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Japanese Studies in the Philosophy of Science

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Francis Gen-Ichiro Nagasaka

    1. Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan

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  2. Robert S. Cohen

    1. Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University, USA

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 45)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. The Mind as Human Jobs

    • Nobushige Sawada
    Pages 1-6

  3. Other Minds

    • Wataru Kuroda
    Pages 7-19

  4. On the Individuation of Events

    • Hidekichi Nakamura
    Pages 21-32

  5. Mind, Privacy and Causality

    • Hyakudai Sakamoto
    Pages 33-66

  6. Double Look: Science Superposed on a Perceptual World

    • Shozo Ohmori
    Pages 67-86

  7. Scientific Laws as Tools for Taxonomy

    • Natuhiko Yosida
    Pages 87-98

  8. Causality and Temporal Irreversibility

    • Satosi Watanabe
    Pages 99-114

  9. Structure of Statistical Inference

    • Akira Oide
    Pages 115-139

  10. On Inference in Science

    • Hiroshi Kurosaki
    Pages 141-150

  11. Comment on the Machida—Namiki—Araki Theory

    • M. M. Yanase
    Pages 151-157

  12. Who are Precursors of Galileo in His Pisan Dynamics? — A Criticism of Professor Moody’s Paper

    • Shuntaro Ito
    Pages 159-171

  13. Philosophical Meanings of the Concept of Evolution

    • Hiroshi Nagai
    Pages 173-188

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 189-202
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The splendid achievements of Japanese mathematics and natural sciences during the second half of our 20th century have been a revival, a Renaissance, of the practical sciences developed along with the turn toward Western thinking in the late 19th century. The equally admirable results of Japanese philosophers (and historians) of science in our time followed upon a period less congenial to Western interests in the philosophical questions linked to modern science; and this reluctance to confront the epistemology, not even the humane significance, of the sciences went along with devotion to other Western trends. Thus, with the 'new' Japan of the Meiji restoration of 1868, and the early introduction of Western philosophy in the subsequent decade by Nishi Amane, a period of intellectual attraction to utilitarian, positivist, evolutionary, even materialist outlooks was soon replaced by devotion to scholarly work on Kant and Hegel, on ethical and general philosophical idealism. These studies often could emulate the critical spirit (the philosopher Onishe Hajime, praised for his own critical independence, was known as the Japanese Kant) but the neo­ Kantian and neo-Hegelian developments were not much affected by either empirical sciences or theoretical speculations about Nature. The pre-eminent philosopher of Japan ofthe first half of our century was Nishida Kitaro, with a pioneering treatise A Study of the Good, who, with his leading student Tanabe Hajime, formed the 'Kyoto School' of pre-war philosophy.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan

    Francis Gen-Ichiro Nagasaka

  • Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University, USA

    Robert S. Cohen

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