Turkish Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-4020-3332-2
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, Band 244, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 169 mm x 248 mm, Gewicht: 1400 g

Reihe: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

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 The book also contains an unpublished interview with Maria Reichenbach, Hans Reichenbach's wife, which sheds new light on Reichenbach's academic and personal life in Istanbul and at UCLA.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Irzik, G.

Güzeldere, Güven

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Philosophy of Formal and Physical Sciences.- Demarcation of the Logical Constants and Logical Truth in Terms of Analyticity.- General Theory of Relativity and the 5th Test.- Implications of the Geometry of Quantum Mechanical Perfect Correlation Functions Concerning “Bell’s Theorem without Inequalities”.- Introductory Remarks.- Epistemological and Methodological Issues in Science.- Quine’s Robust Relativism.- Confirmation of Theoretical Hypotheses: Bootstrapping with a Bayesian Face.- Idealizations and Approximations in Science, and the Bayesian Theory of Confirmation.- Repeated Independent Discovery and ‘Objective Evidence’ in Science: An Example from Geology.- A Study on the Heuristic of Saccheri’s Euclides.- An Interview with Maria Reichenbach and David Kaplan.- Philosophy of Language and Mind.- Discovery and Inostensible De Re Knowledge.- Implications of the Distinction Between Semantics and Pragmatics for Philosophy of Science.- Computation and Functionalism: Syntactic Theory of Mind Revisited.- Causes and Action.- Causation, Parts and Properties.- Causal Relations in Hume.- How Causes Can Rationalize: Belief-Desire Explanations of Action.- Ottoman Science Studies.- Ottoman Science Studies-A Review.- Institutionalisation of Science in the Medreses of Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Turkey.- Late Ottoman and Early Republican Science Periodicals.