Essays on the History of Scientific Thought in Modern Japan

This book covers the history of physics, chemistry, and pharmacology in modern Japan, focusing on the 1920s through the early 1960s. Led by the editor’s introduction, “A Portrait of the History of Scientific Thought,” readers will soon find themselves in the middle of a complex double narrative comprising both ‘the telling of history’ and ‘the telling of the history of history.’ In the end, readers will come to understand an intricate historical aspect, made possible through such a grand and meta-appreciation.

KANAMORI Osamu (Editor)

Kanamori Osamu was born in Sapporo in 1954. He studied at the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology at the University of Tokyo and received a doctorate in philosophy from Pantheon-Sorbonne University (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). He lectured at the University of Tsukuba and taught as Associate Professor at Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology. Currently he is a Professor at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Tokyo. He specializes in French philosophy, the history of scientific thought, and bioethics.

Selected Writings:

Bashurāru (Gaston Bachelard),Tokyo, Kodansha, 1996Saiensu wōzu (Science wars),Tokyo, University of Tokyo Press, 2000

Kagaku teki shikō no kōkogaku (Archeology of scientific thought),Kyoto, Jimbun Shoin, 2004

‘Seiseiji’ no tetsugaku (The philosophy of biopolitics),Kyoto, Minerva Shobo, 2010

Gōremu no seimei ron (Theory of life of golems),Tokyo, Heibonsha, 2010

Dōbutsu ni tamashii wa arunoka (Do animals have souls?),Tokyo, Chuokoron-Shinsha, 2012

Kagaku no kiki (Crisis of science)Tokyo, Shueisha, 2015.

Selected Edited Books:

Kagaku shisō shi (History of scientific thought),Tokyo, Keiso Shobo, 2010

Gōrisei no kōkogaku (Archeology of rationality),Tokyo, University of Tokyo Press, 2012

Episutemorojī (Epistemology),Tokyo, Keio University Press, 2013

*information as of time of publication

Japan Library series
Science

Publisher:
Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture

Hardcover
¥3,960 + tax
ISBN 9784916055613
220 mm x 148 mm / 348 pp. / March 2016

eBook
ISBN 9784916055736 (ePub)
ISBN 9784916055682 (PDF)

CONTENTS
Foreword to the English Edition
Introduction: A Portrait of the History of Scientific Thought
1. Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics: The Evolution of a Competitive View of Science
2. The Formation of Japan’s Tradition of Organic Chemistry Research with Rikō Majima
3. The Formation and Development of the Self-Image of Kampō Medicine in Japan: The Relationship between Showa-Period Kampō and Science
Afterword
Bibliography
Indexes

序章にて編者が〈科学思想史-史〉の歴史的背景を解説、以降各専門家が近代日本の物理学史、化学史、薬理学史を辿る。「歴史を語る」/「その歴史の歴史を語る」という二重の構図のなかで、〈歴史的認識〉がもつ複雑さを論証する。

金森 修 （編者）
１９５４年札幌生まれ東京大学大学院人文科学研究科博士課程単位取得退学博士（哲学・パリ第一大学）筑波大学講師、東京水産大学助教授などを経て、現在、東京大学大学院教育学研究科教授専門　フランス哲学、科学思想史、生命倫理学

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『バシュラール』講談社、１９９６年『サイエンス・ウォーズ』東京大学出版会、２０００年『科学的思考の考古学』人文書院、２００４年『〈生政治〉の哲学』ミネルヴァ書房、２０１０年『ゴーレムの生命論』平凡社新書、２０１０年『動物に魂はあるのか』中公新書、２０１２年『科学の危機』集英社新書、２０１５年　他

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『科学思想史』勁草書房、２０１０年『昭和前期の科学思想史』勁草書房、２０１１年『合理性の考古学』東京大学出版会、２０１２年『エピステモロジー』慶應義塾大学出版会、２０１３年　他

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