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Philosophy Colloquium, Tufan Kıymaz
“The Fine-Tuning Argument: For God or Against Physics?” By Tufan Kıymaz (Bilkent, Philosophy) Date: Thursday 9th November, 2017 Time: 1540-1715 Place: H-232 Abstract: The physical constants and laws of nature in our […]
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Philosophy Colloquium, Kai Hauser
Kai Hauser (TU Berlin) “What Computers Cannot Do – A Philosophical Approach” Date: Tuesday 31st October, 2017 Time: 1640-1800 Place: A-130 Abstract: Recent developments in computer programming, information technology, […]
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Philosophy Colloquium, Kai Hauser
Kai Hauser (TU Berlin) “Intuition and Mathematical Objects” Date: Thursday, 26 October, 2017 Time: 1540-1730 Place: A-130 Abstract: The view that mathematics deals with ideal objects to which we have epistemic […]
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Philosophy Colloquium, Gürol Irzık
Gürol Irzık (Sabancı) “Epistemic Public Trust in Science” Date: Thursday, 23 November, 2017 Time: 1540-1715 Place: H-232 Abstract: In this presentation I provide an analysis of public’s having warranted epistemic trust […]
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Philosophy Colloquium, Erdinç Sayan
Erdinç Sayan (METU) “Contra Cantor: How to Count the “Uncountably Infinite” Date: Friday, 12 May, 2017 Time: 1100-1230 Place: G-160 Abstract: Georg Cantor’s celebrated diagonalization argument is supposed to demonstrate that […]
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Philosophy Colloquium, Mehmet Elgin
“Falsifiability, Semantic View of Theories and Population Genetics” BİLKENT UNIVERSITY PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT, Ankara, Turkey May 11 2011.
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Philosophy Colloquium, Marco Fenici
Marco Fenici (University of Florence) “The modularity of mindreading: philosophical and empirical concerns” Date: Wednesday 26 April, 2017 Time: 1100-1230 Place: A-130 According to a widely shared view among philosophers […]
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Philosophy Colloquium, Jan Kandiyali
Jan Kandayali (İTÜ) “Marx on Meaningful Work” Date: Friday 7 April, 2017 Time: 1100-1230 Place: G-160 Abstract: While the idea of meaningful work is historically associated with Karl Marx, recent defences […]
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Philosophy Colloquium, Örsan Öymen
Örsan Öymen (Işık University) “Hume and Causality” Date: Friday 21 April, 2017 Time: 1440-1630 Place: G160 Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to explicate David Hume’s analysis of causality in the […]
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Philosophy Colloquium, Samet Bağçe
Samet Bağçe (METU) “The Two Problems of Construction in Geometry in the Meno” Date: Friday 24 March, 2017 Time: 1100-1230 Place: G-160 Abstract: My aim in this talk is two-fold: firstly, […]
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