Project for comprehensive Studies for public philosophy in Japan : network of global public philosophy

该项目与公共哲学综合研究团队哲学、政治学、经济学、历史学、伦理学等领域的知名学者密切合作，在促进各学术领域的互动与合作方面取得了独特的成果，融合和超越了这些差异，以达到更高的学术发展水平。在过去四年中，举行了15次关于公共哲学的跨学科研究会议，同时出版了一系列书籍、几篇论文、文章和翻译，促进了一些分项目。因此，该项目消除了学术界的各种陈规陋习，取得了当前学术界的突破之一，朝着建立一个新的学术领域迈出了关键的一步。此外，该项目的另一个支柱--全球公共哲学网络的联网也得到了成功的培育。这个“元网络”不仅包括学者，还包括非政府组织的工作人员和有关的公众公民。在这个元网络中，他们之间以互动的方式进行了积极的信息交流和讨论，为推动公共哲学学术运动奠定了坚实的基础。该项目还需要培养更年轻的专业人员，以便使这项研究可持续。考虑到这些，这个项目将在资金结束后继续进行，以发展公共哲学。

In close cooperation with well-known scholars in Philosophy, Politics, Economics, History, Ethics of the team of the comprehensive studies for public philosophy, this project made a distinctive achievement to promote interactions and collaborations among various academic fields, merging and transcending these differences in order to reach a higher level of academic development. For the last four years, fifteen interdisciplinary study meetings on public philosophy were held, while published a series of books, several treatise, articles and translations, promoted a number of sub-projects. As a result, this project caused one of the breakthroughs in the current academism by wiping away a variety of stereotypes within the academism, taken a critical step towards an establishment of a new academic field.Furthermore, the networking of networks on global public philosophy, which was another pillar of this project, was successfully fostered. This "meta-network" comprises not only scholars but also staff members of NGOs and public citizens concerned. In this meta-network, active information exchange and discussion were taken place in an interactive manner among them, creating a solid foundation for the promotion of an academic movement on public philosophy.Having mentioned that, this project is still on an initial stage, which requires further interactions with some more other specialized fields for completion. This project is also needed to nurture younger professionals in order to make this study sustainable. With these in mind, this project is to be continued after the funding was over for the purpose of development of public philosophy.