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Yujin Nagasawa

Y.Nagasawa@bham.ac.uk

Reader in Philospohy of Religion and Co-Director of the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion, 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 Reader in Philosophy of Religion in the School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham, UK. He was awarded the Philosophical Quarterly Essay Prize in 2007, the John Templeton Award for Theological Promise in 2008 (by the John Templeton Foundation and the University of Heidelberg), and the Excellence in Philosophy of Religion Prize in 2011 (by the University of St. Thomas). 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, Book Series Co-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.

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

  • Exploring Alternative Concepts of God (with Andrei Buckareff at Marist College, USA; 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)

Recent and Forthcoming Talks

  • International Conference: "Minds--Human and Divine, Munich School of Philosophy, August 2012
  • Summer School: "Minds--Human and Divine", Munich School of Philosophy, July-August 2012
  • University of Cambridge, February 2011
  • British Society for the Philosophy of Religion Conference, Oxford, UK, September 2011
  • Ontologcial Proofs Today, Bydgoszcz, Poland, September 2011
  • Philosophy of Religion in the 21st Century, Krakow, Poland, June 2011
  • Marist College, USA, March 2011. 
  • Minds, Bodies and Souls: Society for Christian Philosophers Eastern Regional Conference, Fordham University, USA, March 2011
  • Conference in Honour of John Hick, University of Birmingham, March, 2011.
  • University of Durham, UK, February 2011.
  • University of Nottingham, UK, February 2011.