"2nd Bilkent Undergraduate Students Philosophy Conference" Hosted by the Department of Philosophy DATE: Saturday, April 14, 2018 PLACE: Bilkent University, Main Campus, Room: H-232 WEB: phil.bilkent.edu.tr All welcome! PROGRAM: 9:55-10:00: Opening Address by Simon Wigley (Bilkent, Philosophy) 10:00-10:45: “What does natural selection select?”, Taylan Nogay (Ege, Philosophy) Commentator: Gizem Özen (METU, Cognitive Science) 10:55-11:40: “Can inequality of resources be justified?” […]

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“Aphantasia and the Philosophy of a Blind Mind” By Tufan Kıymaz (Bilkent, Philosophy) Date: Friday, 20th April, 2018 Time: 1240 – 1330 Place: A-130 Organized by the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Group at Bilkent University. Abstract: Aphantasia is the inability to form mental images; it is the lack of a mind’s eye, so to speak. Even though fist reported by Francis Galton in the late 19th century, scientific studies specifically focused on aphantasia are published mostly, almost exclusively, […]

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Wollstonecraft and Gouges on the Women’s Revolution” By Alan Coffee (Kings' College London, Philosophy) & Sandrine Berges (Bilkent, Philosophy) Date: Thursday 26 April, 2018 Time: 1540-1715 Place: H-232 Abstract: In her Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution,Wollstonecraft presents a view of the course of the events that lead to the Terror as the inevitable outcome of first inequality and then the oppression and prejudice that invariably followed. While she regards […]

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Dear Colleagues and Students, On Thursday, May 3rd, Asssistant Professor Kristin Dickinson from the University of Michigan will give the following talk, as part of the Center for Turkish Literature Speaker Series. "Translating Turanism: German-Turkish Cultural Relations of the Early 20th Century" The talk will be in English and take place in A-130 at 17:40. Refreshments will be available. Abstract: […]

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