BERNA (EDEN) KILINÇ

Boğaziçi Üniversitesi
Felsefe Bölümü
34342 Bebek
İstanbul
edenber@boun.edu.tr
bernakilinc@gmail.com

EDUCATION

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Chicago, Illinois

The Conceptual Foundations of Science
1997, Ph.D.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY Bloomington, Indiana

1985, B.S. in Mathematics
1988, M.A. in Mathematics
1988, A.B.D. in Mathematics

FELLOWSHIPS AND POSTS

MAX-PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR Berlin, Germany

WISSENSCHAFTSGESCHICHTE
1995-1996, Doctoral Fellowship
1997-1998, Postdoc Fellowship

KONSTANZ UNIVERSITY Konstanz, Germany

Spring 2005, Visiting fellow at the
Philosophy, Probability and Modeling research group

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS London, UK

Fall 2006-Spring 2007, Visiting fellow at the
Center for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences

LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS University Munich, Germany

Spring 2015, Fellow atMunich Center
For Mathematical Philosophy

BOĞAZIÇI ÜNIVERSITESI Istanbul, Turkey

Philosophy Department
1998- present

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

History and Philosophy of Probability Theory

Kant’s Theoretical Philosophy
Statistical Reasoning
 Informal Logic

AREAS OF COMPETENCE

History and Philosophy of Science

Logic
Ottoman Science
PUBLICATION

"John Venn's Evolutionary Logic of Chance", Studies in History and Philosophy of

Science, 1999. Vol.30, No.4: 559-585. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0039-
3681(99)00026-6

"Probability" in Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution, ed. by W. Applebaum.

Garland Publishing, New York, 2000. ISBN 9780415988469

"Robert Leslie Ellis and John Stuart Mill on the One and the Many of Frequentism"
British Journal for the History of Philosophy 8(2) 2000: 251-274.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09608780050043217

"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, 2001.

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

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

“Beyond Uncritical Significance Testing: Contrasts and Effect Sizes”, joint author
with P. Sedlmeier. Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 47, 430-2,
2002.

"Yirmisekiz Mehmed Çelebi’s Travelogue and the Wonders that Make a Scientific
Centre." Travels of Learning. Springer, Dordrecht, 2003. 77-100.

“The Hazards of Underspecified Models”, co-authored with Peter Sedlmeier, The

Psychological Review, 2004, Vol. 111, no. 3: 770-780. doi: 10.1037/0033-
295X.111.3.770.

“Bachelard, Gaston” Felsefe Ansiklopedisi, Cilt 2, Ahmet Cevizci (hzr), Etik

Yayınları, İstanbul, 2004.
“Bilimsel Devrim” Felsefe Ansiklopedisi, Cilt 2, Ahmet Cevizci (hzr), Etik Yayınları,
İstanbul, 2004.

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

“History of Science as a Civilization Project”, Neusis - the Greek Journal for the
History and Philosophy of Science and Technology 15, 2006: 40-49.

“Aklın Cinsiyeti Var mı?” Zeynep Direk (hzr) Cinsiyetli Olmak. YKY, Cogito 156,
2007.
“Ahmed Midhat and Adnan Adivar on history of science and civilizations” Nuncius
23, 2008, no.2: 291-308. doi.org/10.1163/182539108X00599

“Concepts of Objectivity in Kant”, Recht und Frieden in der Philosophie Kants, Band
2, hazırlayanlar Valerio Rohden, R. R. Terra, G.A. de Almeida ve M. Ruffing. Walter
de Gruyter, Berlin, 2008.

“Paul” in S. Azzouni et al ed. Eine Naturgeschichte für das 21. Jahrhundert :

hommage à, zu Ehren von, in honor of Hans-Jörg Rheinberger. Max-Planck-Institut
für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, 2011.

“Kant on Chance and Explanation” in Dennis Dieks et al eds. Explanation,

Prediction, and Confirmation (The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective),
Springer, 2011.

“Meta-analysis as Judgment Aggregation” in EPSA09 Proceedings, 2010.

“Möglichkeit”, “Unmöglichkeit”, “Realität”, “Wirklichkeit”, “Das Reale”,

“Tatsache”, “Negation”, “Limitation” Kant-Lexikon. Verlag Walter de Gruyter,
Berlin, 2015.

“Blanqui’nin Ebedi Tekerrürü” Yıldızlardan Ebediyete, (T. Birkan hazırlayan), Metis

Yayınları, 2015.

“Bilim Felsefesinde Mantık” (yayınlanacak) Geçmişten Günümüze Bilim Felsefesi,

Pinhan Yayıncılık

EDITORIAL WORK

Logic and Philosophy of the Sciences (The Proceedings of the Twenty-first World
Congress of Philosophy, Vol. 5). Stephen Voss, Berna Kilinc and Gürol Irzık (eds).
Philosophical Society of Turkey, Ankara 2007.

Felsefe Tartışmaları 46 (2011), Nedim Nomer’le birlikte yayına hazırlayan.

Felsefe Tartışmaları 47 (2011), Nedim Nomer’le birlikte yayına hazırlayan.

Felsefe Tartışmaları 48 (2013), yayına hazırlayan.

Felsefe Tartışmaları 49 (2014), Nedim Nomer’le birlikte yayına hazırlayan.

TRANSLATION

(Uygar Polat’la birlikte) “Felsefe felsefesi nedir?” T. Williamson, Felsefe

Tartışmaları 46, 1-17 (2011).

(Uygar Polat’la birlikte) “Koncasından Koparılmış Akıl” S. Berges, Felsefe

Tartışmaları 46, 18-38 (2011).
 “Platon’un Parmenides’inde (127d-130a) Zeno’nun Benzerlik ve Farklılık
Paradoksları üzerine Ontolojik Notlar” C. Colvin, Felsefe Tartışmaları 47, 1-11
(2011).

(Uygar Polat’la birlikte) “Sokrates ve Yedi Bilge: Delfi Kahini, Protreptik ve Sokratik
Problem” G. Bowe, Felsefe Tartışmaları 47, 66-107 (2011).

CONFERENCES AND TALKS

-----"The Frequentist Criticism of Psychologism", History of Science Society

Annual Meeting. New Orleans, 1994.
-----"Laws of Large Numbers and the Frequency Theories of Probability",
CFS Workshop, The University of Chicago, Feb. 10, 1995.
-----"Average Minds and Average Worlds: The Polarization of the Concepts of
Probability", Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Abteilungskolloquium, Sept. 25, 1996.
-----"History of Probability and History of Logic: Laws of Thought, Natural
Theology, Mind and Brain for some Victorians". CFS Workshop, The
University of Chicago, March 14, 1997.
-----"John Venn's Evolutionary Logic of Chance". Institut für
Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Nov. 25,
1997.
-----"John Venn's Logic of Chance". In the conference, "Science: Its
Philosophy and its History", Athens, Greece. March 31, 1998.
-----"Why did Psychology and Anthropology become dangerous to Frege's
Logic?". Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Abteilungskolloquium. June 16, 1998.
-----"Why did Psychology and Anthropology become dangerous to Logic?".
DoctorandInnen-Kolloquium (organized by Prof. Dr. B. Wahrig-Schmidt and
Prof. Dr. H. Mehrtens) in the Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu
Braunschweig, Germany. June 16, 1998.
-----"Historical Epistemology and Ottoman Science Studies". Invited speaker
to the conference: Science in the European Periphery. From the
Enlightenment to the 20th Century. Barcelona, Spain. May 31, 1999.
-----"Why was Venn's theory of probability not acceptable to the twentieth
century?" Invited speaker to the conference: Probability Theory: Philosophy,
Recent History and Relations to Science, in the University of Roskilde,
Denmark. Sept. 16-18, 1999.
-----"Ottoman Science Studies". 100 Years of Philosophy (2nd Joint
Symposium of the Department of Philosophy of Bogazici University and of
The Department of History and Philosophy of Science of the University of
Athens). Istanbul, May 12, 2000.
-----"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 14th, 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. June 3,
Univ. Of Aarhus, Denmark.
----- “From the Wounds of Anatolia to the North Anatolian Fault: The
upsurge of a scientific fact” in 4S & EASST Conference, Paris, August 26th,
2004.
----- “Kant’s notion of objective probability”, Muğla Üniversitesi International
Kant Symposium, 6 October 2004, Muğla.
----- “Kant on degrees of possibility and certainty”, Bogazici University, Kant
Symposium (Kant Study Group-3rd Meeting), December 11, 2004.
----"Prediction asymmetries of generalizations and instantiations", University
of Konstanz, Philosophy, Probability and Modeling Research Group, 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 2nd,
2006.
----“Kant on Degrees of Possibility and Probability”. The Second Southeast
European Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy. Bilkent Univ. Ankara,
August 23, 2006.
----“An ontology for the frequency theories of probability” Metaphysics of
Science Conference, Nottingham, 14 Sept. 2009.
---- "Kant on scientific explanation" ESF meeting 18 Nov. 2009.
---- "Metaanalysis as judgment aggregation", EPSA 2009, 23 Nov. 2009.
---- “Kant’s Notion of Objective Probability” 8th INTERNATIONAL HOPOS
CONFERENCE, June 24-27, 2010 – Budapest, Hungary.
---- “A Generalization of the Condorcet Jury Theorem” 14. Congress of Logic,
Methodology and Philosophy of Science, 19-26 July 2011, Nancy, France.
---- “Bolzano and Cournot on chance”, The Philosophy of the Sciences That
Received Philosophy of Science Neglected: ESF workshop, Université Paul
Valéry-Montpellier III, France, 19 November 2011.
---- “The Subjectivity of Modals in Kant’s Theoretical Philosophy” KANT AND
MODALITY. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 5.–7. Juli 2012.
---- “Degrees of possibility”. 4th UNILOG, April 1, 2013, Rio de Jeneiro,
Brasil.
---- “Stability of belief in the long run”. CMPLMU 2014, Munich
---- “Third Philosophy”, POND Meeting, Jerusalem, Sept. 4th, 2016
----- “Spheres of objectivity”, Şehir Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü, April 28th,
2017
-----“Objectivity of meta-analytic methods”, POND, Athens, Sept 30th, 2017
-----“Entropy, Information, and Their Relations to Energy” with İlke Ercan,
POND, Lisbon, Sept. 22th, 2018.
-----“Deterministic and indeterministic situations”, CLMPST2019, August 8th,
Prague
-----“Durum semantiği”, Sept. 2nd, 2021, X. Mantik Calistayi, Nevsehir.
-----“A mereological account of determinism". April 27th, 2022. Research
Seminar in Decision and Action Theory, LMU.