雑誌 Philosophies が免疫に関する特集を組むことになりました
"New Perspectives of Immunity: From Science to Metaphysics"
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免疫に関する新しい見方をお持ちの方の投稿をお待ちしております
2021年5月末日まで受け付けております
よろしくお願いいたします
Dear Colleagues,
Recent advances in immunology are transforming our view of the immune system and the phenomenon of immunity. For example, the specificity of antigen recognition and the existence of various forms of immunological memory blurs the boundary between adaptive immunity and innate immunity. It has been clarified that the immune system is closely associated, more than ever, with other systems in an organism, such as the nervous system, the endocrine system, and the metabolic system, such that the immune system appears to be coterminous with the organismal whole. Research that traces the phylogenetic tree also provides us food for thought regarding how to interpret the essential feature of the immune system. The current state with this unprecedented new information can be called a “philosophical situation.” We must face these facts anew and re-question the fundamental issues, such as specificity, cellular activation and regulation, self-recognition, innate and adaptive immunity, immunological memory, homeostatic regulation of biological polarity, and the psychoneuroendocrinoimmune network, and how to consider the immune system and the essential feature of immunity. Furthermore, the omnipresence of immunity in the living realm provides an opportunity to think about organisms and life from the perspective of immunity. To advance these processes, both synchronic and diachronic analysis is indispensable. In this special issue of “immunophilosophy,” we aim to review the current state of our scientific understanding of immunity and deepen analyses of individual phenomena within it or immunity in its totality from the perspectives of science, philosophy, history, and metaphysics. In doing so, we hope to stimulate transdisciplinary discussions and set the stage for establishing a new paradigm, which will serve as a guidepost for future research. We welcome the contributions of papers in this direction or from other promising perspectives.
Dr. Hidetaka Yakura
Guest Editor
（2020年10月24日）
日本における研究史を顧みる上でも、研究という営みを考える上でも参考になる本だと思います。興味をお持ちの方はご一読いただければ幸いです。わたしも以下のエッセイを書いております。
第18章：『生物記号論』、あるいは「科学の形而上学化」と「意識の第三層」（pp. 255-260）
免疫機能と最小の認識能に関する新しい仮説を提唱する論文が以下の雑誌に掲載されました。
▶ Yakura, H. A hypothesis: CRISPR-Cas as a minimal cognitive system. Adaptive Behavior 27: 167-173, 2019
また、同じ雑誌でこの論文についてのコメントとそれに対する反応も掲載されました。
▶ Keijzer, F. Drawing lessons from “CRISPR/Cas as a minimal cognitive system”: a commentary on Yakura. Adaptive Behavior 27: 175-177, 2019
▶ Yakura, H. Response to Fred Keijzer’s comments. Adaptive Behavior 27: 179-180, 2019 ＜manuscript＞
興味をお持ちの方はお目通しいただき、ご意見などをお寄せいただければ幸いです。よろしくお願いいたします。
（2019年7月2日）
