News
Latest updates from our laboratory
Welcome Party
We held a welcome party for new students this year.
Paper Published in iScience
The paper "Aberrant prefrontal activity and arousal level correlate with action initiation and response vigor in rats" by Frederike J. Klein, Dmitrii Vasilev, Ryo Iwai, Masataka Watanabe, and Nelson K. Totah was published online in iScience.
ESPP2026 Accepted
Shunsuke Sasaki's (M2) poster presentation "Fission and the Fear of Death: The Interventionist Criterion of Survival" was accepted at European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP) Conference 2026, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Death Fes Presentation
Shunsuke Sasaki (M2) gave a lecture "Philosophy of Mind Uploading: Is the Uploaded One You?" at Death Fes 2026.
WINGS Program Accepted
Shunsuke Sasaki (M2) was accepted into the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Law and Politics Advanced Business Law International Doctoral Program (WINGS).
ECAP12 Accepted
Shunsuke Sasaki's (M2) presentation "Refining the "Right Kind of Cause": An Interventionist Account of Relation R" was accepted at The 12th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy (ECAP12).
New Students Enrolled
Four new M1 students and one D1 student have enrolled.
Joint Session 2026 Accepted
Shunsuke Sasaki's (M2) presentation "Toward a Unified Account of Survival Criteria through Interventionist Causality" was accepted at Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association 2026.
Research Presentation at Dystopian Ethics
Shunsuke Sasaki (M1) presented "Redefining Personal Identity, Survival, and Death Using Interventionist Causality" at the regular research meeting of the KAKENHI Transformative Research Area (B) "Dystopian Ethics: Toward Future Technologies that Make the Boundaries of the Self Indeterminate".
CCN 2025 Accepted
Naoya Nishiura (D2), Keisuke Toyoda (M2), and Associate Prof. Masataka Watanabe's presentation "Unsupervised Future-Predictive Learning in the Connectome-Constrained Drosophila Optical Lobe" was accepted at 8th Annual Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN 2025), Amsterdam, The Netherlands (August 12-15, 2025).