Author: Simon Wigley
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New Appointment
We are very happy to announce the appointment of Alireza Fatollahi (starting Spring 2023). Alireza received his PhD in philosophy from Princeton University. He specializes in philosophy of science and […]
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Online Philosophy Dictionary Launched!
We are happy to launch the Bilkent Philosophy Dictionary at World Philosophy Day! Our faculty members and graduate students prepared English-to-Turkish translations of over 4000 philosophical terms to provide an […]
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Faculty member wins international award
Photographer: Klaus Ranger Sandrine Bergès has received an Emma Goldman Snowball award from the Flax Foundation. The award recognizes talented and innovative scholars working on feminist and inequality issues. Professor Bergès was nominated […]
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Faculty member publishes new book
Sandrine Bergès has published a new book with Cambridge University Press on the French philosopher, playwright and political writer Olympe de Gouges.
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Story Behind the Picture: The Three Urns or Olympe de Gouges’s Democratic Paradox
While the French revolution, and especially its Declaration of the Rights of Man, is often hailed as the birth of modern democracy, the actors of the revolution did not think […]
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Department ranked first in Turkey for research
According to a newly published report by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, Bilkent Philosophy ranks first in the country in terms of research volume and quality. Bölümlerin […]
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Sandrine Bergès writes on Wollstonecraft, d’Eon, and Gouges in the Times Literary Supplement.
Sandrine Bergès’s essay on Mary Wollstonecraft, Madame d’Eon, and Olympe de Gouges has just been published in the Times Literary Supplement.
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Faculty member publishes in The British Medical Journal
Simon Wigley has just published a study on democratic erosion and population health in The BMJ. The authors find that the deterioration of democratic institutions is associated with slowed progress […]
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Sandrine Bergès appointed to steering committee of ESAP
Our colleague Sandrine Berges has been appointed to the steering committee of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy. The new president of the society is Katalin Farkas from CEU Vienna. […]
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Story Behind the Picture: The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David’s The Death of Socrates belongs to a genre of paintings of the Greek philosophers that seek to represent not only the philosopher but also something about their […]
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