was a Japanese philosopher associated with the

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Kyoto School. He graduated in

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from

Kyoto University , or , is a National university, national research university in Kyoto, Japan. Founded in 1897, it is one of the former Imperial Universities and the second oldest university in Japan. The university has ten undergraduate faculties, eighteen gra ...

in 1943, and trained in a

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human torpedo (''gyorai'':魚雷) squad. His main professional interest in philosophy were in the fields of logic, and American

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, especially with its founding fathers

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and

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. He was

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at Kyoto University.Ueyama Shunpei,''Nihon no shisō: dochaku to ōka no keifu'', Saimuru Shuppankai, Tokyo 1971

Works

*''Ueyama Shunpei Chosakushū'', Hōzōkan, Tokyo, 10 volumes *''Rekishi bunseki no hōhō'', San'ichi Shobō, Tokyo 1962 *''Benshōhō no keifu'', Miraisha, Tokyo 1963 *''Meiji ishin no bunseki shiten'', Kōdansha, Tokyo 1968 *''Nihon no shisō'', Kōbundō, Tokyo 1965 *''Kamigami no taikei'', 2 vols Chūō Kōronsha, Tokyo 1972,1975 *''Rekishi to kachi'', Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo 1972 *''Uzumoreta kyozō'', Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo 1977 *''Tetsugaku no tabi kara'', Asahi Shinbunsha, Tokyo 1979 *''Dai Tōa sensō no isan'', Chūkō Sōsho, Tokyo 1972 *(with Umehara Takeshi''Nihongaku no kotohajime'' Shogakkan *(with

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and Nakao Sasuke''Shōyō-jurin bunka'', Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo 2 vols, 1969,1976 *(with Kajiyama Yūichi(梶山雄一) )''Bukkyō shisō'', Chūō Kōronsha, Tokyo 1974

References

1921 births 2012 deaths Japanese Buddhists Academic staff of Kyoto University Kyoto University alumni People from Wakayama Prefecture Scientists from Wakayama Prefecture Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 2nd class Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon Japanese logicians Pragmatists 20th-century Japanese philosophers Kyoto School {{Japan-reli-bio-stub