Épistémologie à la japonaise: Kanamori Osamu and the History and Philosophy of Science in Japan Author Note School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University. I would like to thank colleagues at the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, who served as my interlocutors during the writing of this piece; Okazawa Yasuhiro of Kyoto University for numerous discussions on New Academism in Japan, and Isaac Gagné for his eternal patience in shepherding this work toward its extremely tardy completion.