Author: Simon Wigley
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James Kinkaid receives young scholar award
James Kinkaid has been awarded the Science Academy’s Young Scientist Award (BAGEP) for 2025. The aim of the award is to reward the best young academics and to support them […]
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Fotoğrafın Arkasındaki Hikaye: Phineas Gage
Phineas Gage’in (1823-1860) vakası tıp tarihinde en erken kayda geçmiş ciddi beyin hasarı vakalarındandır. Gage’in vakasını ilginç kılan şey sadece beyin travması yaşadıktan sonra hayatta kalmış olması değil, aynı zamanda […]
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Story Behind the Picture: Phineas Gage
Phineas Gage (1823-1860) is one of the earliest recorded cases of severe brain injury in medical history. What makes Gage’s case especially interesting isn’t just his survival after the brain […]
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Story Behind the Picture: Lictors Bringing to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons
In his painting Lictors Bringing to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons (1789), Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) portrays a moment from Roman history that had never been illustrated before. Even though […]
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First Princeton–Bilkent Workshop held
The inaugural History and Philosophy of Science Workshop, bringing together faculty and graduate students from the Philosophy departments of Princeton University and Bilkent University, was held from October 13-15. The […]
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Princeton-Bilkent Workshop on the History and Philosophy of Science
Princeton – Bilkent Workshop on ‘Method’ Dates: October 13-15, 2024 Participants: Faculty and graduate students from the philosophy departments of Princeton and Bilkent. Tarek Dika (University of Toronto) and David Miller (Auburn […]
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New Appointment
We are very happy to announce the appointment of Hezki Symonds. Hezki received his received his PhD in philosophy from Australian National University. He works mainly on metaphysics, especially on […]
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Faculty member wins young scientist award
Jonathan Payton has been awarded the Science Academy’s Young Scientist Award (BAGEP) for 2024. The aim of the award is to reward the best young academics and to support them […]
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Faculty member awarded British Academy Global Professorship
Sandrine Bergès has been awarded a prestigious British Academy Global Professorship to carry out research in the Department of Philosophy at the University of York (UK). During her research leave […]
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PhilFest short film competition
The PhilFest team are organizing a short film competition with the theme of “Hope” as part of our annual Bilkent Philosophy Festival, which will be held on Saturday, September 28, […]
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