A Historical Study on the Scientific Objectivity and the Humanity: An Analysis of the Modern Scientificity

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24652013
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: History of thought
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: TANAKA Yuriko 京都大学, 人文科学研究所, 助教 (30346051)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 科学性 / 客観性 / 人間性 / 西洋哲学史 / 科学史 / 科学哲学 / 19世紀 / 20世紀

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project was planned as a preliminary study which should examine the significance of the “scientificity” and the roles played by it in the makings of the twentieth century’s modern societies. First, this study collected reference materials of growing arguments concerning the history and the philosophy of science in the nineteenth century Europe, such as the works by William Whewell and his contemporaries. Then this study pursued a historical survey on the mutual influence between the notion of “humanity” and that of “scientific objectivity”, around the turn of the twentieth century. This study particularly focused on the value which those historical and philosophical attention to the science had put on the “scientific objectivity.”

Free Research Field

哲学、近代医学思想史