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I specialize in contemporary philosophy and study of modern history of science with regard to philosophical questions. Meanings of “reality” or bases of “truth” have always been questioned and sometimes drastically transformed through history. Since the turn of the nineteenth century forms of human knowledge underwent significant modifications, outcome of which today should exert fundamental influence on our contemporary and “global” forms of life; a series of radical questionings of the human cognition arose and developed at first in Europe, just when a complex of political and industrial revolutions was changing forms and conditions of human life in the region, and then those changes have spread across boundaries, to the extent that we the Japanese would also call this history “ours.” In my research I trace this historical process going along the parallel but deeply interacting paths of theory, technology, and human experiences.