is a Japanese philosopher associated with the postwar  Kyoto School

Kyoto School

The Kyoto School is the name given to the Japanese "philosophical movement centered at Kyoto University that assimilated western philosophy and religious ideas and used them to reformulate religious and moral insights unique to the East Asian cultural tradition." However, it is also used to...

. He graduated in philosophy

Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

 from Kyoto University

Kyoto University

, or is a national university located in Kyoto, Japan. It is the second oldest Japanese university, and formerly one of Japan's Imperial Universities.- History :...

 in 1943, and trained in a kamikaze

Kamikaze

The were suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, designed to destroy as many warships as possible....

 human torpedo (gyorai:魚雷) squad. His main professional interest in philosophy lies in the fields of logic, and American pragmatism

Pragmatism

Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition centered on the linking of practice and theory. It describes a process where theory is extracted from practice, and applied back to practice to form what is called intelligent practice...

, especially with its founding fathers Charles Sanders Peirce, William James

William James

William James was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher who was trained as a physician. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and on the philosophy of pragmatism...

 and John Dewey

John Dewey

John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey was an important early developer of the philosophy of pragmatism and one of the founders of functional psychology...

. He is now emeritus professor at Kyoto University.

Works

• Ueyama Shunpei Chosakushū, Hōzōkan, Tokyo, 10 volumes
• Rekishi bunseki no hōhō, San'ichi Shobō, Tokyo 1962
• Benshōhō no keifu, Miraisha, Tokyo 1963
• Meiji ishin no bunseki shiten, Kōdansha, Tokyo 1968
• Nihon no shisō, Kōbundō, Tokyo 1965
• Kamigami no taikei, 2 vols Chūō Kōronsha, Tokyo 1972,1975
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• Rekishi to kachi, Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo 1972
• Uzumoreta kyozō, Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo 1977
• Tetsugaku no tabi kara, Asahi Shinbunsha, Tokyo 1979
• Dai Tōa sensō no isan, Chūkō Sōsho, Tokyo 1972
• (with Umehara Takeshi
  Umehara Takeshi
  was born in Miyagi Prefecture in Tōhoku in 1925 and graduated from the philosophical faculty of Kyoto University in 1948. He taught philosophy at Ritsumeikan University and was subsequently appointed rector of the Kyoto Municipal University of Fine Arts...
  
  Nihongaku no kotohajime Shogakkan
• (with Sasaki Kōmei and Nakao SasukeShōyō-jurin bunka, Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo 2 vols, 1969,1976
• (with Kajiyama Yūichi(梶山雄一) )Bukkyō shisō, Chūō Kōronsha, Tokyo 1974