The tools of contemporary Japanese neuroscience: a cultural and philosophical approach

研究金的最后一段时间致力于研究技术与研究参与者之间的相互作用。本研究是一般项目的一个子部分：神经科学和神经伦理学哲学中科学仪器的哲学方法的发展。在这项研究中，我专注于在实验室中的工具使用：工具是如何与身体的研究参与者？在行为科学和脑科学中，参与者的身体与几种记录生理数据的技术相连。为了获得高质量的大脑数据，对参与者的身体施加了许多限制，例如运动限制。我观察和比较了神经科学和心理学的几个实验，包括各种各样的大脑成像工具（例如，功能性磁共振成像、功能性近红外光谱）。通过质疑使用脑成像工具背后的体现概念，我已经表明，不同的工具策略对应于不同的体现概念。关于这一主题的论文已提交给一家同行评审期刊。该研究的报告已于2018年8月在北京大学世界哲学大会和2018年8月在华东师范大学（上海）举办的身体问题研讨会上发表。在世界哲学大会上，还与河野哲也和让-米歇尔·罗伊一起组织了一次圆桌会议，主题是“知识的新方向”（2018.8.17）。

This last period of the fellowship was dedicated to the study of the interaction between technology and the body of research participants. This study is a subpart of the general project: the development of a philosophical approach of scientific instruments in the philosophy of neuroscience and neuroethics. In this study, I focus on tool use in the laboratory: how tools are connected with the body of research participants? In behavioral and brain sciences, the body of the participant is connected to several technologies through which physiological data is recorded. In order to obtain good quality brain data, a number of constraints are imposed on the body of participants, such as restrictions of movement. I have observed and compared several experiments of neuroscience and psychology, including a rich variety of brain imaging tools (e.g., functional magnetic resonance imaging, functional near-infrared spectroscopy). By questioning the conceptions of embodiment behind the use of brain imaging tools, I have shown that different instrumental strategies correspond to different conceptions of embodiment. A paper on this topic has been submitted to a peer-reviewed journal.Presentations of the study have been held at the World Congress of Philosophy, Beijing University, August 2018, and at East China Normal University (Shanghai), Workshop Body Matters: The Many Faces of Embodied Cognition, August 2018. At the World Congress of Philosophy, a roundtable has also been organized with Tetsuya Kono & Jean-Michel Roy on “New Directions in Embodied Knowledge” (2018.8.17).