Areas of expertise

• Logic 220308
• Philosophy Of Language 220313
• Philosophy Of Specific Cultures (Incl. Comparative Philosophy) 220316

Research interests

Publications

• Tanaka, K 2022, 'Buddhist logic from a global perspective', in David Ludwig Inkeri Koskinen et al (ed.), Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science, Routledge, UK, pp. 274-285.
• Tanaka, K 2021, 'How can Buddhists Prove that Non-Existent Things do not Exist?', in Sara Bernstein and Tyron Goldschmidt (ed.), Non-Being: new essays on the metaphysics of non-existence, Oxford University Press, UK, pp. 82-96.
• Tanaka, K 2020, 'Impossible Worlds, by Francesco Berto and Mark Jago', Mind.
• Sandgren, A & Tanaka, K 2020, 'Two Kinds of Logical Impossibility', Noûs 54, 795-806
• Tanaka, K 2019, 'Priest's Anti-Exceptionalism, Candrakirti and Paraconsistency', in Can Başkent & Thomas Macaulay Ferguson (ed.), Graham Priest on Dialetheism and Paraconsistency, Springer, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 127-138.
• Tanaka, K 2018, 'Logically Impossible Worlds', The Australasian Journal of Logic, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 489-497pp.
• Tanaka, K 2016, 'Ways of doing Cross-Cultural Philosophy', in John Makeham (ed.), Learning from the Other - Australian and Chinese Perspectives on Philosophy, Australian Academy of the Humanities, Canberra, pp. 59-67.
• Tanaka, K 2016, 'The Dismal Slough', in The Cowherds (ed.), Moonpaths: Ethics and Emptiness, Oxford University Press, New York.
• Carpenter, A, Garfield, J, Goodman, C et al, eds, 2016, Moonpaths Ethics and Emptiness, Oxford University Press, New York.
• Tanaka, K 2016, 'On Nagarjuna's ontological and semantic paradox', Philosophy East & West, vol. 66, no. 4, pp. 1292-1306.
• Girard, P & Tanaka, K 2016, 'Paraconsistent dynamics', Synthese, vol. 193, pp. 1-14.
• Tanaka, K, Deguchi, Y, Garfield, J et al, eds, 2015, The Moon Points Back, Oxford University Press, New York.
• Tanaka, K 2015, 'Book Review - The Bodhisattya's Brain', Philosophy in Review, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 285-287.
• Tanaka, K 2014, 'On self-awareness and the self', in Graham Priest and Damon Young (ed.), Philosophy and the martial arts: engagement, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York, pp. 127-138.
• Tanaka, K 2014, 'In Search of the Semantics of Emptiness', in JeeLoo Liu and Douglas L. Berger (ed.), Nothingness in Asian Philosophy, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York, pp. 55-63.
• Pettigrove, P & Tanaka, K 2014, 'Anger and Moral Judgment', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 92, no. 2, pp. 269-286.
• Tanaka, K 2013, 'Introduction: Buddhism and contradiction', Philosophy East & West, vol. 63, no. 3, pp. 315-321.
• Tanaka, K 2013, 'Contradictions in Dogen', Philosophy East & West, vol. 63, no. 3, pp. 322-334.
• Tanaka, K, Berto, F, Mares, E et al, eds, 2013, Paraconsistency: Logic and Applications, Springer, dordrecht.
• Tanaka, K 2013, 'Buddhist Philosophy of Logic', in Steven MEmmanuel (ed.), A Companion to Buddhist Philosophy, Wiley-Blackwell, UK, pp. 320-330.
• Tanaka, K 2013, 'Making Sense of Paraconsistent Logic: The Nature of Logic, Classical Logic and Paraconsistent Logic', in Koji Tanaka, Francesco Berto, Edin Mares, Francesco Paoli (ed.), Paraconsistency: Logic and Applications, Springer, dordrecht, pp. 15-25pp..
• Tanaka, K, Berto, F, Mares, E et al. 2013, 'Paraconsistency: Introduction', in Koji Tanaka, Francesco Berto, Edin Mares, Francesco Paoli (ed.), Paraconsistency: Logic and Applications, Springer, dordrecht, pp. 1-12.
• Tanaka, K 2011, 'Part IV Japanese and Korean Philosophy', in William Edelglass and Jay L. Garfield (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of World Philosophy, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 297-388.
• Tanaka, K 2011, 'Inference in the Mengzi 1A: 7', Journal of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 444-454.
• Finnigan, B & Tanaka, K (2011), 'Carnaps Pragmatism and two Truths', in (ed.), Moonshadows: Conventional Truth in Buddhist Philosophy, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 221-231.
• Finnigan, B & Tanaka, K. (2011), 'Ethics for Madhyamikas', in (ed.), Moonshadows: Conventional Truth in Buddhist Philosophy, Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 221-231.
• Finnigan, B & Tanaka, K (2010), 'Don't Think! Just Act!', in (ed.), Martial Arts and Philosophy, Carus Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, United States, pp. 25-33.

Projects and Grants

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• Logical Encounters: A Buddhist Challenge to Western Conceptions of Logic (Primary Investigator)