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Jimmy AAMES, Ph.D. (Associate Professor) [KUID]

Personal Background

  • Born in 1991 in Los Angeles, California (USA)
  • Ph.D., Osaka University Graduate School of Human Sciences (March 2021)
  • Assistant Professor, National Institute of Technology, Maizuru College (April 2021–March 2023)
  • Assistant Professor, Shibaura Institute of Technology, College of Engineering (April 2023–September 2024)
  • Associate Professor, Kobe University, Faculty of Letters (from October 2024)

    Fields of Specialization

    American philosophy, philosophy of science, history of scientific thought. Research topics include the philosophy of Charles S. Peirce, the ontology of patterns, the problem of emergence, philosophy of time and space, and natural philosophy (and its history).

    Selected Publications

    • “Leibniz’s Monadology and the Twisted Structure of Reality: An Essay in Natural Philosophy” [Japanese], Towards a Natural Philosophy for the 21st Century, eds. Kondо̄ Kazunori and Higaki Tatsuya, Jinbun Shoin, 2024.
    • “Temporal Becoming in a Relativistic Universe: Causal Diamonds and Gödel’s Philosophy of Time,” European Journal for Philosophy of Science 12 (3), 2022.
    • “The Concept of the Correlate in Peirce’s ‘New List of Categories,’” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 57 (1): 65–88, 2021.
    • “Patternhood and Generality: A Peircean Approach to Emergence,” European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy XI (2), 2019.

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