Murphy Shimamoto
Contact
Email: murphy.shimamoto@gmail.com
About
I achieved a first class honors undergraduate degree in International Social and Political Studies from University College London specializing in Political Theory and spent a successful year abroad at the University of Tokyo studying the Kyoto School of Philosophy and Heidegger.
My particular domains of interest are philosophy and film especially Heidegger, Nietzsche, Schmitt, Hobbes, and Rousseau in the former case and Tarkovsky, Tarr, and Malick in the latter.
I also have varying degrees of familiarity with Spanish, French, and Japanese.
Writing
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You Can See Everything
On Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary and the limits of interpretation.
October 2026 -
A Time for Life and a Time for Death
Nietzsche’s eternal recurrence and its reversal of Plato and St. Paul.
April 2026 -
How Kripke’s Wittgenstein argues that there are no meaning facts. A Summary
Kripke’s sceptic on rule-following, and why finite cases cannot fix what we mean.
January 2026 -
Nishitani and Nietzsche: Doubt and Ironic Absurdity
Nishitani’s attempt to discard Nietzsche and why we should not accept it.
July 2025 -
Nishida Kitaro’s Philosophical Middle Way
How one Middle Way method runs through all of Nishida’s philosophy.
May 2025