Reminder: Wollstonecraft at Bilkent 1-2 June

Dear all,

This is to remind you that our conference on Mary Wollstonecraft’s contribution to contemporary issues in philosophy is taking place next week in A130.

We start on Thursday 1 at 10am and Friday at 10:40.

Refreshments will be provided.

Hope to see many of you there!

See this page for program and abstracts.

Workshop on publishing in philosophy and political thought at Bilkent

Friday 2 June, 12:40-13:30, A130

Alan Coffee, King’s College London.

Informal workshop about publishing in political thought.

Dr Coffee will be available to talk with graduate students (and undergraduates who are applying to do graduate studies) about the skill set necessary for publishing in philosophy, selecting journals, drafting, getting feedback, collaborating, responding to reviewers’ reports.

Dr Coffee prepared a handout for the workshop and it is available here.

Please come with your questions to A130 on Friday 2 June, 12:40 till 13:30.

Note that this will take place in the lunch break for the conference on Wollstonecraft that Alan and I are organizing. Please join us at the conference as well!

Details of the conference here.

Philosophy Senior Thesis Defenses at Bilkent

Department of Philosophy Undergraduate Senior Thesis Defenses

Date: May 31, 2017 Time: 09:00-15:15 Place: H-235

All Welcome.

 

SCHEDULE

0900-0925: Reyyan Baş “A New Approach to Molyneux’s Problem”

0925-0950: Göksu Dayan “On Zombies”

0950-1015: Gülce Torun “Filling the Moral Gap between Rational and Emotional”

1015-1025: Break

1050-1115: Elif Erdoğan “Universality in Aesthetic Judgments”

1025-1050: Fatih Öztürk “Emotional Machines”

1115-1140: Eylül Yücel “Plato and Musonius Rufus on Gender Equality”

1140-1300: Lunch

1300-1325: Samet Sevindi “Is There a Duty to Obey the Law Beyond Political Obligation?”

1325-1350: Bilge Sever “Spinoza’s Understanding of Conatus and Evolutionary Ethics”

1350-1415: Emre Keser “Analytical Marxism: Marx, de non te fabula narratur!”

1415-1425: Break

1425-1450: Orhan Kavaş “Content Regulation and Photojournalism”

1450-1515: Deniz Koç “Lying: Should Politicians be Permitted to Lie?”

New Book on Diogenes of Oinoanda

Diogenes of Oinoanda: Epicureanism and Philosophical Debates, ed. Jürgen Hammerstaedt, Pierre-Marie Morel and Refik Güremen, Leuven University Press, 2017.

First collection of essays entirely devoted to the inscription of Diogenes of Oinoanda

“This is a very strong cast of contributors and the cumulative effect of the contributions is an important step forward in thinking about Diogenes of Oinoanda.” – Dr James Warren, University of Cambridge

Contents:

 

List of Illustrations

Martin Ferguson Smith
Foreword. The Importance of Diogenes of Oinoanda

Pierre-Marie Morel and Jürgen Hammerstaedt
Preface

Martin Bachmann
Oinoanda. Research in the City of Diogenes

Jürgen Hammerstaedt
The Philosophical Inscription of Diogenes in the Epigraphic Context of Oinoanda. New Finds, New Research, and New Challenges

Michael Erler
Diogenes against Plato. Diogenes’ Critique and the Tradition of Epicurean Antiplatonism

Francesco Verde
Plato’s Demiurge (NF 155 = YF 200) and Aristotle’s Flux (fr. 5 Smith). Diogenes of Oinoanda on the History of Philosophy

Giuliana Leone
Diogène d’Œnoanda et la polémique sur les meteora

Francesca Masi
Virtue, Pleasure, and Cause. A case of multi-target polemic? Diogenes of Oenoanda, fr. 32-33 Smith

Voula Tsouna
Diogenes of Oinoanda and the Cyrenaics

Jean-Baptiste Gourinat
La critique des stoïciens dans l’inscription d’Œnoanda

Refik Güremen
Diogenes of Oinoanda and the Epicurean Epistemology of Dreams

Alain Gigandet
Diogène, Lucrèce et la théorie épicurienne de l’imaginaire. Fragment 9 – De rerum natura IV 971-993

Pierre-Marie Morel
La Terre entière, une seule patrie. Diogène d’Œnoanda et la politique

Geert Roskam
Diogenes’ Polemical Approach, or How to Refute a Philosophical Opponent in an Epigraphic Context

Abbreviations used for Diogenes and other Inscriptions of Oinoanda

Bibliography

About the Authors

Index of Places
Index of Gods and Mythological Figures or Concepts
Index of Ancient Persons, Philosophical Schools and Concepts
Index of Persons of Modern Times
Index of Ancient Texts

Academia page

MA at Bilkent – Deadline 22 May

We are now accepting applications for the M.A. in Philosophy (for those starting the degree in Fall 2017).

Successful applicants will be eligible to receive a comprehensive scholarship (tuition waiver, accommodation and stipend).

Up to five successful applicants will have the opportunity to spend a semester at the School of Philosophy at Australian National University.

The philosophy department at Bilkent is ranked #1 in Turkey for research. Our research focuses on central areas of analytic philosophy: metaphysics and philosophy of mind, and social and political philosophy. We also have strengths in the history of philosophy.

This is a two year masters that includes coursework and a thesis.

Philosophy and non-philosophy majors are encouraged to apply. We also warmly welcome applications from international students. The language of instruction for all courses is English.

For further information about the department and the master’s program go to: http://phil.bilkent.edu.tr/

Admission requirements and online application can be found here.

Deadlines for Fall 2017 applicants:
Application deadline: 22 May 2017
Written exam: 25 May 2017*
Interview: 26 May 2017*

* International students may take the written exam remotely and complete the interview via skype. A similar arrangement may be possible for Turkish students who are not based in Ankara.

Sehir Uni Philosophy Talks 32: What Unites a Society // Tuğba Sevinç Yücel 18 May 2017 17:00

Frank Zenker (Lund & Konstanz U) at Bogazici (18 May 2017)

Workshop at Boğaziçi: Normativity in Action II: From Logic to Ethics (17/05/2017)

There will be a workshop at Boğaziçi next Wednesday (17/05/2017) on normativity in Logic and Ethics from 2pm to 6.30pm. All talks will take place in JF 507. Everyone is welcome.

Normativity in Action II: From Logic to Ethics

 

2.00 – 3.20    Peter Milne (Stirling): “Assertion, Inference and the Conditional”

3.30 – 4.50    Jack Woods (Leeds): “The Authority of Formality”

5:00 – 6.20    Ken Westphal (Boğaziçi): “Normativity without Nonsense:  Why Incommensurable Values are Worthless”

Support for this conference was provided by Funding for this Workshop was provided by the joint Boğaziçi -Southampton Newton-Katip Çelebi project AF140071 “Agency and Autonomy: Kant and the Normative Foundations of Republican Self-Government” run by Lucas Thorpe (Boğaziçi) and Sasha Mudd (Southampton) and by Lucas Thorpe’s TÜBİTAK project “Concepts and Beliefs: From Perception to Action” ( 114K348), and Lucas Thorpe’s Boğaziçi University BAP project 9320.

Uluslararası İstanbul Felsefe Kongresi Tebliğ Çağrısı

3-4 MAYIS 2018 / İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi

İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Felsefe Bölümü tarafından üç yılda bir düzenlenecek olan Uluslararası İstanbul Felsefe Kongresi’nde, 2018 yılı için belirlenen aşağıdaki oturum içerikleri çerçevesinde felsefenin hem tarihî derinliğinin hem de çağdaş meselelerinin muhtelif boyutlarıyla ele alınması hedeflenmektedir.

Türkiye’de Felsefe: İmkânlar ve Zaaflar
Çağdaş Ontoloji Tartışmaları
Özne ve Metafizik
Çağdaş Etik/Politik Felsefe
İslam Felsefesi: Kavramsal Dönüşümler ve Süreklilikler
Çağdaş Mantık Tartışmaları

Kongreye katılmak isteyen kıymetli araştırmacıların 11 Eylül 2017 tarihine kadar 350-400 kelimelik tebliğ özetlerini başvuru adresindeki form yoluyla kongre sekretaryasına ulaştırmaları beklenmektedir.

Kongrenin dili Türkçe ve İngilizcedir.

Kongrede sunulan tebliğler bilahare belirlenecek takvim ve şartlar çerçevesinde yayınlanacaktır.

Erdinç Sayan at Bilkent 12 May

“Contra Cantor: How to Count the “Uncountably Infinite”

Erdinç Sayan (METU)

Friday, 12 May, 2017, 1100-1230, G-160

Abstract:

Abstract: Georg Cantor’s celebrated diagonalization argument is supposed to demonstrate that the set of real numbers has a higher cardinality than the set of natural numbers. In other words, real numbers are “uncountably (or nondenumerably) infinite” whereas natural numbers are “countably (or denumerably) infinite.” I argue that the set of real numbers is, like the set of natural numbers, denumerably infinite, not nondenumerably infinite. I first discuss an attempt to directy demonstrate the denumerable infinity of real numbers between 0 and 0.999… and show that that attempt fails. I then propose an idea about an indirect way of establishing the denumerable infinity of real numbers. My method is to use tree diagrams. For convenience and simplicity of the diagrams, I employ the binary number system to represent real numbers rather than the ordinary decimal number system.

Then I take up the task of showing that, not only the real numbers between 0 and 0.999…, but the entire set of real numbers are countably infinite. Next, I argue that Cantor’s diagonal argument is fallacious and point to the exact sources of its failure. I then move on to criticize another version of the Cantorian diagonalization maneuver to prove that the power set (set of all subsets) of natural numbers is nondenumerably infinite, with cardinality א1. I also show that another one of Cantor’s contentions is erroneous. Against his claim that the power set of real numbers is nondenumerably infinite, with cardinality א2, I show that that set too is denumerably infinite. I end with some concluding remarks.

Paper: https://www.academia.edu/26887641/CONTRA_CANTOR_HOW_TO_COUNT_THE_UNCOUNTABLY_INFINITE_

Web: http://www.phil.bilkent.edu.tr/index.php/event/philosophy-colloquium-erdinc-sayan/

Şehir Philosophy Talks 31 Nietzsche on Memory and Forgetting // Zeynep Talay 05 May 2017