Conference: A Philosopher of Science in Istanbul: Hans Reichenbach

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”