Shunpei Ueyama

In this Japanese name, the family name is Ueyama.

Ueyama Shunpei (上山 春平, January 16, 1921 in Wakayama – August 2012, in Minoyama) was a Japanese philosopher associated with the postwar Kyoto School.[1] He graduated in philosophy from Kyoto University in 1943, and trained in a kamikaze human torpedo (gyorai:魚雷) squad. His main professional interest in philosophy were in the fields of logic, and American pragmatism, especially with its founding fathers Charles Sanders Peirce, William James and John Dewey. He was emeritus professor at Kyoto University.[2]

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  1. 訃報:上山春平さん91歳=哲学者、元京都市立芸術大学長 (in Japanese). Mainichi Shimbun. 6 August 2012. Retrieved 30 August 2012.
  2. Ueyama Shunpei,Nihon no shisō: dochaku to ōka no keifu, Saimuru Shuppankai, Tokyo 1971


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