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Conference: A Philosopher of Science in Istanbul: Hans Reichenbach




A
PHILOSOPHER of SCIENCE in ISTANBUL:


HANS
REICHENBACH



Bogaziçi
University

Albert
Long Hall (Saatli Bina)

May
8-9, 2008




PROGRAM


Thursday,
May 8

10:00
Opening

10:30-12:30
Reichenbach’s Realism

Elliot
Sober, “The Birds Outside – Reichenbach’s Cubical Universe
and the Problem of the External World”

Stathis
Psillos, “On Reichenbach’s Argument for Scientific Realism”




12:30-14:00
Lunch Break

14:00-16:00
The Relativized
A
Priori
and Related
Matters

Flavia
Padovani, “Relativizing the Relativized A
Priori
: On the Development
of Reichenbach’s Axioms of Coordination / Axioms of Connection
Distinction”

Sandy
Berkovski, “Reichenbach and Weyl on A
Priority
and Mathematical
Applicability”




16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-17:30 The Relativized A
Priori
and Related
Matters

Samet
Bağçe, “Reichenbach on the Relative A
Priori
and the Context of
Discovery / Justification Distinction”

Friday,
May 9




10:00-12:00
Inference in Science and Mathematics

Maria
Carla Galavotti, “On Reichenbach’s Inductivism”

Jeanne
Peijnenburg, “Reichenbach versus Epistemic Foundationalism: An
Analysis of the Lewis-Reichenbach Debate”




12:00-14:00
Lunch Break

14:00-16:00
Reichenbach’s Philosophy in Historical Context

Alan
Richardson, “Hans Reichenbach’s Philosophical Modernism”

Friedrich
Stadler, “The Road to Experience
and Prediction
from
within: Hans Reichenbach’s Scientific Correspondence from Berlin
to Istanbul”




16:00-16:30
Coffee Break

16:30-17:30 Istanbul Years

Gürol
Irzık, “Hans Reichenbach in Istanbul”






 

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