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Urai, Satoshi

The HAKUBI Center for Advanced Research Program-Specific Assistant Professor

Last Updated :2026/09/04

Basic Information

Email Address

Email Address
urai.satoshi.4vkyoto-u.ac.jp

Professional Memberships

The Philosophical Association of Japan

European Network of Japanese Philosophy

Society for Philosophy of Religion in Japan

Japanese Association for Religious Studies

The United Association of Shin Buddhist Studies

Nishida Philosophy Association

Tanabe Hajime Memorial Philosophy Association: Kyūshinkai

Academic Degree

23 Mar. 2015
M.A. in Letters (Kyoto University)

24 Jan. 2022
Ph.D. in Letters (Kyoto University)

Academic Resume (Undergraduate School/Majors)

Otani University, Faculty of Letter, Department of Shin Buddhist Studies, Graduated

Research History

From Sep. 2025, To Jun. 2026
Tallinn University, School of Humanities, Visiting Research Fellow

From Apr. 2025, To Present
Kyoto University, The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Assistant Professor

From Nov. 2024, To Mar. 2025
The University of British Columbia, Department of Philosophy, Postdoctoral Fellow

From Apr. 2022, To Mar. 2025
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Postdoctoral Fellow

From Mar. 2024, To Jul. 2024
Tallinn University, School of Humanities, Visiting Scholar

From Sep. 2023, To Mar. 2024
University of Copenhagen, Center for Subjectivity Research, Visitor

From Apr. 2019, To Mar. 2022
Otani University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Shin Buddhist Studies, Assistant Professor (non-tenured)

From Sep. 2018, To Mar. 2022
Osaka National Hospital Nursing School, Part-time Lecturer

From Apr. 2019, To Mar. 2021
The Shin Buddhist Comprehensive Research Institute, Temporary Researcher

From Oct. 2015, To Mar. 2016
Kyoto University, Graduate School of Letters, Tutor for Foreign Student

From Apr. 2015, To Mar. 2016
Kyoto University, Graduate School of Letters, Teaching Assistant

ID,URL

ORCID ID
0000-0003-1170-3177
J-Global ID
201901010472646967
Researcher number
50844370

researchmap URL

https://researchmap.jp/urai_satoshi

Last Updated :2026/09/04

Research

Research Interests

Japanese Philosophy

Philosophy of Religion

Social Ontology

Enactive Approach

Kyoto School

Pure Land Buddhism

Research Areas

Humanities & social sciences, Philosophy and ethics, Japanese Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Society

Papers

Consciousness in General in “the Metaphysics of the I” of Tanabe Hajime’s Early Period
Satoshi Urai
Reviving Tanabe's Philosophy: Essays Commemorating the 140th Anniversary of Tanabe Hajime's Birth, Dec. 2025, Invited

The Kenosis of the Rational: Tanabe Hajime’s Philosophical Failure and the Violent Implications of Human Rationality
Satoshi Urai
Kenosis and Its Power: The Kyoto School, Contemporary Philosophy, Political Theology, Oct. 2025, Invited

Ethics and Logic: The Structure and Significance of Rationalization in the Logic of Species
Satoshi Urai
The Age of Crisis and Tanabe’s Philosophy: Essays Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of Tanabe Hajime’s Death, Nov. 2022, Invited

[Doctoral Dissertation] Tanabe Hajime's Philosophy of Religion: Mediating Ethics and Religion
Satoshi Urai
Kyoto University, Jan. 2022

[Master Thesis] Answering the Call of the Buddha Amida: An Elucidation of Salvation in Shinran’s Teaching of Pure Land Buddhism
Satoshi Urai
Kyoto University, Mar. 2015

The Dawning of the Kyoto School: An Investigation into the Philosophical Starting Point
Satoshi Urai
Runner-up for the 22nd Ruikotsu Prize, Apr. 2026, Peer-reviewed

Revisiting Tanabe’s Critique of Nishida: Infinity and Contradiction
Miikael-Aadam Lotman; Satoshi Urai
European Journal of Japanese Philosophy, Nov. 2023, Peer-reviewed

Shinran’s Concept of Jinen Hōni (Naturalness) from the Viewpoint of Tanabe Hajime’s Philosophy of Religion
Satoshi Urai
The Eastern Buddhist. Third series, Jul. 2023, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

L’ontologie sociale de Tanabe Hajime: De la « logique de l’espèce » à la « logique de l’Amour »
Satoshi Urai
Les Cahiers philosophiques de Strasbourg, May 2023, Peer-reviewed

Tanabe Hajime’s Social Ontology: From the “Logic of Species” to the “Logic of Love”
Satoshi Urai
Kyushin, Aug. 2022, Peer-reviewed

The "Reality" of the Pure Land: According to Tanabe Hajime and Takeuchi Yoshinori
Satoshi Urai
The Otani Journal of Shin Buddhism, Mar. 2022, Invited

Takeuchi Yoshinori on Transcendence: The Background of the Concept of "Ad-vening Pure Land"
Satoshi Urai
Journal of Shinshu Studies, Jan. 2022, Peer-reviewed, Invited

Faith and Knowledge in Tanabe Hajime’s Philosophy of Religion
Satoshi Urai
European Journal of Japanese Philosophy, Dec. 2020, Peer-reviewed

The Development of Absolute Nothingness in the Philosophy of Tanabe Hajime
Satoshi Urai
Kyushin, Mar. 2020, Invited

The Nature of Praxis of Individuals in Tanabe Hajime’s Philosophy of Religion
Satoshi Urai
Studies in the Philosophy of Religion, Mar. 2020, Peer-reviewed

“Death” for the Sake of Someone Else: Resurrection in Tanabe Hajime’s Philosophy of Religion
Satoshi Urai
The Nishida Philosophy Association Annual Report, Jul. 2019, Peer-reviewed

The “True Individual” in Tanabe Hajime’s Philosophy of Religion: The Structure of Salvation in Social Ontology
Satoshi Urai
Studies in the Philosophy of Religion, Mar. 2019, Peer-reviewed

Existential Communion in Tanabe Hajime's Philosophy of Religion: From the "Logic of Species" to the "Logic of Love"
Satoshi Urai
The Annual Report on Philosophy of Religion, Dec. 2018, Peer-reviewed

Salvation without Religious Faith?:Absolute Mediation of Salvation in Tanabe Hajime's Philosophy of Religion
Satoshi Urai
Journal of Religious Studies, May 2018, Peer-reviewed

The Contradiction Between ‘Future Buddhahood’ and ‘All Sentient Beings contain Buddhahood’: The Temporal Structure of Salvation in Shinran
Satoshi Urai
The Takada Journal of Shin Buddhism, Mar. 2018, Peer-reviewed, Invited

The Perspective of Takeuchi Yoshinori's Research on Shinran : The Logic of Kyōgyōshinshō
Satoshi Urai
Journal of Shinshu Studies, Jan. 2018, Peer-reviewed

The Varieties of Nothingness-sive-being and Being-sive-nothingness in Tanabe Hajime's Philosophy of Religion
Satoshi Urai
The Annual Report on Philosophy of Religion, Dec. 2016, Peer-reviewed
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An Essay on the Actualization of Shinran’s Concept of Gensō Ekō: From the Viewpoint of Interpenetration
Satoshi Urai
The Takada Journal of Shin Buddhism, Mar. 2014, Peer-reviewed

Misc.

[Book Review] Fujita Masakatsu, A Critical Biography of Tanabe Hajime: “What I Seek Is None Other Than Truth” (Kyoto University Press, 2025)
Satoshi Urai
The Nishida Philosophy Association Annual Report, Aug. 2026, Invited

[Translation] Nishida Kitarō: “The Problem of Species’ Generation and Development”
Satoshi Urai; Richard Stone
The Journal of East Asian Philosophy, Dec. 2025, Peer-reviewed

[Translation] Tanabe Hajime: “The Logic of Social-Being: An Essay in Philosophical Sociology” (§1–4)
Satoshi Urai; Sova P. K. Cerda
European Journal of Japanese Philosophy, Nov. 2025, Peer-reviewed

[Reprint] Four Materials Not Included in the Complete Works of Tanabe Hajime
Satoshi Urai
Kyūshin, Aug. 2024

[Translation] Tanabe Hajime: “Clarifying the Meaning of the Logic of Species”
Satoshi Urai; Sova P. K. Cerda
European Journal of Japanese Philosophy, Nov. 2023, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

[Translation] Tanabe Hajime: “The Problem of the Subject of Knowledge”
Morten E. Jelby; Satoshi Urai
European Journal of Japanese Philosophy, Nov. 2023, Peer-reviewed

On the Status of the Pure Land: From the Viewpoint of the Philosophy of Religion
Satoshi Urai
Kyūshin, Aug. 2023, Peer-reviewed, Invited

[Translation] Hajime Tanabe : « Sur la théorie de la liberté de Kant (1918) »
Quentin Blaevoet; Satoshi Urai
Les Cahiers philosophiques de Strasbourg, May 2023, Peer-reviewed

[Translation] Hajime Tanabe : « Du jugement thétique (1910) »
Morten E. Jelby; Quentin Blaevoet; Satoshi Urai
Les Cahiers philosophiques de Strasbourg, May 2023, Peer-reviewed

[Translation] Tanabe Hajime: “The Third Stage of Ontology”
Satoshi Urai; Sova P. K. Cerda
European Journal of Japanese Philosophy, Oct. 2022, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

[Translation] Tanabe Hajime: “On ‘Consciousness in General’”
Morten E. Jelby; Satoshi Urai
European Journal of Japanese Philosophy, Oct. 2022, Peer-reviewed

[Translation] Kiyozawa Manshi: “The Skeleton of a Philosophy of Other-Power: A Draft”
Dennis Prooi; Satoshi Urai
European Journal of Japanese Philosophy, Oct. 2022, Peer-reviewed

The Question of Pure Land
Satoshi Urai
The Kibe Journal of Shin Buddhism, May 2022, Invited

Otani University in the History of the Kyoto School
Satoshi Urai
Kōru, Mar. 2022

Can We "Understand" Cultural Diversity?: From the Perspective of Tanabe Hajime's "Logic of Species"
Satoshi Urai
Kōru, Mar. 2022

Narrative and Communal Society
Satoshi Urai
Crisis of Mind and Clinical Knowledge, Mar. 2022, Invited

[Translation] Tanabe Hajime : “Where self‐evidence resides”
Morten E. Jelby; URAI Satoshi
The Journal of East Asian Philosophy, Jan. 2022, Peer-reviewed

[Translation] Tanabe Hajime: “On Thetic Judgment”
Morten E. Jelby; Satoshi Urai; Quentin Blaevoet
European Journal of Japanese Philosophy, Dec. 2021, Peer-reviewed

Book Review of "The Nishida Philosophy Association Annual Report" 17th Volume
Satoshi Urai
The Nishida Philosophy Association Annual Report, Aug. 2021, Invited

Japanese Thought and "Japanese Philosophy" in Light of Recent International Trends in the Study of Japanese Philosophy
Satoshi Urai
Kōru, Mar. 2021

Salvation in a Society: According to Tanabe Hajime
Satoshi Urai
Kōru, Mar. 2020

[Japanese Translation] William James "Philosophical Concepts and Practical Effects"
Ken Hayashi; Kōhei Takahara; Yōsuke Nakajima; Aisha Taniguchi; Satoshi Urai; Shūsuke Yamane; Terumasa Ōkusa
The Philosophical Studies of Otani University, Mar. 2013

Presentations

Psychologism and Logicism in the Early Tanabe: Transcendental Psychology and Transcendental Logic
Satoshi Urai
European Network of Japanese Philosophy 10th Annual Conference, 04 Sep. 2026

Why Husserlian Phenomenology Mattered for the Early Nishida and Tanabe
Satoshi Urai
The Kyoto School and Phenomenology in Contemporary Context, 08 Jul. 2026, JSPS Kakenhi 25KF0123 (Quentin Li), Invited

Tanabe Hajime on Totality and Contradiction
Satoshi Urai
International Conference at the 2026 Summer School on the Kyoto School: Totality and Contradiction, 12 Jun. 2026, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Invited

Rethinking the Beginnings of the Kyoto School: Nishida, Tanabe, and the Problem of Pure Experience
Satoshi Urai
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Department d'Humanitats), 04 May 2026, Invited

Tanabe Hajime’s Social-Ontological Soteriology: Salvation, Society, and Absolute Mediation
Satoshi Urai
The University of Edinburgh (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences), 05 Mar. 2026, Invited

What is Religion?: An Approach from the Kyoto School
Satoshi Urai
Hakubi Seminar No.271, 08 Jul. 2025

An Alternative Absolute Nothingness: Tanabe's Efforts in Hegel’s Philosophy and Dialectic
Dennis Prooi; Satoshi Urai
The 8th Conference of the International Association for Japanese Philosophy, 29 Jun. 2025

Dialectic in Early Tanabe Hajime
Satoshi Urai
Tanabe Hajime Symposium (The 24th Meeting of Kyūshinkai), 27 Jun. 2025

From Consciousness in General to Absolute Nothingness: The Dialectical Turn of Tanabe's Philosophy
Satoshi Urai
The 17th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Philosophy of Religion, 22 Mar. 2025

Translating Nishida's The Issue of Consciousness
Satoshi Urai; Dennis Prooi
Workshop on Translation in Japanese Philosophy, 10 Sep. 2024, Invited

Nishida Kitaro’s Logic of Place and Tanabe Hajime’s Logic of Species as Theories of Knowledge
Satoshi Urai
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Departmental Seminar, 09 Sep. 2024, Invited

Pure Experience Revisited: Where Nishida and Tanabe Missed Each Other?
Satoshi Urai; Miikael-Aadam Lotman
The 11th international conference of Japan: Pre-modern, Modern and Contemporary, 03 Sep. 2024

The Logic of Species as a Theory of Knowledge
Satoshi Urai
The 140th Anniversary Symposium of Tanabe Hajime's Birth, 29 Aug. 2024

Nishida’s Philosophy as It Ought to Have Been: Tanabe Hajime’s Challenges in his Early Works
Satoshi Urai
The 22nd Annual Meeting of the Nishida Philosophy Association, 28 Jul. 2024

Dialectic and Contradiction in the Kyoto School: the Case of Nishida Kitarō and Tanabe Hajime
Miikael-Aadam Lotman; Satoshi Urai
5th Hegel en Perspectiva Conference, 06 Jun. 2024

The Possibility of the Kyoto School Based on the Philosophy of Tanabe Hajime
Satoshi Urai
The 40th Nishida-Tanabe Memorial Lecture, 01 Jun. 2024, Invited

Tanabe Hajime’s Social Ontology as a Phenomenology of Social Reality
Satoshi Urai
La phénoménologie et “l’oubli du Japon”: Rôle et signification du “Japon” dans la phénoménologie au XXIe siècle, 25 Mar. 2024, Invited

The “Kenosis” of Amida Buddha in Modern Shin Buddhism: Kiyozawa Manshi and Soga Ryōjin
Satoshi Urai
Kenosis and its Ethics in a Contemporary and Intercultural Perspective, 08 Feb. 2024, Invited

The Problem of Sachlichkeit in Tanabe Hajime’s Metanoetics
Satoshi Urai
European Network of Japanese Philosophy 7th Annual Conference, 08 Sep. 2023

Subjectifying Society: An Enactive Approach to Coexistence in Tanabe Hajime’s Social Ontology
Satoshi Urai
The 6th Annual Conference of the International Association for Japanese Philosophy, 17 Aug. 2023

Tanabe Hajime’s “Soku” (即)
Satoshi Urai
5th Asian Philosophical Texts Conference, 01 Jul. 2023

The Parting of Ways: Nishida Kitarō and Tanabe Hajime on Ethics and Religion
Satoshi URAI
The Second Conference of the Nihon Tetsugaku Consortium, 18 Mar. 2023

De la « logique de l'espèce » à la « logique de l'Amour »
Satoshi URAI
La dynamique actuelle des recherches sur la philosophie de Tanabe, 09 Mar. 2023, INALCO

Mediation and Absolute Mediation in the Philosophy of Tanabe Hajime
URAI Satoshi
6th Conference of the European Network of Japanese Philosophy, 04 Feb. 2022

Otani University in the History of the Kyoto School
Satoshi Urai
令和三年度真仏交流会（大谷大学）, 12 Jan. 2022

Ethics and Logic: The Significance of Rationalization in the “Logic of Species”
Satoshi Urai
Symposium Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Death of Tanabe Hajime, 05 Sep. 2021, Invited

Mediation in Tanabe Hajime: Society and Syllogism
Satoshi Urai
16th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies, 25 Aug. 2021

Takeuchi Yoshinori on Transcendence
Satoshi Urai
The 67th Annual Meeting of the United Association of Shin Buddhism, 04 Jun. 2021

Narrative and Communal Society
Satoshi Urai
The Second Kuki Shuzo Memorial Lecture, 04 Mar. 2021, Invited

The “Reality” of the Pure Land: From the Viewpoint of Tanabe Hajime’s and Takeuchi Yoshinori’s Social Ontologies
Satoshi Urai
International Symposium for the Influence of Buddhism and Western Philosophy in the Modernization of East Asia: Testimonies of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Thinkers, 20 Feb. 2021

日本思想とJapanese Philosophy ─近年の日本哲学研究の国際的動向を踏まえて─
浦井聡
令和二年度真仏交流会（大谷大学）, 10 Dec. 2020

社会のなかでの救い―田辺元を手がかりに―
浦井聡
令和元年度真仏交流会（大谷大学）, 14 Jan. 2020

The Relationship between Faith, Reason, and Knowledge in Tanabe Hajime’s Philosophy of Religion
URAI Satoshi
International Association for Japanese Philosophy 4th Annual Conference, 12 Oct. 2019

The Development of Absolute Nothingness in Tanabe’s Philosophy
Satoshi Urai
The 21st Meeting of Kyūshinkai, 06 Sep. 2019, Invited

Faith in Nothingness: The Absolute in Tanabe Hajime's Philosophy of Religion
URAI Satoshi
5th Conference of the European Network of Japanese Philosophy, 30 Aug. 2019

On Shinran’s Concept of Jinen-hōni (Naturalness): From the Viewpoint of Tanabe Hajime’s Philosophy of Religion
Satoshi Urai
The 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Philosophy of Religion, 23 Mar. 2019

The Property of Sin in Tanabe Hajime’s Philosophy of Religion
Satoshi Urai
The 77th Annual Meeting of Japanese Association for Religious Studies, 08 Sep. 2018

“Death” for the Sake of Someone Else: Resurrection in Tanabe Hajime’s Philosophy of Religion
Satoshi Urai
The 16th Annual Meeting of the Nishida Philosophy Association, 22 Jul. 2018

Takeuchi Yoshinori’s Approach to Shinran: The Logic of Kyōgyōshinshō
Satoshi Urai
The 64th Annual Meeting of the United Association of Shin Buddhism, 10 Jun. 2017

Tanabe Hajime’s Interpretation of Shinran’s Concept of Gensō Ekō
Satoshi Urai
The 75th Annual Meeting of Japanese Association for Religious Studies, 10 Sep. 2016

親鸞浄土教における往還二回向についての一考察―｢自然｣の観点から―
浦井聡
真宗高田派平成二十六年度興学布教研究大会, 29 Apr. 2014, Invited

Books and Other Publications

Tanabe Hajime: Philosophy, Social Reality, Salvation
Satoshi Urai, Single work
Kyoto University Press, Mar. 2024
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Complete Works of Kiyozawa Manshi: Supplement II
Otani University, Compilation, Reprinting and Footnote
Iwanami Shoten, Mar. 2021
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Vortex of Symbols: The Dynamism of Tanabe’s Philosophy
Sugimura Yasuhiko (ed.); Taguchi Shigeru (ed.); Takehana Yōsuke (ed.), Contributor, [Reprinting] Tanabe Hajime: “My View on the Philosophy of Shinran’s Kyōgyōshinshō” (pp.323-332)/ The List of References on Tanabe Hajime 2009-2020 (pp.337-356)
Koyo Shobo, Feb. 2021
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Complete Works of Kiyozawa Manshi: Supplement I
Otani University, Compilation, Reprinting and Footnote
Iwanami Shoten, Mar. 2020
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Awards

11 Dec. 2024
Tanabe Hajime Award (Tanabe Hajime Memorial Philosophy Association: Kyūshinkai)

14 Jun. 2023
Publication Grants for Excellent Dissertation (Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University)

08 Jun. 2018
The 49th Kibe Award (The United Association of Shin Buddhist Studies)

External funds: Kakenhi

Tanabe Hajime's Philosophical Development between the Middle- and Late- Period: Based on the Exchanges with Takeuchi Yoshinori
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
0101:Philosophy, art, and related fields
Otani University
Satoshi URAI
From 30 Aug. 2019, To 31 Mar. 2022, Project Closed
田辺元;種の論理;懺悔道;社会存在論;武内義範;将来する浄土
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K23025/

京都学派における論理の総合的研究と国際的研究基盤の構築
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
Basic Section 01040:History of thought-related
Kyoto University
浦井聡
From 01 Apr. 2025, To 31 Mar. 2030, Granted
京都学派;論理;西田幾多郎;田辺元;西谷啓治
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-25K00402/

京都学派による現象学拡張の解明──社会存在論の観点から
Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows
Basic Section 01010:Philosophy and ethics-related
Hokkaido University
浦井聡
From 08 Mar. 2023, To 31 Mar. 2025, Project Closed
京都学派;社会存在論;西田幾多郎;田辺元;エナクティヴィズム;現象学;即
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-22KJ0039/

京都学派社会存在論の包括的解明と国際的研究基盤の形成
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
Basic Section 01010:Philosophy and ethics-related
Hokkaido University
浦井聡
From 01 Apr. 2022, To 31 Mar. 2026, Discontinued
京都学派;西田幾多郎;田辺元;社会存在論;弁証法;務台理作
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-22K12967/

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