Week |
Subject |
Related Preparation |
1) |
What is science? What is philosophy of sciences and what is the philosophy of science? What is the problem of scientificity? The Problem of scientificity as a problem of knowledge. / Positivism in the 19th century. Techniques, theories and methodology of science. |
Alex Rosenberg, Bilim Felsefesi Çağdaş Bir Giriş, Çev: İbrahim Yıldız,
Dipnot Yayınları, Ankara, 2015 |
2) |
Bacon and Novum Organum. Do Aristoteles' and Bacon's epagoge mean the same?/Hume and the problem of epagoge/The logic behind using epagoge in science. |
Alex Rosenberg, Bilim Felsefesi Çağdaş Bir Giriş, Çev: İbrahim Yıldız,
Dipnot Yayınları, Ankara, 2015 |
3) |
The usage of model in scientific explanation. The mutual way in the philosophy of Logical Positivism: Deductive-nomological model (T-Y in Turkish abbreviation) or suitable law model. Hempel's model in scientific explanation. Popper-Hempel model of explanation. What is an explanative natural law? What is the use of an explanative law in the history and historical sciences? |
Alex Rosenberg, Bilim Felsefesi Çağdaş Bir Giriş, Çev: İbrahim Yıldız,
Dipnot Yayınları, Ankara, 2015 |
4) |
Neo-positivism and its scientific aproach to philosophy. Rudolf Carnap and his “Elimination of Metaphysics through logical analysis of language”. The ideal of the Vienna Circle: unified science and progress in sciences. Theory-testing through probabilistic verification. |
Alex Rosenberg, Bilim Felsefesi Çağdaş Bir Giriş, Çev: İbrahim Yıldız,
Dipnot Yayınları, Ankara, 2015 |
5) |
Theories of probability, various perspectives on probability, probability in science-scientific research |
Alex Rosenberg, Bilim Felsefesi Çağdaş Bir Giriş, Çev: İbrahim Yıldız,
Dipnot Yayınları, Ankara, 2015 |
6) |
Epistemological holism and Quine-Duhem thesis: “Two Dogmas of Empiricism”. Duhem’s criticism. Is it possible to confirm a scientific proposition as isolated from other theories related with itself? Can a single scientific theory be tested in isolation, or does a test of one theory always depend on other theories and hypotheses? |
Alex Rosenberg, Bilim Felsefesi Çağdaş Bir Giriş, Çev: İbrahim Yıldız,
Dipnot Yayınları, Ankara, 2015 |
7) |
Karl R. Popper and his criterion: Theory-testing through falsification. The Logic of Scientific Discovery. Popper’s solution for the problem of induction. |
Alex Rosenberg, Bilim Felsefesi Çağdaş Bir Giriş, Çev: İbrahim Yıldız,
Dipnot Yayınları, Ankara, 2015 |
8) |
A new approach for the History of Science: Alexandre Koyré and his studies on the history of science. Reading some of Alexandre Koyré’s articles |
Alex Rosenberg, Bilim Felsefesi Çağdaş Bir Giriş, Çev: İbrahim Yıldız,
Dipnot Yayınları, Ankara, 2015 |
9) |
Thomas Kuhn and his The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Normal science and its solving puzzle. Reading some divisions of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. |
Alex Rosenberg, Bilim Felsefesi Çağdaş Bir Giriş, Çev: İbrahim Yıldız,
Dipnot Yayınları, Ankara, 2015 |
10) |
Revolutionary science. Crisis and the necessity of scientific revolutions. Progress through revolutions in the sciences. Reading some divisions of The Structure of Scientific Revolution. Some criticisms to Kuhn’s view and his reply. |
Alex Rosenberg, Bilim Felsefesi Çağdaş Bir Giriş, Çev: İbrahim Yıldız,
Dipnot Yayınları, Ankara, 2015 |
11) |
Paul K. Feyerabend and his anarchist theory of science. The principle “Anything goes”. Reading some divisions of Farewell to Reason, Three Dialogs on Knowledge, and Against Method |
Alex Rosenberg, Bilim Felsefesi Çağdaş Bir Giriş, Çev: İbrahim Yıldız,
Dipnot Yayınları, Ankara, 2015 |
12) |
Midterm Exam |
Alex Rosenberg, Bilim Felsefesi Çağdaş Bir Giriş, Çev: İbrahim Yıldız,
Dipnot Yayınları, Ankara, 2015 |
13) |
“How to be a good empiricist?”. Feyerabend’s criticism on two conditions of contemporary empricism |
Alex Rosenberg, Bilim Felsefesi Çağdaş Bir Giriş, Çev: İbrahim Yıldız,
Dipnot Yayınları, Ankara, 2015 |
14) |
Presentation |
Alex Rosenberg, Bilim Felsefesi Çağdaş Bir Giriş, Çev: İbrahim Yıldız,
Dipnot Yayınları, Ankara, 2015 |
15) |
Imre Lakatos and his criticism of Feyerabend. |
Alex Rosenberg, Bilim Felsefesi Çağdaş Bir Giriş, Çev: İbrahim Yıldız,
Dipnot Yayınları, Ankara, 2015 |
16) |
Evaluation |
Alex Rosenberg, Bilim Felsefesi Çağdaş Bir Giriş, Çev: İbrahim Yıldız,
Dipnot Yayınları, Ankara, 2015 |
Course Notes / Textbooks: |
• Yıldırım, C. (2008). Bilimsel Düşünme Yöntemi. İstanbul : İmge Kitabevi.
• Yıldırım, C. (1996). Bilim Felsefesi. İstanbul : Remzi Kitabevi, 1996.
• Kuhn, T. (1996). Bilimsel Devrimlerin Yapısı. İstanbul : Kırmızı Yayınları.
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References: |
E. B. Bolles (Yay.), Galileo’nun Buyruğu, trans.Nermin Arık, Ankara: TÜBİTAK Yayınları, 2000.Rudolf Carnap,“The Elimination of Metaphysics Through Logical Analysis of Language”, Logical Positivism, Yay. Alfred J. Ayer, New York: Free Press, 2002.Robin G. Collingwood, Doğa Tasarımı, çev. Kurtuluş Dinçer, Ankara: İmge Kitabevi Yayınları, 1999.Nicolaus Copernicus, Gökcisimlerinin Devinimleri Üzerine, çev. Saffet Babür, İstanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 2002.Kurtuluş Dinçer, Bilimsel Açıklamada Hempel Modeli, Ankara: TFK Yayınları, 1993.Pierre Duhem, Medieval Cosmology: Theories of Infinity, Place, Time, Void, and The Plurality of Worlds, çev. ve haz. Roger Ariew, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.Pierre Duhem, Roger Ariew, Essays in History and Philosophy of Science, çev. Peter Barker, London: Hackett Pub. Co, 1996.Pierre Duhem, Jules Vuillemin, The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory, çev.Philip Wiener, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1991.Galileo Galilei, Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences, çev. Henry Crew ve Alfonso de Salvio, New York: Prometheus Books, 1991.Edward Grant, Ortaçağda Fizik Bilimleri, çev. Aykut Göker, Verso Yayınları, Ankara, 1986.Alexandre Koyré, Kapalı Dünyadan Sonsuz Evrene, çev. Aziz Yardımlı, İstanbul: İdea Yayınları, 1998.Imre Lakatos ve Alan Musgrave (Yay.), Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970.Bryan Magee, Karl Popper’in Bilim Felsefesi ve Siyaset Kuramı, çev. Mete Tunçay, İstanbul: Remzi Kitabevi Yayınları, 1982.Gerard Radnitzky ve Gunnar Andersson (Yay.), The Structure and Development of Science, Boston: D. Reidel Pub. Co, 1979.Moritz Schlick, İlim ve Felsefe, çev. Hilmi Ziya Ülken, İstanbul: Vakit Yay., 1934.Richard Westfall, Modern Bilimin Oluşumu, çev. İsmail Hakkı Duru, Ankara: TÜBİTAK Yayınları, 1998.Peter Whitfield, Batı Biliminde Dönüm Noktaları, çev. Serdar Uslu, İstanbul: Küre Yayınları, 2008.John Worrall ve Elie Zahar (Yay.), Proofs and Refutations: The Logic Of Mathemetical Discovery, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. |