Prof. L.A.PAUL

L.A. Paul is the Millstone Family Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Cognitive Science at Yale University and leads the Philosophical and Computational Foundations of Cognition Initiative for Yale’s Wu Tsai Institute. Her research explores questions about the nature of the self and decision-making, and the metaphysics and cognitive science of time, cause, and experience. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Humanities Center, and the Australian National University. She is also the author of three books, including Transformative Experience (Oxford University Press, 2014), and Causation: A User’s Guide (Oxford University Press, 2013), which was awarded the American Philosophical Association Sanders Book Prize. In 2020 she received the Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution from the American Philosophical Association and Phi Beta Kappa Society, and in 2023 she received a Research Award, for academic achievement, from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Her work on transformative experience has been covered in major media and explored artistically in several venues.

Prof. DEGUCHI Yasuo

Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University. He completed his doctoral studies at the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, earning a Ph.D. in Letters. He joined the Philosophy Department at Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Letters in 2002. His research areas include analytical Asian philosophy and philosophy of mathematical science. He is currently advocating a new value system called “WE-turn.” His recent works include What Philosophy Can Do for Future Society (with Markus Gabriel, Kobumsha), AI Best Friend (Tokuma Shoten), What Can’t Be Said: Paradox and Contradiction in East Asian Thought (Oxford UP), and Moon Points Back (Oxford UP).

Prof. INATANI Tatsuhiko

He is an expert in Digital Law and Criminology (Criminal Policy). His interdisciplinary research focuses on agile governance for advanced technologies like AI and robotics, exploring new legal frameworks and the integration of law and technology (legal engineering) from the perspectives of cognitive science, economics, and information science. He holds several key appointments, serving as a board member for the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence and the Japan Law and Economics Association. He also plays a central role in government policy, chairing the Digital Agency’s committee on Digital System Reforms and its Data Security Working Group, and serving on major committees for the Cabinet Secretariat and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI).