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13The Internal-External Distinction Sheds Light on the History of the Twentieth-Century Philosophy of ScienceIn Ana Simões, Jürgen Renn & Theodore Arabatzis (eds.), Relocating the History of Science: Essays in Honor of Kostas Gavroglu, Springer Verlag. 2015.Drawing on the recent revisionary scholarship regarding logical positivism and its relation to the early post-positivism, I display and question the standard historical understanding of the analytical philosophy of science from the late 1920s to the mid-1970s. I then propose an alternative account based on the internal-external distinction. I conclude by showing some advantages of my alternative narrative that does more justice to the logical positivism than the standard understanding and sugges…Read more
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Changing Conceptions of RationalityIn Paolo Parrini, Merrilee H. Salmon & Wesley C. Salmon (eds.), Logical Empiricism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 325. 2003.
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138A Family Resemblance Approach to the Nature of Science for Science EducationScience & Education 20 (7-8): 591-607. 2011.Although there is universal consensus both in the science education literature and in the science standards documents to the effect that students should learn not only the content of science but also its nature, there is little agreement about what that nature is. This led many science educators to adopt what is sometimes called “the consensus view” about the nature of science (NOS), whose goal is to teach students only those characteristics of science on which there is wide consensus. This is a…Read more
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34Why Should Philosophers of Science Pay Attention to the Commercialization of Academic Science?In M. Rédei M. Dorato M. Suàrez (ed.), Epsa Epistemology and Methodology of Science, Springer. pp. 129--138. 2010.
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59Science and its DiscontentsThe Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 13 147-161. 2007.
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118Hans Reichenbach in IstanbulSynthese 181 (1). 2011.Fleeing from the Nazi regime, along with many German refugees, Hans Reichenbach came to teach at Istanbul University in 1933, accepting the invitation of the Turkish government and stayed in Istanbul until 1938. While much is known about his work and life in Istanbul, the existing literature relies mostly on his letters and works. In this article I try to shed more light on Reichenbach's scholarly activities and personal life by also taking into account the Turkish sources and the academic conte…Read more
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195Carnap and Kuhn: Arch enemies or close allies?British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 46 (3): 285-307. 1995.We compare Carnap's and Kuhn's views on science. Although there are important differences between them, the similarities are striking. The basis for the latter is a pragmatically oriented semantic conventionalist picture of science, which suggests that the view that post-positivist philosophy of science constitutes a radical revolution which has no interesting affinities with logical positivism must be seriously mistaken.
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20Discussione su "Dogma contro critica" di Thomas S. KuhnIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 13 (3): 625-648. 2000.
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42Book Review:The Road since Structure Thomas S. Kuhn, J. Conant, J. Haugeland (review)Philosophy of Science 68 (4): 573-. 2001.
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26Turkish Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science (edited book)Springer. 2005.The book also contains an unpublished interview with Maria Reichenbach, Hans Reichenbach's wife, which sheds new light on Reichenbach's academic and personal ...
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143New Directions for Nature of Science ResearchIn Michael R. Matthews (ed.), International Handbook of Research in History, Philosophy and Science Teaching, Springer. pp. 999-1021. 2014.The idea of family resemblance, when applied to science, can provide a powerful account of the nature of science (NOS). In this chapter we develop such an account by taking into consideration the consensus on NOS that emerged in the science education literature in the last decade or so. According to the family resemblance approach, the nature of science can be systematically and comprehensively characterised in terms of a number of science categories which exhibit strong similarities and overlap…Read more
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30Causal Modeling and the Statistical Analysis of CausationPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1986. 1986.Recent philosophical studies of probabilistic causation and statistical explanation have opened up the possibility of unifying philosophical approaches with causal modeling as practiced in the social and biological sciences. This unification rests upon the statistical tools employed, the principle of common cause, the irreducibility of causation to statistics, and the idea of causal process as a suitable framework for understanding causal relationships. These four areas of contact are discussed …Read more
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11Science and its DiscontentsThe Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 13 147-161. 2007.
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34Introduction: Commercialization of Academic Science and a New Agenda for Science EducationScience & Education 22 (10): 2375-2384. 2013.Certain segments of science are becoming increasingly commercialized. This article discusses the commercialization of academic science and its impact on various aspects of science. It also aims to provide an introduction to the articles in this special issue. I briefly describe the major factors that led to this phenomenon, situate it in the context of the changing social regime of science and give a thumbnail sketch of its costs and benefits. I close with a general discussion of how the topic o…Read more
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22Cartwright, Capacities, and ProbabilitiesPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1992. 1992.I argue that Nancy Cartwright's largely methodological arguments for capacities and against Hume's regularity account of causation are only partially successful. They are especially problematic in establishing the primacy of singular causation and the reality of mixed-dual capacities. Therefore, her arguments need to be supported by ontological ones, and I propose the propensity interpretation of causal probabilities as a natural way of doing this.
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