Philosophy of Science and The Kyoto School : An Introduction to Nishida Kitaro, Tanabe Hajime and Tosaka Jun (Paperback)

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