecture
Date: September 22th, 2025 (Monday) 15:30-16:30
Place: Meeting Room at the 1st basement floor, Kyoto, University, Yoshida Campus (at Bldg. 8 of map)
Speaker: Abhiruchi Ohja (Assistant Professor, Jamia Millia Islamia, India)
Title: Building Ethical and Inclusive AI Systems: a Framework from the Global South

242th CAPE Lecture
Date: September 10th, 2025 (Thursday) 15:00-16:20
Place: Meeting Room at the 1st floor, Kyoto, University, Yoshida Campus (at Bldg. 8 of map)
Speaker: Dr Chen Hai (East China Normal University, Shanghai, China)
Title: A Minimalist Approach to Moral Intuition Grammar

243th CAPE Lecture
Date: September 10th, 2025 (Thursday) 16:30-18:00
Place: Meeting Room at the 1st floor, Kyoto, University, Yoshida Campus (at Bldg. 8 of map)
Speaker: Dr Nancy S. Jecker (JSPS BRIDGE fellow, University of Tokyo Department of Bioethics, and Professor of Bioethics and Humanities, University of Washington School of Medicine)
Title: Designing Ethical AI: Ensuring Chatbots and Social Robots for Mental Health are Culturally Competent and Person-Centered

240th CAPE Lecture
Date: August 7th, 2025 (Thursday) 16:00-17:30
Place: Meeting Room at the 1st basement floor of Bunkomo, Kyoto, University, Yoshida Campus (at Bldg. 7 of map)
Speaker: Nancy Saul Smilansky (Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Haifa)
Title: What is Paradoxical Ethics and why does it matter?