New co-authored commentary published in AJOB. Open access.
We discussed when and how parental reasons are ethically relevant in pediatrics, especially in the East Asian contexts (beyond the simple cliche that "Asians emphasize family-based decision-making").
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
it’s really annoying that both JAL and ANA make the exact same announcements in such a small airport, with full volume and without intervals, about the very basic stuff from how to check in to their flights to that passengers cannot bring swords into the cabin.
New co-authored book chapter published by Springer.
We systematically analyzed the ethical, social, and regulatory considerations involved in stem cell–based embryo model (or SCBEM) research. I hope this entry will be a handy reference in this field.
doi.org/10.1007/7651...
I didn’t expect we would have a female PM earlier than USA had a female president.
She’s basically an ultra conservative, but that’s another issue.
I was racing against the deadline and almost furiously typing the keyboard, when the cabin crew asked me whether I wanted any drink again and again and again. I would happily bite the bullet if that was from some random airlines, but it is nothing but a total shame if that comes from JAL.
And I didn’t expect to have a whole apple at 10km altitude. Japanese airlines are sometimes harsh to vegan and quasi-vegan passengers.
Cathay’s normal & vegan meal includes a Häagen Dazs; JAL’s normal meal does; but JAL’s *pescatarian* meal doesn’t. What’s the trick?
I don't mean it'd be OK for someone to play La Marseillaise in its full volume here.
Who's playing the PRC's anthem in its full volume in the Air France Lounge …
Not really helpful to be brought directly to the very front of the gate when my transit is as long as 6 hours (which I told them repeatedly) … Not the best way to use their kindness and good intention.
It is the second time in my life (for the first since 2019) that I just ask for communication assistance in the airport / during the flight due to my speech disorder and find myself assisted with a full-spec wheelchair without any chance to (politely) decline it.
Finally I had an opportunity to try Sunset Boulevard.
But why’s the intercity this crowded
What a fruitful opportunity CEPDISC’25 conference was to discuss our and other scholars’ works on discrimination and equality. Also it kind of works as a pre-commitment for me to start writing a paper as early as possible …
felt awkward to see my real hometown, a remote mountainous village, featured in a BBC’s tourism campaign message
New co-authored commentary published in AJOB. Open access.
We discussed Madison K. Kilbride's thought-provoking argument on the conditions under which healthcare professionals may ethically breach patient confidentiality.
doi.org/10.1080/1526...
The Supreme Leader Comrade Japanese Train Conductor is making nonsense announcements today again to educate passengers.
Why I’m always this vulnerable to get Shinkansen trainsick - only on Shinkansens?
Heading to Osaka to attend to the annual meeting of Japan Society of Contemporary and Applied Philosophy while getting heavily trainsick on Shinkansen
How smooth and easy Rotterdam–Schiphol intercity connection is. Felt even closer than Central Tokyo to Haneda (needless to say Narita)
*discriminate
One of the most interesting parts in this survey on non-English-native philosophers' experiences philarchive.org/rec/PETECO is the full data publicly available online. A Japanese philosopher (not me) complains about the injustice of expensive English proofreading—totally agreed.
I regret most strongly being born in a non-anglophone country when a non-professional English proofreader denies the originality of my paper while correcting all my "discriminatee" to "discrimiate".
It was not once or twice that I saw such good-at-speaking-English guys (esp when I was a graduate) critiquing other scholars’ English pronunciation in academic conferences.
Not as common as it was, but a serious ethical problem in this context is that some Japanese scholars fluent in English (thanks to their own background, or their youth experience abroad offered by their wealthy parents) tend to look down on colleagues who are not very good at English.
This could be why my web browser always warns that IEP’s webpage is potentially harmful to me.
I love that the epigraph to this article is this real sentence still up there on the IEP website: ‘Authors who do not speak English as their primary language must have their articles revised by a native English speaker, or equivalent, prior to submission.’ 😂
Published (in Japanese) – eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/handl...
We discussed two distinct forms of supererogation and extended this analysis to "suberogation." We also explored ethical complications in situations with two equally good supererogations.
I’m always confused by the system that percentile and quartile usually assess scores in the exact opposite direction. It could sound much intuitive (for me) if the 1st quartile = 25th percentile.
Published – "Disability, Subject-Dependence, and the Bad-Difference View" in Bioethics. Open access.
doi.org/10.1111/bioe...
We examined the famous mere/bad difference views of disability, and suggested a subject-dependent welfare axiology sensitive to the diversity of disabled people.
