About
Yujin Nagasawa specialises in the philosophy of religion, the philosophy of mind and applied philosophy. He is the author of God and Phenomenal Consciousness: A Novel Approach to Knowledge Arguments (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and The Existence of God: A Philosophical Introduction (Routledge, 2011). He is also Co-Director of the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion|.
He is also the editor/co-editor of There’s Something About Mary: Essays on Phenomenal Consciousness and Frank Jackson’s Knowledge Argument (with Peter Ludlow and Daniel Stoljar) (MIT Press, 2004), New Waves in Philosophy of Religion with Erik J. Wielenberg, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and Scientific Approaches to the Philosophy of Religion (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).
Biography
Yujin Nagasawa was educated as an undergraduate at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in the United States, and received his PhD from the Australian National University (ANU) in 2004.
From 2004 to 2005 he was Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alberta, Canada and Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) at ANU.
He came to Birmingham in 2006 to take up a permanent position. He was awarded the Philosophical Quarterly Essay Prize in 2007, the John Templeton Award for Theological Promise by the John Templeton Foundation and the University of Heidelberg in 2008, and the Excellence in Philosophy of Religion Prize by the University of St. Thomas in 2011.
He is currently Treasurer of the British Society for the Philosophy of Religion|, Co-Editor and Review Editor of the European Journal for Philosophy of Religion|, Co-Series Editor of Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion| and a member of the Editorial Board of Religious Studies| and Ashgate's British Society for the Philosophy of Religion Book Series|.
Teaching
Postgraduate
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God, Freedom and the Meaning of Life
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Research Skills and Methods
Postgraduate supervision
Yujin is willing to supervise postgraduate projects in any of his research areas. Feel free to contact him by e-mail| if you would like to discuss possible postgraduate work. In 2011/12 Yujin supervises four PhD projects in philosophy of religion. He also supervises several Masters projects.
Research
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Philosophy of Religion (the existence of God, divine attributes, the problem of evil, science and religion)
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Philosophy of Mind (phenomenal consciousness, physicalism and dualism, semantic externalism)
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Applied Philosophy (medical ethics, the meaning of life, death)
Funded projects
Alternative Concepts of God (with Andrei Buckareff at Marist College; funded by the John Templeton Foundation; 2011-2013)
Toward a Nonphysicalist Monist Solution to the Mystery of Consciousness (with Max Velmans at Goldsmiths, University of London; funded by the John Templeton Foundation; 2009-2011)
Anselmian Perfect-Being Theology and the Cognitive Science of Religion (funded by the Cognition, Religion and Theology Project at the University of Oxford; 2008-2009)
Other activities
Publications
For a complete list of publications please see Yujin's website.|.
Books
Articles
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'A New Defence of Anselmian Theism'Philosophical Quarterly 58, 2008, pp. 577-596. Winner of the 2007 Philosophical Quarterly Essay Prize, 58, 2008, pp. 577-596.
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'Millican on the Ontological Argument', Mind 116, 2007, pp. 1027-1040, 2007, pp. 1027-1040.