Teru Miyake

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Teru Miyake

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Teru

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Miyake

Years Affiliated

2024

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Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore

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Japan

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Associate Professor of Philosophy, NTU

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Teru Miyake is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Programme at NTU’s School of Humanities. His research focuses on trying to understand the growth of scientific knowledge in the wake of criticisms raised against traditional notions of scientific progress by such philosophers as Thomas Kuhn, mainly through studying the history of sciences such as seismology, celestial mechanics, and physics. Miyake has a BS in applied physics from the California Institute of Technology, an MA in Philosophy from Tufts University, and a PhD in Philosophy from Stanford University. He was a Predoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. He has received one MOE Tier 1 grant for a project on the history of seismology, and another for a project on the history of measurement of the fundamental constants of physics. He is associate editor for the journal HOPOS, and is on the editorial boards of the journals Philosophy of Science and Studies in History and Philosophy of Science

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“Teru Miyake,” NTU CCA Singapore Digital Archive, accessed February 14, 2025, https://ntuccasingapore.omeka.net/items/show/4641.