Itsuki Hayashi
Kyoto University
DIALOG
MOST NOTED ARTICLES
What Causes the Sprout? - Buddhist Accounts of Cooperative Causation
DocumentsWhat Causes the Sprout? (more)
2015 KU-NCCU Graduate Workshop on Asian Philosophy@KICAS | March 27, 2015 | Views: 1,531
Prof. Deguchi's Comments on Koji Tanaka, "In Search of the Semantics of Emptiness"
Comments on Koji’s Paper: In Search of the Semantics of EmptinessY Deguchi 10 Dec 2014 Virtues: None. Vices No definite conclusion: ‘The realization of emptiness thus depends on the attachment of a semantics that...... (more)
Nothingness in Asian Philosophy@CAPE | December 10, 2014 | Views: 929
Itsuki's Notes on Introduction by Jeelou Liu and Douglas L. Berger
1. Representational accuracy of the IntroductionSome general claims have been challenged. Firstly, is there a clear distinction between western philosophy and Asian philosophy, such that western philosophy began...... (more)
Nothingness in Asian Philosophy@CAPE | February 25, 2015 | Views: 843
FREQUENT REJOINERS
Chun-Ying WANG 汪純瑩
MEPO Humanity Technology, Inc. / National Chengchi University / Kyoto University
CURRICULUM VITAE
March 2015
ITSUKI HAYASHI, Ph.D.
Graduate School of Letters Email: itsuki@hawaii.edu
Kyoto University Phone: (080)1163-2021
Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku
Kyoto 606-8501 Japan
EDUCATION
2008-2013 Ph.D. University of Hawaii at Manoa (Philosophy)
2006-2007 M.A. University of Hawaii at Manoa (Philosophy)
2004-2006 M.A. University of Toronto (East Asian Studies)
2000-2004 B.A. University of Toronto (Philosophy/East Asian Studies)
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Buddhist Philosophy, Metaphysics, Comparative Philosophy
AREAS OF COMPETENCE
Epistemology, Phenomenology, Indian Philosophy, Chinese Philosophy, Japanese Philosophy
LANGUAGES
Japanese (mother tongue)
English (fluent)
Sanskrit (competence in reading and translation)
Classical Chinese (competence in reading and translation)
Mandarin (elementary conversation)
DISSERTATION
Committee: Steve Odin (chair), Arindam Chakrabarti, Chung-ying Cheng, Masato Ishida, Helen Baroni (Religion)
Rehabilitating Momentariness:
A Critical Revision of the Buddhist Doctrine of Momentariness
The Buddhist doctrine of momentariness (kṣaṇabhaṅga) is extensively studied but no real effort has been made to resolve the crucial problems with which it has historically been infected. The dissertation is an attempt to rehabilitate and revise the Buddhist doctrine for the purpose of establishing a robust theory of temporality and persistence that is capable of contributing to the contemporary debate over the nature of persistence over time.
Through a close reading of Śāntarakṣita and Kamalaśīla’s (9CE) Tattvasaṃgraha and its Paṅjikā and Ratnakīrti’s (11CE) Kṣaṇabhaṅgasiddhi-Anvayātmika, I argued that these Buddhists fail to give a satisfactory account of how momentary entities can associate with their surroundings to generate a qualitative difference (e.g. a seed giving rise to a sprout with the help of soil, water, etc.). As a solution, I suggested a redefinition of ‘moment’ (kṣaṇa), inspired by Whitehead’s account in Process and Reality, whereby the notions of momentariness, causal interaction and qualitative change can be coherently asserted.
PUBLICATIONS
“Persons as Weak Emergents: An Alternative Reading of Vasubandhu’s Ontology of Persons”
Philosophy East and West 67:2 (to be published in April 2017)
“Evanescence and Persistence”
Ishida, Masato., and Laura Specker Sullivan, eds. Locating and Losing the Self in the World: Cross-Cultural Reflections on Self-Awareness and Self-Transcendence. Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2014)
“Ontology of Discontinuity: Buddhism and Descartes”
Perspectives: International Postgraduate Journal of Philosophy, Volume 5, Autumn 2014, pp. 58-73.
Book Review
The Self: Naturalism, Consciousness, & the First-Person Stance by Jonardon Ganeri
Philosophy East and West 64:4, pp. 1077-1084 (2014)
PRESENTATIONS
February 2015 “Can Flux bring about Flux? – The Inconclusiveness Objection against Radical Impermanence and Buddhist Response”
The 4th Forum for Japanese and Comparative Philosophy
Kobe University, Hyogo, Japan
October 2014 “Ontology of Discontinuity: Vasubandhu and Descartes”
I Buddhological Conference, held at Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations, Krakow
June 2014 “Are Buddhists Perdurantists? – Buddhist Philosophy in Contemporary Discussion of Persistence”
The 49th Annual Conference for Society for Asian and Comparative
Philosophy
State University of New York at Binghamton
March 2014 “Buddhist Emergentism: Dharmakīrti on the Reality of Color”
2014 NCCU-KU-YaleNUS Workshop in Asian Philosophy
National Chengchi University, Taipei
February 2014 “Persistence without Identity: Buddhism and Contemporary Theories”
International Workshop in Comparative Philosophy
Kobe University, Hyogo, Japan
January 2014 “Buddhist Emergentism: Vasubandhu on Conventional Reality”
The 6th Next Generation Global Workshop
University of Kyoto
March 2012 “Evanescence and Persistence”
Uehiro Cross Currents Philosophy Conference
University of Hawaii
WORKS IN PROGRESS
“Can Flux bring about Flux? – An Appraisal of the Causal Objection to the Buddhist Doctrine of Universal Flux”
This is a polished and elaborated version of the first chapter of my dissertation. It highlights Ratnakīrti’s response to the inconclusiveness objection, which has been insufficiently addressed in existing researches and in my dissertation.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
April 2014 – Present Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Kyoto University Asian Studies Unit, Kyoto University
December 2013 – March 2014 Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Asian ERASMUS Program, Kyoto University
TEACHING RECORD
Instructor of Record
Fall 2010 Survey of Philosophical Problems (Introduction to Philosophy)
Spring 2010 Morals and Society (Introduction to Ethics)
Fall 2009 Introduction to Symbolic Logic
Teaching Assistant
Spring 2009 Introduction to Symbolic Logic, taught by Ron Bontekoe
Fall 2008 Morals and Society, taught by Steve Odin
Spring 2008 Survey of Philosophical Problems, taught by Graham Parkes
PUBLIC AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
December 2014 Conference MC, Chair for Special Lectures (4 sessions), Interpreter, The 7th Next-Generation Global Workshop, Kyoto University
February 2014 Session Instructor, Workshop on conducting conferences and lectures in English, Kyoto University
February 2014 Session Chair, Yale-NUS and Kyoto Philosophy Workshop on K. C.
Bhattacharya and Keiji Nishitani, organized by Jay Garfield and Yasuo
Deguchi, held at National University of Singapore
2008 - 2009 Treasurer, Philosophy Students’ Association, University of Hawaii at
Manoa
2005 - 2006 Treasurer, East Asian Studies Graduate Student Union, University of
Toronto
ORGANIZATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS
2014 to Present Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP)
2014 to Present Forum for Japanese & Comparative Philosophy (FJCP)
2014 to Present The Association for Asian Studies (AAS)
2014 to Present Center for Applied Philosophy and Ethics (CAPE)
2014 to Present International Association of Buddhist Studies (IABS)
2014 to Present Japanese Association for Comparative Philosophy
2013 to Present Association for Nishida Philosophy
2013 to Present Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (SACP)
2012 to Present Society for Teaching Comparative Philosophy
2010 to Present American Philosophical Association (APA)