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“Predictivism and Model Selection”, Alireza Fathollahi

Title: Predictivism and Model Selection   By Alireza Fathollahi (Princeton, Philosophy)   Date: Tuesday March 29, 2022 Time: 1730-1900   Zoom: go to www.phil.bilkent.edu.tr   Abstract: There has been an intense debate in the philosophy of science over predictivism – that prediction has epistemic advantage over mere accommodation of data. Despite predictivism’s strong intuitive appeal, its opponents argue that whether the data […]

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“Kant on Mechanistic Explanation and the Metaphysics of Magnitude “, Aaron Wells

Title: Kant on Mechanistic Explanation and the Metaphysics of Magnitude   By Aaron Wells (Paderborn, Philosophy)   Date: Thursday March 31, 2022 Time:  1530-1700   Zoom: go to www.phil.bilkent.edu.tr   Abstract:  For Kant, the possibility of “proper cognition of nature” requires that we try as far as we can to explain all material things, including organisms, in a mechanistic way. […]

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Fatih Özgüven ile Yaratıcı Okurluk Seminerleri

Bilkent Üniversitesi, Türk Edebiyatı Bölümü ve Oğuz Tansel Türk Edebiyatı Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi Ortak Etkinliği Fatih Özgüven ile Yaratıcı Okurluk Seminerleri 1) 25 Mart 2022, Cuma, 14:30-16:20 2) 1 Nisan 2022, Cuma, 14:30-16:20 3) 8 Nisan 2022, Cuma, 14:30-16:20 Yer: İnsani Bilimler ve Edebiyat Fakültesi Binası, H-232 Okunacak metinler: 1) Sabahattin Ali, “Yeni Dünya” hikayesi 2) Ernest Hemingway, “Cat […]

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“Derek Jarman and Everything That is the Case”, Joshua Gang

Topic: ELIT TALK - Joshua Gang / Andrea Selleri (Host) Time: Apr 1, 2022 06:45 PM - 08:00 PM Zoom Meeting   Joshua Gang: "Derek Jarman and Everything That is the Case." Joshua Gang is an associate professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches courses in British and Irish literature, literature and philosophy, and critical […]

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“News from Somewhere: How Nineteenth-Century Writers Imagined Sustainability”, John Parham

Talk : John Parham, “News from Somewhere: How Nineteenth-Century Writers Imagined Sustainability" "SUSTAINABILITY LECTURE BY ELIT/AMER" Dear students and colleagues, As part of Bilkent’s ongoing “Year of Sustainability,” the Department of American Culture and Literature and the Department of English Language and Literature are hosting a talk  series, “Literature and Sustainability.”  The talks are open to the public. The first […]

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“Belief about Myself”, Stephen Voss

Title: Belief about Myself By Stephen Voss (Bogaziçi, Philosophy) Date: Thursday, April 7 Time: 15.30-17.00 This is an online event. All are welcome. If you would like to listen to the talk please click on the following link when the event is due to begin. Zoom: go to www.phil.bilkent.edu.tr Abstract: My question is this. What is it to have a […]

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Fatih Özgüven ile Yaratıcı Okurluk Seminerleri

Bilkent Üniversitesi, Türk Edebiyatı Bölümü ve Oğuz Tansel Türk Edebiyatı Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi Ortak Etkinliği Fatih Özgüven ile Yaratıcı Okurluk Seminerleri 1) 25 Mart 2022, Cuma, 14:30-16:20 2) 1 Nisan 2022, Cuma, 14:30-16:20 3) 8 Nisan 2022, Cuma, 14:30-16:20 Yer: İnsani Bilimler ve Edebiyat Fakültesi Binası, H-232 Okunacak metinler: 1) Sabahattin Ali, “Yeni Dünya” hikayesi 2) Ernest Hemingway, “Cat […]

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“Corporate Ignorance”, Anne Schwenkenbecher

Title: Corporate Ignorance By Anne Schwenkenbecher (Murdoch, Philosophy) Date: Thursday April 14, 2022 Time: 15.30-17.00 (GMT+3) This is an online event. All are welcome. Zoom: go to www.phil.bilkent.edu.tr   Abstract:  The greater an organisation’s (or corporate agent’s) complexity, the greater is the potential for internal doxastic inconsistency. And there is a special corporate type of doxastic inconsistency that can only occur […]

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Translation & Media: Çeviri ve Basın

Title : Zoom Talk: Translation & Media: Çeviri ve Basın   Dear Students,   You are kindly invited to our talk on media and translation to explore the role of translators and translation in media. Our esteemed speakers will give us information about the importance of translators in communication through media while shedding light upon relevant workflows, terminology, language and […]

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“Can’t Kant Count: Innumerate Views and Saving the Many”, Sergio Tenenbaum

Title: Can’t Kant Count: Innumerate Views and Saving the Many By Sergio Tenenbaum (Toronto, Philosophy) Date: Thursday April 21, 2022 This is an online event. All are welcome. Zoom: go to www.phil.bilkent.edu.tr Abstract: here are many views that reject the idea of aggregating the value of persons’ lives (or well- being) when determining our duties to aid. The grounds can […]

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“Life on the Rocks: Celia Thaxter on Ecological Memory”, Vesna Kuiken

Talk: Vesna Kuiken, “Life on the Rocks: Celia Thaxter on Ecological Memory”   * SUSTAINABILITY LECTURE BY ELIT/AMER *   Dear students and colleagues,   As part of Bilkent’s ongoing “Year of Sustainability,” the Department of American Culture and Literature and the Department of English Language and Literature are hosting a lecture series on “Literature and Sustainability.” The talks are […]

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