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UNESCO World
Philosophy Day
Time & Place: Thu 20 Nov
2008 between 9:40 - 17:30 in G160
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the PHIL DAY program.
Kant in Ankara: Metaphysics & Morals
Time & Place: 24 - 27 June 2008 in G160
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the symposium poster. (It includes the symposium program.)
Knowledge, Mind and Mathematics (with Keith Lehrer and Oswaldo
Chateaubriand)
Time & Place: Mon 2 June 2008 between 10:00 - 15:15 in G160
This is a one-day seminar with keynote presentations by Professors
Keith Lehrer and
Oswaldo Chateaubriand. Click here for the program.
Clashes Between Civilizations
(The 11th workshop of the research project on
"Rationality in Local and Global Contexts", funded by the Nordic Academy for
Advanced Studies. Organized with the support of the Department of Philosophy,
Bilkent University.)
Time &
Place: 28 - 29
Mar 2008 in
G160
According to Samuel Huntington, inter-civilizational conflicts are an
unavoidable result of the essential differences in values and interests among
contemporary civilizations. This workshop will try to raise a number of
questions about this claim. What is a clash of civilizations? Are such clashes
necessary? Can current conflicts be explained as results of a clash of
civilizations? What norms should govern inter-civilizational conflict? What
are the prospects of mutual understanding?
PROGRAM
- Friday, March 28
- 9:10 Metin Heper (Dean, FEASS, Bilkent): Introduction
- 9:30 Lars Vinx (PHIL): How to Justify the Equality of
Combatants and the Autonomy of the Jus in Bello
- 10:15 William Wringe
(PHIL): Global Obligations, (Armed) Humanitarian Intervention, and Liberal
Imperialism
- 11:00 Olli Koistinen (University of Turku): On the Universality of
Understanding in Kant
- 13:30
Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson (University of Oslo): Reason and Will in
Antiquity
- 14:15
Elisa Aaltola (Manchester Metropolitan University) and Juha Räikkä (University
of Turku): Collective
Self-Deception and Public Images of Animal Suffering
- 15:30
Jón Ólafsson (Bifrost University): Values or Vocabularies:
The Problem with Tolerance
- 16:15 Lucas Thorpe (PHIL): Bin Laden and Socrates:
Liberal Faith and Philosophy of Jihad
- Saturday, March 29
- 9:30 Lars Binderup (University of Southern Denmark): Clashes between
Civilizations and Cultural Relativism
- 10:15 Ulrich Steinvorth (PHIL): Clashes of What? What
is the Reference to Civilizations Good for?
Two Mini Symposia on the Works of Prof. Thomas Pogge
Time &
Place: Sat 1
Mar 2008
between 11:00 - 17:30 in A130
PROGRAM
A Day of Philosophy with Bilkent Faculty on the Occasion of
UNESCO'S WORLD PHILOSOPHY DAY
Time & Place: Fri 16 Nov
2007 between 9:00 - 17:10 in G160
Click here for the
PHIL DAY program. Click
here
for some pictures.
Things & Thoughts: A 1-Day Workshop on
Analytic Philosophy
Time & Place: Sat 12 May 2007 between 12:00 - 18:15 in G160
Click here for the workshop program.
Kant Mini-Symposium #6: Responses and Reactions to Kant
Time & Place: Sat 17 Mar 2007 between 12:00 - 19:00 in G160
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the symposium poster. (It includes the symposium program.)
A Day of Philosophy with Bilkent Faculty Marking
UNESCO'S WORLD PHILOSOPHY DAY
Dedicated to the memory of Bilkent faculty Faruk Selçuk (ECON), Thomas Winter (AMER), and
İrem Balkır (AMER)
Time & Place: Fri 17 Nov
2006 in FB309
PROGRAM
- 9:40 Mark Steen (PHIL): Sherlock Holmes, Mickey Mouse, and Slithy
Toves: Problems of Truth in Fiction
- 10:20 Sandrine Berges (PHIL): Morality for Private Eyes
- 11:00 Emre Özgen (PSYCH): Cognitive Penetrability
of Vision: a Question of Mind and Body?
- 11:40 Sandy Berkovski (PHIL): Some Remarks on Historical Contingency
- 13:40 Mustafa Nakeeb (CCI/PHIL): What is
Remembered in the Meno: Pythagoras, Recollection, and Plato's Theory of
Knowledge
- 14:20 David Thornton (HIST): Clio and the Philosophers: A Personal
Perspective on History and Philosophy
- 15:00 Lucas Thorpe (PHIL): What's the Point of the History of
Philosophy? Some Personal Reflections by a Philosophical Tour Guide
- 15:40 Ömer Faruk Gençkaya (POLS): Politics and Philosophy in Turkey
The Second Southeast European Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy: Kant and Leibniz
Time & Place: 22 - 25 Aug 2006 in SBZ14
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for a poster. (It includes the seminar program.)
Photos from this event can be found at
http://leibnizkantankara.blogspot.com
PHIL Day - A Day of Philosophy with Bilkent Faculty
Time & Place: Thu 1 Dec 2005 between 09:00 - 17:00 in A130
PROGRAM
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9:00 - 9:40 Bill Wringe (PHIL): (What) Can Philosophy Tell Us About the
Mind?
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9:40 - 10:20 Simon Wigley (PHIL): What's So Special About the Rule of
Law?
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10:40 - 11:20 Uygar Tazebay (MBG): How Many Copies are You? Technical and
Medical Aspects of Human Cloning
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11:20 - 12:00 Cemal Yalabık (PHYS): Locality and Modern Physics
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13:00 - 13:40 Sinan Sertöz
(MATH): Proof by Intimidation!
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13:40 - 14:20 Mahmut Mutman (COMD): Deconstruction: What is It for?
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14:40 - 15:20 Josh Cowley (PHIL): Science, not Science Fiction, as an
Approach to Skepticism
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15:20 - 16:00 Geoff Bowe (PHIL): Ancient Philosophy -- Philosophy as
Unified Discipline
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16:20 - 17:00 Semih Koray (ECON): Whose Fault is the Neoclassical
Paradigm?
Kant Mini-Symposium #4
Time & Place: Sat 2 Apr 2005 between 12:30 - 19:00 in A130
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for the symposium poster. (It includes the symposium program.)
Kant
Mini-Symposium #1
Time & Place: Sat 3 Apr 2004 between 14:00 -
17:40 in A130
- Session I – Kant's Aesthetics
(14:00 - 15:40)
- Andrea Rehberg
(Bilkent): Aesthetic Judgement and Life
- Barry Stocker
(Yeditepe University): Reflection, Judgement and Subjectivity: Problems in
Kant's Aesthetics
- Moderator: Geoff Bowe
(Bilkent)
- Session II – Kantian Ethics
(16:00 - 17:40)
- Lucas Thorpe
(Bilkent): Kant's Ethics of Interaction: On the Metaphysical Roots of Kant's
Mature Ethics
- Thomas Besch
(Bilkent): On Constructing Practical Reason
- Moderator: William Wringe (Bilkent)
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