Here are some major turning points in my academic life:  I received my B.S. and M.A. in mathematics from Indiana University, Bloomington. After teaching mathematics for several years, I completed my Ph.D. in the Conceptual Foundations of Science Program at the University of Chicago, under the surname Eden. After working three years as a fellow in the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin, I returned to Turkey in 1999. Since then I have been working in the Philosophy Department of Boğaziçi University.

These years, I try to contain my research interests within the following fields:  Ottoman science; philosophy of technology; history of philosophy of science, including Kant’s theoretical philosophy; and philosophy of probability and statistical reasoning, including critical thinking and theories of scientific evidence.

PUBLICATIONS

"John Venn's Evolutionary Logic of Chance". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 1999, vol. 30, no. 4: 559-585.

"Robert Leslie Ellis and John Stuart Mill on the One and the Many of Frequentism", British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2000, vol. 8, no. 2: 251-274.

"Probability". Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution, ed. by W. Applebaum. Garland Publishing, New York, 2000.

"The Reception of John Venn's Philosophy of Probability". In V.F. Hendricks et al., eds., Probability Theory--Philosophy, Recent History and Relations to Science. Synthese Library Series, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2001.

“Olasılık Felsefelerine bir Bakış”. Felsefe Tartışmaları, 2001, vol. 28: 61-76.

“Beyond Uncritical Significance Testing: Contrasts and Effect Sizes”, joint author with Peter Sedlmeier.  Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 2002, vol. 47: 430-432.

“Sayıların Yaratılması”. Aries, 2002, vol. 2: 46-52.

“Yirmisekiz Mehmed Çelebi’s Travelogue and the Wonders that Make a Scientific Centre”. In Ana Simões, ed., Travels of Learning: A Geography of Science in Europe. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2003.

“The Hazards of Underspecified Models”, joint author with Peter Sedlmeier. The Psychological Review, 2004, vol. 111, no. 3: 770-780.

“Ottoman Science Studies”, Turkish Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, ed. by G. Irzık and G. Güzeldere. Springer, Netherlands, 2005.

“History of Science as a Civilizational Project”, Neusis, 2005, 15: 40-49.

“Kant’s Notion of Objectivity”. Forthcoming in Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of Kant Society. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin.

“Aklın Cinsiyeti Var mı?”. Forthcoming in Cogito.

“Möglichkeit”, “Unmöglichkeit”, “Realität”, “Wirklichkeit”, “Das Reale”, “Tatsache”, “Negation”, “Limitation”. Forthcoming in Kant-Lexikon. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin.

Recent talks:

"Philosophy of Science in Two Moods: Bachelard and Fleck on Scientific Change".  HOPOS conference. Vienna, July 11, 2000.

“The Response of Ahmet Mithat to Draper’s History of the Conflict between Religion and Science”.  Workshop on the Idea of Nature in the Culture of the Tanzimat.  Doganbey, Soke, June 14, 2002.

“Philosophy from the Periphery to the Center”. Doing Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science at the periphery.  Athens, 12 April, 2003.

“What were Boole’s Laws of Thought?” 12th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Oviedo, Spain, August 11, 2003.

“History of Science in the Service of Civilizational Projects”.  STEP 2004, Traditions and Realities of National Historiographies of Science. University of Aarhus, Denmark, June 3, 2004.

“From the Wounds of Anatolia to the North Anatolian Fault:  The Upsurge of a Scientific Fact”. 4S & EASST Conference. Paris, August 26, 2004.

“Kant’s notion of Objective Probability”. Muğla Üniversitesi International Kant Symposium. Muğla, 6 October, 2004.

“Kant on Degrees of Possibility and Certainty”. Kant Symposium (Kant Study Group, 3^rd meeting). Boğaziçi University, December 11, 2004.

"Prediction Asymmetries of Generalizations and Instantiations". University of Konstanz, Philosophy, Probability and Modelling Research Group. Konstanz, May 27, 2005.

“Kant’s Notion of Objectivity”, 10. International Kant Congress, Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 9, 2005.

“The Authority of Science in an Authoritarian Society”.  STEP meeting on Popularisation of Science in the European Periphery.  Menorca, June 2, 2006.

“Kant on Degrees of Possibility and Probability”.  The Second Southeast European Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy.  Bilkent University, Ankara, August 23, 2006.