Article ID: CBB943785008

Logical empiricism in Turkish exile: Hans Reichenbach’s research and teaching activities at Istanbul University (1933–1938) (2022)

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In this article, I seek to shed new light on a lesser-known stage of the development of Hans Reichenbach’s thought, namely his research, output and teaching activities at Istanbul University (1933–1938). I argue that the experience of Turkish exile was decisive in the elaboration of Reichenbach’s probability theory of meaning and knowledge. His work Experience and Prediction, produced while in Istanbul, should therefore be put in its Turkish context of elaboration and reception. To this end, I will take into consideration not only Reichenbach’s efforts to popularize and extend the Berlin Group’s program of scientific philosophy in Turkey and throughout Europe in the 1930s, but also the forgotten work of Reichenbach’s students—most of them women—at Istanbul University.

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Authors & Contributors
Dewulf, Fons
D’Oro, Giuseppina
Adrien Vila Valls
Simons, Massimiliano
Rana, Adele La
Walz, Anke
Concepts
Philosophy of science
Positivism
Philosophy
Philosophy of science, as a discipline
Universities and colleges
Science education and teaching
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
Places
Turkey
Germany
Berlin (Germany)
Ottoman Empire
Prague (Czechia)
Japan
Institutions
Berlin Group (Philosophy)
Vienna Circle
Istanbul Darülfünunu
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