Works
Works
[For full publication list, please see my CV]
Thesis
Yasuhiro Okazawa (2019) '“The Scientific Rationality of Early Statistics, 1833–1877” (PhD thesis, University of Cambridge) [University of Cambridge Repository]
Book Chapters
Yasuhiro Okazawa (2017) “Why Does Taste Matter to Sociology?” in Akihiro Kitada and Kaitai-Ken (eds.) Hobby, Taste, Everyday Life (Tokyo: Kawade Shobo Shinsha) [in Japanese]
Yasuhiro Okazawa and Yasuaki Dan (2017) “Who Cares What You Read? [book edition]” in Akihiro Kitada and Kaitai-Ken (eds.) Hobby, Taste, Everyday Life (Tokyo: Kawade Shobo Shinsha) [in Japanese]
Journal Articles
Yasuhiro Okazawa, 2025, "All the Sciences Under One Roof: Shimomura Toratarō and His Project of 'History Toward Science'" Historia Scientiarum 34(2) 257-287.
Hansun Hsiung and Yasuhiro Okazawa, 2025, "Introduction (Special Issue: Science Wars Before the "Science Wars"—East Asia as Method)" Historia Scientiarum 34(2) 143-167.
Yasuhiro Okazawa, 2023, "Paradigms and Two Philosophers: Toward an Ecological History of Reasoning Animals," Shisō (Special Issue: Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Revisited), 1194, 33–47. [in Japanese]
Yasuhiro Okazawa, 2023, "Materialism of the Inscription Technologies: For Bruno Latour's Media Theory," Gendai Shisō, 51(3), 264–274. [in Japanese]
Academic Translation [to Japanese]
Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison (2007) Objectivity (Zone Books) / Akihisa Setoguchi, Yasuhiro Okazawa, Kuni Sakamoto, Nobumichi Ariga trans. (2021) Kyakkansei (University of Nagoya Press).
Ian Hacking. (1982) “Biopower and the Avalanche of Printed Numbers,” Humanities in Society. Vol.5, pp 279-295 / Yasuhiro Okazawa. trans. (2012) 'Seikenryoku to Insatsusareta Suzi no Kozui' Shiso, 2012 May, pp. 76-101, Iwanami Shoten. [including 'Translator's note' in Japanese] [CiNii]
Presentation
Yasuhiro Okazawa, 2023, "Sciences of Distraction: Ergonomics Meets the Media Theory of the Shichōsha," Techniques of the Shichōsha: On the Technoscientific Formation of Cultural Subjects, Bilingual Workshop (Kyoto University) [in Japanese].
Yasuhiro Okazawa, 2019, "Colourless Writings of Statisticians and Their Distant Readers: The Creation of the Journal of the Statistical Society of London, 1838–1858," History of Science Society Annual Conference. (Utrecht University)
Yasuhiro Okazawa, 2019, "Statisticians of the World, Unite!: The Statistical Society of London and the Making of Social Statisticians, 1833–1877," Modern Social and Economic History & Policy Seminar (Cambridge University).
Last Update: 12 June 2025