Author: Simon Wigley
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Zeynep Çelik receives BSA New Horizons Award
We are delighted to announce that our PhD student, Zeynep Çelik, has been awarded the British Society of Aesthetics (BSA) New Horizons Award for 2025, and will be presenting her […]
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Workshop on the History of Modal Metaphysics
Dates: April 29 – May 2, 2025 Location: Bilkent University About: The first session of the workshop was devoted to Aristotle’s so-called statistical theory of modality. We then turned to […]
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Jonathan Payton publishes “From singular to plural. . . and beyond?”
Director of Graduate Studies Jonathan Payton has published a new article in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. The paper, “From singular to plural. . . and beyond?,” develops a ‘one-level’ plural language which has all […]
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Four new appointments
Arash Abazari Daniel Ferguson Alex Moran Jack Woods We are very happy to announce that Arash Abazari, Daniel Ferguson, Alex Moran and Jack Woods will be joining the department in September […]
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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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