News letters of our department, issued chiefly by former Prof. Uchii (now Prof. Emer.)
Including reports on our activities, academic articles and many book reviews.
Some letters are written in English or have English abstracts.
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| No. 1 (April 1994) | Philosophy and History of Science, founded in 1993 Syllabus of the new academic year New junior students Profile of Prof. Soshichi Uchii |
First major students came this year. |
| No. 2 (May 1994) | Some of Our Books on History and Philosophy of Science Summary of 1993 activities |
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| No. 3 (June 1994) | S. Uchii, "Do you want to read such translations as this?: Kuhn's Copernican Revolution, tr. by K. Tsuneishi" | Book review |
| No. 4 (September 1994) | Book Review: Japanese translation of C.R.Mollenhoff's Atanasoff: forgotten father of the computer, by T.Saisho and Y.Matsumoto (S. Uchii) | Book review |
| No. 5 (October 1994) | S. Uchii, "From our Lectures: The development of the kinetic theory of gases" | |
| No. 6 (December 1994) | 1. S. Uchii, "M. Dummett's Lecture in Kyoto" 2. Abstract of Uchii's presentation "Probabilistic Revolution" for Kansai Phil. Assoc. 3. Preview: S. Uchii's Introduction to Philosophy of Science |
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| No. 7 (January 1995) | Associate Professor Nominated Book Review: Y. Murakami's What are the Scientists? (S.Uchii) Our Courses for the Coming Year |
K.Ito joined the Department. Book review |
| No. 8 (April 1995) | Japanese Translation: L.Boltzmann's "On the Indispensability of Atomistic in the Natural Science", by K.Inoue and S.Uchii | |
| No. 9 (May 1995) | S.Uchii, "Wes and Merrilee Salmon Visit Japan" News of our Department |
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| No. 10 (June 1995) | K. Ito, "Recent Studies on Galileo" Our Activities in 1994 |
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| No. 11 (September 1995) | S. Uchii, "Recent Studies on Evolution and Ethics" | |
| No. 12 (October 1995) | Book Review: F. Satoh's Science and Happiness (S. Uchii) | Book review |
| No. 13 (March 1996) | S. Uchii, "Our Students's Graduation Theses" Our Courses for the Coming Year Our Activities in 1995 Preview: S.Uchii's |
First graduate students came |
| No. 14 (June 1996) | S. Uchii, "International Fellows Conference in Italy" New Juniors and New Graduate Students Information of the Graduate Program Recent Visitors |
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| No. 15 (September 1996) | S. Uchii, "Laplace against the French Lottery" | |
| No. 16 (February 1997) | Abstracts of Graduation Theses (1) Emiko Itoh, "The Scope of Ethical Considerations in Environmental Ethics" (2) Akira Ueda, "Poincare's Conventionalism: its geometrical aspect" (3) Makoto Matsubara, "Recombinant DNA and NIH Guidelines" |
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| No. 17 (May 1997) | Book Review: Soshichi Uchii, "Akira Tonomura's Seeing Gauge Fields, Koudansha, March 1997" New Junior Students Our Activities in 1996 |
Book review |
| No. 18 (September 1997) | Tetsuji Iseda: “Can epistemology be social?: A review of recent attempts in social epistemology” | English |
| No. 19 (November 1997) | A Report on the Forum: Evolutionary Understanding of Humanity: Humanities, Social Sciences, and The Theory of Evolution Speakers: M. Daly and M. Wilson (Univ. of McMaster, Canada) M. Ruse (Univ. of Guelph, Canada) Commentators: S. Uchii (Kyoto Univ.) O. Sakura (Yokohama National Univ.) Chair: Mariko Hasegawa (Senshu Univ.) (1) Abstracts and short notes about the speakers (2) S.Uchii, "Comments on Professor Ruse's View" (full text) |
English |
| No. 20 (April 1998) | Kazuyuki Ito: Sun Worship and Heliocentricism (1) Abstracts in English and in Japanese (2) Full Text New Students Our Activities in 1997 |
English |
| No. 21 (August 1998) | 1. News from Our Lab, S. Uchii 2. "The Social Responsibility of the Scientist" (Abstract, July 29, the Summer School for young astronomers), S. Uchii 3. "Utility and Preferences" (Abstract for a symposium on J. S. Mill, The Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought), S. Uchii |
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| No. 22 (December 3, 1998) | Soshichi Uchii: Bibliographical Notes on the Philosophy of Space and Time | |
| No. 23 (February 1, 1999) | The Master's Theses and the Graduation Theses of this Year | |
| No. 24 (March 29, 1999) | Daisuke Kaida: Van Fraassen's Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (English abstract and Japanese text) |
English abstract |
| No. 25 (May 6, 1999) | 1. Soshichi Uchii, Biographies of Michael Faraday 2. Our Avtivities in '98 |
English Book review |
| No. 26 (June 8, 1999) | Soshichi Uchii, Book Review: Albert E. Moyer, Joseph Henry: The Rise of an American Scientist, Smithonian Institution Press, 1997. | English Book review |
| No. 27 (August 4, 1999) | Soshichi Uchii, Book Review: Glenn T. Seaborg, A Chemist in the White House, American Chemical Society, 1998. | English Book review |
| No. 28 (September 14, 1999) | Soshichi Uchii, Book Review: Jinzaburo Takagi, Towards the Citizen's Science, Asahi Shinbunsha, 1999. | Book review |
| No. 29 (October 4, 1999) | Soshichi Uchii, Book Review: Martin Harwit, (Japanese translation of) An Exhibit Denied: Lobbying the History of Enola Gay, Misuzu shobo, 1997. | Book review |
| No. 30 (January 21, 2000) | Soshichi Uchii, Book Review: A. Desmond and J. Moore, (Japanese translation of) Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist, Kosaku-sha, 1999. | Commemorating the 30th issue, (1)-(7) completed, Feb. 14 |
| No. 31 (February 3, 2000) | The Graduation Theses and Master's Thesis of This Year | |
| No. 32 (April 18, 2000) | 1. Book Review by S. Uchii: Nagayasu Shimao, Faraday, Iwanami, March 2000 [Japanese] 2. Our Activities in 1999 |
Book review |
| No. 33 (June 8, 2000) | Soshichi Uchii, “Wes and Merrilee Salmon in Kyoto University” | English |
| No. 34 (June 29, 2000) | Merrilee H. Salmon, “A Moral Dilemma for Social Scientists: How to Resolve Conflicting Duties” | English |
| No. 35 (July 4, 2000) | Wesley C. Salmon, “Causation: A Realistic Account” | English |
| No. 36 (September 14, 2000) | Book Review by Soshichi Uchii: Highfield, R. and Carter, P., The Private Lives of Albert Einstein, 1993 and Zackheim, M., Einstein's Daughter: The Search for Lieserl, 1999. |
Book review |
| No. 37 (November 9, 2000) | Book Review by Soshichi Uchii: Ian Hacking, The Social Construction of What?, 1999. | English Book review |
| No. 38 (January 29, 2001) | The Graduation Theses and Master's Theses, 2001 | |
| No. 39 (March 13, 2001) | Kazuyuki ITO, Galileo's Mathematical Atomism | |
| No. 40 (April 3, 2001) | Soshichi Uchii , The Human Genome Project: From Nature 409 | English |
| No. 41 (May 17, 2001) | 1. Soshichi Uchii, Euler on Space and Time, Physics and Metaphysics 2. Our Activities in 2000 |
English |
| No. 42 (July 10, 2001) | Book Review by Soshichi Uchii: The End of Time, or the Beginning of the New Machianism? The End of Time by Julian Barbour | English Book review |
| No. 43 (October 16, 2001) | Book Review by Soshichi Uchii: The Discovery of Dynamics by Julian Barbour | English Book review |
| No. 44 (February 5, 2002) (corrected Feb. 8) |
The Graduation Theses and Master's Theses, 2002 | |
| No. 45 (March 25, 2002) | Soshichi Uchii, Pittsburgh Revisited, and Other Remarks | |
| No. 46 (July 11, 2002) | Soshichi Uchii, “What Do Darwin and Einstein Have in Common?” Our Activities in 2001 |
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| No. 47 (November 1, 2002) | Kazuyuki Ito, Abstract of “Galileo's Mathematical Theory of Motion” (Doctrate Thesis) | |
| No. 48 (December 5, 2002) | Soshichi Uchii, “Darwin's Demon” | |
| No. 49 (February 4, 2003) | The Graduation Theses and Master's Theses, 2003 | |
| No. 50 (March 11, 2003) | 10th Anniversary Special Issue (12 essays) | |
| No. 51 (June 24, 2003) | Soshichi Uchii, “Recent Studies on the Soviet Nuclear Project” Our Activities in 2002 |
English Book review |
| No. 52 (July 22, 2003) | Soshichi Uchii, “Edward Teller's Memoirs” | English Book review |
| No. 53 (January 16, 2004) | Book Review by Soshichi Uchii: Alice Row Burks, Who Invented the Computer? | English Book review |
| No. 54 (February 3, 2004) | Book Review by Soshichi Uchii: Randal Keynes, Annie's Box: Charles Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution | English Book review |
| No. 55 (June 17, 2004) | 1. Cracow Revisited: 5th Quadrennial International Fellows Conference, by Soshichi Uchii 2. Our Activities, 2003 |
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| No. 56 (November 5, 2004) | Soshichi Uchii, “Einstein and the Philosophy of Space and Time” | |
| No. 57 (February 2, 2005) | Soshichi Uchii, Theses 2005, and How to Write a Thesis | |
| No. 58 (June 21, 2005) | Book review by Soshichi Uchii: Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos, and Lee Smolin, Three Roads to Quantum Gravity |
English Book review |
| No. 59 (September 9, 2005) | The Riddle of Space and Time, by Soshichi Uchii | |
| No. 60 (January 23, 2006) | How should we read the Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence, by Soshichi Uchii |