Dean Anthony Brink

Philosophy of Science and The Kyoto School (eBook, ePUB)

An Introduction to Nishida Kitaro, Tanabe Hajime and Tosaka Jun

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers the first introduction to a major Japanese philosophical movement through the interests and arguments of its founder, Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945), his successor, Tanabe Hajime (1885-1962), and student-turned-critic, Tosaka Jun (1900-1945). Focusing on their contributions to thinking about place, space, and dialectics, this concise introduction brings these influential thinkers to life by connecting their work to issues still debated in the philosophy of science and physics today.

Beginning with an overview of the reception of quantum physics and relativity theory in Japan and concluding with an account of the direct relevance of the Kyoto School to the development of world philosophy in a posthuman age, each clearly-written chapter engages historical contexts and includes:

· Carefully-chosen excerpts and original translations of Nishida, Tanabe, and Tosaka
· Focus boxes explaining complex concepts and problems of contextualization
· A timeline, glossary and index
· Further reading lists featuring relevant and significant articles and books in English

This introduction is an ideal starting point for students and lecturers looking to become better acquainted with three central Japanese philosophers and learn why their work impacts our current thinking about science.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350141124
• Artikelnr.: 61272856

Autorenporträt

Dean Anthony Brink is Professor in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Relativity and quantum physics in the Kyoto School
2. Nishida Philosophy, place, field, and quantum phenomena
Nishida's method and the physical site of active intuition
Operationalism and the logic of place in Nishida's Empirical Science
Glossary
Discussion
Further Reading
3. Mediation in Tanabe's dialectical vision of competing fields within
physics
Tanabe's dialectics of classical and modern physics
Situating modern physics in the Kyoto School: From Aristotle to Dirac
Glossary
Discussion
Further Reading
4. Modern physics and ideology in Tosaka Jun
From Kantian to Marxist approaches to space and matter
Tosaka's critique of the crisis in modern physics
Glossary
Discussion
Further Reading
5. What we can learn from the Kyoto School
The philosophy of physics and competing conceptions of materiality in
Nishida, Tanabe, and Tosaka
Implications for critical materialisms today
Glossary
Discussion
Further Reading
Annotated Bibliography
Works in European languages
Works in Japanese and Chinese
Index