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Yuko Ishihara

Writings

Selected writings

This is a curated, source-checked list rather than an exhaustive CV. Books are listed separately; the remaining writings are gathered as selected papers.

Books

2024

Books

Intercultural Phenomenology: Playing with Reality

Yuko Ishihara and Steven A. Tainer

Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Introductions to World Philosophies

A practice-oriented introduction to phenomenology, Japanese philosophy, Zen Buddhism, epoché, Nishida, Gadamer, and Bashō.

Selected papers

2026

Selected papers

Dialogue as Human Existence: Ueda Shizuteru's Zen Buddhist Philosophy and a Care Ethics of Play

Yuko Ishihara

In Care Ethics and Beyond: Moral, Epistemological, Cross-Cultural Perspectives, Springer Nature, pp. 73-92

A chapter listed in J-GLOBAL and PhilPapers in a 2026 edited volume on care ethics and cross-cultural philosophy.

2026

Selected papers

「私」の居場所を探して

Yuko Ishihara

図書, May 2026

A Japanese-language short piece in 図書.

2025

Selected papers

Real harmony of the self: Enactivism and the Kyoto School

Yuko Ishihara and Katsunori Miyahara

In Considering, Questioning and Reimagining Harmony, Bloomsbury Academic

A chapter in an edited volume on harmony across cultural, historical, and disciplinary contexts.

2025

Selected papers

Selves as Perspectives: From Biological Life to Superintelligence and a Bodhisattva Project

Thomas Doctor, Olaf Witkowski, Paul Colognese, Yuko Ishihara, and Michael Levin

PsyArXiv

A collaborative preprint connecting Buddhist epistemology, perspectives, selves, biological life, and artificial intelligence.

2022

Selected papers

Different Ways of Attending to Experience: Formalizing the Phenomenological Epoché to Translate Between Science and Philosophy

Yuko Ishihara and Olaf Witkowski

In Access and Mediation: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Attention, De Gruyter Saur, pp. 135-160

A collaborative chapter clarifying forms of reflection and translating between scientific and phenomenological accounts of experience.

2022

Selected papers

Nishida and Ueda on Philosophical Reflection

Yuko Ishihara

Tetsugaku Companion to Ueda Shizuteru: Language, Experience, and Zen, Springer, pp. 131-150

A study of philosophical reflection in Nishida and Ueda within the Kyoto School and Zen philosophical context.

2021

Selected papers

[Book Review] Fujita Masakatsu, A Human Being: The Unfinished Philosophy of Nishida Kitarō

Yuko Ishihara

Kyushin, no. 26, pp. 151-157/158

A verified review entry listed in Ritsumeikan Researcher Database and J-GLOBAL.

2020

Selected papers

Heidegger and Nishida's Transformations of Transcendental Reflection

Yuko Ishihara

Tetsugaku Companion to Phenomenology and Japanese Philosophy, Springer, pp. 77-94

An essay on Heidegger and Nishida as transforming, rather than simply rejecting, transcendental reflection.

2019

Selected papers

Nishida Kitarō's awakened realism: going radically transcendental

Yuko Ishihara

Metodo: International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy, Special Issue 1(3), pp. 57-84

An account of Nishida as developing a radicalized transcendental position described as awakened realism.

2011

Selected papers

Later Nishida on Self-awareness: Have I lost myself yet?

Yuko Ishihara

Asian Philosophy, 21(2), pp. 193-211

A study of later Nishida's account of self-awareness and its challenge to subject-object models of experience.