Kyle Peters
Specialization
Modern Japanese Philosophy, Traditional Asian Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Social Ontology
Education
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago, Present
M.A., University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2013
B.A., Colorado State University , 2009
Select Publications
“Artistic Production and the Making of the Artist: Applying Nishida Kitarō to Discussions of Authorship” in Philosophy East and West. 68.2. April 2018.
“Goddesses and Gods in Rancière and Heidegger: Dialogically Recontextualizing ‘Origin of the Work of Art,’” in Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (Formerly the journal Aesthetic Pathways) 1.2. November 2014.
Recent Presentations
“The Kyoto and Tokyo Schools in the Sphere of Print: Moving Beyond Academia through the ‘Culture of the Printing Press,’” International Association for Japanese Philosophy, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Honolulu, Hawai‘i. October 2019.
「初期の西田哲学とオートポイエシス－自己形成の二つ形態」[Early Nishida Philosophy and Autopoiesis: On Two Frameworks of Self Formation], East Asian Academy (EAA) Forum, University of Tokyo. August 2019.
“The Kyoto School and Counter-publics: On the Role of ‘Collectives’ within ‘Socio-Historial Formative Activity,’” Why the Kyoto School Today?, The Center for Advanced Research in European Philosophy at King’s University College. London, Ontario. March 2019.
“On the Importance of Thinking in Smaller Scales: On the Exclusion of Nakai Masakazu and the Rethinking of the Kyoto School as a Small Collective (shūdan),” The 92nd Annual American Philosophical Association (APA) Pacific Division Meeting. San Diego. March 2018.
「中井、リズム、時間―中井正一の「リズムの構造について」」[Nakai, Rhythm, and Time: On Nakai Masakazu’s ‘The Structure of Rhythm’], The 3rd Joint Graduate Workshop on Japanese Studies, The University of Chicago–The University of Tokyo, University of Tokyo. October 2016.
Recent External Fellowships and Awards
Fulbright IIE Dissertation Research Grant, Fulbright U.S. Student Program, 2018–2019
Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Fellowship, Japan Foundation, 2018–2019 (declined)
Foreign Language Achievement Scholarship, Academic Year, Dept. of Education, 2012–2013, 2016–2017 (2x)
Nippon Foundation Fellowship, Nippon Zaidan, Academic Year, 2014–2015
Foreign Language Achievement Scholarship, Summer, Dept. of Education, 2013, 2016 (2x)
VS Japan Research Grant, Summer, America-Japan Society, 2018