Research Area	Philosophy of Science
Lab Website	Lab Website
ResearchMap	https://researchmap.jp/y_onishi
E-mail	oonishi_yukinori (at) soken.ac.jp

Today, science and technology have a profound impact on every aspect of our lives. While it brings us tremendous benefits, the emergence of new science and technology can also lead to unprecedented disasters and ethical challenges. Therefore, the relationship between science and society has been actively discussed from various aspects and using knowledge from various fields. Philosophy of science is one of these fields. To fully understand the relationship between science and society, it is first necessary to understand more deeply what science is. For example, what characteristics of science make it special and distinguish it from other activities called "pseudoscience"? Is science affected by social values? If individual scientists are not influenced by the specific social and cultural context in which they conduct their research, how is this possible? If they are, does this undermine the authority and rationality of science? These questions have been discussed in the philosophy of science. My own interest in this area is mainly in the analysis of scientific knowledge. In particular, I have been studying the "scientific realism controversy" (the controversy over the approximate truth of what scientific theories say about the world, including unobservable things) and have attempted to apply various theories in epistemology (theory of knowledge, justification or warrant) to this controversy. In addition, I am interested in various issues related to scientific representations (how scientific theories represent the world), such as the relationship between so-called "models of data" and raw data.

Representative Publications, Books etc.

• 1.Onishi, Y., Serpico D. (2022) Homeostatic Property Cluster Theory without Homeostatic Mechanisms: Two Recent Attempts and their Costs. Journal for General Philosophy of Science 53, 61–82. doi:10.1007/s10838-020-09527-1
• 2.Bueno, O., Onishi, Y.(co-first). (2020) The Likelihood Ratio Measure and the Logicality Requirement. Erkenntnis 87:459–475. doi:10.1007/s10670-019-00202-6
• 3.Onishi, Y. (2019) Philosophy of science and research integrity. Journal of Japanese geotechnical society 67(9), 52-59.
• 4.Onishi, Y. (2017) Defending the selective confirmation strategy. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 64, 1-10. doi:10.1016/j.shpsa.2017.07.001
• 5.Onishi, Y. (2012) Analyzing the scientific realism debate from the contextualist's point of view. Kagaku Tetsugaku (Journal of Philosophy of Science Society Japan) 44, 65-81.