By Adam Lovett (NYU, Philosophy) Date: Tuesday March 2, 2021 Time: 1730-1900 Title: The Loving State Speaker: Adam Lovett (NYU, Philosophy) Abstract: I explore the idea that the state should love its citizens. It should not be indifferent towards them. Nor should it merely respect them. It should love them. We begin by looking at the bases of this idea. […]

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Title:  Newton and Descartes on True Motion   By Monica Solomon (Stanford, Philosophy)   Date: Thursday March 4, 2021 Time: 1900-2030   Zoom:  https://zoom.us/j/91213034711?pwd=dEFPeTRQK0xsYTJiUnMvdzZwaUp4Zz09 Meeting ID: 912 1303 4711 Passcode: 856917   Abstract:  Isaac Newton’s scholium to the definitions in the Principia (1687/1713/1726) articulates clearly distinctions pertaining to the concepts of time, space, place, and motion. A well-known example therein describes the motion of the water within […]

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Department of Archaeology   Sunday Evening Lecture: Norman Yoffee, University of Michigan (emeritus)  : “The Evolution of Fragility”—in Mesopotamia and beyond   Time: Sunday, March 7, 2021 at 18:00 PM (UTC+3)   Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/93100958586?pwd=d3duYVZSTDV2dHdmQWV4U2R3RXFSUT09 Meeting ID: 931 0095 8586 Passcode: 856917   Abstract   Explanations for the collapse of early states and (and complex societies) often assume that […]

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Title: Aristotle’s sentimentalist ethical virtue   By Gösta Grönroos (Stockholm, Philosophy)   Date: Thursday March 18, 2021   Time: 1600-1730 (GMT+3)   Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/91957321114?pwd=N3hVSVlsY1I0eGZVWkRMUjlSR2FpUT09 Meeting   ID: 919 5732 1114 Passcode: 856917   Abstract: In this lecture, I will argue that Aristotle’s ethical virtue (ἀρετὴ ἠθική) is an exclusively emotional disposition constitutive of practical wisdom, and that ethical virtue should be […]

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Department of Turkish Literature Seminar:   "Mobility, Space, and Travel: Rethinking World Literature Through Ahmet Midhat"   by Dr. Beyza Lorenz   Thursday, March 25 2021, 4 pm       Zoom Meeting Info:   https://zoom.us/j/93444826438?pwd=NTR3T0VGOGduQS92WVozZUo4WVlZUT09   Meeting ID : : 934 4482 6438 Passcode       : 856917       Abstract:   World literature theories have focused on the dissemination […]

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Department of Turkish Literature Seminar:   "The Poetics of Space and Memory in Sâmiha  Ayverdi’s  İbrahim Efendi Konağı"   by Dr. Esra Almas   Tuesday, March 30 2021, 5 pm       Zoom Meeting Info:   https://zoom.us/j/97097061840?pwd=VnovRzF1ZnZBQXlFN1R3OEFMYWJkdz09   Meeting ID : 970 9706 1840 Passcode     : 856917       Abstract:   A prominent and prolific writer, an influential […]

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Title: Metaphysical Indeterminacy in the Multiverse   By Jessica Wilson (University of Toronto, Philosophy)   Date: Thursday April 1, 2021 Time: 1530-1700 (GMT+3)   Abstract: Everettian quantum mechanics (EQM) might appear to be inhospitable to metaphysical indeterminacy (MI), given that, as Alastair Wilson (2020) puts it, “the central idea of EQM is to replace indeterminacy with multiplicity” (77). But as Wilson […]

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