Hidé Ishiguro


Hidé Ishiguro is a Japanese analytic philosopher and emeritus professor at Keio University, Tokyo. She is considered an expert on the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz on whom she has published many papers. She is also a Wittgenstein scholar.

Life and career

Hide Ishiguro was born in Tokyo, Japan, the daughter of Kyugo Ishiguro and Katsuyo Go. She was raised a Catholic and attended Sacred Heart High School where she won a scholarship.
Ishuguro attended Tokyo University obtaining her BA degree in 1956. She pursued graduate studies at the Sorbonne followed by a doctorate in philosophy at Oxford University. At Oxford she was taught by G.E.M. Anscombe and her doctoral thesis was supervised by Peter Strawson and Gilbert Ryle. She has been professor of philosophy at Columbia University, University College, London and Keio University, Tokyo.
Her first book, Leibniz's Philosophy of Logic and Language takes issue with several traditional interpretations of Leibniz. She has suggested an interpretation of Leibniz's conceptual logic within the frame of possible world semantics.
She has written numerous articles on philosophy of language, logic and philosophy of psychology.
In 2007 a conference in her honour was hosted by the Philosophy Department of University College London and the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.
She is married to philosopher David Wiggins.

Publications

Book
Selected journal articles