Turkish Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science

G. Irzik, Güven Güzeldere

Springer Science & Business Media, Nov 10, 2005 - Science - 308 pages

As an academic discipline, the philosophy and history of science in Turkey was marked by two historical events: Hans Reichenbach's immigrating to Turkey and taking a post between 1933 and 1938 at Istanbul University prior to his tenure at UCLA, and Aydin Sayili's establishing a chair in the history of science in 1952 after having become the first student to receive a Ph.D. under George Sarton at Harvard University. Since then, both disciplines have flourished in Turkey.

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 The book also contains an unpublished interview with Maria Reichenbach, Hans Reichenbach's wife, which sheds new light on Reichenbach's academic and personal life in Istanbul and at UCLA.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 volume is 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 linguists interested in philosophical issues.

Contents

• Teo Grünberg Demarcation of the Logical Constants and Logical Truth: 26
• Hüseyin Yılmaz General Theory of Relativity and the 5th Test: 59
• EPISTEMOLOGICAL: 68
• Bootstrapping: 86
• Erdinç Sayan Idealizations and Approximations in Science and: 102
• A M Celal Şengör Repeated Independent Discovery and Objective: 113
• Samet Bağçe A Study on the Heuristic of Saccheris Euclides: 137
• Ilhan Inan Discovery and Inostensible De Re Knowledge 153: 152
• Karanfil Soyhun Implications of the Semantics and Pragmatics: 163
• Syntactic Theory: 177
• Arda Denkel Causation Parts and Properties 207: 206
• Sun Demirli Causal Relations in Hume: 217
• BeliefDesire Explanations: 231
• Berna Kılınç Ottoman Science StudiesA Review 251: 265
• Osman R Bahadır and H Günhan Danışman Late Ottoman: 284

Bibliographic information

• Title: Turkish Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science; Volume 244 of Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
• Editors: G. Irzik, Güven Güzeldere
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media, 2005
• ISBN: 1402033338, 9781402033339
• Length: 308 pages
• Subjects: Philosophy / Epistemology; Philosophy / General; Philosophy / Language; Philosophy / Mind & Body; Philosophy / Reference; Science / History; Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects