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“The Theory of Every Thing: Toward a Symmetry-Based Metaphysics of Matter”, David Schroeren
By David Schroeren (Princeton, Philosophy) Date: Tuesday 11th February, 2020 Time: 1640-1800 Place: H-232 Abstract: We are used to thinking that physics describes the world as fundamentally composed of matter: the fundamental building blocks of the world, like elementary particles or quantum fields. But when we look at modern physics and the pronouncements of its practitioners, we find forceful rejections of this familiar picture. […]
Contesting Disciplinary Boundaries in the Humanities and Beyond
Contesting Disciplinary Boundaries in the Humanities and Beyond PANEL DISCUSSION Etienne Charrière (EDEB) Alev Çinar (POLS) Patrick Fessenbecker (CCI) Mustafa Nakeeb (CCI & PHIL) Moderated by Colleen Kennedy-Karpat (COMD) Bilkent University Initiative for Interdisciplinary Humanities Date: February 10, 2020 (Monday) Time:12:40-13:30 Place:FFB-06
“Friendship as a Means to Freedom”, Allauren Forbes
Friendship as a Means to Freedom By Allauren Forbes (University of Pennsylvania, Philosophy) Date: Tuesday 4th February, 2020 Time: 1640-1800 Place: H-232 Abstract: Friendship has been a subject of interest to Western philosophy since at least Plato and Aristotle, and the women thinking and writing about friendship in the Early Modern period did so within a context indebted to these […]