Last updated: 8 April 2008.
Name: HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki (Male)
Associate Professor at Osaka University Center for the Study of Communication-Design
Philosophy and Sociology of Science / STS (Science, Technology and Society)
Bachelor of Arts (physics), International Christian University, 1989.
Master of Science (physics), Tokyo Institute of Technology, 1991.
Master of Arts (philosophy), International Christian University, 1994.
Ph.D (science studies), International Christian University, 2008.
Part-time assistant (history and philosophy of science), Division of Humanities, College of Liberal Arts, International Christian University (1995-2000).
Visiting researcher at the Institute for Policy Science, Japan (1998-2000).
Lecturer at the Faculty for the Study of Contemporary Society, Kyoto Women's University (2000-2004).
Part-time Lecturer at the Graduate School of Cultural Studies and Human Science, Kobe University (2000-2003).
Associate Professor at the Faculty for the Study of Contemporary Society, Kyoto Women's University (2004-2006).
Visiting Associate Professor at Osaka University Center for the Study of Communication-Design (2005-2006).
Associate Professor at Osaka University Center for the Study of Communication-Design (2006-present).
Japan Association for Philosophy of Science (JAPS): 1995-
Philosophy of Science Society, Japan (PSSJ): 1995-
STS NETWORK JAPAN (STSNJ): 1996-
Japan Association for Science, Technology & Society (JASTS): 1996-
AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science): 1998-
4S (Society for Social Study of Science): 1999-
JSSTS (Japanese Society for Science and Technology Studies): 2001-present
EASST (European Association for the Study of Science and Technology): 2002-present
PPSA (Public Policy Studies Association, Japan): 2004-present
Representative of STSNJ (April 1997 - March 1999).
Secretary General of STSNJ (April 1997 - March 1998).
Chair of STSNJ Summer School '97. Theme: "Risk Society:
Its Problems and Scopes in STS" (1997).
Conference Organizer of the 1998 Spring Symposium of STSNJ: "The
Future of STS in Japan" (1998).
Vice Chair of the 1999 Spring Symposium of STSNJ: "Global
Science/National Science/Local Science (part1) (1999)
A member of Founding Committee of JSSTS (June 2001 - October 2001)
Secretary of JSSTS (October 2001 - present)
A member of Executive Committee of Annual Conference of JSSTS 2002 (February 2002 - November 2002)
A member of Executive Committee of Annual Conference of JSSTS 2003 (February 2002 - present)
A Board member of JSSTS (April 2005 - present)
A member of Nominating Committee of the Takagi Fund for Citizen Science (November 2003 - present)
A member of Local Committee for the Project of Community-based Environmental Assessment, NTT Data Institute of Management Consulting (November 2003 - March 2005).
A member of Research Evaluation Committee for the Studies on Risk Management of Recombinant Organisms in Industrial Uses, The New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) (June 2004 - October 2004).
A member of Committee for the Social Acceptance of Safety Goals through Risk Communication, Research Institute of Mitsui Knowledge Industry Co.,Ltd. ((November 2003 - March 2004)
A member of Planning Committee for the Citizen Conference on the Future of Foods, Agriculture and Genetically Modified Crops, The Society for Techno-innivation of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (August2003 - March 2004).
A member of Joint Research Committee "Technolog and Society" of Minister's Secretariat Office of Policy Planning at METI (Mnst. Economy, Trade and Industry) & National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (April 2002 - present).
A temporary member of the Subcommittee on Management of Genetically-Modified Organisms, the Chemicals and Biochemistry Committee of the Industrial Structure Council, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. (September 2001- present)
Political Philosophy of Science and Technology.
Cultural Studies of Science and Technology.
Risk and Controversy Studies.
"Problems of 'Democratizing Expertise' and 'Expertising Democracy' in Risk Governance: Theoretical Reflections for 'Good Risk Governance'", International Christian University, March 2008.
(J) = written in Japanese; (E) = written in English.
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2005. "Science Shop: Empowering Civil Society through Expertise," in Takahiko Nitta et al. (eds.), For Beginners in Science and Technology Ethics, Sekai Shisou Sha: 223-238. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2004. "Scientometrics and Science Studies," Yuko Fujigaki et al. (eds.) An Introduction to Scientometrics for Research Evaluation and Science Studies, Maruzen, 28-36. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2003b. "Can Genetically-Modified Crops Save the World from Hunger?: GM Crops in the South-North Relations", Masashi Shirabe, Masaru Kawasaki & Hideyuki HIRAKAWA (eds.) Living in High-tech Society, Hokuju Shuppan, 2003: 118-137. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2003a. "What is the Scientific Literacy?: How to Cope with Scientific Information", Masashi Shirabe, Masaru Kawasaki & Hideyuki HIRAKAWA (eds.) Living in High-tech Society, Hokuju Shuppan, 2003: 81-100. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2002c. "Cooperation between Experts and Lay Publics: Possibility of Science Shop", Tadashi Kobayashi (ed.) Science and Technology in the Public Sphere, Tamagawa University Press, 2002: 184-203. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2002b. "Politics of Risk: Framing Analysis of GM Crops Disputes", Tadashi Kobayashi (ed.) Science and Technology in the Public Sphere, Tamagawa University Press, 2002: 109-138. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2002a. "Anthropology of Laboratory: Science as Practice, and Critique of Skepticism", Osamu Kanamori & Hideto Nakajima (eds.) Science Studies in Front, Keiso Shobo, 2002: 23-62. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. "Cultural Studies of Science: Science as Practice, and Politics of Knowledge and Meaning", KAGAKU WO KANGAERU ("Thinking about Science"), Kitaoji Shobo, 1999: 212-237. (J)
Erik Millstone, Patrick van Zwanenberg, Les Levidow, Armin Spok, Hideyuki Hirakawa, Makiko Matsuo. 2008. Risk-assessment policies: Differences across jurisdictions, EUR Number: 23259 EN, European Commission Joint Research Centre, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS).
(J) = written in Japanese; (E) = written in English.
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2005. "Paradigm Shift in Risk Governance: Toward a Democratic Governance of Risk and Uncertainty," SHISOU (Thought), No.973 (May 2005): 48-67. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki; Hideyuki, Hideaki Shiroyama, Takako Nakajima, Tatsuhiro Kamisato, and Yukiko Fujita. 2005a. "Japanese Reformation of Food Safety Administration and Food Safety Committee: Persistent Problems and Tasks Ahead," KAGAKU (Science), Vol.75, no.1: 93-97. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki; Reiko Mizuno and Terukazu Ni'i. 2003. "The State of the Art of Scientific Citizenship and Citizen Science: Two Examples," Journal of Science and Technology Studies, Vol.2: 95-107. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2003. "The Experience of Precautionary Principle in the Regulation of Genetically Modified Crops in Europe: Uncertainty, Science, and Politics", Journal of Endocrine Disruption, Vol.3, 2003-2004: 103-119. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2002. "Science, Technology and Civic Liberty: Participatory Technology Assessmant and Science Shops", Journal of Science and Technology Studies, Vol.1: 51-58. (J)"
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 1999b. "Social Epistemology as Risk Management of Technoscience: The Rationale and a Model of Democratization of Science", Social Epistemology, Volume 13, Number 3, pp.257-262. (E)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 1999a. "The Conditions for Science and Politics in the Risk Society", KAGAKU ("Science"), Vol.69, no.3, pp211-218. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 1998b. "Coping with the Uncertainty beyond Epistemic- Moral Inability: Rethinking Human Self-Understanding with Hannah Arendt's Reflections on Vita Activa", paper presented to the 20th World Congress of Philosophy, Boston; On-Line Archive of the Proceedings of the 20th World Congress of Philosophy. (E)
Hideyuki HIRAKAWA.1998a. "The Political Turn in Science Studies: Social Epistemology and Cultural Studies of Science", Japan Journal for Science, Technology & Society, Vol.7, 1998, pp.23-57. (J)
Hideyuki HIRAKAWA.1997. "An Aspect of the Psychologism in Gaston Bachelard's Epistemology: Psychologism as a Quest for the Practical Basis of Objectivity", Journal of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science, Vol.24, No.2, 1997, pp.59-65. (J)
(J) = written in Japanese; (E) = written in English.
Hirakawa, Hideyuki, Hideaki Shiroyama, Takako Nakajima, Tatsuhiro Kamisato, and Yukiko Fujita. 2004. "Reinvention of Food Safety Policy in Japan: Institutional and Cultural Problems", paper presented at Science and Democracy Network Annual Workshop (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 22-24 July 2004) and Science, Technology and Global Governance Seminar (Hotel Piano in Kiroro Resort, 3-7 August 2004). (E)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2001. "Provisional Report on the GM Crops Consensus Conference in Japan", a report to the Workshop: Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology: Recent Controversies, STS Research and the Policy Process. 8-9 February 2001 @ CNADS- National Council for the Environment and Sustainable Development, Lisbon. (E)
(J) = written in Japanese; (E) = written in English.
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2004. "Reconstruction of Science and Technology Governance: A Pitfall of boom of 'Anshin/Anzen (Safety/Sense of Security)," GENDAI SHISOU ("Revue de la Pensee d'Aujourd'hui"), Vol.32, no.14, pp.170-172. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2003b. "Risk, Uncertainty and Tragedy: What the Scienticism in Risk Discourse Leaves Behind," GENDAI SHISOU ("Revue de la Pensee d'Aujourd'hui"), Vol.31, no.9, pp.156-164. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2002b. "How to Make 'Our Science': Publicness of Knowledge and Civil Liberty", GENDAI SHISOU ("Revue de la Pensée d'Aujourd'hui"), Vol.30 no.11, pp.165-171. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2002a. "Management of Uncertainty in the Risk Management of Genetically-Modified Crops", Bioscience and Industry, Vol.60, no.5: 54-57. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2001b. "Science, Technology and Public Space: Resistant Politics against Technocracy", GENDAI SHISOU ("Revue de la Pensee d'Aujourd'hui"), Vol.29, no.10, pp.195-207. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2001a. "Science for Civil Liberty: New Dream for Sciecne", KAGAKU ("Science"), Vol.71, no.9, 1232-1235. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2000. "Science Wars", Special Issue on "The Keywords of Contemporary Thoughts", GENDAI SHISOU ("Revue de la Pensée d'Aujourd'hui"), Vol.28 no.3, p.238. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 1998b. "An Introduction to the Political Philosophy of Knowledge: From the Archimedian Point to the Situated Objectiviety", GENDAI SHISOU ("Revue de la Pensee d'Aujourd'hui"), Vol.26, no.13, pp.102-115. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 1998a. "'Whose Science?", Research Note of GENDAI SHISOU ("Revue de la Pensée d'Aujourd'hui"), Vol.26, no.15, p.238. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki and Yoichiro Murakami, "The Sokal Affair: An Aspect of Sociology of Science", Parity : Physical Science Magazine, Vol.13, no.7, 1998. (J)
Harry M. Collins and Trevor Pinch. The Golem at Large: What You Should Know About Technology, Cambridge University Press, 1998: trs. by Yoichiro Murakami and Hideyuki Hirakawa.
Steve Fuller. Science, Open University Press, 1997: trs. by Tadashi Kobayashi, Masaru Kawasaki, Masashi Shirabe and Hideyuki HIRAKAWA.
Loet Leydesdorff. The Challenge of Scientometrics: the Development, Measurement, and Self-Organization of Scientific Communications, DSWO Press, 1995: trs. by Yuko Fujigaki, Takayuki Hayashi, Hiroyuki Tomizawa, Hideyuki HIRAKAWA, Masashi Shirabe, Jun'ichiro Makino.
(J) = presented in Japanese; (E) = presented in English.
Hirakawa, Hideyuki. 2008c. "The Governance of Multi-Faceted Risks and benefits of Agricultural Products", a paper presented at the International Workshop on Networks and Global Governance in the Past and at the Present: Japanese Scholars' Perspectives, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 3 March 2008.
Hirakawa, Hideyuki. 2008b. "Introduction to Research and Development for Deliberation and Collaboration of Citizens and Scientists (DeCoCiS): Background and Goals", a paper presented at the International Workshop on Science and Technology Governance 2008, International House of Japan, 12-14 January 2008.
Hirakawa, Hideyuki. 2008a. "Framework of Analysis of Japanese Risk Governance and its Background: Introduction to the Workshop", a paper presented at the International Workshop on Science and Technology Governance 2008, International House of Japan, 12-14 January 2008.
Hirakawa, Hideyuki and Makiko Matsuo. 2008. "Operationalizing the Framework of Risk Analysis in Japanese Food Safety Administration: Case Studies of GM Feed and BSE", a paper presented at the International Workshop on Science and Technology Governance 2008, International House of Japan, 12-14 January 2008.
Hirakawa, Hideyuki and Makiko Matsuo. 2007. "Cultures of Risk Analysis: conflicting expectation for the roles of Risk Assessors and Risk Managers", The Amsterdam-Tokyo Policy Dialogue: Comparing Policy Practice in Japan and the Netherlands, University of Amsterdam, March 22-23, 2007.
Hirakawa, Hideyuki. 2007b. "Biofuels and food production: Necessity of Multiple Resource Governance", The Amsterdam-Tokyo Policy Dialogue: Comparing Policy Practice in Japan and the Netherlands, University of Amsterdam, March 22-23, 2007.
Hirakawa, Hideyuki. 2007a. "Crops for foods or energy?: towards sustainable governance of agro-bio industry", International symposium on the Dialogue between Social and Natural Sciences, 26 - 28 February, 2007 Princess Kaiulani Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.
Hirakawa, Hideyuki & Hideaki Shiroyama. 2006. "Reconsidering the Science/Politics Separation in Risk Analysis: In the Case of Japan-US BSE Negotiation (2003-2005)", EASST 2006 Conference, 23-26 August 2006, University of Lausanne.
Hirakawa, Hideyuki and Makiko Matsuo. 2006. "Extra-Scientific Dimensions of Science-Based Decisionmaking", AGS (Alliance for Global Sustainability) Annual Meeting 2006, 19-22 March 2006, Bangkok.(E)
Hirakawa, Hideyuki. 2006a. "Science and Politics in Risk Analysis: In the Case of Japan-US BSE Conflict", Workshop: "Crossing Borders in Sustainability Development: Social Scientific Contributions" 4 February 2006, Sanjo Hall, University of Tokyo. (E)
Hirakawa, Hideyuki. 2005. "Framing Analysis of Controversy on Risk Governance of Genetically Modified Organisms", 2005 Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Science and Technology Studies (JSSTS), 12-13 November 2005, Nagoya University. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki, Hideaki Shiroyama, Takako Nakajima, Tatsuhiro Kamisato, and Yukiko Fujita. 2004b. "Japanese Reformation of Food Safety Administration and Function of Food Safety Committee: Innovation and Futher Tasks," Annual meeting 2004 of Japanese Society for Science and Techonology Studies (JSSTS), Kanazawa Institute of Technology, 14 November, 2004.(J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki, Hideaki Shiroyama, Takako Nakajima, Tatsuhiro Kamisato, and Yukiko Fujita. 2004. "Reinvention of Food Safety Policy in Japan: Institutional and Cultural Problems," paper presented at Science and Democracy Network Annual Workshop (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 22-24 July 2004) and Science, Technology and Global Governance Seminar (Hotel Piano in Kiroro Resort, 3-7 August 2004). (E)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2004d. "Science, Technology and Civil Society: Empowering Roles of Scientists and Engineers," (presentation file [PDF230KB]) Japan Science and Techonology Agency International Symposium: Science and Society - for the Better Communication between Science, Technology and Society, Academy Hills Roppongi, 12 November, 2004. (E)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2004c. "Scientific Empowerment of Civil Society through the Science Shops: Science for Citizenship," Kansai Science City 10th Aniverssary Symposium: Science City in 21st Century - Keihanna 2004, Keihanna Plaza, 27 October, 2004. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2004b. "Division of 'Safety' and 'Sense of Security': Knowledge-Politics of Risk Discourse in Japan," (persentation file [PDF37KB]) 4S/EASST Meeting 2004, Paris, 25-28 August 2004.
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2004a. "Collaboration between Experts and Lay Publics: Promotion of Science Shops," Spring Symposium 2003 of STS Network Japan: How to Open up the University?, Research Center for the Advanced Science and Technology, University ofTokyo, 20 March, 2004. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2003e. "Biosafety and International Relations: Issues concerning Science and Technology Governace," Annual meeting 2003 of Japanese Political Science Association, Shobi Gakuen University, 4 October, 2003. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2003d. "Problems concerning Uncertainty, Values and Publicness: Against Anti-democratization of Risk Governance," Annual Meeting 2003 of PPSA (Public Policy Studies Association, Japan), Hosei University, 15 June, 2003. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2003c. "Issues for the Collaboration of Science and Technology Studies and Sociology," Round table discussion "Environmental Sociology and Sociological Theory," 54th Kansai Sociological Association, Ohtemon University, 25 May, 2005. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2003b. "Precautionary Approach in the Regulation of Genetically Modified Crops and Framing Problems," KANSAI KOKYO SEISAKU KENKYUKAI (Kansai Association for Public Policy), Kyoto University, 3 May, 2003. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2003a. "Precautionary Principle and Governance of Science and Technology", Joint meeting of the Public Philosophy Forum and Research Society for Science, Technology and Society, Research Center for the Advanced Science and Technology, University ofTokyo, 2 February, 2003. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2002e. "‘Precautionary Principle’ as an Illustration of Cultural Differences in Science-Society Interactions: a Preliminary Observation", OPUS (Optimising Public Understanding of Science and Technology) International Conference: Envisioning Scientific Citizenship: Science, Governance and Public Participation in Europe, Vienna University, 28-30 November, 2002. (E)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2002d. "Politics of Framing in the GM Consensus Conference in Japan: How did the Publics Frame the Issues of GM Crops ?" (presentation file), EASST 2002, York, UK, 1 August, 2002. (E)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2002c. "The Recent Rise of Risk Analysis in Japan: Tension between Technocratization and Democratization in the Governance of Science and Technology", Workshop on Science and Democracy: Science, Technology, and Politics, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, June 21-23, 2002. (E)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2002b. "Risk Studies of Precautionary Approach: A Sociological Aspect", Research meeting on "Quality of Evidence and its Social Application", at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 8 March, 2002. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2002a. "Science Shops: Expertise to Empower the Publics", Symposium on Techno-Ethics, Hokkaido University, 4 March, 2002. (J)
Nakajima, Hideto, Togo Tsukahara and Hideyuki HIRAKAWA. 2002. "Japanese STS Approach to GMOs: Multi-Angle Socio-Political and Cultural-Economical Analysis of Bio-Techno-Science in the East Asian Context," paper to the annual meeting of Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Hilton Hotel Milwaukee City Center, November 7-10, 2002.
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2001c. "Science Shops: Public Roles of Experts and Lay Publics in Civil Society", Workshop on Science, Technology and Public Sphere, the 27th meeting of Research Society for Science, Technology and Society, Research Center for the Advanced Science and Technology, University ofTokyo, 8 Decemver, 2001. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2001b. "Politicizing Risk Analysis", Symposium: Rethinking Risk Studies, at the 34th Annual Meeting of Philosophy of Science Society, Japan (PSSJ), 17 November, 2001, Senshu University. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2001a. "Globalization, Local Knowlege, and Convention on Biological Diversity", Kyoto Society of Anthropology, Kyoto University, 2 February, 2002. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2000c. "A Comment on Mr. Yasushi Kakihara'spresentation: 'Critical Engagement with Science and Technology, and New Form of Technocracy'", Monthly Meeting of CSF (Cultural Studies Forum) (Nov. 25, 2000), Hitotsubashi University,Tokyo. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2000b. "Malfunction of Democracy?: A Case Study on Democratization of Science and Technology in River Conservation Work", JointMeeting of 4S & EASST 2000, Worlds in Transition: Technoscience, Citizenship and Culture in the 21st Century, Vienna University, Austria, Sep. 30. (E)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 2000a. "A General Comment on the Presentations",the 2000 Spring Symposium of STS NETWORK JAPAN: " Thinking the Energy Policy of Japan from the standpoint of Risk Studies: Reconsideration of the JCO Criticality Accident and Assessment of people's 'anxiety'". Research Center for the Advanced Science and Technology, University ofTokyo. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 1999c. "A Failure of Co-Productionof Science, Policy, and Nature: A Case of Earthquake Prediction Research in Japan", 4S (Society for Social Study of Science) 1999 Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. USA. (E)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 1999b. "Is the Global Science Possible?: Politics of Knowledge in the Convention on Biodiversity", the 1999 Spring Symposium of STS NETWORK JAPAN: " Global Science/National Science/Local Science (part1), Tokyo Institute of Technology. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 1999a. "What is the Social Construction of Science: Beyond the dichotomy of Realism/Relativism",the Commemorative Symposium for the Publication of KAGAKU WO KANGAERU ("Thinking about Science"), Nagoya University.(J)
Kanamori, Osamu, Yuko Fujigaki & Hideyuki HIRAKAWA. 1998." For the Cooperation of Polical Science of Knowledge and Science & Technology Policy: Socialization of Epistemology and the Logic of Intervention to Science", the 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for Research, Devoelopment and Planning,Tokyo Institute of Technology. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 1998e. "Coping with the Uncertainty beyond Epistemic-Moral Inability: Rethinking Human Self-Understanding with Hannah Arendt's Reflections on Vita Activa", Philosophyof Technology Session, the 20th World Congress of Philosophy, Marriot Hotel, Boston, MA., USA. (E)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 1998d. "Social Epistemology in the Risk Society: Reconfiguration of Rhetoric of Technoscience Beyondthe Epistemic-Moral Inability", International Conferenceon STS: " Technological Turn: Science and Society", KeihannaPlaza, Kyoto, Japan. (E)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 1998c. "Epistemological and Social Problems in the Science and Technology Basic Law in Japan: Can Really Japan Contribute to the Sustainable Development of Society?", International Conference on STS: " Technological Turn: Scienceand Society", Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan. (E)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 1998b. "Scientometrics Engaging in Communication Networks: Its Possibility of Application to the Cultural Studies of Technoscience", International Conferenceon STS: " Technological Turn: Science and Society", MakuhariMesse, Chiba, Japan. (E)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 1998a. "The Possibility of Social Epistemology", the 103th Monthly Meeting of Japan Association for Science, Technology & Society (JASTS), the Institute for Social Sciences of University of Tokyo. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 1997b. "Social-Epistemological Approachto the Knowledge Generation of Science", Workshop: "Social Epistemology" at the 1997 Annual Meeting of the Philosophyof Science Society, Japan, Chiba University. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 1997a. "Cross Point of Science and Politics: Possibility of S. Fuller's Social Epistemology", STS NETWORK JAPAN the 6th AnnualMeeting, Tokyo Institute of Technology. (J)
HIRAKAWA, Hideyuki. 1996. "The Sciences of Complexity as Unified Science? -- On an Ideology of Post-Biological Naturalismin their Thought and Metaphor", Joint Meeting of EASST(European Association for the Study of Science and Technology)& 4S(Society for Social Study of Science), University of Bielefelt,Germany. (E)