Güzeldere, Güven / G. Irzik (Hrsg.). Turkish Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science. Springer Netherlands, 2010.
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Turkish Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science

  • Springer Netherlands
  • 2010
  • Taschenbuch
  • 328 Seiten
  • ISBN 9789048168361
Herausgeber: Güven Güzeldere / G. Irzik

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

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 The book also contains an unpublished interview with Maria Reichenbach, Hans Reichenbach's wife, which sheds new light on Reichenbach's academic and personal life in Istanbul and at UCLA.

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