Taketani Mitsuo

In this Japanese name, the family name is Taketani.

Taketani Mitsuo (武谷三男, October 2, 1911 – April 22, 2000) was a prominent Japanese physicist and Marxist. He published his Doctrine of the Three Stages of Scientific Development in 1936. This was the first Japanese contribution to the philosophy of science. He applied Hegel's theory of dialectics, with the triad Phenomenon, Substance, and Essence. Having worked with Yukawa Hideki as he developed his discovery of the meson, he used this as an example of a new substance.

References

Is Philosophy of Science Alive in the East? A Report from Japan by Soshichi Uchii, accessed 12 January 2008

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