Academic Employment
| 11/2014-Current | Program Advisor at Hokkaido University of Education International Affairs Division |
| 04/2014-10/2014 | Specially Appointed Term-Limited Instructor at Hokkaido University of Education Asahikawa Department of English Education |
| 09/2013-03/2014 | Academic Researcher at Hokkaido University Center for Sustainability Science |
| 10/2013-03/2014 | Part-Time Instructor at Hokkaido Uniersity of Education Sapporo |
Education
| 05/2013 | PhD | Fordham University | Philosophy |
| 10/2012-03/2014 | Hokkaido University | Religion Research and Coursework in Japanese | |
| 05/2011 | MPhil | Fordham University | Philosophy |
| 05/2007 | MA | Loyola Marymount | Philosophy |
| 05/2003 | BS | Wheaton College | Chemistry and Philosophy (Dual) |
Areas
| Specializations: | Modern Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy (East and West) |
| Competencies: | Ethics, East Asian Philosophy, Contemporary Continental Philosophy |
External Fellowships, Awards, and Funding
| 2018 | Carnegie Melon University DH-TEL Workshop External AW Mellon Fellow |
| 2018 | Monbukagakusho “MEXT” Kenkyuusei (Japanese Ministry of Education Research Student) |
| 2011 | Uehiro Prize (Awarded for Best Paper at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa Uehiro Crosscurrents Conference) |
| 2009 | Hokkaido University Center for Applied Ethics and Philosophy Travel Grant |
Internal Fellowships, Awards, and Funding
| 2011 | Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Research Support Grant: Fordham University |
| 2008-2012 | Teaching Fellow: Fordham University |
| 2007-2008 | University Fellowship: Fordham University |
| 2006-2007 | Tuition Scholarship: Loyola Marymount University |
| Fall 2006 | Teaching Fellow: Loyola Marymount University |
Refereed Publications
| 2022 | "History and Philosophical Method: Hegel, Stewart, and Chinese Religion" in The Owl of Minerva 53.1-2 (2022): 01-20 | link |
| 2022 | "Kierkegaard's Defence of Faith as Second-Order Partialism and Critique of Impartialism" in Australian Philosophical Review 5.1 (2022): 80-85 | link |
| 2021 | "Putting Ruist and Hegelian Social Thought in Dialogue" in Philosophy East and West 71.3 (2021): 724-746 | link |
| 2018 | "Hegel's Complete Views on Crime and Punishment" in Journal of the American Philosophical Association 4.4 (2018): 525-544 | link |
| 2018 | "Faith, Recognition, and Community: Abraham and “Faith-In” in Hegel and Kierkegaard" in American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 92.3 (2018): 445-464 | link |
| 2017 | "Education and Capacity Building with Research a possible case for Future Earth" in International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education 18.2 Authors: Yasuhiro Fukushima, Gaku Ishimura, Andrew Komasinski, Reiko Omoto, Shun Managi (2017): 263-276 | link |
| 2017 | "Critical Thinking and Normative Competencies for Sustainability Science Education" in 高等教育ジャーナル = Journal of Higher Education and Lifelong Learning 24 Authors: Andrew Komasinski, Gakushi Ishimura (2017): 21-37 | link |
| 2016 | "How Relational Selfhood Rearranges the Debate between Feminists and Confucians" in Feminist Encounters with Confucius Authors: Andrew Komasinski, Stephanie Komashin edited by Sor Hoon Tan and Mathew Foust (Brill Academic: 2016): 141-164 | link |
| 2016 | "Mobile-CALT: A Practical Guide for Using Cell Phones for CALT" in OnCUE Journal 9.4 (2016): 403-415 | link |
| 2016 | "How Kierkegaard can Help Us Understand Covering in Analects 13.18" in Asian Philosophy 26.2 (2016): 133-148 | link |
| 2016 | "Ethics is for Children: Revisiting Aristotle's Virtue Theory" in Philosophy of Childhood: Exploring the Boundaries edited by Brock Bahler and David Kennedy (Lexington Books: 2016): 39-52 | link |
| 2014 | "A Hegelian Approach to Applied Ethics and Technology" in Applied Ethics: Ethics in an Era of Emerging Technologies (Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan: 2014): 36-48 | |
| 2014 | "Anti-Climacus’s Pre-emptive Critique of Heidegger’s Question Concerning Technology" in International Philosophical Quarterly 54.3 (2014): 101-113 | link |
| 2011 | "Maybe Happiness Is Loving Our Fathers: Confucius and the Rituals of Dad" in Fatherhood and Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell: 2011): 110-120 | link |
| 2010 | "A Transcendental Phenomenology that Leads out of Transcendental Phenomenology: Using Climacus’ Paradox to Explain Marion’s Being Given" in Quaestiones Disputatae 1.1 (2010): 112-130 | link |
Other Publications
| 2020 | Review of Christian Krijnen (Ed.): Concepts of Normativity: Kant or Hegel? (Brill: 2019) at Phenomenological Reviews | Link |
| 2018 | English Translation of "In the Light: The Hakodate Trappistine Monastery" | Link |
| 2015 | “Encouraging Cell Phone Use in the Classroom” in 研究集録 (Research Summary) for The 64th Tohoku/Hokkaido Area University-level General Education Research Society | |
| 2013 | Review of Henry Rosemont A Reader’s Companion to the Confucian Analects (University of Hawaii Press: 2013) at Warp Weft and Way | Link |
Presentations
| 2015 | "How Relational Selfhood Rearranges the Debate between Feminists and Confucians" at 19th International Conference of the International Society for Chinese Philosophy: “Chinese Philosophy in the Contemporary World" The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong with Stephanie Midori Komashin as co-presenter. | |
| 2015 | 「カントの『宗教論』と神命説(DIVINE COMMAND THEORY)の共通点」[What Kant’s God and Divine Command Theory Share] at 54th Annual Meeting of the Hokkaido Society of Christian Studies Fuji Women’s University, Sapporo | |
| 2014 | "Ethics is for Children: Revisiting Aristotle’s Virtue Theory" at Special Symposium of the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children: “Philosophy of Childhood: Exploring the Boundaries American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Annual Meeting, Downtown Marriott, Philadelphia | |
| 2013 | "Encouraging Cellphone use in the Classroom" at The 64th Tohoku/Hokkaido Area University-level General Education Research Society Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro | |
| 2014 | "Ethics as a Humanistic Competency for Future Earth" at 14th Science Council of Asia Istana Hotel, Kuala Lampur | |
| 2013 | "Why Science Cannot Overturn Applied Ethics: Hegel on Morality's Autonomy" at 8th International Conference on Applied Ethics: “Applied Ethics in an Era of Emerging Technologies" Center for Applied Ethics and Philosophy, Hokkaido University, Sapporo | |
| 2013 | 「カントの批判的倫理学とヘーゲルの自然法批判」 [Kant’s Critical Moral Philosophy and Hegel’s Critique in “Natural Law”] at The 2013 Spring Research Presentation Meeting of the Philosophical Society of Hokkaido University Hokkaido University, Sapporo | |
| 2012 | "Confucian Moral Selfhood" at Australasian Society of Asian and Comparative Philosophy University of New South Wales, Sydney | |
| 2011 | "The Essentially Relational Self in Kierkegaard and Nishida" at Uehiro Graduate Philosophy Conference: “Cross Currents” University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Manoa, HI | |
| 2011 | "A Relational Understanding of Justification in Luke: Restored to the Father" at Society of Vineyard Scholars Seattle, WA | |
| 2009 | "Finding Pleasure in Friendship: Epicurus and Confucius" at 4th International Conference on Applied Ethics: “Applied Ethics and Its Frontiers Center for Applied Ethics and Philosophy, Hokkaido University, Sapporo | |
| 2009 | "Aristotle’s Ergon and the Family: Human Flourishing in Human Families" at Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Annual Conference Fordham University Lincoln Center, New York, NY | |
| 2008 | "Making Sense of the Saturated Phenomenon: How Kierkegaard Can Help Marion’s Being Given" at 2008 Annual Conference on Christian Philosophy: “The Philosophy of Jean-Luc Marion” Franciscan University of Steubenville, Steubenville, OH | |
| 2008 | "Reawakening the Christian Sense of Locke’s Tolerance" at Fordham University Graduate Student Philosophy Conference Fordham University, New York, NY | |
| 2007 | "Is there anything more important than Life?" at Society for the Asian and Comparative Philosophy at Pacific Division Group of the 81st Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association The Westin St. Francis, San Francisco, CA |
Works in Progress
| Draft | An Analogy for Hegel's Theory of Punishment. In this paper, I expand on my 2018 work to suggest how a correct understanding of Hegel's theory of punishment both traces the development of a system of justice and grows out of natural encounters. Here, I argue that
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| Initial | Kierkegaard and Lopsided Recognition Before I started working on the Hegel and crime project, I started to research Kierkegaard's notion of recognition and compare it with Hegel's account of mutual recognition. For Kierkegaard, this occurs in several places and at least two pseudonyms: Johannes Climacus's Philosophical Fragments and Anti-Climacus's Sickness Unto Death. To make sure I was not missing any loose ends, I read the Philosophy of Right, and in the process, I found the current accounts of crime to be inadequate. The main focus of this project is to look at how Kierkegaard thinks we can have our identity consituted by an other (God) without us being necessary to give that other a coherent identity. This is very much the opposite of Hegel's notions in political philosophy where mutual recognition stands at the root of value.
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| Initial | Learning to Love the Dead: A Confucian Lesson for Kierkegaard Scholars One of the more difficult passages in Kierkegaard's Works of Love is on loving someone who is already dead. In this paper, I deploy Confucian resources to help make sense of this and show that at least one overlap between Confucian and Kierkegaardian approaches to ethics is in their belief that relationships serve as sources of moral knowledge. |
Teaching
Philosophy & Ethics
Critical Thinking (19x)
Philosophical Ethics (4x)
Philosophy of Human Nature (4x)
Introduction to the Humanities: Plato and Aristotle (0.5x)
International Understanding: Descartes and Locke (1x)
Environmental Ethics (0.25x)
Academic English
Presentations, Publications, and Ethics in Research (5x)
Academic Writing (7x)
Academic Reading (1x)
Presentation (10x)
English Literature
A Christmas Carol (1x)
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Moral Imagination) (2x)
English Education
Education and Technology (6x)
Intercultural Understanding (2x)
English Communication (5x)
Teaching Methodologies for English-mediated Instruction (10x)
Business Writing (9x)
Service
| 04/2015-Current | Member of Hokkaido University of Education Asahikawa Campus International Exchange Committee |
| 11/2014-Current | Member of Hokkaido University of Education Global Education Leaders Program Committee |
| 04/2014-Current | Developed a proprietary LMS in PHP/MySQL |
| 05/2012 | Referee for Fordham Graduate Philosophy Conference (Spring 2012) |
| 09/2011-05/2012 | Faculty advisor for the Polish Student Association at Fordham University Lincoln Center |
| 09/2009-05/2010 | Co-Chair of Fordham Graduate Philosophy Conference for Spring 2010 "Aristotle in the 21st Century" |
| 09/2008-05/2009 | Conference Referee for Fordham Graduate Symposium: Fall 2008, Spring 2009 |
| 09/2007-05/2008 | Developed and managed “Academic Integrity” Online Tutorial for Fordham University’s undergraduate colleges in PHP/MySQL |
Journal Referee for:
| Journal of the Center for Applied Ethics and Philosophy at Hokkaido University | 2013,2024,2024 |
| Philosophy East and West | 2015,2018,2019,2020,2023 |
| Social Philosophy Today | 2020 |
| Filizofia | 2023,2024 |
Translation Work for:
Kuriyama Masatoshi (Hokkaido University): 2013
Michael Davis with Ikeda Makoto (Hokkaido University): 2014
English Editing:
| Kazumasa Takahashi (Hokkaido University of Education) | 2018, 2019, 2020 |
| Noriaki Katagiri (Hokkaido University of Education) | 2018 |
| Takuro Tsuda (Hokkaido University of Education) | 2019, 2020, 2023 |
| Yuji Furukawa (Hokkaido University of Education) | 2020 |
| Atsushi Itaya (Hokkaido University of Education) | 2023 |
Languages
| English | Native Speaker |
| Japanese | Competent reading, speaking, and writing (JLPT N1) |
| German | Reading Compentecy, Conversational Speaking |
| French | Reading Competency |
| Danish | Reading Compentecy |
| Latin | Reading Competency |
Business Skills
| Web Development | 20 years professional experience: PHP, MySQL, HTML,JavaScript |
| Web Marketing | Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Marketing |
| Office Applications | 20+ years experience with MS Office including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access. Several VBA projects in Excel and Access |