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AAMES Jericho Jimmy
Graduate School of Humanities / Division of Human Cultural Studies
Associate Professor

  • Profile

    My research focuses on the philosophy of the American philosopher and logician Charles S. Peirce, who was active from the 19th century to the early 20th century, and on contemporary philosophy of science (especially philosophy of physics). Some topics in the philosophy of science that I have been working on include the ontology of patterns, the problem of emergence, and the philosophy of time and space. I also maintain an interest in the history of scientific thought: by studying the works of such thinkers as Leibniz, Newton, and Gödel as well as Peirce, I am currently exploring the prospects for a new natural philosophy suitable for our times.

Researcher basic information

■ Research Keyword
  • Peirce
  • American Philosophy
  • Pragmatism
  • Philosophy of Physics
  • History of Physics
  • Philosophy of Science
  • History of Science
  • History of Scientific Thought
  • Scientific metaphysics
  • Natural philosophy
  • Patterns
  • Emergence
  • Philosophy of Time
  • Philosophy of Spacetime
  • Logic
  • Mathematical Philosophy
  • Continuum
■ Research Areas
  • Humanities & social sciences / Philosophy and ethics / Philosophy
  • Humanities & social sciences / History of thought
  • Humanities & social sciences / Sociology/history of science and technology / History and philosophy of science
■ Committee History
  • Oct. 2022 - Present, American Philosophy Forum, Editor of *Journal of American Philosophy*
  • Mar. 2022 - Present, American Philosophy Forum, Management Committee Member

Research activity information

■ Award
  • Nov. 2024 American Philosophy Forum in Japan, American Philosophy Forum Encouragement Award

  • Nov. 2016 Charles S. Peirce Society, Peirce Essay Contest Honorable Mention

  • Mar. 2016 Michael Burke/John Tilley Grant in Philosophy

  • Mar. 2016 Terry Helene Mills Award in Philosophy

  • Apr. 2015 Jean Martin Maxwell Philosophy Prize

■ Paper
■ MISC
■ Books And Other Publications
  • Jimmy Aames
    Contributor, Leibniz's Monadology and the Twisted Structure of Reality: An Essay in Natural Philosophy, Jinbun Shoin, Jul. 2024, 239–274, ISBN: 4409031325
    Scholarly book

  • Nishida Kitarō's Philosophy of Life
    Jimmy Aames
    Single translation, Mimesis International, Sep. 2020, English, ISBN: 8869772683

■ Lectures, oral presentations, etc.
  • Solipsity as Secondness: Approaching the Problem of Solipsity from the Standpoint of Peirce's Theory of the Categories
    Jimmy Aames
    Yamakakko Juku, Dec. 2024, Japanese, Peirce_and_Nagai_Hitoshi_lecture.pdf, No password
    [Invited]
    Public discourse
    添付ファイルのURL

  • Undecidability in Physics and Strong Emergence
    Jimmy Aames
    Time and Contingency Research Group, “Making Strong Emergence” Workshop, Nov. 2024, Japanese, Jimmy_Aames_Strong_Emergence_2024.11.02.pdf, No password
    [Invited]
    添付ファイルのURL

  • Relativity Theory and Local Time: Responding to Gödel's Argument for the Unreality of Time
    Jimmy Aames
    Shibaura Institute of Technology, Quantum Foundations and Quantum Information Online Seminar, Jul. 2024, Japanese, Quantum_Foundations_Presentation_2024_07_02.pdf, No password
    [Invited]
    添付ファイルのURL

  • From the Principle of Optimality to the Monadology (New Year's Talk on Natural Philosophy: "Science, Society, and the Absent God")
    Jimmy Aames, Adam Takahashi
    Kochi University of Technology, School of Environmental Science and Engineering Colloquium "Frontiers of Science and Engineering", Jan. 2024, Japanese, From the Principle of Optimality to the Monadology.pdf, No password
    [Invited]
    添付ファイルのURL

  • Solipsity as Secondness: Peirce and Nagai Hitoshi
    Jimmy Aames
    American Philosophy Forum 10th Meeting (Shinshu University), Nov. 2023, Japanese, Peirce_and_Nagai_Hitoshi.pdf, No password
    添付ファイルのURL

  • Cicadas, Memory, and the Immortality of the Soul: Philosophical Musings on Some Themes from the Suita School
    Jimmy Aames
    Prof. Tatsuya Higaki Osaka University Retirement Memorial Symposium (Osaka University), Mar. 2023, Japanese
    [Invited]

  • Whence Did Science Come? Medieval Scholastic Philosophy and Ancient Natural Philosophy
    Jimmy Aames, Adam Takahashi
    Kochi University of Technology, School of Environmental Science and Engineering Colloquium "Frontiers of Science and Engineering", Dec. 2022, Japanese, Whence_Did_Science_Come.pdf, No password
    [Invited]
    添付ファイルのURL

  • The Play of Nature: Peirce's Tychism and Evolutionary Cosmology
    Jimmy Aames
    時間・偶然研究会, May 2022, Japanese, Tychism Presentation.pdf, No password
    [Invited]
    添付ファイルのURL

  • The Passage of Time and Relativity Theory: Revisiting Gödel's Philosophy of Time
    Jimmy Aames
    22nd Meeting of the Singularity Research Group (Research Group on Singularities, Spacetime, and Related Physics), Dec. 2021, Japanese, Singularity_Research_Group_Presentation.pdf, No password
    [Invited]
    Invited oral presentation
    添付ファイルのURL

  • Temporal Becoming in a Relativistic Universe: Causal Diamonds and Gödel's Philosophy of Time
    Jimmy Aames
    Kochi University of Technology, School of Environmental Science and Engineering Colloquium "Frontiers of Science and Engineering", Nov. 2021, Japanese, Kochi_Presentation_2021_11_30.pdf, No password
    [Invited]
    Public discourse
    添付ファイルのURL

  • Prescision and Hypostatic Abstraction: Peirce's Theory of Abstraction
    Jimmy Aames
    Philosophical Association of Japan / Philosophy Online Seminar Joint Workshop "History of the Philosophy of Abstraction and Concept Formation: From Antiquity to the Present" (Organizer: Shinji Ikeda), Nov. 2020, Japanese
    [Invited]
    Oral presentation

  • Comments on Kazunori Kondō's *Towards a Philosophy of Immanence*
    Jimmy Aames
    Symposium on Kazunori Kondō's *Towards a Philosophy of Immanence* (Osaka University), Sep. 2019, Japanese, Domestic conference
    [Invited]
    Nominated symposium

  • The Concept of the Correlate in Peirce's "New List of Categories"
    Jimmy Aames
    American Philosophy Forum 6th Meeting (Kyoto University), Jun. 2019, Japanese, New_List_Correlate.pdf, No password, Domestic conference
    Oral presentation
    添付ファイルのURL

  • Patternhood and Generality: A Peircean Approach to Emergence
    Jimmy Aames
    Japan Association for Philosophy of Science Conference (Kanazawa University), Jun. 2019, Japanese, JAPS Presentation.pdf, Published, Domestic conference
    Oral presentation
    添付ファイルのURL

  • The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
    Jimmy Aames
    Unified Quantum Device Laboratory Seminar, Kochi University of Technology, Oct. 2018, English, TI-Presentation.pdf, Published, Domestic conference
    [Invited]
    Public discourse
    添付ファイルのURL

  • Peirce's "Extreme" Realism and Supermultitudinous Conception of Continuity
    Jimmy Aames
    American Philosophy Forum 5th Meeting, Kobe University, Jun. 2018, Domestic conference
    Oral presentation

  • On the Double Function of the Interpretant
    Jimmy Aames
    American Philosophical Association (APA) Eastern Division Meeting, Baltimore, MD, Jan. 2017, English, International conference
    Oral presentation

■ Affiliated Academic Society
  • American Philosophy Forum

  • Charles S. Peirce Society

  • The History of Science Society of Japan

  • JAPAN ASSOCIATION FOR PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

■ Research Themes
  • A Metaphysics of Time Based on Smooth Infinitesimal Analysis and Contemporary Physics
    Jimmy Aames
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Early-Career Scientists, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Apr. 2024 - Mar. 2029, Principal investigator

  • A Study of Emergent Phenomena Based on Computability and Computational Complexity
    Jimmy Aames
    Shibaura Institute of Technology, Project Research Grant (Start-Up Research Grant), Apr. 2023 - Mar. 2024, Principal investigator

  • Peirce's Semiotic-Informational Approach to Physical Phenomena
    Jimmy Aames
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, Osaka University, Apr. 2018 - Mar. 2021, Principal investigator
    昨年度に引き続き、Peirceの哲学を足掛かりにパターン性と創発の研究に取り組んだ。特に下方因果(downward causation)の概念に注目し、これまでの研究において提示したリアル・パターン創発(RP創発)という創発形態との関連で下方因果概念の分析を行った。この研究の成果は、昨年度までの研究成果と合わせて、"Real Pattern Emergence: A Study of Patternhood, Generality, and Emergent Behavior from a Peircean Perspective"と題する博士論文においてまとめた。
    また、上記の研究に加えて、Peirceの初期の重要著作である「新しいカテゴリー表について」の研究も行った。特に、この著作に登場する「被関係項」の概念に注目し、その分析を通して、「新しいカテゴリー表」全体の論証構造に光を当てることを試みた。この研究成果は、Peirce協会の機関誌Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Societyにおいて採録決定済みであり、近日中に刊行予定である。
    さらに、富山大学の池田真治先生を代表者とする「抽象と概念形成の哲学史」研究会における研究の一環として、Peirceにおける抽象の理論の研究を行った。Peirceの著作に登場する二種類の抽象の概念である「前切」と「実体的抽象化」を取り上げ、両概念の検討を通じて、Peirceの哲学の観点から概念形成について何が言えるかを探った。以上の研究成果は、日本哲学会・哲学オンラインセミナー共催ワークショップ「抽象と概念形成の哲学史―古代から現代へ―」において発表したほか、池田真治先生の編集による研究報告論文集『抽象の理論をめぐる哲学史─古代から近代まで─』において刊行した。

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