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CAPE Studies in Applied Philosophy & Ethics Series

CAPE Studies in Applied
Philosophy & Ethics Series vol. 2

Proceedings of the CAPE International Workshops, 2013 A collected volume of papers presented at the CAPE International Conference "Ethics and Well-being" (November 9-10, 2013, Kyoto, Japan), and the CAPE International Conference "A Frontier of Philosophy of Time" (November 30 - December 1, 2013, Kyoto, Japan).

2025.10.17
CAPE WS Updated

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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2025.10.13
CAPE WS Updated

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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2025.10.10
CAPE Lecture Updated

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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2025.09.26
CAPE Lecture Updated

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

2025.09.18
CAPE Lectures Updated

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

2025.08.25
CAPE Lectures Updated

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

2025.07.28
CAPE Lectures Updated

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?

2025.07.09
Notice of Postponement: CAPE Lecture

The CAPE Lecture by Professor Nancy S. Jecker, originally scheduled for August 18, has been postponed.
The new date will be announced on the CAPE website once it has been determined.

2025.07.07
CAPE Lectures Updated

240th CAPE Lecture
Date: Augast 18th, 2025 (Monday), 16:00-17:30
Place:Meeting Room at the 1st basement floor, Kyoto, University, Yoshida Campus (at Bldg. 8 of map)
Speaker: 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

238th CAPE Lecture
Date: July 9th, 2025 (Wednesday) 16:00-17:30
Place: Meeting Room at the 1st floor (at Bldg. 8 of map)
Speaker: Bhaskarjit Neog (Associate Professor, Centre of Philosophy, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India)
Title: Fixity and Fluidity of Moral Blameworthiness: Collective and Artificial Agents

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2022.11.29
CAPE Lecture updated

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