Gürol Irzik, Güven Güzeldere (auth.), Gürol Irzik, Güven Güzeldere (eds.)9781402033322, 1-4020-3332-X, 1402033338
The present book, which contains seventeen newly commissioned articles, aims to give a rich overview of the current state of research by Turkish philosophers and historians of science. Topics covered address issues in methodology, causation, and reduction, and include philosophy of logic and physics, philosophy of psychology and language, and Ottoman science studies. The book also contains un unpublished interview with Maria Reichenbach, Hans Reichenbach’s wife, which sheds new light on Reichenbach’s academic and personal life in Istanbul and at UCLA.
This volumeis primarily intended for researchers in the philosophy and history of science. However, it should also be valuable to other philosophers working in fields such as epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language, as well as to physicists, cognitive scientists and liguists interested in philosophical issues.
“Philosophy is alive and well in Turkey. This is a wonderful volume, chock-full of first-rate essay by Turkish philosophers and historians of science. Readers will also learn something about the early days of analytical philosophy in Turkey. The interview that Güven Güzeldere conducted with Maria Reichenbach and David Kaplan is a fascinating read. If, however, your department is fighting for more office space, keep the volume out of the hands of your university administrators. Maria Reichenbach reports: `Hans by the way shared an office with Bertrand Russell when he was at UCLA’.” Brian McLaughlin, Professor and Chair, Philosophy Department, Rutgers University
Table of contents :
Introductory Remarks….Pages 1-5
An Interview with Maria Reichenbach and David Kaplan….Pages 7-24
Demarcation of the Logical Constants and Logical Truth in Terms of Analyticity….Pages 27-38
General Theory of Relativity and the 5th Test….Pages 39-58
Implications of the Geometry of Quantum Mechanical Perfect Correlation Functions Concerning “Bell’s Theorem without Inequalities”….Pages 59-67
Quine’s Robust Relativism….Pages 71-85
Confirmation of Theoretical Hypotheses: Bootstrapping with a Bayesian Face….Pages 87-101
Idealizations and Approximations in Science, and the Bayesian Theory of Confirmation….Pages 103-112
Repeated Independent Discovery and ‘Objective Evidence’ in Science: An Example from Geology….Pages 113-135
A Study on the Heuristic of Saccheri’s Euclides ….Pages 137-150
Discovery and Inostensible De Re Knowledge….Pages 153-161
Implications of the Distinction Between Semantics and Pragmatics for Philosophy of Science….Pages 163-176
Computation and Functionalism: Syntactic Theory of Mind Revisited….Pages 177-204
Causation, Parts and Properties….Pages 207-216
Causal Relations in Hume….Pages 217-230
How Causes Can Rationalize: Belief-Desire Explanations of Action….Pages 231-247
Ottoman Science Studies-A Review….Pages 251-263
Institutionalisation of Science in the Medreses of Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Turkey….Pages 265-283
Late Ottoman and Early Republican Science Periodicals….Pages 285-308
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