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10Volume IntroductionThe Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 5 11-13. 2007.
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2Singular Causation and LawPSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990 (1): 537-543. 1990.Humean accounts of law are at the same time accounts of causation. Accordingly, since laws of nature are nothing but contingent cosmic regularities, to be a cause is just to be an instance of such a law. It follows from this view that it is logically impossible that there be causally related events which are not law-governed. Any particular cause-effect pair instantiates some law of nature, where the law is understood as a regularity. The regularity itself may be understood phenomenalistically, …Read more
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4Causal Modeling and the Statistical Analysis of CausationPSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1986 (1): 12-23. 1986.Recent studies on probabilistic causation and statistical explanation (Cartwright 1979; Salmon 1984), I believe, have opened up the possibility of a genuine unification between philosophical approaches and causal modeling (CM) in the social, behavioral and biological sciences (Wright 1934; Blalock 1964; Asher 1976). This unification rests on the statistical tools employed, the principle of common cause, the irreducibility of causation to probability or statistics, and the idea of causal process …Read more
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1716What Is Epistemic Public Trust in Science?British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 70 (4): 1145-1166. 2019.We provide an analysis of the public's having warranted epistemic trust in science, that is, the conditions under which the public may be said to have well-placed trust in the scientists as providers of information. We distinguish between basic and enhanced epistemic trust in science and provide necessary conditions for both. We then present the controversy regarding the connection between autism and measles–mumps–rubella vaccination as a case study to illustrate our analysis. The realization of…Read more
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1297Distributive Epistemic Justice in ScienceBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 2021.This article develops an account of distributive epistemic justice in the production of scientific knowledge. We identify four requirements: (a) science should produce the knowledge citizens need in order to reason about the common good, their individual good and pursuit thereof; (b) science should produce the knowledge those serving the public need to pursue justice effectively; (c) science should be organized in such a way that it does not aid the wilful manufacturing of ignorance; and (d) whe…Read more
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38Responsible research and innovation: coming to grips with an ambitious conceptSynthese 198 (Suppl 19): 4627-4633. 2019.This Introduction to the Special Issue on “Responsible Research and Innovation” outlines features of the philosophical debate about the concepts involved and summarizes the papers assembled in this issue. The topic of RRI is widely discussed in science studies and has made its way into science policy. This SI is intended to make the contributions of philosophers of science more visible. The philosophically relevant parts of the field concern, among others, the processes of public participation i…Read more
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13Introduction to the Synthese special issue on Hans Reichenbach, Istanbul, and Experience and PredictionSynthese 181 (1): 1-2. 2011.The papers collected in this Synthese special issue are the result of a conference that one of us (ES) casually suggested and the other (GI) organized, which took place at Bo˘gaziçi University in Istanbul, in May 2008, to commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the publication of Experience and Prediction. These papers are historical and philosophical in varying degrees. Reichenbach is now often lumped together with the logical positivists of the Vienna Circle, but his ideas, especially those …Read more
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657Well-ordered science and public trust in scienceSynthese 198 (Suppl 19): 4731-4748. 2021.Building, restoring and maintaining well-placed trust between scientists and the public is a difficult yet crucial social task requiring the successful cooperation of various social actors and institutions. Kitcher’s takes up this challenge in the context of liberal democratic societies by extending his ideal model of “well-ordered science” that he had originally formulated in his. However, Kitcher nowhere offers an explicit account of what it means for the public to invest epistemic trust in sc…Read more
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21History and Philosophy of Science-Based Approach to Science Teaching at its BestScience & Education 24 (7-8): 1001-1008. 2015.
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29Kuhn, Carnap, and logical empiricismIn Thomas Uebel (ed.), The Handbook of Logical Empiricism, Routledge. forthcoming.According to the conventional wisdom, Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions played a major role in the demise of logical empiricism by demolishing its key tenets and replacing them with an alternative picture of science that has virtually nothing in common with them. However, the relationship between Kuhn’s views and LE is not at all as straightforward as this claim suggests. While is undoubtedly correct, the revisionist historiography of LE in the last two-and-a-half decades documen…Read more
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1Changing Conceptions of Rationality from Logical Empiricism to PostpositivismIn Logical Empiricism, University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 325--348. 2003.
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77Incredulity towards Lyotard: a critique of a postmodernist account of science and knowledgStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 34 (2): 391-421. 2003.Philosophers of science have paid little attention, positive or negative, to Lyotard’s book The postmodern condition, even though it has been popular in other fields. We set out some of the reasons for this neglect. Lyotard thought that sciences could be justified by non-scientific narratives. We show why this is unacceptable, and why many of Lyotard’s characterisations of science are either implausible or are narrowly positivist. One of Lyotard’s themes is that the nature of knowledge has chang…Read more
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132Whorfian variations on Kantian themes: Kuhn's linguistic turnStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 29 (2): 207-221. 1998.Thomas Kuhn's post-1980 writings have increasingly emphasized the role played by language in the characterization of scientific revolutions and incommensurability. We argue that Kuhn's `linguistic turn' can be understood best against the background of a Whorfian conception of language and certain neo-Kantian themes. While this enables Kuhn to refine and unify his earlier views, it also creates some difficulties.
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18Volume IntroductionThe Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 5 11-13. 2007.
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6Why 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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8Science and its DiscontentsThe Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 13 147-161. 2007.
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13Hans 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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31Carnap 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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9Discussione su "Dogma contro critica" di Thomas S. KuhnIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 13 (3): 625-648. 2000.
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6Book Review:The Road since Structure Thomas S. Kuhn, J. Conant, J. Haugeland (review)Philosophy of Science 68 (4): 573-. 2001.
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3Turkish 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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6Causal 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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10Introduction: 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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