Talk: Lost in Imagination – Reality Principle and World Literature
Talk: Lost in Imagination - Reality Principle and World Literature By Mehmet Yıldız (Harvard, Comparative Literature) Date: Monday, April 14, 2025 Time: 1730-1900 Room: H232 Abstract: A fundamental question within the debate surrounding the contemporary notion of world literature concerns the possible misappropriation of texts in foreign contexts. In this talk, I trace such a concern to a commitment towards the […]
Talk: What Is a Free Will? Reflections on Suárez
Title: What Is a Free Will? Reflections on Suárez By Dominik Perler (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophy) Date: Thursday, April 17, 2025 Time: 1530-1700 Room: H232 Abstract: Why are we free in our actions? Suárez, an influential late scholastic author, gives a clear answer: we are free because we have a free will. The will is never determined to accept the action-guiding judgment […]
Workshop on the History of Modal Metaphysics
Workshop on the History of Modal Metaphysics Dates: April 29 - May 2, 2025 Location: Bilkent University About: We will spend a day on ancient theories of modality (especially Aristotle’s), a day on the medieval and Islamic philosophers, and a day on early moderns with a focus on Leibniz. Participants: Faculty and graduate students from Princeton, Bilkent, and beyond. The […]
Talk: How (not) to argue against meritocracy
Title: How (not) to argue against meritocracy By Lars Vinx (Cambridge University, Law) Date: Thursday, May 22, 2025 Time: 1530-1700 Room: H232 Abstract: The ideal of meritocracy has recently come under considerable pressure in political theory. Critics of meritocracy like Michael Sandel and Daniel Markovits argue not merely that existing societies fail to live up to meritocratic standards. Like the sociologist Michael Young, […]