Yuichi Minemura, Ph.D.

Yuichi Minemura's research interests are bioethics, metaphysics, and ontology. He examines how we begin to exist, persist, and cease to exist in virtue of the analysis of personal identity. In 2017, he earned a Ph.D. in the Department of Philosophy, SUNY University at Buffalo. The title of his dissertation is ‘A Metaphysical Analysis of the Contemporary Brain Death Controversies.’ Minemura has published several articles on the basis of the arguments discussed in each chapter of the dissertation. 

Yuichi Minemura, Ph.D.

Yuichi Minemura, Ph.D.

Working Groups

  • Clinical Ethics
  • End of Life Issues
     

Selected Publications

  • “An Animalist’s Critique of Jeff McMahan’s Embodied Mind Account of Identity”, The Journal of Philosophy and Ethics in Health Care and Medicine, 2015.
  • “Philosophical Analysis of Modern Brain Death Controversies”, The e-Book of The 10th ‘Making Sense of: Dying and Death’ Global Conference, 2014.
  • “A Study of Contemporary Brain Death Controversies: The Boundary between Neurological Facts and Metaphysical Foundations”, The Journal of Philosophy and Ethics in Health Care and Medicine, 2013.