Wrap-up Session & Closing Remarks

Panelists for Wrap-up Session:

Naoko ISHII
Executive Vice President
Director, Center for Global Commons
The University of Tokyo

NOTOMI Noburu
Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo

HASHIMOTO Shizuka
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo

Gentiane VENTURE
Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo

Nazia HUSSAIN
Assistant Professor, Institute for Future Initiatives, The University of Tokyo

Moderated by:
YAMAMOTO Miki, NHK World-Japan Executive Anchor

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Closing Remarks:

FUJII Teruo
President, The University of Tokyo

PARK In-Kook
President, Chey Institute for Advanced Studies
Former Ambassador to The United Nations

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Tokyo Forum 2022

“Dialogue between Philosophy and Science: In a World Facing War, Pandemic, and Climate Change”

In the face of war, a pandemic, and climate change, we cannot repeat the history of the last century, in which our ancestors headed down the road to division, global conflict, and environmental destruction.

How can we live more fully and how do we find a new common understanding about what our society should be? Tokyo Forum 2022 will tackle these questions through a series of in-depth dialogues between philosophy and science. The dialogues will weave together the latest findings and deep contemplation, and explore paths that could lead us to viable answers and solutions.

Philosophy of the 21st century must contribute to the construction of a new universality based on locality and diversity. It should be a universality that is open to co-existing with other non-human elements, such as ecosystems and nature, while severely criticizing the understanding of history that unreflectively identifies anthropocentrism with universality.

Science in the 21st century also needs to dispense with its overarching aura of supremacy and lack of self-criticism. There is a need for scientists to make efforts to demarcate their own limits. This also means reexamining what ethics means for science.

Tokyo Forum 2022 will offer multifaceted dialogues between philosophers, scientists, and scholars from various fields of study on the state and humanity in the 21st century, with a view to imagining and proposing a vision of the society we need.

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