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339On the possibility, necessity, and practicability of Leopold's land ethicDissertation, Middle East Technical University. 2012.In this work, I scrutinize Leopold’s land ethic and Callicott’s interpretation of it both from normative and meta-ethical perspectives by making textual and conceptual analyses. Leopold suggests that an ethic which makes us responsible for the protection of whole nature is evolutionarily possible and ecologically necessary. Callicott tried to buttress Leopold’s land ethic by developing a nonanthropocentric axiology and some meta-principles. Moreover, in his view, Leopold’s views are not only com…Read more
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83Quine, Laudan ve Doğallaştırılmış Epistemolojinin Normatifliği Sorunu (Quine, Laudan, and the Normativity Problem of Naturalized Epistemology)Beytulhikme An International Journal of Philosophy 12 (12:4): 913-937. 2022.Quine’s “Epistemology Naturalized” is the locus classicus of naturalism in epistemology. Many traditional epistemologists criticized the naturalization of epistemology specifically targeting this article. The critics argue that Quine abolishes the normativity of epistemology. For he proposes epistemology as a chapter of psychology. Laudan, like Quine, believes that epistemology should be naturalized. However, he criticizes Quine’s project of naturalization for similar reasons as Quine’s critics.…Read more
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67İhtiyatlı (Değer Yüklü) Bilim: Gerçek Bilim veya Bilim Dışı (Precautionary (Value-Laden) Science: True (Genuine) Science or Anti-Science)Felsefi Düsün (17): 193-214. 2021.Science is, if not the most, at least one of the most important human activities which has an undeniable impact on our lives. However, it is a matter of debate that science and its various applications have many negative effects besides their numerous positive contributions. As the negative effects of the science and its applications have become more visible, the science-value relation has regained popularity in the philosophy of science. Precautionary principle is one of the central concepts of…Read more
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61Quine'ın Doğallaştırılmış Epistemolojisinin Normatifliği Üzerine (On the Normativity of Quine's Naturalized Epistemology)FLSF (Felsefe Ve Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi) 2015 (20): 17-38. 2015.Normativity of naturalized epistemology is one of the most extensively and hotly debated topics in contemporary epistemology. In order to reveal the relationship between normativity and naturalized epistemology, we firstly conduct an analysis of “Epistemology Naturalized,” the article on which the naturalized epistemology was founded. Then we compare the views which argue that normativity goes by the board with those which defend that normativity is conserved if epistemology is naturalized. Fina…Read more
Mahmut Özer
Aksaray University
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Aksaray UniversityAssistant Professor
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Value Theory |
Science, Logic, and Mathematics |