dr. K. Karaca (Koray)

Keywords: Philosophy of Science; Epistemology and Ethics of AI; Machine Learning;

Ph.D., History and Philosophy of Science (Philosophy of Science Track), with a Minor degree in Philosophy, 2004-2010 Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 
Dissertation Title: Historical and Conceptual Foundations of the Higher Dimensional Unification Program in Physics.

M.A., History and Philosophy of Science, 2008
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Ph.D., Theoretical Physics, 2000-2005
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
Dissertation Title: A Physical Model for Dimensional Reduction and Its Effects on the Observable Parameters of the Universe

M.S., Theoretical Physics, 1997-2000
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
Thesis Title: Singularity-Free Cosmological Models.

B.S., Physics, 1997
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

Minor Degree in Mathematics, 1997
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

Expertise

• Computer Science

  • Design
  • Large Hadron Collider
  • Unification
  • And-States
  • Architecture Framework
  • Procedures

• Arts and Humanities

  • Theory-ladenness
  • Data selection

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Current areas of research include:

• Philosophy of modeling, machine learning and simulation
• Philosophy of scientific experimentation
• Philosophy of physics

Peer-reviewed Publications:

Jansen, M. and Karaca, K. (2023): “Values, Inductive Risk and Epistemic-Ethical Coupledness in Machine Learning Models,” in Philosophy of Science for Machine Learning: Core Issues and New Perspectives, in Synthese Library (eds. Juan M. Durán and Giorgia Pozzi), Springer. 

Karaca, K. (2023). “A Network Account of Models in High Energy Physics Experiments.” Philosophy of Science https://doi.org/10.1017/psa.2023.73 

Karaca, K. (2023). “BonJour’s Internationalist Foundationalism and Epistemic Virtues” Filozofia 78(2): 77-85 https://doi.org/10.31577/filozofia.2023.78.2.1 

Piest, J.P.S., Masuda, Y., Nakamura, O., Karaca, K. (2023). “Human-Centered Design Thinking Using the Intelligence Amplification Design Canvas and the Adaptive Integrated Digital Architecture Framework,” in Smart Digital Futures, (eds. A. Zimmermann et al), pp. 1–11, 2023, Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3424-9_15 

Karaca, K.  (2022). “Two Senses of Experimental Robustness: Result Robustness and Procedure Robustness,” The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, March, 73:279-298.

Karaca, K. (2021). “Values and Inductive Risk in Machine Learning Modelling: The Case of Binary Classification Models,” European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 11:102           

Karaca, K. (2020). “What Data Get to Travel in High Energy Physics? The Construction of Data at the Large Hadron Collider,” in Data Journeys in the Sciences (eds. Sabina Leonelli and Niccolò Tempini), pp. pp 45–58, Springer.

Karaca, K. (2018). “Lessons from the Large Hadron Collider for Model-based Experimentation: The Concept of a Model of Data Acquisition and the Scope of the Hierarchy of Models,” Synthese, 195:5431–5452.

Karaca, K. (2017). “Representing Experimental Procedures through Diagrams at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider: The Communicatory Value of Diagrammatic Representations in Collaborative Research,” Perspectives on Science, 25:177-203.

Karaca, K. (2017). “A Case Study in Experimental Exploration: Exploratory Data Selection at the Large Hadron Collider,” Synthese, 194:333–354.

Karaca, K. (2014). “An Overview of the Epistemological Perspectives on the Electroweak Theory and the Higgs mechanism,” Guest Editor’s Introduction to the Special Issue on the Epistemology of the Physics of the Large Hadron Collider, Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 45:329–333.

Karaca, K., Friederich, S., Harlander, R., (2014). “Philosophical Perspectives on Ad Hoc Hypotheses and the Higgs Mechanism,” Synthese, 191:3897–3917.

Karaca, K. (2013). “Practical Unification of Solid-State and Particle Physics in the Construction of the Higgs Mechanism,” in Recent Progress in Philosophy of Science: Perspectives and Foundational Problems, eds., Dennis Dieks and Vassilios Karakostas (Springer), pp. 253-264.

Karaca, K. (2013). “The Construction of the Higgs Mechanism and the Emergence of the Electroweak Theory,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 44:1-16.

Karaca, K. (2013). “The Strong and Weak Senses of Theory-Ladenness of Experimentation: Theory-Driven versus Exploratory Experiments in the History of High-Energy Particle Physics,” Science in Context, 26(1):93–136.

Karaca, K. (2012). “Kitcher’s Explanatory Unification, Kaluza-Klein Theories, and the Normative Aspect of Higher Dimensional Unification in Physics,” The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 63:287-312.

Karaca, K. (2012). “Philosophical Reflections on Diagram Models and Diagrammatic Representations,” Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, in the Special Issue on “Epistemology of Modeling and Simulation,” 24: 365–384.

Papers in physics

Karaca, K. and Bayın, S. (2008). “A Physical Model for Dimensional Reduction and Its Effects on the Observable Parameters of the Universe,” (co-authored with: S.) General Relativity and Gravitation, 40: 799-831. 

Karaca, K. and Bayın, S. (2005). “An Open Inflationary Model for Dimensional Reduction and Its Effects on the Observable Parameters of the Universe,” International Journal of Modern Physics, A20: 2449-2453. 

Karaca, K. and Bayın, S. (2002). “An Open Singularity-Free Cosmological Model with Inflation,” International Journal of Modern Physics, A17: 4457-4462.

Links to the pdfs of papers are available at:

http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Koray_Karaca/contributions

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Courses academic year 2024/2025

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Courses academic year 2023/2024

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University of Twente

Ravelijn (building no. 10), room 4212
Hallenweg 17
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands

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