NOE Keiichi is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Tohoku University and currently Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Ritsumeikan University. He specializes in philosophy of science. His publications include Philosophy of Betweenness, Philosophizing History, Invitation to Philosophy of Science, Hermeneutics of Science, What is Paradigm? The Scientific Revolution of T.S. Kuhn, Philosophy of Naratology (all in Japanese). Kido Atsushi is Professor at Department of Philosophy, Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University, Japan. Lam Wing Keung is Professor at the Faculty of International Liberal Arts, Dokkyo University, Japan.