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Japanese Studies in the Philosophy of Science (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998)
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Japanese Studies in the Philosophy of Science (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998)
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 45
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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.
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