World
Philosophy Day was introduced in 2002 by UNESCO to honor philosophical reflection
throughout the world by opening up free and accessible spaces. Bilkent University’s
Philosophy Department has been celebrating this tradition since 2005.
Place: G-Building, G-160
Program:
9 - 9:10 a.m.
Introduction
9:10 - 9:25 a.m.
Prof. Talat Halman (Dean of Humanities and Letters) - Opening Remarks
9:25 - 10:15 a.m.
Asst. Prof. Lars Vinx (PHIL) - "On Hobbes's Definition of Religion"
10:15 - 10:35 a.m.
Break: Coffee, Snacks
10:35 - 11:25 a.m.
Assoc. Prof. Laurence Barker (MATH) - "Why Are Aristotle and Euclid So
Modernistic?"
11:25 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Asst. prof. Hilmi Volkan Demir (PHYS) - "Nanophotonic Wonders of Semiconductor
Nanocrystals and Metal Nanoparticles"
12:15 - 1:20 p.m.
Lunch Break
1:20 - 1:30 p.m.
Coffee
1:30 - 2:20 p.m.
Prof. Haldun Özaktaş (EE) - "Can Computers and Robots Fall in Love?"
2:20 - 3:10 p.m.
Asst. Prof. István Aranyosi (PHIL) - "Science, Philosophy, and the Problem of
Objective Subjectivity"
3:10 - 3:30 p.m.
Break: Coffee, Snacks
3:30 - 4:20 p.m.
Asst. Prof. Mark Ashton-Smith (PSYC) - "On the Phylogeny and Ontogeny of
Consciousness: A Philosophically Inspired Theory"
4:20 - 5:10 p.m.
Asst. Prof. Sandrine Berges (PHIL) "Situationism and Virtue Ethics: Why the Social
Psychologists Got it Very Wrong Indeed"
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