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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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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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20Discussione su "Dogma contro critica" di Thomas S. KuhnIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 13 (3): 625-648. 2000.
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26Turkish Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science (edited book)Springer. 2005.The book also contains an unpublished interview with Maria Reichenbach, Hans Reichenbach's wife, which sheds new light on Reichenbach's academic and personal ...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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90Causal modeling: New directions for statistical explanationPhilosophy of Science 54 (4): 495-514. 1987.Causal modeling methods such as path analysis, used in the social and natural sciences, are also highly relevant to philosophical problems of probabilistic causation and statistical explanation. We show how these methods can be effectively used (1) to improve and extend Salmon's S-R basis for statistical explanation, and (2) to repair Cartwright's resolution of Simpson's paradox, clarifying the relationship between statistical and causal claims
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117Back to Basics: A Philosophical Critique of ConstructivismStudies in Philosophy and Education 20 (2): 157-175. 2001.
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149Singular Causation and LawPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990. 1990.Humean accounts of law are at the same time accounts of causation. Accordingly, since laws are nothing but contingent cosmic regularities, to be a cause is just to be an instance of such a law. Every particular cause-effect pair, according to these accounts, instantiates some law of nature. I argue that this claim is false. Singular causation without being governed by any law is logically and physically possible. Separating causes from laws enables us to see the distinct role each plays in scien…Read more
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242 Kuhn and Logical PositivismIn Vasō Kintē & Theodore Arabatzis (eds.), Kuhn's The structure of scientific revolutions revisited, Routledge. pp. 15. 2012.
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262Can causes be reduced to correlations?British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 47 (2): 249-270. 1996.This paper argues against Papineau's claim that causal relations can be reduced to correlations and defends Cartwright's thesis that they can be nevertheless boot-strapped from them, given sufficiently rich causal background knowledge.
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