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Fleeing from the Nazi rise to power in 1933, Hans Reichenbach resigned his post at the University of Berlin and accepted a five-year position at the University of Istanbul. It was there that he wrote his first book in English, Experience and Prediction, which the University of Chicago Press published in 1938. Reichenbach left Istanbul in 1938 to take up a position at University of California, Los Angeles, where he taught until his death in 1953. The papers collected in this Synthese special issue are the result of a conference that one of us (ES) casually suggested and the other (GI) organized, which took place at Bogazici University in Istanbul, in May 2008, to commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the publication of Experience and Prediction. The lectures presented at that conference are all represented here, with the exception of Alan Richardson’s, and one of the paper included here, that of Frederick Eberhardt, was not presented at the conference. These papers are historical and philosophical in varying degrees. Some seek to situate Reichenbach in the political upheavals that drove him from Germany and the social transformations that led him to be welcomed to Turkey. Others connect Reichenbach’s work to the historical development of scientific philosophy, linking Reichenbach’s ideas to those of other scientists and philosophers who worked on induction, probability, and scientific realism. And still other essays are not historical in their fundamental orientation at all, in that they seek to draw from Reichenbach ideas that are of enduring importance in the attempt to solve philosophical problems in a scientific spirit.

Introduction to the Synthese special issue on Hans Reichenbach, Istanbul, and Experience and Prediction