Celebrating World Philosophy Day

16 November 2015 Comments Off on Celebrating World Philosophy Day

Every year, the Department of Philosophy organizes a day-long workshop to celebrate UNESCO’s World Philosophy Day. Everyone is cordially invited to attend this year’s event, which will take place on November 19 in G-160.

The program will be as follows:

9:30 a.m. Opening remarks

9:40 a.m. Patrick Fessenbecker: “Sympathy, Vocation, and Moral Deliberation in George Eliot”

10:40 a.m. Sandrine Berges: “Cannibalism, Rape and Liberty in Margaret Cavendish’s Fantasy and Science Fiction”

11:40 a.m. William Coker: “New Mythology: The Poet as Philosopher”

Lunch break

2:40 p.m. Ayşe Çelikkol: “Dickens and Organic Form”

3:40 p.m. Bill Wringe: “Inconsistent Stories, Shady Characters and Fictional Realism”

4:40 p.m. Saniye Vatansever: “The Cognitive Basis of Aesthetic Pleasure in Kant”

Light refreshments will be provided.