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Shogo Tanaka
Professor at Tokai University, Center for Liberal Arts / Institute of Civilization Research / Graduate School of Letters
Kita-Kaname 4-1-1, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, Japan 243-0001
Tel. +81-463-58-1211
E-mail: shg.tanaka@gmail.com
　
Short Bio
Shogo Tanaka is a professor of psychology and philosophy at Tokai University in Japan. He received his Ph.D. in philosophical psychology from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2003. He is primarily interested in phenomenology and psychology, and more specifically, in clarifying the theoretical foundations of psychology from the perspective of embodiment, being inspired by the ideas of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. The topics of his published papers encompass a broad range of issues, including body schema, body image, skill acquisition, embodied self, social cognition, theory of mind, and intercorporeality. From 2013 to 2014, and from 2016 to 2017, he stayed at the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Heidelberg in Germany as a visiting scholar, where he worked on phenomenology, psychology and psychopathology.
　
Current Position
(As of October 2023)
Professor of psychology and philosophy at Department of Psychological and Sociological Studies / Graduate School of Letters, Tokai University, Japan
Director of the Institute of Civilization Research, Tokai University
Research Fellow at RIKEN, Japan
 
Research & Teaching Areas
Embodied Mind, Embodied Cognition, Bodily Consciousness, Self and Other, Intersubjectivity, Social Cognition, Theory of Mind, Nonverbal Behaviors, Phenomenological Psychology, Theoretical & Philosophical Psychology, Phenomenology
 
Appointments
  • [2023 - Date] Research Fellow, RIKEN
  • [2022 - Date] Director, Institute of Civilization Research, Tokai University
  • [2018 - Date] Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Tokai University
  • [2016 - 2017] Visiting Scholar, Department of Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg, Germany
  • [2015 - Date] Professor, Center for Liberal Arts, Tokai University
  • [2014 - Date] Research Fellow, Institute of Civilization Research, Tokai University
  • [2013 - 2014] Visiting Scholar, Department of Psychiatry (Section Phenomenological Psychopathology), University of Heidelberg
  • [2011 - Date] Associate Professor, Liberal Arts Education Center, Tokai University
  • [2005 - 2011] Full-Time Lecturer, Liberal Arts Education Center, Tokai University
  • [2004 – 2005] Adjunct Lecturer, Tokyo University of Science
 
Academic Degrees
  • [September 2003] Ph.D. (philosophical psychology)
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Department of Value and Decision Science
Dissertation: Phenomenology of ‘meaningful coincidences’: A critical reconsideration of Jung’s synchronicity theory.
  • [March 1999] M.A. (philosophical psychology)
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Department of Value and Decision Science
Dissertation: A theory of body from depth psychological perspective.
[March 1997] B.A. (law)
Waseda University, Faculty of Law
 
Awards
  • Outstanding Paper Award (2020, Japan Cognitive Science Society)
  • Shigeyoshi Matsumae Academic Award (2019, Tokai University)
  • Yasuo Yuasa Award (2018, Society for Mind-Body Science)

 
Invited Speech (Selected)
  • Shogo Tanaka (2022). Embodied Cognitive Evolution behind the “Sapient Paradox”, International Conference on Embodied Cognitive Science (ECogS 2022) (organized by Tom Froese) November 9, 2022. Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
  • Shogo Tanaka (2022). Intercorporeality mediated by online meeting software. ECogS Seminars #12 (organized by Tom Froese) April 4, 2022, Online Lecture
  • Shogo Tanaka (2021). From body-as-subject to body-as-object. 54th Annual Philosophy Colloquium "What’s Next: The Future of Embodiment." (organized by Jonathan McKinney & Taraneh Wilkinson) February 27, Online Conference
  • Shogo Tanaka. (2020). On the concept of embodied knowledge. Panel: Embodied Ways of Knowing (organized by Adrian Harris, The Embodiment Conference 2020) October 23, Online Conference
  • Shogo Tanaka. (2019). On the normativity that emerges through embodied social interactions. Workshop: “Embodiment, Social Interaction and Normativity” (organized by Martin Nitsche) October 23, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
  • Shogo Tanaka. (2019). Motor learning and body schema/image distinction. Workshop: “Radical Embodied Cognition” (organized by Tetsuya Kono & Satoshi Sako), August 28, Rikkyo University, Japan
  • Shogo Tanaka. (2019). A negative legacy of modernization: The mental disorder Taijin Kyofusho. Keynote lecture at the 4th Dialogue between Civilizations (organized by Yoichi Hirano), March 15, Tokai University European Center, Denmark
  • Shogo Tanaka. (2018). The lived body and motor learning: Refining Merleau-ponty’s notion of body schema. Lecture at the Department of Counseling & Clinical Psychology (organized by Wei-Lun Lee), May 4, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
  • Shogo Tanaka. (2018). Reconsidering the symptoms of Taijin Kyofusho (TKS) from an embodied perspective. Lecture at the Department of Psychology (organized by Yaw-Sheng Lin), May 3, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
  • Shogo Tanaka. (2018). Phenomenological psychology and social constructionism. International Symposium “Social constructionism and the clinical scenes” (organized by Masahiro Nochi), March 21, The University of Tokyo, Japan
  • Shogo Tanaka. (2017). Bodily basis of subjectivity and intersubjecivity. The 17th Biennial Conference of The International Society for Theoretical Psychology, Symposium “Locating the bodily borders of individuality” (organized by Luca Tateo), August 22, Rikkyo University, Japan
  • Shogo Tanaka. (2017). Self and body in depersonalization/derealization disorder. Research Colloquium: Philosophy, Psychiatry, Psychosomatic (organized by Thomas Fuchs), June 28, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine of Heidelberg University, Germany
  • Shogo Tanaka (2017). Depersonalization and full-body illusion: A comparative study of the sense of self. Symposium: “From Body to Self in Virtual Reality” (organized by Yochai Ataria), May 9, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel.
  • Tanaka, S. (2017). What is it like to be disconnected from the body? Kitchen Seminar (organized by Luca Tateo and Giuseppina Marsico), February 22, Centre for Cultural Psychology, Aalborg University, Denmark
  • Tanaka, S. (2016). Perception and sensation: A reply to Tom Sparrow’s text. Workshop: End of Phenomenology and Speculative Realism (organized by Vit Pokorny), November 23, Czech Academy of Science, Czech Republic.
 
External Academic Service
  • [2021 - Date] Editorial Board, Philosophy & Cultural Embodiment (Journal of Embodiment & Culture published by Rikkyo University, Japan)
  • [2020 - Date] International Editorial Board, Corpus Mundi (Journal of Body Studies published by Astrakhan State University, Russia)
  • [2019 - Date] Editorial Board, Theory & Psychology (Academic Journal published by SAGE)
  • [2018 - Date] Associate Editor, Human Arenas: An interdisciplinary journal of psychology, culture, and meaning (Academic Journal published by Springer)
  • [2015 - Date] Review Panel, Academic Quarter (Journal of Humanities published by Aalborg University, Denmark)
  • [2014 - Date] Coordinator, Society for Meta-theoretical Studies of Mind Science
  • [2013 - Date] Chief organizer, Research Meeting for Embodied Approach (RMEA)
  • [2012 - Date] Advisory board member, Society for Mind-Body Science
  • [2009 - 2013] Chief organizer, Research Meeting for Embodied Knowledge (RMEK)
  • [2005 - 2014] Advisory board member, Japanese Association for Transpersonal Psychology/Psychiatry


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