Bilkent Archaeology Day 2021
Bilkent Archaeology Day 2021 Last spring, the annual Bilkent Archaeology Day was cancelled, an early casualty of the pandemic. This year we shall resume our tradition on Sunday, April 11, on Zoom, and we shall make it colourful by speaking about polychromy in ancient art. The theme will be What a Colourful World: Some Pigments and Colours in Antiquity. […]
“Maps, Predication, and Alien Structure”, Matti Eklund (Uppsala, Philosophy)
Title: Maps, Predication, and Alien Structure By Matti Eklund (Uppsala, Philosophy) Date: Thursday April 15, 2021 Time: 1430-1630 (GMT+3) Abstract: In the talk, I will do two things. First, I will introduce the general questions I am trying to address at the moment. Can there be languages structurally different from familiar ones – alien languages? Might the metaphysical structure […]
Doing Things Together: Knowledge, Lies and Responsibility,Online Conference on Social Ontology
Doing Things Together: Knowledge, Lies and Responsibility Online Conference on Social Ontology April 17-18, 2021 Registration is not required. All are welcome to attend. Zoom link: (please nothe that there are seperate Zoom links for Saturday and Sunday) Time: Saturday, Apr 17, 2021 Time: Sunday, Apr 18, 2021 Conference Program: (Istanbul time, GMT+3) Saturday, April 17, 2021 14:00 – 15:15 […]
“Artifacts and the Limits of Human Creative Intentions”,Kathrin Koslicki (Neuchâtel, Philosophy)
Title: Artifacts and the Limits of Human Creative Intentions By Kathrin Koslicki (Neuchâtel, Philosophy) Date: Thursday April 29, 2021 Time: 1530-1645 (GMT+3) Abstract: According to Amie Thomasson’s author-intention-based account of artifacts, an artifact of kind K is essentially a product of a largely successful intention to create something of kind K (see, e.g., Thomasson (2003), “Realism and Human Kinds”, Philosophy […]
Live Q&A Session with Peter Singer on Bilkent Philosophy Youtube Channel
Live Q&A Session with Peter Singer on Bilkent Philosophy Youtube Channel Wednesday May 5, 2021 12:30–13:30 (GMT+3) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzij4ZE6X-bu1d9t6DJhlLA The Turkish translation of Peter Singer's influential book "The Life You Can Save" (10th Year Edition, 2019) will be out in May 2021. The translation is edited by Tufan Kıymaz (Bilkent University, Department of Philosophy) and the translation committee includes Bilkent University […]
“Laws Loosened: How to make Way for Freedom in a Law-Governed World”,Helen Steward (Leeds, Philosophy)
Title: Laws Loosened: How to make Way for Freedom in a Law-Governed World By Helen Steward (Leeds, Philosophy) Date: Thursday May 6, 2021 Time: 1530-1650 (GMT+3) Abstract: In this paper, I shall consider a number of different ways in which philosophers in recent years have attempted to offer conceptions of natural law which in various respects suggest that the grip […]
“Macedonian painting and the transformation of familiar images in a funerary context”, Professor Olga Palagia
Department of Archaeology Sunday Evening Lecture: Professor Olga Palagia (Emerita, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), “Macedonian painting and the transformation of familiar images in a funerary context » Time: Sunday 9 May at 17:00 Abstract The wall-paintings of underground tombs in Macedonia, dating from the fourth to the mid-second centuries B.C., have preserved an extraordinary repertoire […]
“Aesthetic and/as/against Philosophical Attunement: A Case Study of Literary-Philosophical Entanglements”,Birgit Breidenbach-“Poetry, Ethics, and Life with Others”,Magdalena Ostas
COLLOQUIUM: DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Birgit Breidenbach (University of East Anglia): Aesthetic and/as/against Philosophical Attunement: A Case Study of Literary-Philosophical Entanglements Magdalena Ostas (University of California, Berkeley): Poetry, Ethics, and Life with Others Date: Tuesday May 11, 2021 Time: 18:30-20:30 (GMT+3) Zoom: LINK Meeting ID: 99420308387 Passcode: 856917 Aesthetic and/as/against Philosophical Attunement: A Case […]
“What is our concept of impostor syndrome, and what do, and should, we want it to be?”, Leonie Smith(Manchester, Philosophy)
Title: “What is our concept of impostor syndrome, and what do, and should, we want it to be?” By Leonie Smith (Manchester, Philosophy) Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2021 Time: 1400-1500 (GMT+3) Abstract: What is impostor syndrome? On Katherine Hawley’s account it involves a person holding negative mistaken beliefs or attitudes relating to her own competence and success in an area […]
The Round Table PATABS IV (Production and Trade of Transport Amphorae in the Black Sea)
The Round Table PATABS IV (Production and Trade of Transport Amphorae in the Black Sea) on the 13, 14 and 15 June 2021 from 10:00 to 18:00 on Zoom The Round Table PATABS I (Production and Trade of Transport Amphorae in the Black Sea) was initiated in 2006 with the first meeting in both Georgia (Batumi) and Turkey (Trabzon). Two […]
Live Interview with Amy Kind on Bilkent Philosophy YouTube Channel
Live Interview with Amy Kind on Bilkent Philosophy YouTube Channel. Saturday, June 26, 2021 20:00-21:00 (GMT+3) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzij4ZE6X-bu1d9t6DJhlLA Tufan Kıymaz will be conducting an interview with Amy Kind on the philosophy of imagination. We are collecting questions for this event. If you have any questions for Amy Kind, you can let us know via tufan.kiymaz@bilkent.edu.tr. We will choose some of them for […]
Live Interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson on Science and Philosophy
Live Interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson on Science and Philosophy Wednesday, August 25, 2021 18:00-19:00 (GMT+3) Bilkent Philosophy YouTube channel Tyson is a well-known and influential science communicator and educator; and many philosophers find his dismissive remarks about philosophy (and those of other influential scientists and science popularizers like Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss and Bill Nye) worrisome. […]