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Tamihiro SHIGEMORI
(Professor)

Teaches; Social Philosophy and Modern Political Ideologies.

  • 1991-1994: Lecturer at Kumamoto University.
  • 1994-1996: Lecturer at Ritsumeikan University
  • 1996-: Associate Professor at Ritsumeikan University
  • 1998-1999: Visiting Scholar at Faculty of Social Political Sciences, Cambridge University
  • 2002-:Professor at Ritsumeikan University
Contact me via e-mail (sigemori@sps.ritsumei.ac.jp)
His Web Site is here
Teaching and Research Fields:
Political Theory; Philosophical Analysis of Public Policy; Historical Study in Modern British Political Thoughts.

Selected Publications:
  • David Hume and the 18th-century British Thoughts, An Annotated Catalogue, Supplement, Tokyo: Chuo University Library, 1988.[in English, Co-authored with Sadao Ikeda and Michihiro Otonashi]

  • A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Works of Jeremy Bentham, Tokyo: Chuo University Library, 1989. [in English, Co-authored with Sadao Ikeda and Michihiro Otonashi]
  • "Hobbes: Enlightenment and State", in Hiroshi Tanaka ed., Gendai Sekai to Kokumin Kokka no Shorai [i.e., Historical Perspectives of Nation State], [in Japanese], Tokyo: Ochanomizu-Shobou, 1990.
  • "Hobbes on Heresy and its Punishment", [in Japanese], in Chuo Law Review, vol.95, 1990.
  • "On the Boundaries of Justice", [in Japanese], Bulletin of General Education: Social Science and Humanities, vol.28, 1993.
  • "Adam Smith: His Concept of Civilized Society", [in Japanese], in Takeshi Nakatani and Yukio Adachi ed., Seiyo Seiji Sisoushi [i.e., A History of Western Political Thoughts], Kyoto: Mineruva Shobou, 1994.
  • "Michael Walzer and Plurarist Theory of Justice", [in Japanese], in Policy Science, vol.2, 1994.
  • "Jeremy Bentham and his Critique of Church-of-Englandism", [in Japanese], in Chuo Law Review, vol.101, 1995.
  • "On the Concept of Local Justice", [in Japanese], in Policy Science, vol.2, no.1, 1996.
  • "Hobbes: Man and State", [in Japanese], in Hiroshi Tanaka ed., Gendai Shisou to ha Nanika [i.e., What is Modern Thought?], Tokyo: Ryusei Shuppan, 1997.
  • Japanese translation (Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Hyoron-sha 1994) of Frank Cunningham, Democratic Theory and Socialism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. [with Yoshikazu Nakatani]
  • Japanese translation (Tokyo: Miraisha 1995) of Richard Tuck, Hobbes, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.[with Hiroshi Tanaka]
  • Japanese translation (Kyoto: Showado 1998) of Andrew Vincent, Modern Political Ideologies, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
  • "Public and Private in Information Society", [in Japanese], in Policy Science, vol.8, no.1, 2000 (co-authored with Prof. Hitoshi Murayama).
  • "Jeremy Bentham on Poor Law",[in Japanese], in Chuo Law Review, vol.107, nos.3-4, 2000.
  • Japanese translation (Kyoto: Showado 2000) of Davis Bobrow and John Dryzek, Policy Analysis by Design, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987.
  • Japanese translation (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten 2002) of Thomas Hobbes, Dialogue Between a Philospher and a Student of the Common Law of England, , London, 1681.[With Hiroshi TANAKA and Akira ARAI]
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