Philosophy of Science and The Kyoto School: An Introduction to Nishida Kitarō, Tanabe Hajime and Tosaka Jun

Cover page\nHalftitle page\nSeries page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nDedication\nContents\nList of Illustrations\nList of Boxes\nSeries Editor’s Preface\nPreface\nAcknowledgements\nNote on the Translations\nList of Abbreviations\n1 Introduction: Relativity and Quantum Physics in the Kyoto School\n	Postcolonial aspects and implication for world philosophies\n	Book overview\n	Modern physics\n	Kyoto School engagements with relativity and quantum physics in Japan (1910–50)\n	Scope of engagement with issues in the philosophy of science\n	Aims\n2 Nishida Philosophy, Place, Field and Quantum Phenomena\n	Introduction\n	2.1 Nishida’s method and the physical site of active intuition\n	2.2 Operationalism and the logic of place in Nishida’s Empirical Science\n3 Mediation in Tanabe’s Dialectical Vision of Competing Fields within Physics\n	Introduction\n	3.1 Tanabe’s dialectics of classical and modern physics\n	3.2 Situating modern physics in the Kyoto School: from Aristotle to Dirac\n4 Modern Physics, Space and Ideology in Tosaka Jun\n	Introduction\n	4.1 From Kantian to Marxist approaches to space and matter\n	4.2 Tosaka’s critique of the crisis in modern physics\n5 What We Can Learn from the Kyoto School\n	5.1 The philosophy of physics and competing conceptions of materiality in Nishida, Tanabe and Tosaka\n	5.2 Implications for critical materialisms and post-humanism today\nNotes\nTimeline of Kyoto School Activities in Relation to Physics\nGlossary\nFurther Reading\nIndex