Date:  Friday 2nd February, 2018 Time: 1100-1230 Place: H-232 Abstract: This talk addresses the question: how does memory help us learn? I start by re-thinking the epistemic problem that memory systems solve in light of memory successes and failures in humans, rodents, and artificial systems. Rather than merely functioning to store information or to preserve justification, I argue that the core function of any memory system […]

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Samantha Sommers, affiliated with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies of the University of Pennsylvania, will be giving a talk entitled "Revelations of Reading in Wieland; or, the Transformation" on Monday, February 12th, 16.40-18.00, in room G-160. The talk is sponsored by the Department of American Culture and Literature. All members of the Bilkent community are invited to attend. […]

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Bilkent University’s Program in Cultures, Civilizations & Ideas presents a talk by: Professor Andrew George Professor of Babylonian, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, School of History, Religions & Philosophies The Epic of Gilgamesh is a 4,000-year-old Mesopotamian poem about a hero who embarks on an arduous quest to find the secret of immortality. Preserved on clay […]

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Wednesday, February 14th, 17:45 Bilkent University, Library Art Gallery Bilkent University’s Program in Cultures, Civilizations & Ideas presents a talk by: Professor Andrew George Professor of Babylonian, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, School of History, Religions & Philosophies THE ASCENT OF ENKIDU: A NEW FRAGMENT OF OLD BABYLONIAN GILGAMESH The story of the wild man Enkidu […]

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Message content (below): “Probabilistic Proof of an External World” By Nicholas Di Bella (Stanford, Philosophy) Date:  Thursday 15th February, 2018 Time: 1540-1715 Place: H-232 Abstract:I provide a novel internal critique of skepticism about the external world. Appealing to premises that an external-world skeptic could accept, I argue that the skeptic should (by her own lights) be extraordinarily confident that an external world exists. These premises include commitments to various forms of a priori reasoning–including commitments to classical logic, […]

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  TALK /DEPARTMENT OF AMERICAN CULTURE AND LITERATURE   Dr. Kara McCormack, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, will be giving a talk entitled "Imagining Tombstone: Hollywood, Historicity, and the Construction of a Usable Past" on Monday, February 19th, from 16.40 to 18.00 in room G-160.   The talk is sponsored by the Department of American Culture and Literature.   All members of the […]

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The Department of Archaeology is pleased to announce the first evening lecture of the Spring Semester by Derek Welsby, Ph.D., FSA, "The Pyramids of Kush (Sudan)", on Tuesday 20th February at 17:40 PM (Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities and Letters, Room H-132). Dr. Welsby is Assistant Curator in the British Museum Department of Ancient Egypt and the Sudan. http://www.sudarchrs.org.uk/

"Mini-Workshop on Consciousness and First Person Access" Date: Friday 23rd February, 2018 Time: 1030-1230 & 1430-1715 Place: Bilkent University, Main Campus, Room: H-232 Organized by the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Group at Bilkent University Everyone is warmly invited to attend Program and abstracts at www.phil.bilkent.edu.tr PROGRAM Morning session:- 1030-1040 Welcome 1040-1130: Key note – Murat Aydede (University of British Columbia, Philosophy) “Is the Pain Experience Transparent? Introspecting Phenomenal Qualities” 1140-1155: Respondent – Istvan Aranyosi (Bilkent, Philosophy) 1155-1210: Respondent – Tufan Kıymaz (Bilkent, Philosophy) 1210-1245: Discussion Afternoon session:- 1440-1525: Mina Elhamiasl (Bilkent, Neuroscience/ UMRAM) “Health Anxiety: Where Interpretation Bias and Sensitivity to Bodily Sensations […]

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On Wednesday, February 28th, Associate Professor Charles D. Sabatos from Yeditepe University will give the following talk, as part of the Center for Turkish Literature Speaker Series. "The Ottoman Captivity Narrative in Central European Literature" Charles Sabatos is an Associate Professor in Comparative Literature at Yeditepe University in Istanbul. His primary research interests are in transnational contexts of Central and […]

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