Conference at Bilkent: Social Ontology in Political Philosophy, May 4-7

Stephanie Collins, Monash University Australia
Frank Hindriks, Groningen University, Netherlands
Avia Pasternak, University of Toronto
Anne Schwenkenbecher, Murdoch University, Australia
Hans Bernhard Schmid, University of Vienna, Austria
and
Jade Fletcher (St. Andrews), Niels de Haan (Vienna), Säde Hormio (IFS Stockholm), Leonie Smith (Manchester)​

Collective action plays a central role in politics. Understanding the conceptual underpinnings of collective agency, including related ideas such as collective responsibility and collective capability should therefore play a central role in political philosophy. These issues are most often explored with in an area of philosophy known as ‘social ontology’, which draws on work in philosophy of mind, analytic metaphysics and ethics, and which has implications for disciplines such as psychology, law and political science.

 Our aim in this conference is to bring together established and emerging researchers in political philosophy and social ontology, including some who have published prize-winning work in this area, and others whose work is at the centre of recent discussions.

A conference supported by Bilkent University and the International Society for Social Ontology (ISOS) Organizers: Bill Wringe, Evrensel Sebep, Ahmet Gönüllü, Barış Kaştaş

Contact: SocOntPolPhil2023@gmail.com, billwringesemail@gmail.com Registration: details TBA

PROGRAM

Friday May 5th (Provisional)

9.00 – 9.30: Coffee and Registration

9.30 – 9.45: Opening Remarks  – Professor Simon Wigley, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Bilkent University

9.45 – 11.00: Stephanie Collins (Monash University):States’ Culpability Through Time

11.00 – 11.30 Tea/coffee 

11.30 – 12.45 : Niels de Haan (University of Vienna):Political Legitimacy and Basic Hypothetical Consent

12.45 -14.00: Lunch

14.00 – 15.15: Säde Hormio (Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm/University of Helsinki ):
The Collective Responsibility of National Oil Companies

15.15 – 15.30: Tea Break

15.30 – 16.30: Graduate student session

16.45 – 18.15: Avia Pasternak (University of Toronto): TBA

19.00 CONFERENCE DINNER

Saturday May 6th (Provisional)

10.00 – 11.15 Hans-Bernhard Schmid (University of Vienna): TBA

11.30 – 12.45 Anne Schwenkenbecher (Murdoch University/University of Bielefeld): I-mode Reasoning vs We-Mode Reasoning in Moral Deliberation

12.45 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.15 Leonie Smith (University of Manchester): Collective Nostalgic Attention and Working-Class Identity

15.30 – 16.45 Frank Hindriks (Groningen University ): Can Collective Agents Have Moral Rights

17.00 – 18.15 Jade Fletcher (University of St. Andrews): The Role of Feminist Values in Metaphysics

​19.00 INFORMAL DINNER

For more information: socialontologyandpoliticalphilosophy.weebly.com

Call For Registration: Conference on Imagination at Bilkent

Exploring the Mind’s Eye: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Imagination will be held at Bilkent University, Ankara on October 25-26, 2019. This conference is organized by the Departments of Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience.

Confirmed Speakers (in alphabetical order):
Adam Zeman, University of Exeter
Amy Kind, Claremont McKenna College
Anna Abraham, Leeds Beckett University
Bence Nanay, University of Antwerp
David Papineau, CUNY Graduate Center & KCL
Deena Weisberg, Villanova University
Kourken Michaelian, Université Grenoble Alpes
Margot Strohminger, University of Oxford
Tufan Kıymaz, Bilkent University

Conference program: Click here

Registration: imgconf.eventbrite.com
Online registration is free but required.

The day before the conference, Thursday, October 24, Bence Nanay will give a talk at Bilkent University for wider audience. The title of his talk is “The Fragmented Mind.” Everyone is welcome to attend this talk as well.

All questions should be emailed to imgconf@bilkent.edu.tr
For more information about the conference: phil.bilkent.edu.tr

Metaphysics & Language Symposium at METU (Nov. 19, 2015)

METU Metaphysics & Language symposium

Schedule below the fold:

Interactivist Summer Institute 2015 at Bilkent, June 20-23.

ISI, Summer Workshop: June 20th – 23rd, Bilkent University. For more information, please visit http://www.lehigh.edu/~interact/
If interested, please contact Dr. Jedediah Allen to register.

2nd International Symposium on Brain and Cognitive Science, April 19, Sunday, 2015, ODTU (METU), Ankara.

Dear colleagues,
ISBCS 2015, the 2nd International Symposium on Brain and Cognitive Science,
is going to be held in April 19, Sunday, 2015, at ODTU (METU), Ankara.

ISBCS wants to be a gathering in Turkey for cogsci researchers worldwide, and for cogsci researchers in Turkey.

Artificial Intelligence Day at Bilkent

Bilkent Philosophy Society will hold an all day long conference on artificial intelligence at April 05, Saturday. Details can be found on the following links:

Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/events/466549326779678/

Registration: http://goo.gl/k7THzM

Grounding and Fundamentality in Metaphysics and in Ethics

Conference at Bogazici University, Istanbul
10-12 October 2013

All sessions are at Demir Demirgil Room in the OFB building on South Campus, Bogazici University.

Keynote Speakers: Ruth Chang, Janice Dowell
Invited Participants: Tristram McPherson, Pekka Väyrynen

October 10 Thursday
10:00 – 12:00    Alexander Steinberg (University of Hamburg) “Holism about Moral Reasons and Universalizability”
12:00 – 13:00     Lunch     
13:00 – 15:00     Derek Baker (Lingnan University) “Why Should I—If You Can’t Explain Normativity?”
15:00 – 15:15     Coffee Break
15:15 – 17:15     Ana Laura Edelhoff (Humboldt-Universitat Zu Berlin) “Grounding in Aristotle”
19:00     Dinner

October 11 Friday
10:00 – 12:00     Jussi Suikkanen (University of Birmingham) “Ethical Theories and the Correlation Problem”
12:00 – 13:00    Lunch
13:00 – 15:00     Ralf Bader (New York University) “Two Levels of Good-Making”
15:00 – 15:15     Coffee Break
15:15 – 17:15     Tristram McPherson (Virginia Tech) TBA
17:15 – 18:00     Coffee Break
18:00 – 19:40     Keynote Speaker: Janice Dowell (Syracuse University)
20:00     Dinner

October 12 Saturday
10:00 – 12:00     Ryo Chonabayashi  “Normative Explanations and Reductive Explanation Problem”
12:00 – 13:00     Lunch     
13:00 – 15:00     Andrew Jones (St. Louis University) “Moral Supervenience, Dispositional Essentialism, and Robust Metaethical                             Realism”
15:00 – 15:15     Coffee Break
15:15 – 17:15     Pekka Väyrynen (University of Leeds) TBA
17:15 – 18:00     Coffee Break
18:00 – 19:40     Keynote Speaker: Ruth Chang (Rutgers University)
20:00     Dinner

This conference is made possible by Bogazici University Rector’s Conference and Workshop Support.
All are welcome.