Arata WADA

From Roman Concrete to Zipangu Concrete:

Industrial material standardisation can secure technical reliability by bound- ing physical variation, and in many specification systems this is achieved by prioritising codified performance requirements over geographical provenance. This paper proposes Zipangu Concrete not as a...

The Relatum Problem in Persistence: Diachronic Eligibility and the Limits of Criterion-Based Accounts

Since the revival of the analytic metaphysics of personal identity in the late twentieth century, debates over persistence have remained locked in substantive disputes between rival continuity criteria, such as biological animalism and psychological reductionism. This paper conte...