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Yujin Nagasawa PhD (ANU)

Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham

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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 is currently Senior Lecturer in the School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham, UK. He was awarded the Philosophical Quarterly Essay Prize in 2007 and the John Templeton Award for Theological Promise by the John Templeton Foundation and the University of Heidelberg in 2008. He is the author of God and Phenomenal Consciousness: A Novel Approach to Knowledge Arguments (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and The Existence of God: From Anselm to Big Bang Cosmology (Routledge, forthcoming), and the (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 Wielenberg, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and Scientific Approaches to the Philosophy of Religion (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming). He is currently Treasurer of the British Society for the Philosophy of Religion.

Curriculum Vitae

Profile on the University website

Research Interests

  • Philosophy of Religion (the existence of God, divine attributes, the problem of evil, science and religion)
  • Philosophy of Mind (phenomenal consciousness, the mind-body problem, semantic externalism)
  • Applied Philosophy (medical ethics, the meaning of life, death)

Funded Projects

  • 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)

Recent and Forthcoming Talks

  • Workshop on Nonphysicalist Monism, Dartington, UK, June 2010.
  • University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, April 2010.
  • Central Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, USA, February 2010.
  • State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA, February 2010.
  • British Society for Philosophy of Religion Conference, Oxford, UK, September 2009.
  • University of Kyoto, Japan, July 2009.
  • LOGOS, University of Barcelona, Spain, June 2009.
  • Open University, UK, May 2009.
  • Oxford Brookes University, April 2009.
  • Metaphysics and Philosophy of Religion Workshop, University of Texas, San Antonio, USA, March 2009.
  • University of Texas, Austin, USA, March 2009.
  • The Fourth Annual Philosophy of Religion Conference, Baylor University, Texas, USA, February, 2009.
  • University of Birmingham, UK, February, 2009.