Email: berges@bilkent.edu.tr
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Dr. Berges is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy. Her interests lie in the following areas: ancient philosophy, virtue ethics, Nietzsche.

Recent Publications

• S. Berges, Mothers and Independent Citizens: Making sense of Wollstonecraft's supposed essentialism, Philosophical Papers (forthcoming)
• S. Berges, Rethinking Twelfth Century Ethics: The Contribution of Heloise, British Journal for the History of Philosophy (forthcoming)
• S. Berges, The Impossibility of Perfection. Aristotle, Feminism, and the Complexities of Ethics, by M. Slote, Philosophical Quarterly (forthcoming) [book review]
• S. Berges, Guidebook to Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Routledge (2013)
• S. Berges, Expertise and elitism: Plato on virtue and the law, in Amaya, A. and Lai, H., Virtues, Law, and Justice, Springer (2013) [invited]
• S. Berges, Moral development, in Vilhjalmur, A. and Chadwick, R., Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, Elsevier (2012) [online publication]
• S. Berges, Loneliness and belonging: is Stoic cosmopolitanism still defensible?, in Cosmopolitanism: Critical Concepts in Sociology, edited by G. Delanty and D. Inglis, Routledge (2012) [reprint of Berges (2005)]
• S. Berges, Ethics and the Quest for Wisdom, Philosophical Quarterly 62(246): 198-199 (2012) [book review]
• S. Berges, Why women hug their chains: Wollstonecraft and adaptive preferences, Utilitas 23(1): 72-87 (2011)
• S. Berges, Mirrors to One Another: Emotion and Value in Jane Austen and David Hume, Philosophical Quarterly 60(241): 864-865 (2010) [book review]
• S. Berges, Understanding the role of the laws in Plato's Statesman, Prolegomena 9(1): 5-23 (2010)
• S. Berges, Plato on Virtue and the Law, Continuum (2009)
• S. Berges, Why the capability approach is justified?, Journal of Applied Philosophy 24(1) (2007)
• S. Berges, Virtue ethics, politics and the function of laws: the parent analogy in Plato's Menexenus, Dialogue XLVI(2) (2007)
• S. Berges, The hardboiled detective as moralist: ethics and crime fiction, in Values and Virtues, T. Chappell, ed., Mind Series, Oxford University Press (2007)
• S. Berges, Morality for private eyes, in Dossiers IX of the Department for Women's Studies, Universitad de Castellon (2006) [in Spanish]
• S. Berges, Loneliness and belonging: is Stoic cosmopolitanism still defensible? Res Publica (2005)
• S. Berges, Virtue and the laws: the parent analogy in Plato's Crito, Yeditepe'de Felsefe (2004)
• S. Berges, Plato, Nietzsche and sublimation, Phronimon 3: 22-33 (2001)

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