Philosophy in Assos

July 3-6, 2023

Stoicism
In memory of Cleanthes of Assos

July 3, Monday
17:30 Meeting in the temple of Athena; tour of the ancient city of Assos; opening speech of Örsan K. Öymen in the ancient theater; wine near the ancient city walls.
21:00 Dinner at the harbour (Nazlıhan Hotel Restaurant)

July 4, Tuesday
14:00 Vanessa de Harven (University of Massachusetts in Amherst): “Existence, Subsistence and Obtaining in Stoic Metaphysics”
15:30 Eric Brown (Washington University in St. Louis): “Stoics on Uncertainty.”
17:00 Tamer Nawar (ICREA-University of Barcelona): “Stoic Logic and Paradox”
18:30 Enrico Piergiacomi (Technion/Israel Institute of Technology): “Manilius and Stoic Science/Medicine”

July 5, Wednesday
14:00 Simon Shogry (University of Oxford): “Chrysippus on Harming and Making Worse”
15:30 Jacob Klein (Colgate University): “The Stoic Theory of Motivation.”
17:00 Margaret Graver (Dartmouth College): “Honor and Glory in Hellenistic Stoicism”
18:30 Panos Eliopoulos (University of Ioannina): “Society and the State in Seneca’s Stoic Philosophy”

July 6, Thursday
15:00 Visit to the museum and ancient city of Troy
21:00 Farewell dinner (Assos Terrace Otel Restaurant)

PS: All talks and presentations will be held at the Assos Terrace Otel (0-286-7640285). All talks and presentations will be in English. There will be no Turkish translation.


About the speakers:

Margaret Graver: Darmouth College, Department of Classics (Professor /Chairperson). Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek, Helenistic and Roman philosophy, the philosophy of mind and emotions; Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism, Seneca, Cicero. She is the author of the books “Stoicism and Emotion”, “Seneca: Letters on Ethics”, “Cicero on the Emotions: Tusculan Disputations 3 & 4”, “Seneca: Fifty Letters of a Roman Stoic” (with A. A. Long) and “Seneca: The Literary Philosopher” (forthcoming) and the author of numerous articles in her area.

Vanessa de Harven: University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Philosophy (Associate Professor). Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind; Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism. She is the author of numerous articles in her area.

Eric Brown: Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Philosophy (Associate Professor). Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, ethics; Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Stoicism. He is the author of numerous articles in his area.

Jacob Klein: Colgate University, Department of Philosophy (Associate Professor). Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism; ethics, moral psychology. He is the author of numerous articles in his area.

Simon Shogry: Oxford University, Department of Philosophy (Associate Professor). Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Stoicism. He is the author of numerous articles in his area.

Panos Eliopoulos: University of Ioannina, Department of Philosophy (Associate Professor). Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy; Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Lucretius, Seneca, Stoicism. He is the author of numerous articles in his area.

Tamer Nawar: University of Barcelona, Department of Philosophy (Associate Professor). Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek philosophy, Medieval philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, logic. He is the author of various articles in his area.

Enrico Piergiacomi: Technion/Israel Institute of Technology, Department of Humanities & the Arts (Assistant Professor). Areas of interest and research: Ethics, history of ancient and modern philosophy, theology. He is the author of various articles in his area.

July 4-7, 2022

John Locke

July 4 Monday
17:30 Visit to the ancient city of Assos, the temple of Athena, the ancient theater; opening speech of Örsan K. Öymen in the ancient theatre; wine, blue sea, sunset across the ancient Assos city gate, city walls and Nekropolis.
21:00 Dinner (Eden Beach Hotel Restaurant / Kadırga bay)

July 5 Tuesday
14:00 Antonia LoLordo: “Locke on Ethics”
15:30 Samuel Rickless: “Locke on Free Will and Epistemic Responsibility”
17:00 Shelley Weinberg: “Locke’s Epistemology of Traditional Revelation”
18:30 Patrick Connolly: “Causation in Locke’s Proof of God’s Existence”

July 6 Wednesday
14:00 Nathan Rockwood: “Locke’s Criticism of Religious Experience”
15:30 Douglas Casson: “Locke on Fanaticism: An Unenthusiastic Account”
17:00 Daniel Layman: “Trust, Accountability and Salvation: Locke’s Legal Case for Toleration”
18:30 Larry Udell: “Locke on Slavery: Racism or Prejudice?”

July 7 Thursday
15:00 Visit to the ancient city and museum of Troy
21:00 Farewell dinner (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)

PS: The meetings will take place at the Assos Terrace Hotel at an open air venue. (Telephone: 90-286-7640285). All talks and discussions are in English. There will be no translations. Every presentation and session is 1 hour. There will be a 30 minute break between each session.


About the speakers:

Samuel Rickless: University of California (San Diego) Department of Philosophy (Professor). Areas of interest and research: History of ancient philosophy, history of modern philosophy, ethics, philosophy of law, philosophy of language. He is the author of the books “Plato’s Forms in Transition: A Reading of the Parmenides”, “Berkeley’s Argument for Idealism” and “Locke” as well as the author of numerous articles in his area.

Antonia LoLordo: University of Virginia Department of Philosophy (Professor/Chairperson). Areas of interest and research: 17th and 18th century philosophy, Gassendi, Locke, Shepherd. She is the author of the books “Locke’s Moral Man” and “Pierre Gassendi and the Birth of Early Modern Philosophy” as well as the author of numerous articles in her area.

Douglas Casson: St. Olaf College Department of Political Science (Professor). Areas of interest and research: ancient and modern political philosophy, religion and politics, constitutional law. He is the author of the book “Liberating Judgment: Fanaticism, Skepticism and John Locke’s Politics of Probability” as well as the author of numerous articles in his area.

Shelley Weinberg: University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) Department of Philosophy (Associate Professor). Areas of interest and research: Early modern philosophy, epistemology, philosophy of mind, feminist philosophy. She is the author of the book “Consciousness in Locke” as well as the author of numerous articles in her area.

Larry Udell: West Chester University Department of Philosophy (Assistant Professor). Areas of interest and research: Social and political philosophy, philosophy of law, philosophy of economics, philosophy of the social sciences. He is the author of various articles in his area.

Daniel Layman: Davidson College Department of Philosophy (Assistant Professor). Areas of interest and research: Political philosophy, ethics. He is the author of the books “Is Political Authority an Illusion? A Debate” (with Michael Huemer) and “Locke Among the Radicals: Liberty and Property in the 19th Century” as well as the author of various articles in his area.

Patrick Connolly: Lehigh University Department of Philosophy (Assistant Professor). Areas of interest and research: Early modern philosophy, history of science, philosophy of science, applied ethics, medieval philosophy, Kant. He is the author of various articles in his area.

Nathan Rockwood: Brigham Young University Department of Philosophy (Assistant Professor). Areas of interest and research: Early modern epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, Descartes, Locke, Hume. He is the author of various articles in his area.

September 16-18, 2021

Knowledge and Certainty

September 16 Thursday
18:00 Temple of Athena and the Ancient Theater: Opening speech, welcome, wine, the blue sea, sunset
20:30 Dinner (Eden Gardens Otel Restaurant)

September 17 Friday
14:00 Stephen Voss (Boğaziçi University): “How in the World is Self-Knowledge Possible?”
15:30 Halil Turan (Middle East Technical University): “Descartes’ Doubt Experiment”
17:00 Örsan K. Öymen (Işık University): “Knowledge and Certainty in Hume’s Epistemology”

September 18 Saturday
14:00 Bill Wringe (Bilkent University): “Shared Emotions and Knowledge of Other Minds”
15:30 Lucas Thorpe (Boğaziçi University): “Reid and Wittgenstein on Knowledge and Common Sense”
17:00 Cemil Güzey (Mimar Sinan University): “Left Hand of Knowledge”
18:30 Frank Zenker (Boğaziçi University): “Theoretical Knowledge and the Behavioral Sciences”
21:00 Farewell dinner and music (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)

PS: The meetings will take place at the Assos Terrace Hotel. (Telephone: 90-286-7640285). All talks and discussions are in English. There will be no translations. Every presentation and session is 1 hour. There will be a 30 minute break between each session. (Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, participation will be limited; a distance of at least 1 meter will be kept between each person at the seating arrangement during the talks and events; free masks will be distributed before all talks and events; body temperature and the HES code will be checked during entry to the venue).


About the speakers:

Stephen Voss: Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy (Professor). His area of interest and research: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophical Ways of Life, Philosophy of the Self, History of Philosophy, Descartes. He is the editor of the book “Essays on the Philosophy and Science of Rene Descartes” and the author of numerous articles in his area.

Halil Turan: Middle East Technical University, Department of Philosophy. (Professor / Chairman). His area of interest and research: Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Ontology, Ethics, Political Philosophy, Descartes, Locke, Rousseau, Hume, Kant, Kuhn. He is the author of the book “Mantık Terimleri Sözlüğü” (with Teo Grünberg, David Grünberg and Adnan Onart) and author of numerous articles in his area.

Örsan K. Öymen: FMV Işık University, Department of Political Science (Professor); founder and president of the Association of Philosophy, Art and Science; founder and director of the project “Philosophy in Assos”. His area of interest and research: Epistemology, Ethics, Political Philosophy, Sextus, Hume, Nietzsche, Marx. He is the author of the books “Hume”, “Tanrı Var mıdır?”, “Karanlıktan Yağan Kar” and “Varlık ve Kuşku” (forthcoming) and of numerous articles in his area.

Cemil Güzey: Mimar Sinan University, Department of Philosophy (Associate Professor). His area of interest and research: Ontology, Ethics, Aesthetics, Logic, Philosophy of Language, Heraclitus, Epictetus, Aurelius, Hobbes, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Hartmann. He is the author of numerous articles in his area.

Bill Wringe: Bilkent University, Department of Philosophy (Associate Professor). Areas of interest and research: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology, Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics. He is the author of the book “An Expressive Theory of Punishment” and author of numerous articles.

Lucas Thorpe: Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy (Associate Professor). Areas of interest and research: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, The Philosophy of Cognitive-Science, Reid, Kant, Rawls. He is the author of the book “The Kant Dictionary” and of numerous articles in his area.

Frank Zenker: Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy (Assistant Professor). Areas of interest and research: Philosophy of Science, Social Epistemology, Cognitive Science. He is the author of the books “Ceteris Paribus in Conservative Belief Revision. On the Role of Minimal Change in Rational Theory Development”, “The Etymological Argument: Fallacy or Sound Move?” and the author of numerous articles in his area.

September 30-October 3, 2020

PHILOSOPHY IN ASSOS 20th ANNIVERSARY

Ancient Philosophy and Science in Asia Minor

30 Eylül Çarşamba
18:00 Temple of Athena: Welcome, wine, the blue sea and sunset
20:30 Dinner at the harbour (Nazlıhan Hotel Restaurant)

1 Ekim Perşembe
14:00 Örsan K. Öymen (FMV Işık University): “The Anatolian Enlightenment”
15:30 James Griffith (Middle East Technical University): “The Natural Geometry of Hesiod's 'Chaos' and Anaximander's 'Apeiron'”
17:00 Geoffrey Bowe (Istanbul Technical University): “Anaxagoras and Plato: From Natural Science to Socratic Humanism”
20:30 Dinner (Assos Terrace Otel Restaurant)

2 Ekim Cuma
14:00 Cemil Güzey (Mimar Sinan University): “Heraclitus, Logos and Mythos”
15:30 Oğuz Haşlakoğlu (İstanbul Technical University): “Heraclitean Flux and Platonic Khora: Time and Determinism”
17:00 Robert Howton (Koç University): “Aristotle on the End of an Organism's Nature”
22:30 Classical music at the ancient theater: Anne Monika Sommer-Bloch (solo violin)

3 Ekim Cumartesi
14:00 Visit to the ruins and museum of Troy
20:30 Farewell dinner (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)

PS: The meetings will take place at the Assos Terrace Hotel. (Telephone: 90-286-7640285). All talks and discussions are in English. There will be no translations. Every presentation and session is 1 hour. There will be a 30 minute break between each session. (Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, participation will be limited; a distance of at least 2 meters will be kept between each person at the seating arrangement during the talks and events; free masks will be distributed before all talks and events).


About the speakers:

Örsan K. Öymen: FMV Işık University, Department of Political Science (Professor); founder and president of the Association of Philosophy, Art and Science; founder and director of the project “Philosophy in Assos”. His area of interest and research: Epistemology, Ethics, Political Philosophy, Sextus, Hume, Nietzsche, Marx. He is the author of the books “Hume”, “Tanrı Var mıdır?”, “Karanlıktan Yağan Kar” and “Varlık ve Kuşku” (forthcoming) and of numerous articles in his area.

Geoffrey Bowe: İstanbul Technical University, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (Associate Professor). His area of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, History of Ideas, Philosophy of Art, Plato, Plotinus. He is the author of the books “Plotinus and the Platonic Metaphysical Hierarchy” and “Platon’un Devlet’i Üzerine Makaleler” and of numerous articles in his area.

Cemil Güzey: Mimar Sinan University, Department of Philosophy (Associate Professor). His area of interest and research: Ontology, Ethics, Aesthetics, Logic, Philosophy of Language, Heraclitus, Epictetus, Aurelius, Hobbes, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Hartmann. He is the author of numerous articles in his area.

Oğuz Haşlakoğlu: İstanbul Technical University Department of Fine Arts (Chairman) and Architecture. (Associate Professor). His area of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Philosophy of Art, Aesthetics, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Plato, Adorno. He is the author of the books “Platon Düşüncesinde Tekhne” and “Sanat Felsefesi ve Estetik Yazıları” and of numerous articles in his area.

James Griffith: Middle East Technical University, Department of Philosophy (Assistant Professor). His area of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Hobbes, Descartes. He is the author of various articles in his area.

Robert Howton: Koç University, Department of Philosophy (Assistant Professor). His area of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Perception. He is the author of various articles in his area.

7-8 Şubat 2020

Antik Çağ’da Anadolu’da Felsefe ve Bilim

7 Şubat 2020 Cuma:
14:00 Örsan K. Öymen: “Aydınlanma ve Anadolu”
15:30 Cengiz İskender Özkan: “Miletos’un Felsefi ve Bilimsel Devrimi”
17:00 Cemil Güzey: “Joker: Efesos Günlükleri”
19:00 Akşam yemeği (Nazlıhan Otel Restaurant)


8 Şubat 2020 Cumartesi:
13:00 Hatice Nur Erkızan: “Antik Anadolu Aydınlanması: Kosmos'tan Anthropos'a”
14:30 Ömer Aygün: “Aristoteles Anadolu'da: Yaygın Aristoteles Okumasının Bir Eleştirisi”
16:00 Doğan Göçmen: “Epikuros’ta Ahlak Felsefesinin Temeli Olarak Ontolojik Kurgulama ve Epistemolojik Tasarım”
17:30 Ömer Aygün: “Antik Yunanca Elyazmalarının Tarihine Bir Giriş”
22:30 Uzun Ev’de Parti (DJ Unknown X)


Konuşmacılar hakkında kısaca:

Örsan K. Öymen: FMV Işık Üniversitesi İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi (Profesör), Felsefe Sanat Bilim Derneği Kurucu Üyesi ve Yönetim Kurulu Başkanı, “Assos'ta Felsefe” projesi Kurucusu ve Direktörü. Lisans ve Doktora derecesini Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü'nden, Yüksek Lisans derecesini New York Üniversitesi (NYU) Felsefe Bölümü'nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Epistemoloji, Etik, Siyaset Felsefesi, Herakleitos, Protagoras, Gorgias, Sokrates, Platon, Epikuros, Piron, Sextus, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Nietzsche, Marx ve Sartre. “Hume”, “Tanrı Var mıdır?”, “Karanlıktan Yağan Kar” ve “Varlık ve Kuşku” (yayına hazırlanmakta) kitaplarının ve alanında birçok makalenin yazarıdır.

Hatice Nur Erkızan: Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi (Profesör). Lisans derecesini Ege Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden, Yüksek Lisans derecesini Essex Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden, Doktora derecesini Bristol Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Antik Yunan Felsefesi, Aristoteles, Orta Çağ Felsefesi, Feminizm. “Felsefe ve Feminizm”, “Aristoteles: Hayvanların Hareketi”, “Aristoteles Yazıları: Varlık, Bilgi ve Yaşam Üzerine”, “Türkiye Felsefe Yazıları”, “Aristoteles’ten Nussbaum’a İnsan”, “Aristoteles Yazıları: Metafizik ya da İlk Felsefe Üzerine”, “Aristoteles Yazıları: Etik ve Politika Üzerine”, “Aristoteles Yazıları: Feminizm ve Çağdaş Aristotelesçi Feminizm”, “Antik Çağ ve Orta Çağ Felsefesi” (Kadir Çüçen ile birlikte) kitaplarının ve alanında birçok makalenin yazarıdır.

Doğan Göçmen: Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi (Profesör). Lisans derecesini Hamburg Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Bölümü’nden, Doktora derecesini Edinburgh Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü’nden Felsefe alanında aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Siyaset Felsefesi, Ekonomi Felsefesi, Hobbes, Adam Smith, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Husserl. “Modern Felsefe: Tarihsel Anlamı, Güncel Mirası; Adam Smith, Hegel ve Marx” ve “The Adam Smith Problem: Reconciling Human Nature and Society in the ‘Theory of Moral Sentiments’ and ‘Wealth of Nations’” kitaplarının ve alanında birçok makalenin yazarıdır.

Cemil Güzey: Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi (Doçent). Lisans, Yüksek Lisans ve Doktora derecelerini İstanbul Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Ontoloji, Etik, Estetik, Mantık, Dil Felsefesi, Herakleitos, Epiktetos, Aurelius, Hobbes, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Hartmann. Alanında birçok makalenin yazarıdır.

Cengiz İskender Özkan: Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi (Doçent). Lisans, Yüksek Lisans ve Doktora derecelerini Hacettepe Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Bilim Felsefesi, Epistemoloji, Mantık, Dil Felsefesi. “Tarih Felsefesi” adlı kitabın ve alanında birçok makalenin yazarıdır.

Ömer Aygün: Galatasaray Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi (Yardımcı Doçent). Lisans ve Yüksek Lisans derecelerini İstanbul Üniversitesi Fransız Dili ve Edebiyatı, ikinci Yüksek Lisans derecesini Galatasaray Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü, Doktora derecesini Pennsylvania State University Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve araştırma alanları: Antik Yunan Felsefesi, Modern Felsefe, Fenomenoloji, Eski Yunanca Paleografisi. “The Middle Included - Logos in Aristotle”, “Taş Gün” ve “Koro” kitaplarının ve alanında birçok makalenin yazarıdır.

July 1-4, 2019

Plato

July 1 Monday:
19:00 Temple of Athena: Welcome, blue sea, wine, sunset
21:30 Dinner at the harbour (Nazlıhan Hotel Restaurant)


July 2 Tuesday:
13:00 David Ebrey (Humboldt University of Berlin): “Misology and the Method of Hypothesis”
14:30 Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell University): “Plato on Intelligent Agents”
16:00 Naly Thaler (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): “The Philosopher’s Polla Kala in Republic V”
17:30 Anthony Price (University of London Birkbeck College): "Plato's Symposium: Once More Unto the Ascent"
19:00 Suzanne Obdrzalek (Claremont MacKenna College): "Plato on Soul-Body Unity"
20:30 Dinner (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)


July 3 Wednesday:
14:30 Christoph Horn (University of Bonn): “Tripartition in Plato's Psychology Reconsidered”
16:00 Cinzia Arruzza (New School for Social Research): "Shamelessness and Injustice in Plato"
17:30 Myrthe Bartels (Durham University): “Plato on Applying the Law”
19:00 Simon Weber (University of Bonn): “Is There Only One Kind of Rule? (Statesman 258e-259c)”
22:30 Classical Music in the Ancient Theater: Anne Monika Sommer-Bloch (solo violin)


July 4 Thursday:
14:00 Visit to Troy
21:00 Farewell Dinner (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)


About the speakers:

Anthony Price: University of London Birkbeck College Department of Philosophy (Professor). Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Ethics. He is the author of the books “Virtue and Reason in Plato and Aristotle”, “Love and Friendship in Plato and Aristotle”, “Mental Conflict”, “Contextuality in Practical Reason” and of numerous articles in his area.

Christoph Horn: University of Bonn Department of Philosophy (Professor). Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Ethics, Political Philosophy, Plato, Augustinus, Kant. He is the author of the books “Plotin über Sein, Zahl und Einheit.”, “Augustinus”, “Paradigmen mittelalterlicher Philosophie”, “Antike Lebenskunst. Glück und Moral von Sokrates bis zu den Neuplatonikern”, “Einführung in die Politische Philosophie”, “Agostinho”, “Philosophie der Antike. Von den Vorsokratikern bis Augustinus”, “Nichtideale Normativität. Ein neuer Blick auf Kants politische Philosophie”, “Einführung in die Moralphilosophie” and of numerous articles in his area.

Rachana Kamtekar: Cornell University Department of Philosophy (Professor). Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Ethics, Moral Psychology, Political Philosophy. She is the author of the book “Plato's Moral Psychology: Intellectualism, the Divided Soul, and Desire for Good” and of numerous articles in her area.

Cinzia Arruzza: New School for Social Research Department of Philosophy (Associate Professor). Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy and Contemporary Political Philosophy. She is the author of the books “Feminism for the 99%. A Manifesto” (with Tithi Bhattacharya ve Nancy Fraser), “A Wolf in the City. Tyranny and the Tyrant in Plato’s Republic”, “Plotinus. Ennead II 5. On What is Potentially and What Actually”, “Dangerous Liaisons, Marriages and Divorces of Marxism and Feminism”, “Les Mésaventures de la théodicée. Plotin, Origène et Grégoire de Nysse” and of numerous articles in her area.

Suzanne Obdrzalek: Claremont McKenna College Department of Philosophy (Associate Professor). Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Moral Psychology. She is the author of numerous articles in her area.

Myrthe Bartels: Durham University Department of Classics and Ancient History (Assistant Professor). Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Ethics, Political Philosophy. She is the author of the book “Plato’s Pragmatic Project: A Reading of Plato’s Laws” and of numerous articles in her area.

David Ebrey: Humboldt University of Berlin Department of Philosophy (Assistant Professor). Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philossophy, Plato, Aristotle. He is the author of numerous articles in his area.

Simon Weber: University of Bonn Department of Philosophy (Assistant Professor). Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Plato, Aristotle. He is the author of the book “Herrschaft und Recht bei Aristoteles” and of numerous articles in his area.

Naly Thaler: Hebrew University of Jerusalem Department of Philosophy (Assistant Professor). Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Ethics, Plato. He is the author of numerous articles in his area.

1-2 Şubat 2019

Felsefe ve Diyalektik

1 Şubat 2019 Cuma:
14:00 Örsan K. Öymen: “Sokrates, Felsefe ve Diyalektik”
15:30 Nazile Kalaycı: “Antik Çağ'da Şiire Karşı Diyalektik”
17:00 Cemil Güzey: “İhtiyar Adam ve Nehir”
19:00 Akşam yemeği (Nazlıhan Otel Restaurant)


2 Şubat 2019 Cumartesi:
13:00 Türker Armaner: “Fichte ve Zamanın Diyalektiği”
14:30 Doğan Göçmen: “Hegel, Diyalektik ve Felsefenin Bilimselleşmesi”
16:00 Barış Parkan: “Marx’ta Diyalektik”
17:30 Halil Turan: “Diyalektikten Diyalojik İmgeleme: M. M. Bahtin”
22:30 Uzun Ev’de Parti (DJ Unknown X)


Not: Toplantılar Assos iskelede Nazlıhan Otel’de (0-286-7217385) gerçekleşecektir. Konuşmaların ve sunumların dili Türkçe’dir. Her konuşmanın ardından 30 dakika ara verilecektir


Konuşmacılar hakkında kısaca:

Örsan K. Öymen: FMV Işık Üniversitesi İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Bölümü Başkanı (Profesör), Felsefe Sanat Bilim Derneği Kurucu Üyesi ve Yönetim Kurulu Başkanı, “Assos'ta Felsefe” projesi Kurucusu ve Direktörü. Lisans ve Doktora derecesini Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü'nden, Yüksek Lisans derecesini New York Üniversitesi (NYU) Felsefe Bölümü'nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Epistemoloji, Etik, Siyaset Felsefesi, Herakleitos, Protagoras, Gorgias, Sokrates, Platon, Epikuros, Piron, Sextus, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Nietzsche, Marx ve Sartre. “Hume”, “Tanrı Var mıdır?” ve “Varlık ve Kuşku” (yayına hazırlanmakta) kitaplarının ve alanında birçok makalenin yazarıdır.

Türker Armaner: Galatasaray Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Başkanı. (Profesör). Lisans derecesini Hacettepe Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden, Yüksek Lisans derecesini Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden, Doktora derecesini Paris Saint Dennis VIII Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Estetik, Siyaset Felsefesi, 19. Yüzyıl Felsefesi, Spinoza, Hegel, Fichte, Schopenhauer, Marx, Kierkegaard. “Dalgakıran,” “Taş Hücre”, “Kıyısız” (kısa öykü), “Tahta Saplı Bıçak”, “Hüküm” (roman) ve “Tarih ve Temsil” kitaplarının ve alanında birçok makalenin yazarıdır.

Halil Turan: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Başkanı (Profesör). Lisans derecesini Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Fizik Bölümü’nden, Yüksek Lisans ve Doktora derecelerini Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Epistemoloji, Bilim Felsefesi, Ontoloji, Etik, Siyaset Felsefesi, Descartes, Locke, Rousseau, Hume, Kant, Kuhn. “Mantık Terimleri Sözlüğü” kitabının (Teo Grünberg, David Grünberg ve Adnan Onart ile birlikte) ve alanında birçok makalenin yazarıdır.

Doğan Göçmen: Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi (Profesör). Lisans derecesini Hamburg Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Bölümü’nden, Doktora derecesini Edinburgh Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü’nden Felsefe alanında aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Siyaset Felsefesi, Ekonomi Felsefesi, Hobbes, Adam Smith, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Husserl. “Modern Felsefe: Tarihsel Anlamı, Güncel Mirası; Adam Smith, Hegel ve Marx” ve “The Adam Smith Problem: Reconciling Human Nature and Society in the ‘Theory of Moral Sentiments’ and ‘Wealth of Nations’” kitaplarının ve alanında birçok makalenin yazarıdır.

Nazile Kalaycı: Hacettepe Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi (Profesör). Yüksek Lisans ve Doktora derecelerini Hacettepe Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Siyaset Felsefesi, Etik, Ontoloji, Antik Yunan Felsefesi, Platon, Aristoteles, Spinoza, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Habermas, Heidegger, Gadamer. “Klasik Düşüncelerin İzinde Güncel Politika Sorunları” kitabının ve alanında birçok makalenin yazarıdır.

Cemil Güzey: Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi (Doçent). Lisans, Yüksek Lisans ve Doktora derecelerini İstanbul Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Ontoloji, Etik, Estetik, Mantık, Dil Felsefesi, Herakleitos, Epiktetos, Aurelius, Hobbes, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Hartmann. Alanında birçok makalenin yazarıdır.

Barış Parkan: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi (Doçent). Lisans derecesini Bennington Koleji Felsefe Bölümü’nden, Yüksek Lisans derecesini Milwaukee Wisconsin Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden, Doktora derecesini Texas Üniversitesi (Austin) Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Siyaset Felsefesi, Etik, Uygulamalı Etik, Ontoloji, Marx, Hegel, Whitehead. “Marx” kitabının ve alanında birçok makalenin yazarıdır.

July 2-5, 2018

Karl Marx On the 200th Anniversary of His Birth

July 3, Monday:
July 2, Monday:
19:00 Temple of Athena: Welcome, blue sea, wine and sun set.
21:30 Dinner at the harbour (Nazlıhan Otel Restaurant)


July 3, Tuesday:
12:30 Andrew Chitty (University of Sussex): “Hegel's and Marx's Intentions: Self-clarification, Justification and Disjustification”
14:00 Türker Armaner (Galatasaray University): “Marx on Consciousness and Self-Consciousness”
15:30 Jan Kandiyali (Istanbul Technical University): “Marx, Communism and Basic Income”
17:00 Tony Smith (Iowa State University): “Karl Marx on Technology in Capitalism”
18:30 Doğan Göçmen (Dokuz Eylül University): “What is Philosophical in Marx’s Capital?”
20:00 Dinner at the Symposium Area (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)


July 4, Wednesday:
13:30 Richard Miller (Cornell University): “Rejecting and Using Marx: Capitalism, Power and Reform”
15:00 William H. Shaw (San Jose State University): “Karl Marx on History, Capitalism, and…Business Ethics?”
16:30 Larry Udell (West Chester State University): “Capital in the 21st Century: What are the Questions?”
18:00 Karsten J. Struhl (City University of New York): “Buddhism and Marxism: Points of Intersection”
22:30 Classical music at the Ancient Theater: Anne Monika Sommer-Bloch


July 5, Thursday:
14:30 Visit to Troy
21:00 Farewell dinner (Assos Terrace Otel Restaurant)


PS: All talks and discussions are in English; no Turkish translation. All meetings take place at the Assos Terrace Hotel (Telephone: 90-286-7640285). Each session is 1 hour and there will be a 30 minute break in between each session.


About the speakers:

Richard Miller: Cornell University, Department of Philosophy. (Professor). Areas of interest and research: Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics. He is the author of the books “Equality, Democracy and National Sovereignty: Reconciling East and West”, “Globalizing Justice: The Ethics of Poverty and Power”, “Moral Differences: Truth, Justice and Conscience in a World of Conflict”, “Fact and Method: Explanation, Confirmation and Reality in the Natural and the Social Sciences”, “Analyzing Marx: Morality, Power and History” and of numerous articles in his area.

Tony Smith: Iowa State University, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies. (Professor). Areas of interest and research: Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Technology, Marx, Hegel, Habermas. He is the author of the books “Globalisation: A Systematic Marxian Account”, “Technology and Capital in the Age of Lean Production: A Marxian Critique of the ‘New Economy’ ”, “Dialectical Social Theory and Its Critics: From Hegel to Analytical Marxism and Postmodernism”, “The Role of Ethics in Social Theory: Essays from a Habermasian Perspective”, “The Logic of Marx’s Capital: Replies to Hegelian Criticisms”, “Beyond Liberal Egalitarianism: Marx and Normative Social Theory in the Twenty-First Century” and of numerous articles in his area.

William H. Shaw: San Jose State University, Department of Philosophy. (Professor Emeritus). Areas of interest and research: Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy. He is the author of the books “Marx's Theory of History”, “Business Ethics”, “Moore on Right and Wrong: The Normative Ethics of G.E. Moore”, “Contemporary Ethics: Taking Account of Utilitarianism”, “Utilitarianism and the Ethics of War” and of numerous articles in his area.

Andrew Chitty: University of Sussex, Department of Philosophy. (Senior Lecturer). Areas of interest and research: Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Marx. He is the author of the book “Karl Marx and Contemporary Philosophy” (with Martin Mc Ivor) and of numerous articles in his area.

Karsten Struhl: City University of New York (John Jay College of Criminal Justice) Department of Philosophy. (Adjunct Lecturer). Areas of interest and research: Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, Epistemology, Marxist Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy, Chinese Philosophy, Human Nature, Just War Theory, Ecology, Cross-cultural Philosophy and Problems of Revenge and Punishment. He is the editor of various books and also author of numerous articles in his area.

Türker Armaner: Galatasaray University, Department of Philosophy. (Professor). Areas of interest and research: Social and Political Philosophy, Aesthetics, Spinoza, Hegel, Fichte, Marx, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard. He is the author of the books “Dalgakıran,” “Taş Hücre”, “Kıyısız” (short stories), “Tahta Saplı Bıçak”, “Hüküm” (novel), “Tarih ve Temsil” and of numerous articles in his area.

Doğan Göçmen: Dokuz Eylül University, Department of Philosophy. (Professor). Areas of interest and research: Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Economics, Hobbes, Smith, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Husserl. He is the author of the books “Modern Felsefe: Tarihsel Anlamı, Güncel Mirası; Adam Smith, Hegel ve Marx”, “The Adam Smith Problem: Reconciling Human Nature and Society in the ‘Theory of Moral Sentiments’ and ‘Wealth of Nations’” and of numerous articles in his area.

Larry Udell: West Chester State University, Department of Philosophy. (Assistant Professor). Areas of interest and research: Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Economics, Philosophy of Social Sciences. He is the author of various articles in his area.

Jan Kandiyali: İstanbul Technical University, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. (Assistant Professor). Areas of interest and research: Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, Marx. He is the author of various articles in his area.

2-3 Şubat 2018

Doğumunun 200. Yılında Karl Marx

2 Şubat 2018 Cuma:
13:00 Örsan K. Öymen: “Marx’ta Din, Kapitalizm ve Yabancılaşma”
14:30 Baver Demircan: "Hegel ve Marx: Düğümlenen Özne"
16:00 Eylem Doğan: "Marx’ın 'Gerçeklik' Eleştirisi"
17:30 Türker Armaner: “8. Tez”
19:30 Akşam Yemeği (Nazlıhan Otel Restaurant)


3 Şubat 2018 Cumartesi:
13:00 Kerem Cankoçak: “Marx ve Doğa Bilimleri”
14:30 Doğan Göçmen: “Marx ve Yeni Tür Bir Rasyonalitenin Temellendirilmesi”
16:00 Kurtul Gülenç: "Marx'ın Kapitalizm Eleştirisinin Etik Boyutu"
17:30 Barış Parkan: "21. Yüzyıl’da Emeğin Antropolojisi ve Artı Değer"
22:30 Uzun Ev’de Parti (DJ Unknown X)


Not: Sempozyum toplantısı ve konuşmalar Liman’da Nazlıhan Otel’de (0-286-7217385) gerçekleşecektir.


Konuşmacılar hakkında kısaca:

Örsan K. Öymen: Işık Üniversitesi İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Bölümü Başkanı (Profesör), Felsefe Sanat Bilim Derneği Kurucu Üye ve Yönetim Kurulu Başkanı, “Assos'ta Felsefe” projesi Kurucusu ve Direktörü. Lisans ve Doktora derecesini Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü'nden, Yüksek Lisans derecesini New York Üniversitesi (NYU) Felsefe Bölümü'nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Epistemoloji, Etik, Siyaset Felsefesi, Herakleitos, Protagoras, Gorgias, Sokrates, Platon, Epikuros, Sextus, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Nietzsche, Marx ve Sartre. “Hume” ile “Varlık ve Kuşku” (yayına hazırlanmakta) kitaplarının ve alanında birçok makalenin yazarıdır.

Türker Armaner: Galatasaray Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi. (Profesör). Lisans derecesini Hacettepe Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden, Yüksek Lisans derecesini Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden, Doktora derecesini Paris Saint Dennis VIII Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Estetik, Siyaset Felsefesi, 19. Yüzyıl Felsefesi, Spinoza, Hegel, Fichte, Schopenhauer, Marx, Kierkegaard, Frege. “Dalgakıran,” “Taş Hücre”, “Kıyısız” (kısa öykü), “Tahta Saplı Bıçak”, “Hüküm” (roman) ve “Tarih ve Temsil” kitaplarının ve alanında birçok makalenin yazarıdır.

Doğan Göçmen: Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi (Profesör). Lisans derecesini Hamburg Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Bölümü’nden, Doktora derecesini Edinburgh Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü’nden Felsefe alanında aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Siyaset Felsefesi, Ekonomi Felsefesi, Hobbes, Adam Smith, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Husserl. “Modern Felsefe: Tarihsel Anlamı, Güncel Mirası; Adam Smith, Hegel ve Marx” ve “The Adam Smith Problem: Reconciling Human Nature and Society in the ‘Theory of Moral Sentiments’ and ‘Wealth of Nations’” kitaplarının ve alanında birçok makalenin yazarıdır.

Kerem Cankoçak: İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Fizik Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi. (Profesör). Lisans derecesini Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Fizik Bölümü’nden, Yüksek Lisans derecesini Stockholm Üniversitesi Fizik Bölümü’nden, Doktora derecesini Ege Üniversitesi Fizik Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Yüksek enerji fiziği, “büyük patlama” kuramı, CERN deneyleri, Bilim Tarihi, Bilim Felsefesi. CERN’deki “Büyük Patlama” (“Big-Bang”) kuramı deneylerine ve çalışmalarına katılan Türk bilim insanlarından birisidir. “50 Soruda Maddenin Evrimi” kitabının ve alanında birçok makalenin yazarıdır.

Kurtul Gülenç: Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi (Doçent). Lisans ve Yüksek Lisans derecesini Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden, Doktora derecesini Hacettepe Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Sosyal Bilimler Felsefesi, Felsefe ve Edebiyat, Aydınlanma Felsefesi, Frankfurt Okulu, Hermeneutik, Marksizm, Etik, Çocuklar İçin Felsefe. “Frankfurt Okulu”, “Marksizmde Ahlak Tartışmaları: Adalet, Özgürlük, Mutluluk”, “Marx'ın Halleri” (Önder Kulak ile birlikte), “Marx ve Sonrası” kitaplarının ve alanında birçok makalenin yazarıdır.

Barış Parkan: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi (Doçent). Lisans derecesini Bennington Koleji Felsefe Bölümü’nden, Yüksek Lisans derecesini Milwaukee Wisconsin Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden, Doktora derecesini Texas Üniversitesi (Austin) Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Siyaset Felsefesi, Etik, Uygulamalı Etik, Ontoloji, Marx, Hegel, Whitehead. “Marx” kitabının ve alanında birçok makalenin yazarıdır.

Eylem Doğan: Işık Üniversitesi İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Bölümü Öğretim Elemanı. Lisans derecesini ODTÜ Endüstri Mühendisliği Bölümü’nden, Yüksek Lisans derecesini Galatasaray Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden, Doktora derecesini Galatasaray Üniversitesi ve Paris-Sorbonne Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Siyaset Felsefesi, Etik, Mantık, Aristoteles, Spinoza, Marx, Nietzsche. Alanında çeşitli makalelerin yazarıdır.

Baver Demircan: Üsküdar Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Elemanı. Lisans derecesini Yeditepe Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden, Yüksek Lisans ve Doktora derecesini Galatasaray Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: 19. Yüzyıl Felsefesi, Antik Yunan Felsefesi, Estetik, Tarih Felsefesi, Göstergebilim, Ontoloji. Alanında çeşitli makalelerin yazarıdır.

July 3-6, 2017

Immanuel Kant

July 3, Monday:
19:00 Temple of Athena: Welcome, blue sea, wine and sun set.
21:30 Dinner at the Harbour (Uzun Ev Restaurant)


July 4, Tuesday:
13:30 Rolf-Peter Horstmann (Humboldt University): “Kant on Imagination”
15:00 Desmond Hogan (Princeton University): “The Antinomy of Pure Reason and Transcendental Idealism”
16:30 Frederick Beiser (Syracuse University): “Hermann Cohen: A Centenary Reappraisal”
18:00 Patricia Kitcher (Columbia University): “Kant on Freedom in Thought and Action”
20:00 Dinner at the Symposium Area (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)


July 5, Wednesday:
13:30 Kenneth Westphal (Boğaziçi University): “Free Agency without Transcendental Idealism”
15:00 Jan-Willem van der Rijt (University of Bayreuth): “The Dignity of Moral Agents”
16:30 Lucas Thorpe (Boğaziçi University): “Kantian Humanity and Chimps”
18:00 Andrew Chignell (University of Pennsylvania): “The Role of Hope in Kant’s Moral Psychology”
22:30 Classical music at the Ancient Theater: Anne Monika Sommer-Bloch


July 6, Thursday:
14:00 Visit to Troy
21:00 Farewell dinner (Assos Terrace Otel Restaurant)


PS: The meetings will take place at the Assos Terrace Hotel (Telephone: 0-286-7640285). All talks are in English. There is no translation into the Turkish.


About the speakers:

Rolf-Peter Horstmann: Humboldt University of Berlin. Areas of interest and research: Metaphysics, Ontology, Epistemology, 18th, 19th and 20th century philosophy, Kant and Hegel. He is the author of the books “Hegels vorphänomenologische Entwürfe zu einer Philosophie der Subjektivität in Beziehung auf die Kritik an den Prinzipien der Reflexionsphilosophie”, “Kritische Darstellung der Metaphysik. Eine Diskussion zu Hegels 'Logik'” (with H. F. Fulda ve M. Theunissen), “Ontologie und Relationen. Hegel, Bradley, Russell und die Kontroverse über interne und externe Beziehungen”, “Wahrheit aus dem Begriff. Eine Einführung in Hegel”, “Die Grenzen der Vernunft. Eine Untersuchung zu Zielen und Motiven des Deutschen Idealismus”, “Bausteine kritischer Philosophie. Arbeiten zu Kant” and “G. W. F. Hegel. Eine Einführung” (with D. Emundts) and of numerous articles is his area.

Frederick Beiser: Syracuse University Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: German philosophy, Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Schelling. He is the author of the books “The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte”, “Enlightenment, Revolution & Romanticism: The Genesis of Modern German Political Thought, 1790-1800”, “The Sovereignty of Reason: The Defense of Rationality in the Early English Enlightnement”, “German Idealism: The Struggle against Subjectivism, 1871-1900”, “The Romantic Imperative: The Concept of Early German Romanticism”, “Hegel”, “Schiller as Philosopher”, “Diotima’s Children: German Aesthetic Rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing”, “The German Historicist Tradition” and “Late German Idealism: Trendelenburg and Lotze” and of numerous articles in his area.

Kenneth Westphal: Boğaziçi University Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Epistemology, Ethics, Political Philosophy, Descartes, Hume, Kant and Hegel. He is the author of the books “Kant’s Transcendental Proof of Realism”, “Hegel’s Epistemology: A Philosophical Introduction to the Phenomenology of Spirit”, “Hegel, Hume und die Identität wahrnehmbarer Dinge” and “Hegel’s Epistemological Realism” and of numerous articles in his area.

Patricia Kitcher: Columbia University Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: History of Modern Philosophy, Kant, Philosophy of Psychology, Freud, Personal Identity. She is the author of the books “Kant’s Transcendental Psychology”, “Freud’s Dream: A Complete Interdisciplinary Science of Mind” and “Kant’s Thinker” and of numerous articles in her area.

Desmond Hogan: Princeton University Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Early Modern Philosophy, Leibniz, Kant. He is the author of numerous articles in his area.

Andrew Chignell: University of Pennsylvania Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: 17th, 18th and 19th century philosophy, Epistemology, Ethics, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Religion, Kant. He is the author of the book “What May I Hope?” (forthcoming) and of numerous articles in his area.

Jan-Willem van der Rijt: University of Bayreuth Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law. He is the author of the book “The Importance of Assent: A Theory of Coercion and Dignity” and of numerous articles in his area.

Lucas Thorpe: Boğaziçi University Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, Kant. He is the author of the book “The Kant Dictionary” (forthcoming) and of numerous articles in his area.

3-4 Şubat 2017

Felsefede Öz ve Töz Kavramları

3 Şubat Cuma:
13:00 Pınar Canevi: “Öz ve Töz Ayrımındaki Sorunsallar”
14:30 Ahmet Arslan: “Aristoteles'te Özün Varoluşa Önceliği”
16:00 Halil Turan: “Descartes'ın Tözleri ve İlişkin Bilgi Kuramsal Sorunlar”
17:30 Elif Çırakman: “Töz ve Özgürlük Meselesi”
19:30 Akşam Yemeği (Nazlıhan Otel Restaurant)


4 Şubat Cumartesi:
13:00 Türker Armaner: “Hegel’de ‘Başkalaşan Töz’ ”
14:30 Levent Kavas: “Ousia'nın Türümü: Bir Delinin Attığı Taş"
16:00 Cemil Güzey: “Öz Büyücüsü”
17:30 Örsan K. Öymen: “Felsefede Öz ve Töz Kavramlarına Eleştirel Bakışlar”
19:30 Akşam Yemeği (Yıldızsaray Hotel Restaurant)
22:30 Uzun Ev’de Parti (DJ Unknown X)


Not: Toplantılar Assos limanda Nazlıhan Otel'de gerçekleşecektir. (Tel: 286-7217385 ve 212-2912339).

Konuşmacılar hakkında kısaca:

Pınar Canevi: Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Elemanı (Profesör). Lisans derecesini Hollins College Felsefe Bölümü’nden, Yüksek Lisans derecesini Bryn Mawr College Felsefe Bölümü’nden, Doktora derecesini Emory Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden almıştır. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Metafizik, Epistemoloji, Etik, Siyaset Felsefesi, Antik Yunan Felsefesi. “Plato’s Philosophy of the Sensible Realm in the Early Dialogues” kitabının ve alanında birçok makalenin yazarıdır.

Ahmet Arslan: Ege Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi (Profesör). Lisans ve Doktora derecelerini Ankara Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden almıştır. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Metafizik, Ontoloji, Antik Yunan Felsefesi, Orta Çağ Felsefesi, İslam Felsefesi. “İlkçağ Felsefe Tarihi I”, “Felsefeye Giriş”, “Laiklik, Demokrasi ve Türkiye”, “İbni Haldun”, “Felsefe”, “İslam Felsefesi Üzerine”, “İlkçağ Felsefe Tarihi I: Başlangıçlarından Atomculara Kadar”, “İlkçağ Felsefe Tarihi II: Sofistlerden Platon’a”, “İlkçağ Felsefe Tarihi III: Aristoteles”, “Kemal Paşazade’nin Tehafüt Haşiyesi”, “Haşiye Ala’t-Tehafüt Tahlili” kitaplarının ve alanında birçok makalenin yazarıdır.

Örsan K. Öymen: Işık Üniversitesi İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Bölümü Başkanı (Profesör), Felsefe Sanat Bilim Derneği Kurucu Üye ve Yönetim Kurulu Başkanı, “Assos'ta Felsefe” projesi Kurucusu ve Direktörü. Lisans ve Doktora derecesini Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü'nden, Yüksek Lisans derecesini New York Üniversitesi (NYU) Felsefe Bölümü'nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Epistemoloji, Etik, Siyaset Felsefesi, Herakleitos, Protagoras, Gorgias, Sokrates, Platon, Epikuros, Sextus, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Nietzsche, Marx, Heidegger, Sartre. “Hume” ile “Varlık ve Kuşku” (yayına hazırlanmakta) kitaplarının ve alanında birçok makalenin yazarıdır.

Halil Turan: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Başkanı (Profesör). Lisans derecesini Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Fizik Bölümü’nden, Yüksek Lisans ve Doktora derecelerini Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Epistemoloji, Bilim Felsefesi, Ontoloji, Etik, Siyaset Felsefesi, Descartes, Locke, Rousseau, Hume, Kant, Kuhn. “Mantık Terimleri Sözlüğü” kitabının (Teo Grünberg, David Grünberg ve Adnan Onart ile birlikte) ve alanında birçok makalenin yazarıdır.

Türker Armaner: Galatasaray Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi. (Profesör). Lisans derecesini Hacettepe Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden, Yüksek Lisans derecesini Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden, Doktora derecesini Paris Saint Dennis VIII Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Estetik, Siyaset Felsefesi, 19. Yüzyıl Felsefesi, Spinoza, Hegel, Fichte, Schopenhauer, Marx, Kierkegaard, Frege. “Dalgakıran,” “Taş Hücre”, “Kıyısız” (kısa öykü), “Tahta Saplı Bıçak”, “Hüküm” (roman) ve “Tarih ve Temsil” kitaplarının ve alanında birçok makalenin yazarıdır. "Lapsus" dergisinin kurucusu ve Genel Yayın Yönetmeni'dir.

Cemil Güzey: Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi (Doçent). Lisans, Yüksek Lisans ve Doktora derecelerini İstanbul Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Ontoloji, Etik, Estetik, Mantık, Dil Felsefesi, Herakleitos, Epiktetos, Aurelius, Hobbes, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Hartmann. Alanında birçok makalenin yazarıdır.

Elif Çırakman: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi (Doçent). Lisans ve Doktora derecesini Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü'nden, Yüksek Lisans derecesini Warwick Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü'nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Etik, Siyaset Felsefesi, Hukuk Felsefesi, Aristoteles, Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Levinas. Alanında birçok makalenin yazarıdır.

Levent Kavas: Yeditepe Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi (Yardımcı Doçent). Lisans derecesini Hacettepe Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden, Yüksek Lisans ve Doktora derecesini Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Epistemoloji, Ontoloji, Bilim Felsefesi, Leibniz, Kant. “Kahve ile Nargile” kitabının ve alanında birçok makalenin yazarıdır.

June 27-30, 2016

Aristotle’s Ethics

2400th Anniversary of Aristotle’s Birth

June 27 Monday
19:00 Temple of Athena: Welcome, Blue Waters, Wine and Sunset
21:30 Dinner at the Village (Assosyal Hotel Restaurant)


June 28 Tuesday
13:30 Christopher Shields (University of Notre Dame): “Goodness as Cause”
15:00 Joachim Aufderheide (King's College London): “Aristotle and the Wrong Kinds of Pleasure”
16:30 Stephen Leighton (Queen's University): “The Place of Affect in the Nicomachean Ethics’ Understanding of Two Virtues”
18:00 Mehmet M. Erginel (Eastern Mediterranean University): “Aristotle's Practical Syllogism and the Movement of Rational Animals”
20:30 Dinner at the Harbour (Nazlıhan Hotel Restaurant)


June 29 Wednesday
13:30 Katja Vogt (Columbia University): “The Subject Matter of Ethics: A Metaphysical Reading of NE I.3.”
15:00 Maria Liatsi (University of Ioannina): “Natural Inclination to Ethics in Aristotle”
16:30 Christiana Olfert (Tufts University): “What is Practical Truth?”
18:00 Walter Cavini (University of Bologna): “Aristotle and the Ethics of Death”
19:30 Dinner (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)
22:30 Classical Music in the Ancient Theater (Anne Monika Sommer-Bloch)


July 9 Thursday
14:00 Visit to the Ancient City of Troy
21:00 Farewell Dinner (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)


PS: All talks and discussions are in English; no Turkish translation. All meetings take place at the Assos Terrace Hotel (Telephone: 90-286-7640285). Each session is 1 hour and there will be a 30 minute break in between each session.

About the speakers:

Christopher Shields: University of Notre Dame Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Aristotle, Metaphysics. He is the author of the books “Order in Multiplicity: Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle”, “Classical Philosophy: An Introduction”, “Aristotle”, “Ancient Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction”, “The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas” (with Robert Pasnau) and “Arsitotle’s De Anima” and also of numerous book chapters and articles in his area.

Walter Cavini: University of Bologna Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism, Scepticism and Ludwig Wittgenstein. He is the author of numerous book chapters and articles in his area.

Stephen Leighton: Queen's University Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Aristotle, Philosophical Psychology, Ethics. He is the author of numerous book chapters and articles in his area.

Katja Vogt: Columbia University Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Ethics, Epistemology, Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism, Scepticism. She is the author of the books “Belief and Truth: A Sceptic Reading of Plato”, “Law, Reason and the Cosmic City: Political Philosophy in the Early Stoa” and “Skepsis und Lebenspraxis: Das Pyrrhonische Leben ohne Meinungen” and also of numerous articles in her area.

Joachim Aufderheide: King's College London Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Ethics. He is the author of numerous articles in his area.

Christiana Olfert: Tufts University Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Aristotle, Early Modern Philosophy, Ethics. She is the author of the book “Aristotle on Practical Truth” (forthcoming) and of numerous articles in her area.

Maria Liatsi: University of Ioannina Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Ancient Greek Science, Plato, Aristotle, Ethics. She is the author of the books “Aristoteles, De Generatione Animalium”, “Interpretation der Antike. Die Pragmatistische Methode Historischer Forschung” and “Die Semiotische Erkenntnistheorie Platons im Siebten Brief. Eine Einführung in den Sogenannten Philosophischen Exkurs” and of numerous articles in her area.

Mehmet M. Erginel: Eastern Mediterranean University Department of Psychology. (M.A. & PhD: University of Texas –Austin- Department of Philosophy). Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Ethics. He is the author of numerous articles in his area.

5-6 Şubat 2016

Özgürlük ve Adalet

5 Şubat Cuma
13:00 Örsan K. Öymen: “Özgürlük, Adalet ve Cesaret”
14:30 Doğan Göçmen: “Thomas Hobbes’da İnsan, Adalet ve Özgürlük”
16:00 Halil Turan: “Özgürlük, Eşitlik ve Adalet: Jean-Jacques Rousseau”
17:30 Türker Armaner: “Adalet Geleceğe Dairdir”
19:30 Akşam yemeği (Nazlıhan Otel Restaurant)


6 Şubat Cumartesi
13:00 Harun Tepe: “Özgürlük mü Yoksa Adalet mi?”
14:30 Solmaz Zelyüt: “Adalet Eşitliğin Niçin Muadili Değildir?”
16:00 Sanem Yazıcıoğlu: “Özgürlük, Adalet ve Görünmeyenleri”
17:30 Barış Parkan: “Adalet ve Özgürlük Savaşımında Güç Fetişizmi”
19:30 Akşam yemeği (Yıldızsaray Otel Restaurant)
22:30 Uzun Ev’de Parti (DJ Unknown X)


Not: Toplantılar Nazlıhan Otel’de (0-286-7217385) gerçekleşecektir. Toplantının dili Türkçe’dir.

Konuşmacılar hakkında kısaca:

Örsan K. Öymen: Işık Üniversitesi İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Bölümü Başkanı (Profesör), Felsefe Sanat Bilim Derneği Kurucu Üye ve Yönetim Kurulu Başkanı, “Assos'ta Felsefe” projesi Kurucusu ve Direktörü. Lisans ve Doktora derecesini Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü'nden, Yüksek Lisans derecesini New York Üniversitesi (NYU) Felsefe Bölümü'nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Epistemoloji, Etik, Siyaset Felsefesi, Herakleitos, Protagoras, Gorgias, Sokrates, Platon, Epikuros, Sextus, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Nietzsche, Marx, Heidegger, Sartre. “Hume” kitabının yazarı ve derleyicisidir. Alanında birçok makalesi bulunmaktadır.

Harun Tepe: Hacettepe Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi (Profesör). Lisans derecesini Hacettepe Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Bölümü’nden, Yüksek Lisans ve Doktora derecelerini Hacettepe Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Epistemoloji, Ontoloji, Etik, Siyaset Felsefesi, Hukuk Felsefesi, Platon, Aristoteles, Kant, Hartmann, Habermas. “Etik ve Metaetik”, “Platon’dan Habermas’a Felsefede Doğruluk ya da Hakikat” ve “Biyoetik Terimleri Sözlüğü” (Yasemin Oğuz, Nüket Büker, Deniz Kucur ile birlikte) kitaplarının yazarıdır. Alanında birçok makalesi bulunmaktadır.

Solmaz Zelyüt: Ege Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi (Profesör). Lisans, Yüksek Lisans ve Doktora derecelerini Ege Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden almıştır. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Epistemoloji, Ontoloji, Etik, Siyaset Felsefesi, Spinoza, Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Strauss. “İki Adalet Arasında”, “Dört Adalı” ve “Spinoza” kitaplarının yazarıdır. Alanında birçok makalesi bulunmaktadır.

Halil Turan: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Başkanı (Profesör). Lisans derecesini Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Fizik Bölümü’nden, Yüksek Lisans ve Doktora derecelerini Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Epistemoloji, Bilim Felsefesi, Ontoloji, Etik, Siyaset Felsefesi, Descartes, Locke, Rousseau, Hume, Kant, Kuhn. “Mantık Terimleri Sözlüğü” kitabının yazarıdır. (Teo Grünberg, David Grünberg ve Adnan Onart ile birlikte). Alanında birçok makalesi ve çevirisi bulunmaktadır.

Türker Armaner: Galatasaray Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi. (Profesör). Lisans derecesini Hacettepe Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden, Yüksek Lisans derecesini Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden, Doktora derecesini Paris Saint Dennis VIII Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Estetik, Siyaset Felsefesi, 19. Yüzyıl Felsefesi, Dil Felsefesi, Frege, Wittgenstein, Fichte, Schopenhauer, Marx, Kierkegaard. “Dalgakıran,” “Taş Hücre”, “Kıyısız” (kısa öykü), “Tahta Saplı Bıçak” (roman) ve “Tarih ve Temsil” kitaplarının yazarıdır. Alanında birçok makalesi ve çevirisi bulunmaktadır. "Lapsus" dergisinin kurucusu ve Genel Yayın Yönetmeni'dir.

Doğan Göçmen: Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi (Profesör). Lisans derecesini Hamburg Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Bölümü’nden, Doktora derecesini Edinburgh Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü’nden Felsefe alanında aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Siyaset Felsefesi, Ekonomi Felsefesi, Hobbes, Adam Smith, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Husserl. “Modern Felsefe: Tarihsel Anlamı, Güncel Mirası. Adam Smith, Hegel ve Marx” ve “The Adam Smith Problem: Reconciling Human Nature and Society in the ‘Theory of Moral Sentiments’ and ‘Wealth of Nations’” kitaplarının yazarıdır. Alanında birçok makalesi bulunmaktadır.

Sanem Yazıcıoğlu: İstanbul Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi (Doçent). Lisans, Yüksek Lisans ve Doktora derecelerini İstanbul Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Metafizik, Fenomenoloji, Hermeneutik, Siyaset Felsefesi, Estetik, Aristoteles, Kant, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, Hannah Arendt. Alanında birçok kitap içinde bölümün ve makalenin yazarı ve çeşitli kitapların editörüdür.

Barış Parkan: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi (Doçent). Lisans derecesini Bennington Koleji Felsefe Bölümü’nden, Yüksek Lisans derecesini Milwaukee Wisconsin Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden, Doktora derecesini Texas Üniversitesi (Austin) Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Siyaset Felsefesi, Etik, Uygulamalı Etik, Ontoloji, Marx, Hegel, Whitehead. “Marx” kitabının yazarı ve derleyicisidir. Alanında birçok makalesi bulunmaktadır.

July 6-9, 2015

The Concept of “Ataraxia” in Stoicism, Epicureanism and Scepticism

July 6 Monday
19:00 Temple of Athena: Welcome, Blue Waters, Wine and Sunset
21:30 Dinner at the Village (Assosyal Hotel Restaurant)


July 7 Tuesday
13:30 Monte R. Johnson (University of California San Diego): “Ataraxia and Euthumia: Democritus’ Influence on Hellenistic Philosophy”
15:00 Gisela Striker (Harvard University): “Ataraxia and the Stoics”
16:30 Carlos Levy (University of Paris-Sorbonne): “Ataraxia and Its Middle Platonic Sequels”
18:00 David Wolfsdorf (Temple University): “Epicurus on the Telos of the Mind”
20:30 Dinner at the Harbour (Nazlıhan Hotel Restaurant)


July 8 Wednesday
13:30 Richard Bett (Johns Hopkins University): “What’s So Special About Ataraxia?”
15:00 Svavar H. Svavarsson (University of Iceland): “The End of Scepticism According to Sextus Empiricus”
16:30 Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins University): “The Sceptic’s Way”
18:00 Örsan K. Öymen (Işık University): “Doubt and Anxiety”
19:30 Dinner (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)
22:30 Classical Music in the Ancient Theater (Anne Monika Sommer-Bloch)


July 9 Thursday
14:00 Visit to the Ancient City of Troy
21:00 Farewell Dinner (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)


PS: All talks and discussions are in English; no Turkish translation. All meetings take place at the Assos Terrace Hotel (Telephone: 90-286-7640285). Each session is 1 hour and there will be a 30 minute break in between each session.

Brief information about the speakers:

Gisela Striker: Harvard University Department of Philosophy. Areas of research and interest: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Hellenistic Philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism, Epicureanism, Scepticism. She is the author of the book “Essays On Hellenistic Epistemology and Ethics” and also of numerous articles and book chapters.

Carlos Levy: University of Paris-Sorbonne Department of Philosophy. Areas of research and interest: Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, the relationship between philosophy, literature and religion, Cicero, Seneca, Philo of Alexandria, Sextus Empiricus. He is the author of the books “Cicero Academicus”, “Les Philosophies Hellénistiques”, "Le Presocratiques Latins. Heraclite” (with Lucia Saudelli), “Les Scepticismes” , “Devenir Dieux” and also of numerous articles and book chapters.

Michael Williams: Johns Hopkins University Department of Philosophy. Areas of research and interest: Epistemology, Ancient and Modern Scepticism, Philosophy of Language, History of Modern Philosophy. He is the author of the books “Groundless Belief”, “Unnatural Doubts” and “Problems of Knowledge” and also of numerous articles.

Richard Bett: Johns Hopkins University Department of Philosophy (Chairman). Areas of research and interest: Epistemology, Ethics, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Plato, Stoicism, Epicureanism, Scepticism, Friedrich Nietzsche. He is the author of the book “Pyrrho: His Antecedents and His Legacy” and of numerous book chapters and articles and also editor of “The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism”.

David Wolfsdorf: Temple University Department of Philosophy. Areas of research and interest: Ethics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Psychology, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Roman Philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus. He is the author of the books “Pleasure in Ancient Greek Philosophy” and “Trials of Reason: Plato and the Crafting of Philosophy” and of numerous articles and book chapters.

Svavar H. Svavarsson: University of Iceland Department of Philosophy. Areas of research and interest: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Sextus Empiricus, Scepticism. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters.

Monte R. Johnson: University of California San Diego Department of Philosophy. Areas of research and interest: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Democritus, Aristotle. He is the author of the book “Aristotle on Teleology” and of various articles.

Örsan K. Öymen: Isik University (Feyziye Mektepleri Foundation) Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (Chairman). Founder and Director of the project “Philosophy in Assos” and Founder and President of the Association of Philosophy, Art and Science. Areas of research and interest: Epistemology, Ethics, Sextus Empiricus, David Hume, Friedrich Nietzsche. He is the author and editor of the book “Hume” and of numerous articles.

6-7 Şubat 2015

Pozitivizm Nedir? Ne Değildir?

6 Şubat Cuma
14:00 Örsan K. Öymen: “Pozitivizm, Deneyimcilik ve Hume”
15:30 Erdinç Sayan: “Pozitivizm Eleştirisi Mi, Bilim ve Akıl Düşmanlığı Mı?”
17:00 Samet Bağçe: “Viyana Çevresi ve Otto Neurath”
19:00 Akşam Yemeği (Nazlıhan Otel Restaurant)


7 Şubat Cumartesi
13:00 Kerem Cankoçak: “Pozitif Bilimler ve Pozitivizm”
14:30 Ufuk Yaltıraklı: “Pozitivizmin Hermeneutik Sınırları”
16:00 Cemil Güzey: “Pozitivist Ahlak”
17:30 Yaman Örs: “Bir ‘Suç’ Olarak Pozitivizm”
19:30 Akşam Yemeği (Yıldızsaray Otel Restaurant)
22:30 Uzun Ev’de Parti (DJ Unknown X)


Konuşmacılar hakkında kısaca:

Örsan K. Öymen: Işık Üniversitesi İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Bölümü Başkanı (Profesör), Felsefe Sanat Bilim Derneği Kurucu Üye ve Yönetim Kurulu Başkanı, “Assos'ta Felsefe” projesi Kurucusu ve Direktörü. Lisans ve Doktora derecesini Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü'nden, Yüksek Lisans derecesini New York Üniversitesi (NYU) Felsefe Bölümü'nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Epistemoloji, Etik, Siyaset Felsefesi, Kuşkuculuk, Varoluşçuluk, Herakleitos, Protagoras, Gorgias, Sokrates, Platon, Epikuros, Sextus, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Nietzsche, Marx, Heidegger, Sartre. “Hume” kitabının yazarı ve derleyicisidir. Alanında birçok makalesi bulunmaktadır.

Yaman Örs: Ankara Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Deontoloji Bölümü emekli Öğretim Üyesi. (Profesör). Lisans ve Tıpta Uzmanlık Doktora derecelerini Ankara Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi’nden, Doktora derecesini Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden almıştır. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Tıp Tarihi, Deontoloji, Tıp Etiği, Biyoetik, Bilim Felsefesi, Biyoloji Felsefesi, Dil Felsefesi, Reichenbach. “Bilimsel Felsefenin Işığında”, “Süreç Kuram ve Kavram Olarak Evrim”, “Felsefeden Sorumlu Devlet Bakanlığı”, “Atatürk, Felsefe ve Yaşam” kitaplarının yazarıdır. Alanında birçok makalesi bulunmaktadır.

Erdinç Sayan: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi (Profesör). Lisans derecesini Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Endüstri Mühendisliği Bölümü’nden, Yüksek Lisans derecesini Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden, Doktora derecesini Ohio State Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Bilim Felsefesi, Fizik Felsefesi, Epistemoloji, Mantık Felsefesi, Matematik Felsefesi, Zihin Felsefesi, Analitik Metafizik. Alanında birçok makalesi bulunmaktadır.

Kerem Cankoçak: İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Fizik Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi. (Doçent). Lisans derecesini Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Fizik Bölümü’nden, Yüksek Lisans derecesini Stockholm Üniversitesi Fizik Bölümü’nden, Doktora derecesini Ege Üniversitesi Fizik Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Yüksek enerji fiziği, “büyük patlama” kuramı, CERN deneyleri, Bilim Tarihi, Bilim Felsefesi. CERN’deki “Büyük Patlama” (“Big-Bang”) kuramı deneylerine ve çalışmalarına katılan Türk bilim insanlarından birisidir. “50 Soruda Maddenin Evrimi” kitabının ve alanında birçok makalenin ve kitap içinde bölümün yazarıdır.

Samet Bağçe: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi. (Doçent). Lisans derecesini İstanbul Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden, Yüksek Lisans ve Doktora derecesini London School of Economics (LSE) Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Bilim Felsefesi, Geometri Felsefesi, Epistemoloji, Öklid, Kant, Poincare, Russell, Einstein, Reichenbach. Alanında birçok makalesi bulunmaktadır.

Cemil Güzey: Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi (Doçent). Lisans, Yüksek Lisans ve Doktora derecelerini İstanbul Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Ontoloji, Etik, Estetik, Mantık, Dil Felsefesi, Herakleitos, Epiktetos, Aurelius, Hobbes, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Hartmann. Alanında birçok makalesi bulunmaktadır.

Ufuk Yaltıraklı: Berlin Evangelik Yüksek Okulu (EHB) ve Berlin Katolik Sosyal Bilimler Yüksek Okulu (KHSB) Öğretim Elemanı. (Doktor). Lisans ve Doktora derecelerini İstanbul Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Metafizik, Ontoloji, Etik, Siyaset Felsefesi, Fenomenoloji, Hermeneutik, Felsefi Danışmanlık ve Psikoterapi, Hegel. Alanında birçok makalesi bulunmaktadır.

7-8 Şubat 2014

Bilim ve Din

7 Şubat Cuma
13:00 Örsan K. Öymen: “Bilim ve Din Karşıtlığının Zorunluluğu Üzerine”
14:30 Halil Turan: "Dinlerin Bilim Düşmanlığı: Eski Yunan'dan Modern Döneme İbretlik Öyküler"
16:00 Erdinç Sayan: “Antropik Kozmolojik İlke: Tanrı’nın En Son Vahyi Fizikçilere mi İndi?”
17:30 Kerem Cankoçak: “Modern Kozmoloji ve Teizm Çelişkisi”
19:30 Akşam Yemeği (Nazlıhan Otel Restaurant)

8 Şubat Cumartesi
12:00 Doğan Özlem: “Kültürün İki Uzlaşmaz Bileşeni: Bilim ve Din”
13:30 Kurtuluş Dinçer: “İnanç Felsefe Yoluyla Çürütülebilir mi?”
15:00 Oruç Aruoba: “Haydi Biraz Kuhn’laşalım”
16:30 Ayhan Sol: “Bilim ve Din Çatışınca”
18:00 Uluğ Nutku: "Bilim-Din Karşılaştırması Üzerine"
19:30 Akşam Yemeği (Yıldızsaray Otel Restaurant)
22:30 Uzun Ev’de Parti (DJ Örsan)


Konuşmacılar hakkında kısaca:

Doğan Özlem: Yeditepe Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi. (Profesör). Yüksek Lisans ve Doktora derecesini İstanbul Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Etik, Siyaset Felsefesi, Bilim Felsefesi, Estetik, Hermeneutik, Tarih Felsefesi. “Etik: Ahlak Felsefesi”, “Siyaset, Bilim ve Tarih Bilinci”, “Metinlerle Hermeneutik Dersleri”, “Felsefe ve Bilimler”, “Bilim, Tarih ve Yorum”, “Mantık: Klasik/Sembolik Matık, Mantık Felsefesi”, “Kültür Bilimleri ve Kültür Felsefesi”, “Tarih Felsefesi”, “Max Weber’de Bilim ve Sosyoloji”, “Felsefe Yazıları”, “Kavramlar ve Tarihleri”, “Bilim Felsefesi”, “Felsefe ve Tin Bilimleri” kitaplarının yazarıdır. Alanında birçok çeviri, derleme kitabı ve makalesi yayınlandı.

Uluğ Nutku: Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden emekli olmuştur. (Profesör). Lisans ve Doktora derecelerini İstanbul Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden almıştır. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Felsefi Antropoloji, Epistemoloji, Etik. Descartes, Locke, Leibniz, Spinoza, Hume, Kant. “İnanmanın Felsefesi”, “Daha Güncel Felsefe”, “Felsefe ve Güncellik”, “Ur Uruk Urşu”, "Gezgin Felsefe", “İnsan Felsefesi Çalışmaları” kitaplarının yazarıdır. Alanında birçok makalesi ve çevirisi bulunmaktadır.

Oruç Aruoba: Yüksek Lisans ve Doktora derecesini Hacettepe Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Epistemoloji, Etik, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Marx, Heidegger, Sartre ve Wittgenstein. “Benlik”, “Sayıklamalar”, “Kesik Esintiler”, “Geç Gelen Ağıtlar”, “Ol / An”, “Doğançay'ın Çınarları”, “Zilif”, “Çengelköy Defteri”, “İle İlişki Defteri”, “Yakın”, “Ne Ki Hiç Haikular”, “Tümceler Bir Yerlerden Bir Zamanlar”, “De ki İşte”, “Yürüme”, “Uzak”, “Hani”, “Olmayalı”, “Ne Otuz Altı Tanzaku” kitaplarının yazarıdır. Alanında birçok makalesi ve çevirisi bulunmaktadır.

Kurtuluş Dinçer: Hacettepe Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi. (Profesör). Yüksek Lisans ve Doktora derecesini Hacettepe Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden almıştır. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Bilim Felsefesi, Bilim Tarihi, Epistemoloji, Hume, Kant, Hempel, Popper, Kuhn, Feyerabend, Lakatos. “Kısaca Felsefe” kitabının ve alanında birçok makalenin yazarıdır. Alanında birçok çevirisi bulunmaktadır.

Halil Turan: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi (Profesör). Yüksek Lisans ve Doktora derecelerini Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Epistemoloji, Ontoloji, Etik, Bilim Felsefesi, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Kuhn. “Mantık Terimleri Sözlüğü” kitabının yazarıdır. (Teo Grünberg, David Grünberg ve Adnan Onart ile birlikte). Alanında birçok makalesi ve çevirisi bulunmaktadır.

Ayhan Sol: Orta Doğu Teknik Ünversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi. (Profesör). Doktora derecesini Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden almıştır. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Epistemoloji, Bilim Felsefesi, Biyoloji Felsefesi, Çevre Felsefesi, Etik. Alanında birçok makalesi ve çevirisi bulunmaktadır.

Erdinç Sayan: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi (Doçent). Yüksek Lisans derecesini Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden, Doktora derecesini Ohio State Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Bilim Felsefesi, Fizik Felsefesi, Epistemoloji, Mantık Felsefesi, Matematik Felsefesi, Zihin Felsefesi, Analitik Metafizik. Alanında birçok makalesi bulunmaktadır.

Örsan K. Öymen: Işık Üniversitesi İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi (Profesör), Felsefe Sanat Bilim Derneği Yönetim Kurulu Başkanı, Assos'ta Felsefe projesinin kurucusu ve direktörü. Lisans ve Doktora derecesini Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü'nden, Yüksek Lisans derecesini New York Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü'nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Epistemoloji, Etik, Siyaset Felsefesi, Kuşkuculuk, Varoluşçuluk, Sextus, Hume, Nietzsche, Marx, Heidegger, Sartre. “Hume” kitabının yazarı ve derleyicisidir. Alanında birçok makalesi bulunmaktadır.

Kerem Cankoçak: İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Fizik Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi. (Doçent). Lisans derecesini Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Fizik Bölümü’nden, Yüksek Lisans derecesini Stockholm Üniversitesi Fizik Bölümü’nden, Doktora derecesini Ege Üniversitesi Fizik Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Yüksek enerji fiziği, “büyük patlama” kuramı, CERN deneyleri, bilim tarihi ve felsefesi. CERN’deki “Büyük Patlama” (“Big-Bang”) kuramı deneylerine ve çalışmalarına katılan Türk bilim adamlarından birisidir. “50 Soruda Maddenin Evrimi” kitabının ve alanında birçok makalenin ve kitap içinde bölümün yazarıdır.

June 30 – July 3 2014

Philosophy of Mind

June 30 Monday
19:00 Temple of Athena: Welcome, Blue Waters, Wine and Sunset
21:30 Dinner at the Harbour (Nazlıhan Hotel Restaurant)

July 1 Tuesday
13:30 Barry Smith (University of London / Birkbeck): “What Can We Know About Our Own Experience?”
15:00 David Papineau (King’s College London): “The Nature of Sensory Experience”
16:30 Paul Boghossian (New York University): “Intuition and Experience”
18:00 Shaun Gallagher (University of Memphis): “Seeing Without an I: IEM and the First-Person Perspective”
20:30 Dinner at the Village (Assosyal Hotel Restaurant)

July 2 Wednesday
13:30 Michael Tye (University of Texas at Austin): “Can Honeybees Feel Anxious?”
15:00 Paul Horwich (New York University): “Qualia Skepticism”
16:30 Bill Wringe (Bilkent University): “Emotion and Perception: A Fruitful Analogy?”
18:00 Daniel Hutto (University of Wollongong / University of Hertfordshire): “Rethinking the Cognitive Revolution”
19:30 Dinner (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)
22:30 Classical Music in the Ancient Theater (Anne Monika Sommer-Bloch)

July 3 Thursday
15:00 Visit to the Ancient City of Troy
21:00 Farewell Dinner (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)

PS: All talks and discussions are in English; no Turkish translation. All meetings take place at the Assos Terrace Hotel (Telephone: 90-286-7640285). Each session is 1 hour and there will be a 30 minute break in between each session.

About the speakers:

David Papineau: King’s College London Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Mathematics. He is the author of the books “For Science in the Social Sciences”, “Theory and Meaning”, “Reality and Representation”, “Philosophical Naturalism”, “Introducing Consciousness”, “Thinking About Consciousness”, “The Roots of Reason: Philosophical Essays on Rationality, Evolution and Probability” and “Philosophical Devices: Proofs, Probabilities, Possibilities and Sets” and the editor of the books “The Philosophy of Science”, “Philosophy” and “Essays on Teleosemantics” (with Graham Macdonald) and also the author of numerous articles. He served as President of the “British Society for the Philosophy of Science” and “The Mind Association” and is currently the President of the “Aristotelian Society”.

Shaun Gallagher: University of Memphis Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Philosophy of Mind, Phenomenology, Cognitive Science, Hermeneutics, Philosophy of Time. He is the author of the books “Phenomenology”, “The Phenomenological Mind” (with D. Zahavi), “Brainstorming: Views and Interviews on the Mind”, “How the Body Shapes the Mind” , “The Inordinance of Time” and “Hermeneutics and Education” and the editor of the books “Oxford Handbook of the Self”, “Hegel, History and Interpretation”, “Merleau-Ponty, Hermeneutics and Post Modernism”, “Does Consciousness Cause Baheaviour?” (with W. Banks, S. Pockett), “Models of the Self” (with J. Shear), “Handbook of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science” (with D. Schmicking) and “Ipseity and Alterity: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Intersubjectivity” (with S. Watson) and also the author of numerous articles.

Michael Tye: University of Texas (at Austin) Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language and Metaphysics. He is the author of the books “The Metaphysics of Mind”, “The Imagery Debate”, “Ten Problems of Consciousness: A Representational Theory of the Phenomenal Mind”, “Color, Consciousness and Content”, “Consciousness and Persons: Unity and Identity”, “Consciousness Revisited: Materialism Without Phenomenal Concepts” and “Seven Puzzles of Thought: An Originalist Theory of Concepts” (with Mark Sainsbury) and also the author of numerous articles.

Paul Horwich: New York University Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Logic, Metaphysics. He is the author of the books “Probability and Evidence”, “Asymmetries in Time”, “Truth”, “Meaning”, “From a Deflationary Point of View”, “Reflections on Meaning” and “Truth-Meaning-Reality” and also of numerous articles.

Daniel Hutto: University of Wollongong / University of Hertfordshire Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Language. He is the author of the books “The Presence of Mind”, “Beyond Physicalism”, “Wittgenstein and the End of Philosophy”, “Folk Psychological Narratives” and “Radicalizing Enactivism: Basic Minds Without Content” (with Erik Myin) and the editor of the books “Folk-Psychology Re-Assessed”, “Narratives and Understanding Persons” and “Narrative and Folk-Psychology” and also the author of numerous articles.

Paul Boghossian: New York University (NYU) Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language. He is the author of the books “Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism” and “Content and Justification: Philosophical Essays” and the editor of the book “New Essays on the A Priori” (with Christopher Peacocke) and the author of numerous articles.

Barry Smith: University of London / Birkbeck Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Language. He is the author of the books “Realism and Anti-Realism: An Enquiry into Meaning, Truth and Objectivity” and “The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language” (with Ernest Lepore) and the editor of the books “Knowing Our Own Minds” (with Crispin Wright and Cynthia Macdonald ) and “Questions of Taste. The Philosophy of Wine” and also the author of numerous articles. He prepared and hosted the BBC radio programme “Mysteries of the Brain”.

Bill Wringe: Bilkent University Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language and Philosophy of Science. He is the author of various articles.

7-8 Şubat 2014

Bilim ve Din

7 Şubat Cuma
13:00 Örsan K. Öymen: “Bilim ve Din Karşıtlığının Zorunluluğu Üzerine”
14:30 Halil Turan: "Dinlerin Bilim Düşmanlığı: Eski Yunan'dan Modern Döneme İbretlik Öyküler"
16:00 Erdinç Sayan: “Antropik Kozmolojik İlke: Tanrı’nın En Son Vahyi Fizikçilere mi İndi?”
17:30 Kerem Cankoçak: “Modern Kozmoloji ve Teizm Çelişkisi”
19:30 Akşam Yemeği (Nazlıhan Otel Restaurant)

8 Şubat Cumartesi
12:00 Doğan Özlem: “Kültürün İki Uzlaşmaz Bileşeni: Bilim ve Din”
13:30 Kurtuluş Dinçer: “İnanç Felsefe Yoluyla Çürütülebilir mi?”
15:00 Oruç Aruoba: “Haydi Biraz Kuhn’laşalım”
16:30 Ayhan Sol: “Bilim ve Din Çatışınca”
18:00 Uluğ Nutku: "Bilim-Din Karşılaştırması Üzerine"
19:30 Akşam Yemeği (Yıldızsaray Otel Restaurant)
22:30 Uzun Ev’de Parti (DJ Örsan)


Not: Tüm konuşmalar ve diyaloglar Türkçe’dir. Toplantılar Assos limanda Nazlıhan Otel’de gerçekleşecektir.

Konuşmacılar hakkında kısaca:

Doğan Özlem: Yeditepe Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi. (Profesör). Yüksek Lisans ve Doktora derecesini İstanbul Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Etik, Siyaset Felsefesi, Bilim Felsefesi, Estetik, Hermeneutik, Tarih Felsefesi. “Etik: Ahlak Felsefesi”, “Siyaset, Bilim ve Tarih Bilinci”, “Metinlerle Hermeneutik Dersleri”, “Felsefe ve Bilimler”, “Bilim, Tarih ve Yorum”, “Mantık: Klasik/Sembolik Matık, Mantık Felsefesi”, “Kültür Bilimleri ve Kültür Felsefesi”, “Tarih Felsefesi”, “Max Weber’de Bilim ve Sosyoloji”, “Felsefe Yazıları”, “Kavramlar ve Tarihleri”, “Bilim Felsefesi”, “Felsefe ve Tin Bilimleri” kitaplarının yazarıdır. Alanında birçok çeviri, derleme kitabı ve makalesi yayınlandı.

Uluğ Nutku: Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden emekli olmuştur. (Profesör). Lisans ve Doktora derecelerini İstanbul Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden almıştır. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Felsefi Antropoloji, Epistemoloji, Etik. Descartes, Locke, Leibniz, Spinoza, Hume, Kant. “İnanmanın Felsefesi”, “Daha Güncel Felsefe”, “Felsefe ve Güncellik”, “Ur Uruk Urşu”, "Gezgin Felsefe", “İnsan Felsefesi Çalışmaları” kitaplarının yazarıdır. Alanında birçok makalesi ve çevirisi bulunmaktadır.

Oruç Aruoba: Yüksek Lisans ve Doktora derecesini Hacettepe Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Epistemoloji, Etik, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Marx, Heidegger, Sartre ve Wittgenstein. “Benlik”, “Sayıklamalar”, “Kesik Esintiler”, “Geç Gelen Ağıtlar”, “Ol / An”, “Doğançay'ın Çınarları”, “Zilif”, “Çengelköy Defteri”, “İle İlişki Defteri”, “Yakın”, “Ne Ki Hiç Haikular”, “Tümceler Bir Yerlerden Bir Zamanlar”, “De ki İşte”, “Yürüme”, “Uzak”, “Hani”, “Olmayalı”, “Ne Otuz Altı Tanzaku” kitaplarının yazarıdır. Alanında birçok makalesi ve çevirisi bulunmaktadır.

Kurtuluş Dinçer: Hacettepe Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi. (Profesör). Yüksek Lisans ve Doktora derecesini Hacettepe Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden almıştır. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Bilim Felsefesi, Bilim Tarihi, Epistemoloji, Hume, Kant, Hempel, Popper, Kuhn, Feyerabend, Lakatos. “Kısaca Felsefe” kitabının ve alanında birçok makalenin yazarıdır. Alanında birçok çevirisi bulunmaktadır.

Halil Turan: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi (Profesör). Yüksek Lisans ve Doktora derecelerini Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Epistemoloji, Ontoloji, Etik, Bilim Felsefesi, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Kuhn. “Mantık Terimleri Sözlüğü” kitabının yazarıdır. (Teo Grünberg, David Grünberg ve Adnan Onart ile birlikte). Alanında birçok makalesi ve çevirisi bulunmaktadır.

Ayhan Sol: Orta Doğu Teknik Ünversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi. (Profesör). Doktora derecesini Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden almıştır. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Epistemoloji, Bilim Felsefesi, Biyoloji Felsefesi, Çevre Felsefesi, Etik. Alanında birçok makalesi ve çevirisi bulunmaktadır.

Erdinç Sayan: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi (Doçent). Yüksek Lisans derecesini Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden, Doktora derecesini Ohio State Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Bilim Felsefesi, Fizik Felsefesi, Epistemoloji, Mantık Felsefesi, Matematik Felsefesi, Zihin Felsefesi, Analitik Metafizik. Alanında birçok makalesi bulunmaktadır.

Örsan K. Öymen: Işık Üniversitesi İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi (Profesör), Felsefe Sanat Bilim Derneği Yönetim Kurulu Başkanı, Assos'ta Felsefe projesinin kurucusu ve direktörü. Lisans ve Doktora derecesini Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü'nden, Yüksek Lisans derecesini New York Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü'nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Epistemoloji, Etik, Siyaset Felsefesi, Kuşkuculuk, Varoluşçuluk, Sextus, Hume, Nietzsche, Marx, Heidegger, Sartre. “Hume” kitabının yazarı ve derleyicisidir. Alanında birçok makalesi bulunmaktadır.

Kerem Cankoçak: İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Fizik Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi. (Doçent). Lisans derecesini Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Fizik Bölümü’nden, Yüksek Lisans derecesini Stockholm Üniversitesi Fizik Bölümü’nden, Doktora derecesini Ege Üniversitesi Fizik Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Yüksek enerji fiziği, “büyük patlama” kuramı, CERN deneyleri, bilim tarihi ve felsefesi. CERN’deki “Büyük Patlama” (“Big-Bang”) kuramı deneylerine ve çalışmalarına katılan Türk bilim adamlarından birisidir. “50 Soruda Maddenin Evrimi” kitabının ve alanında birçok makalenin ve kitap içinde bölümün yazarıdır.

July 1-4, 2013

Friedrich Nietzsche

July 1, Monday
19:00 Temple of Athena: Welcome, Blue Waters, Wine & Sunset
21:30 Dinner at the Harbour (Nazlıhan Hotel Restaurant)

July 2, Tuesday
11:30 John Richardson (New York University): "Nietzsche's Naturalized Values"
13:00 Kenneth Gemes (Birbeck College): “Nietzsche on the Value of Truth”
14:30 Alexander Aichele (Martin Luther University): "Causation and Reality: Nietzsche on What There Is."
16:00 Örsan K. Öymen (Işık University): “Nietzsche’s Scepticism”
17:30 Christa Davis Acampora (Hunter College): "Nietzsche's Critical Philosophy"
19:00 Werner Stegmaier (Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald): “Subject(iv)ity: Nietzsche, Before and After”
20:30 Dinner at the Village (Assosyal Hotel Restaurant)

July 3, Wednesday
12:00 Ivan Soll (University Of Wisconsin-Madison): "Nietzsche on Pleasure and Power."
13:30 Simon May (King’s College London): “Does Nietzsche Affirm Life?”
15:00 Oruç Aruoba (Independent Researcher): "A Key to Nietzsche: Death."
16:30 Gary Shapiro (University of Richmond): "The Time of the Political After World-History."
18:00 Rainer Hanshe (Independent Researcher): “Zarathustra’s Stillness: Dreaming and the Art of Incubation”
19:30 Dinner (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)
22:30 Classical Music in the Ancient Theater (Anne Monika Sommer-Bloch)
23:15 Symposium in the Ancient Theater with Dionysos (Oruç Aruoba)

July 4, Thursday
15:00 Visit to the ancient city of Troy
21:15 Farewell Dinner (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)

PS: All sessions are in English. There is no translation. All meetings take place at the Assos Terrace Hotel. (tel: 90-286-7640285). The duration of each session is 1 hour (including discussion) and there is a 30 minute break between each session. There is a free shuttle between Assos Harbour-Assos Village-Assos Kadirga-Assos Terrace Hotel. The bus schedule will be sent to those who make an on-line application via the web site.

About the speakers:

John Richardson: New York University (NYU) Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: 19th and 20th century European Continental Philosophy, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Darwin and Aristotle. He is the author of the books “Existential Epistemology: A Heideggerian Critique of the Cartesian Project”, “Nietzsche’s System”, “Nietzsche’s New Darwinism”, “Heidegger” and “The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche” (with Kenneth Gemes) and also the author of numerous articles.

Kenneth Gemes: Birbeck College (London) Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Philosophy of Science, Philosophical Logic, Epistemology, Nietzsche and Freud. He is the author of the book “The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche” (with John Richardson) and the editor of the book “Nietzsche on Freedom and Autonomy” (with Simon May) and also the author of numerous articles.

Alexander Aichele: Martin Luther University Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Metaphysics, Aesthetics, Ethics, Epistemology, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Hermeneutics, Plato, Aristotle, Kant and Nietzsche. He is the author of the books “Philosophie als Spiel: Platon-Kant-Nietzsche” and “Ontologie des Nicht-Seienden: Aristoteles' Metaphysik der Bewegung” and also the author of numerous articles.

Örsan K. Öymen: Işık University (Istanbul) Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. (Chairman). Areas of interest and research: Epistemology, Ethics, Scepticism, Existentialism, Sextus Empiricus, Hume, Nietzsche, Marx, Heidegger and Sartre. He is the author and editor of the book “Hume” and also the author of numerous articles. He is also the founder and director of the project “Philosophy in Assos”.

Christa Davis Acampora: City University of New York Hunter College Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Modern European Continental Philosophy, Moral Psychology, Political Philosophy, Nietzsche and Heidegger. She is the author of the books “Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil: A Reader’s Guide” (with Keith Ansell Pearson) and “Contesting Nietzsche” and also the author of numerous articles.

Werner Stegmaier: Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Ethics, Aesthetics, Hermeneutics, Philosophy of Religion, Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Dilthey, Derrida and Levinas. He is the author of the books “Der Substanzbegriff der Metaphysik. Aristoteles - Descartes –Leibniz”, “Bedingungen der Zukunft. Ein naturwissenschaftlich-philosophischer Dialog” (with Karl Ulmer ve Wolf Hafele), “Philosophie der Fluktuanz. Dilthey und Nietzsche”, “Wirtschaftsethik als Dialog und Diskurs” , “Nietzsches ‘Genealogie der Moral’”, “Interpretationen. Hauptwerke der Philosophie. Von Kant bis Nietzsche” , “Levinas”, “Philosophie der Orientierung”, “Nietzsche zur Einführung” and “Nietzsches Befreiung der Philosophie” and also the author of numerous articles.

Ivan Soll: University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Metaphysics, Ethics, Aesthetics, Existentialism, Nietzsche, Sartre, Freud, Hegel, Schopenhauer and Camus. He is the author of the book "Introduction to Hegel's Metaphysics" and also the author of numerous articles.

Simon May: King’s College London Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Ethics, German Idealism, Philosophy of Emotions, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Heidegger. He is the author of the books “Love: A History” , “Nietzsche's Ethics and his War on ‘Morality’” and “Thinking Aloud: A Collection of Aphorisms” (which received the Book of the Year Price of the Financial Times Newspaper in 2009). He is also the editor of “Nietzsche on Freedom and Autonomy” (with Kenneth Gemes) and the author of numerous articles.

Oruç Aruoba: Areas of interest and research: Epistemology, Ethics, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Marx, Heidegger and Wittgenstein. He is the author of the books “Benlik”, “Sayıklamalar”, “Kesik Esintiler”, “Geç Gelen Ağıtlar”, “Ol / An”, “Doğançay'ın Çınarları”, “Zilif”, “Çengelköy Defteri”, “İle İlişki Defteri”, “Yakın”, “Ne Ki Hiç Haikular”, “Tümceler Bir Yerlerden Bir Zamanlar”, “De ki İşte”, “Yürüme”, “Uzak”, “Hani”, “Olmayalı”, “Ne Otuz Altı Tanzaku”. He translated Nietzsche’s “Anti-Christ” from the German to the Turkish. He is also the author of numerous articles.

Gary Shapiro: University of Richmond Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Ethics, Aesthetics, European Continental Philosophy, American Philosophy, Kant, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Hegel, Peirce, Gadamer, Habermas, Derrida and Foucault. He is the author of the books “Archaeologies of Vision: Foucault and Nietzsche on Seeing and Saying”, “Earthwards: Robert Smithson and Art After Babel”, “Alcyone: Nietzsche on Gifts, Noise, and Women” and “Nietzschean Narratives” and also the author of numerous articles.

Rainer Hanshe: Areas of interest and research: Ethics, Aesthetics, Philosophy and Literature and Nietzsche. He is the author of the books “The Acolytes” and “The Abdication” and also the author of numerous articles. He is the co-founder of “The Nietzsche Circle” based in New York.

  1-2 Şubat 2013

Felsefe, Tanrı ve Din

1 Şubat Cuma
13:00 Halil Turan: “Eski Çağ’da Tanrılar, Tanrı, Tanrısızlık ve Ahlak”
14:30 Türker Armaner: “Tapınak Yıkılırken Spinoza”
16:00 Örsan K. Öymen: “Hume’un Agnostisizmi ve Nietzsche’nin Ateizmi”
17:30 Barış Parkan: “Feuerbach, Marx ve Kierkegaard’da Din ve Bireyin Oluşumu”
19:30 Akşam Yemeği (Grand Assos Otel Restaurant)

2 Şubat Cumartesi
13:00 Ayhan Sol: “Natüralizm, Ateizm ve Darwinizm”
14:30 Cemil Güzey: “Şair, Sezgi ve Hakikat”
16:00 Oruç Aruoba: “‘Tanrı’ Nasıl ‘Öldü’?”
17:30 Uluğ Nutku: “Tanrı İnancı ve Felsefe”
19:30 Akşam Yemeği (Nazlıhan Otel Restaurant)
22:30 Uzun Ev’de Parti (DJ Örsan & DJ Resul)

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Konuşmacılar hakkında kısaca:

Uluğ Nutku: Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden emekli olmuştur. (Profesör). Lisans ve Doktora derecelerini İstanbul Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden almıştır. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Felsefi Antropoloji, Epistemoloji, Etik. Descartes, Locke, Leibniz, Spinoza, Hume, Kant. “İnanmanın Felsefesi”, “Daha Güncel Felsefe”, “Felsefe ve Güncellik”, “Ur Uruk Urşu”, "Gezgin Felsefe", “İnsan Felsefesi Çalışmaları” kitaplarının yazarıdır. Alanında birçok makalesi ve çevirisi bulunmaktadır.

Oruç Aruoba: Yüksek Lisans ve Doktora derecesini Hacettepe Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Epistemoloji, Etik, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Marx, Heidegger, Sartre ve Wittgenstein. “Benlik”, “Sayıklamalar”, “Kesik Esintiler”, “Geç Gelen Ağıtlar”, “Ol / An”, “Doğançay'ın Çınarları”, “Zilif”, “Çengelköy Defteri”, “İle İlişki Defteri”, “Yakın”, “Ne Ki Hiç Haikular”, “Tümceler Bir Yerlerden Bir Zamanlar”, “De ki İşte”, “Yürüme”, “Uzak”, “Hani”, “Olmayalı”, “Ne Otuz Altı Tanzaku” kitaplarının yazarıdır. Alanında birçok makalesi ve çevirisi bulunmaktadır.

Halil Turan: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi (Profesör). Yüksek Lisans ve Doktora derecelerini Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Epistemoloji, Ontoloji, Etik, Bilim Felsefesi, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Kuhn. “Mantık Terimleri Sözlüğü” kitabının yazarıdır. (Teo Grünberg, David Grünberg ve Adnan Onart ile birlikte). Alanında birçok makalesi ve çevirisi bulunmaktadır.

Ayhan Sol: Orta Doğu Teknik Ünversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi. (Profesör). Doktora derecesini Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden almıştır. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Epistemoloji, Bilim Felsefesi, Biyoloji Felsefesi, Çevre Felsefesi, Etik. Alanında birçok makalesi ve çevirisi bulunmaktadır.

Örsan K. Öymen: Işık Üniversitesi İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi (Profesör), Felsefe Sanat Bilim Derneği Yönetim Kurulu Başkanı, Assos'ta Felsefe projesinin kurucusu ve direktörü. Lisans ve Doktora derecesini Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü'nden, Yüksek Lisans derecesini New York Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü'nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Epistemoloji, Etik, Siyaset Felsefesi, Kuşkuculuk, Varoluşçuluk, Sextus, Hume, Nietzsche, Marx, Heidegger, Sartre. “Hume” kitabının yazarı ve derleyicisidir. Alanında birçok makalesi bulunmaktadır.

Cemil Güzey: Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi (Doçent). Lisans, Yüksek Lisans ve Doktora derecelerini İstanbul Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Ontoloji, Etik, Dil Felsefesi, Hint Felsefesi, Herakleitos, Wittgenstein. Alanında birçok makalesi bulunmaktadır.

Türker Armaner: Galatasaray Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi. (Doçent). Lisans derecesini Hacettepe Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden, Yüksek Lisans derecesini Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden, Doktora derecesini Paris Saint Dennis VIII Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Estetik, Siyaset Felsefesi, 19. Yüzyıl Felsefesi, Dil Felsefesi, Frege, Wittgenstein, Boethius, Fichte, Schopenhauer, Marx, Kierkegaard. “Dalgakıran,” “Taş Hücre”, “Kıyısız” (kısa öykü) ve “Tahta Saplı Bıçak” (roman) kitaplarının yazarıdır. Alanında birçok makalesi ve çevirisi bulunmaktadır. "Lapsus" dergisinin kurucusu ve Genel Yayın Yönetmeni'dir.

Barış Parkan: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi (Doçent). Yüksek Lisans derecesini Milwaukee Wisconsin Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nden, Doktora derecesini Texas Üniversitesi (Austin) Felsefe Bölümü’nden aldı. İlgi ve çalışma alanları: Siyaset Felsefesi, Etik, Ontoloji, Marx, Hegel, Whitehead. “Marx” kitabının yazarı ve derleyicisidir. Alanında çeşitli makaleleri bulunmaktadır.

  July 2-5, 2012

Passions and Emotions in Ancient and Modern Philosophy

July 2, Monday
19:00 Temple of Athena: Welcome, Blue Waters, Wine & Sunset
21:30 Dinner at the Harbour (Nazlıhan Hotel Restaurant)

July 3, Tuesday
13:30 Walter Cavini (University of Bologna): “I Wonder at the Existence of the World: Wondering as a Philosophical Emotion”
15:00 Fulvia De Luise (University of Trento): “Eros the Builder: Intensive Passions and Personal Identity in Plato”
16:30 Stephen Leighton (Queen’s University): “Aristotle on Fear’s Expression”
18:00 Pascal Engel (University of Geneva): “Epistemic Anxiety and Other Epistemic Emotions”
20:00 Dinner at the Village (Assosyal Hotel Restaurant)

July 4, Wednesday
13:30 Amy Schmitter (University of Alberta): “Classification and Forms of Explanation in Early Modern Approaches to the Passions”
15:00 Simon Blackburn (University of Cambridge): “An a priori Vindication of Hume on Motivation”
16:30 Kevin Mulligan (University of Geneva): “Affective Identification”
18:00 Toni Ronnow-Rasmussen (Lund University): “Favouring and Motivating Reasons”
20:30 Dinner at Kadırga Beach (Bronz Motel Restaurant)
23:00 Classical Music in the Ancient Theater (Anne Monika Sommer-Bloch)

July 5, Thursday
14:30 Visit to the Temple of Smintheion and the city of Troy
21:30 Farewell Dinner (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)

About the speakers:

Simon Blackburn: University of Cambridge Department of Philosophy (Chairman). Areas of interest and research: Metaphysics, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Hume, Plato. He is the author of the books “Spreading the Word”, “Essay in Quasi-Realism”, “The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy”, “Ruling Passions”, “Think”, “Being Good”, “Lust”, “Hume”, “Plato’s Republic” and also of numerous articles in his field.

Pascal Engel: University of Geneva Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Logic, Epistemology. He is the author of the books “The Norm of Truth”, “Davidson et la Philosophie du Langage”, “Introduction à la Philosophie de L’esprit”, “Philosophie et Psychologie”, “La Dispute”, “Truth”, “Ramsey, Truth and Success” (with Jérôme Dokic), “A Quoi Bon la Vérité?” (with Richard Rorty), “Va savoir!” and also of numerous articles in his field.

Toni Ronnow-Rasmussen: Lund University Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Ethics and Value Theory. He is the author of the books “Personal Value” and “Logic, Fact and Representation” and also of numerous articles in his field.

Fulvia De Luise: University of Trento Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Augustinus, Kant, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Heidegger. She is the author of the books “Felicita Socratica” and “Storia Della Felicita” (with Guiseppe Farinetti) and of numerous articles in her field.

Kevin Mulligan: University of Geneva Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Philosophy of Mind, Ontology and Philosophy of Logic. He is the author of numerous articles in his field.

Stephen Leighton: Queen’s University Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Philosophical Psychology, Ethics, Ancient Greek philosophy. He is the author of numerous articles in his field.

Walter Cavini: University of Bologna Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Zeno, Sextus Empiricus and Ludwig Wittgenstein. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters in his field.

Amy Schmitter: University of Alberta Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Aesthetics, Feminist Philosophy, Aristotle, Locke, Hobbes, Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Foucault, Althusser. She is the author of numerous articles in her field.

  July 4-7, 2011

On Occasion of the 300th Anniversary of David Hume’s Birth: Hume on God, Religion and Morality

July 4, Monday
19:00 Temple of Athena: Welcome, Blue Waters, Wine & Sunset
21:30 Dinner at the Harbour (Nazlıhan Hotel Restaurant)

July 5, Tuesday
13:30 Paul Russell (University of British Columbia): “Hume on Belief and Atheism”
15:00 Don Garrett (New York University): “What’s True About Hume’s ‘True Religion’?”
16:30 Örsan K. Öymen (Bahcesehir University): “Hume’s Agnosticism in Relation to Pyrrhonism”
18:00 Stephen Darwall (Yale University): “Hume on Modern Morality and Religion’s Influence”
20:00 Dinner at the Village (Asosyal Hotel Restaurant)
23:00 Classical Music in the Ancient Theater (Anne Monika Sommer-Bloch)

July 6, Wednesday
13:30 John Prentice Wright (Central Michigan University): “The Slave of the Passions: Hume on Religion and Morality”
15:00 Simon Blackburn (University of Cambridge): “Human and Humean Practical Reason”
16:30 David Owen (University of Arizona): “Reason, Belief and Moral Sentiments”
18:00 Michael B. Gill (University of Arizona): “Non-Consequentialist Thinking and Humean Sentimentalism”
20:00 Performance of an Ancient Greek Tragedy in the Ancient Theater (Sophocles: “Antigone”; Aristophanes: "Lysistrata". İstanbul Culture University; Director: Kubilay Karslıoğlu Act: Saydam Yeniay, Ezgi Aldemir, Gizem Tugan & Students of İstanbul Culture University)
21:30 Dinner at Kadırga Beach (Yıldızsaray Hotel Restaurant)
23:30 Beach Party (Kadırga / Yıldızsaray Hotel Beach) / DJ Kerem Savaş & Metehan Korkmazel

July 7, Thursday
12:00 Charlotte Brown (Illinois Wesleyan University): “The Structure of Hume’s Second Inquiry”
13:30 William Edward Morris (Illinois Wesleyan University): “Another Look at Hume’s Determinism”
15:00 Tito Magri (University of Rome-La Sapienza): “Hume’s Justice: A Reappraisal”
16:30 Visit to Troy
21:30 Farewell Dinner (Terrace Hotel Restaurant)

Brief information about the speakers:

Simon Blackburn: Cambridge University Department of Philosophy. (Chairman / Professor). Area of interest and research: Metaphysics, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Hume, Plato. He is the author of the books “Spreading the Word”, “Essay in Quasi-Realism”, “The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy”, “Ruling Passions”, “Think”, “Being Good”, “Lust”, “Hume”, “Plato’s Republic” and also of numerous articles in his field.

Stephen Darwall: Yale University Department of Philosophy. (Professor). Area of interest and research: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Hume. He is the author of the books ”Impartial Reason”, “The British Moralists and the Internal ‘Ought’ “, “Philosophical Ethics”, “Welfare and Rational Care”, “The Second-Person Standpoint: Respect, Morality and Accountability” and also of numerous articles in his field.

John Prentice Wright: Central Michigan University Department of Philosophy. (Professor). Area of interest and research: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics, Hume, Locke. He is the author of the books “Hume’s ‘A Treatise of Human Nature’: An Introduction”, “David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature”, “The Sceptical Realism of David Hume” and also of numerous articles in his field.

David Owen: University of Arizona Department of Philosophy. (Associate Professor). Area of interest and research: Epistemology, Ethics, Descartes, Locke, Hume. He is the author of the book “Hume’s Reason” and also of numerous articles in his field.

Don Garrett: New York University (NYU) Department of Philosophy. (Chairman / Professor). Area of interest and research: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Hume. He is the author of the book “Cognition and Commitment in Hume’s Philosophy” and also of numerous articles in his field.

Paul Russell: University of British Columbia Department of Philosophy. (Professor). Area of interest and research: Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, Hume, Locke, Hobbes, Butler. He is the author of “The Riddle of Hume’s Treatise: Scepticism, Naturalism and Irreligion”, “Freedom and Moral Sentiment” and also of numerous articles in his field. (“The Riddle of Hume’s Treatise...” won the book prize from the “Journal of the History of Philosophy” for being the best published book in 2008 in the area “History of Philosophy”)

William Edward Morris: Illinois Wesleyan University Department of Philosophy. (Professor). Area of interest and research: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, Hume. He is the author of the book “Starting With Hume” (with Charlotte Brown) and also of numerous articles in his field.

Charlotte Brown: Illinois Wesleyan University Department of Philosophy. (Associate Professor). Area of interest and research: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Hume. She is the author of the book “Starting With Hume” (with William Edward Morris) and also of numerous articles in her field.

Michael B. Gill: University of Arizona Department of Philosophy. (Associate Professor). Area of interest and research: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Locke, Hobbes, Hume. He is the author of “The British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular Ethics” and also of numerous articles in his field.

Tito Magri: University of Roma La Sapienza Department of Philosophy. (Professor). Area of interest and research: Epistemology, Ethics, Political Philosophy, Hume. He is the author of the book “Contratto e Convenzione” and also of numerous articles in his field.

Örsan K. Öymen: Bahcesehir University (Istanbul) Graduate Programme for Philosophy. (Associate Professor). Area of interest and research: Epistemology, Ethics, Sextus, Hume, Nietzsche. He is the author of the book “Hume” and also of numerous articles in his field. He is founder and director of Philosophy in Assos and also President of the Association of Philosophy, Art & Science.

June 28 – July 1, 2010

Aristotle’s Politics

June 28, Monday
19:00 Meeting at the Athena Temple: Blue waters, sunset, wine
21:30 Dinner at the harbour (Nazlıhan Otel Restaurant)

June 29, Tuesday
13:30 Dorothea Frede (University of California / Berkeley): “The Political Character of Aristotle’s Ethics”
15:00 Michael Pakaluk (The Institute for the Psychological Sciences): “The Political Anthropology”
16:30 Walter Cavini (University of Bologna): “Aristotle on Practical Knowledge & Political Science”
18:00 Pierre Destree (University of Louvain): “Political Education”
20:30 Dinner at Kadirga Beach (Yıldızsaray Otel Restaurant)
23:00 Classical Music (Anne Monika Sommer-Bloch) and Homer Reading at the Ancient Theater (Stephen Evans))

June 30, Wednesday
13:30 Andres Rosler (University of Buenos Aires): “Political Virtues”
15:00 Marguerite Deslauriers (University of McGill): “Politics II: Unity and Inequality”
16:30 Marco Zingano (University of Sao Paulo): “Natural, Ethical and Political Justice” 18:00 Christoph Horn (University of Bonn): “Law, Authority & Governance in Aristotle’s Politics”
20:00 Performance of an Ancient Greek Tragedy and Comedy at the Ancient Theater (Sophocles: “Antigone” / Aristophanes: “The Wasps”; Istanbul Culture University / Directed by: Kubilay Karslioglu Actors: Saydam Yeniay, Ezgi Aldemir, Gizem Tugan and Students of Istanbul Culture University)
21:30 Dinner at the harbour (Grand Assos Restaurant)

July 1, Thursday
13:30 Antony Hatzistavrou (University of Hull): “Political Change and Revolution”
15:00 Karen Nielsen (University of Western Ontario): “On Economy and Private Property”
16:30 Visit to the ruins of Troy
21:30 Farewell Dinner (Terrace Otel Restaurant)

About the speakers:

Dorothea Frede: University of California at Berkeley, Department of Philosophy. Her areas of research are: Metaphysics, Ethics, Ancient Philosophy, Plato, Aristotle and Heidegger. She is the author of the books “Plato / Philebus”, “Ernst Cassiers Werk und Wirkung”, “Traditions of Theology”, “Forschungsfreiheit und Ihre Ethischen Grenzen”, “Language and Learning” as well as of numerous articles.

Michael Pakaluk: The Institute for the Psychological Sciences at Arlington. His areas of research are: Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, Political Philosophy, Philosophical Psychology, Philosophical Logic and Aristotle. He is the author of the books “Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics: An Introduction”, “Aristotelian Theory of Action and Moral Psychology” (with Giles Pearson) as well as of numerous articles.

Walter Cavini: University of Bologna Department of Philosophy. His areas of research are: Ancient Philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Sextus Empiricus and Ludwig Wittgenstein. He is the author of numerous articles and chapters in books.

Pierre Destree: University of Louvain Department of Philosophy. His areas of research are: Ancient Philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Ethics and Aesthetics. He is the author of the books (to be published) “Socrate, L’invention de l’Ethique Grecque”, “Aristote / La Poetique”, “Plato and Aristotle on Poetry” as well as of numerous articles.

Andres Rosler: University of Buenos Aires Department of Philosophy. His areas of research are: Political Philosophy, Contemporary Political and Legal Theory, Aristotle. He is the author of the book “Political Authority and Obligation in Aristotle” and “Thomas Hobbes / De Cive” as well as of numerous articles.

Marguerite Deslauriers: University of McGill Department of Philosophy. Her areas of research are: Ancient Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy. She is the author of the book “Aristotle on Definition” as well as of numerous articles.

Marco Zingano: University of Sao Paulo Department of Philosophy. His areas of research are: Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle and Kant. He is the author of the books “Reason As History in Kant”, “Reason and Perception in Aristotle”, “Essays on Ancient Ethics”, “Aristotle on Moral Virtue” as well as of numerous articles.

Christoph Horn: University of Bonn Department of Philosophy. His area of research are: Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Ethics and Political Philosophy. He is the author of the books “Augustinus / De Cevitate Dei”, “Wörterbuch der Antiken Philosophie” (with Christof Rapp), “Philosophie der Gerechtigkeit” (with Nico Scarano), “Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals” (with Dieter Schönecker) as well as of numerous articles.

Antony Hatzistavrou: University of Hull Department of Philosophy. His areas of research are: Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Action. He is the author of various articles in his field.

Karen Nielsen: University of Western Ontario Department of Philosophy. Her areas of research are: Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, Theory of Action. She is the author of various articles in her field.

June 29 - July 2, 2009

Issues in Applied Ethics

June 29 Monday
19:00 Meeting at the Athena Temple: Blue waters, sunset & wine
21:00 Dinner at the harbour (Nazlihan Hotel Restaurant)

June 30 Tuesday
15:00 Jan Robert Bloch (University of Potsdam): "The Nature of Nature: An Enquiry Concerning the Understanding of Nature in Her Own Rights"
17:00 Alan Carter (University of Glasgow): "How to Solve Two Addition Paradoxes and Avoid the Repugnant Conclusion"
21:00 Dinner at Kadirga Beach (Yildizsaray Hotel Restaurant)

July 1 Wednesday
14:00 Sandrine Berges (Bilkent University): "Why Women Hug Their Chains: Sen and Wollstonecraft on Adapting Preferences"
16:00 Minou Friele (Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf): "Collective Responsibility in a Pluralistic World"
18:00 Orly Shenker (Open University of Israel): "On Lazy Bums & Parasites"
23:00 Violin at the Ancient Theater (Anne-Monika Sommer) and a performance on Homer (Stephen Evans)

July 2 Thursday
15:00 Visit to Troy
21:00 Farewell dinner (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)

About the speakers:

Jan Robert Bloch: Potsdam University Department of Sociology and Economics. Areas of interest and research: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Nature, Philosophy of Science, Non-Linear Systems in Chemistry and Physics. Author of the books "Andere Ansichtern der Natur" (SZD Verlag, 1981), "Natur und Arbeit" (Beltz Verlag, 1982), "Wachstum der Grenzen" (Sendler Verlag, 1984)), "Naturwissenschaftlische Fachsystematik und Curriculum" (Beltz Verlag, 1984), "Kristalle der Utopie" (Tahlheimer Verlag, 1995), "Utopie: Ortsbestimmung im Nirgendwo" (Verlag Leske, 1997), "Perspektiven der Philosophie Ernst Bloch's" (Suhrkamp Verlag, 1999) and of numerous articles in his field. He is the founding member of the Ernst Bloch Foundation.

Alan Carter: University of Glasgow Department of Philosophy. Chair of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow, a position which was hold previously by Adam Smith, Francis Hutcheson and Thomas Reid. Areas of interest and research: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of the Environment. Author of the books “Marx: A Radical Critique” (Westview Press, 1988), “The Philosophical Foundations of Property Rights” (Hemel Hempstead, 1989) and “A Radical Green Political Theory” (Routledge, 1999) as well as of over 50 articles in his field.

Sandrine Berges: Bilkent University Department of Philosophy. Areas of research and interest: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Ethics, Friedrich Nietzsche. She is the author of the book (to be published) "Plato, Virtue and the Law" and of various articles in her field.

Minou Friele: Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf Department of Philosophy; member of the Oxford University Uehiro Center for Practical Ethics. Areas of interest and research: Applied Ethics, Bio-Ethics, Public Health Ethics, Business Ethics, Philosophy of Law, Political Philosophy. Author of the books “Rechtsethik der Embryoenforschung” (Mentis Verlag, 2008) and “Embryo Research in Pluralistic Europe” (Springer Verlag, 2003) as well as of various articles in her field.

Orly Shenker: Open University of Israel Department of Philosophy. Areas of research and interest: Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Applied Ethics. Author of the books (to be published) “Bio-Ethics: A Methodological Introduction” and “The Sociological Turn: Sociology of Scientific Knowledge and Social Construction of Scientific Facts”, as well as of various articles in her field.

June 30 - July 3, 2008

Alienation

June 30 Monday
19:00 Meeting at the Athena Temple: Blue waters, sunset and wine
21:00 Dinner at the Harbour / Nazlıhan Hotel Restaurant

July 1 Tuesday
14:00 Ulrich Haase (Manchester Metropolitan University): "The History of Alienation from Hegel to Nietzsche"
16:00 Keith Ansell-Pearson (University of Warwick): "Alienation, Purification and Liberation in Nietzsche"
18:00 Clare Carlisle (University of Liverpool): "Lost in Thought: Kierkegaard's Despair in the Age of Reflection"
21:00 Dinner at Kadirga Beach / Yildizsaray Hotel Restaurant

July 2 Wednesday
14:00 Marc Sinclair (Manchester Metropolitan University): "The Alien and the Uncanny: Heidegger, Marx and the Question Concerning Technology"
16:00 Christine Battersby (University of Warwick): "Sartre, Beauvoir and the Alienation of the Flesh"
18:00 Ulrich Steinvorth (Bilkent University): "Alienation, World and Life in Hannah Arendt"

July 3 Thursday
13:00 Iddo Landau (University of Haifa): "Alienation and the Meaning of Life in Camus"
15:00 Keith Crome (Manchester Metropolitan University): "Existential Alienation in Merleau-Ponty"
16:30 Visit to Troy
21:00 Farewell Dinner / Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant

About the speakers:

Ulrich Haase: Manchester Metropolitan University Department of Philosophy. Area of interest and research: Existentialism, Nietzsche, Sartre, Kant, Merleau-Ponty and Philosophy of Literature. Editor of the “Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology”. Author of numerous articles and the book “Maurice Blanchot” (Routledge, 2001).

Clare Carlisle: University of Liverpool Department of Philosophy. Area of interest and research: Kierkegaard, Philosophy of Habit, Philosophy of Religion. Author of numerous articles and the books “Kierkegaard: A Guide for the Perplexed” (Continiuum Press, 2006), “Kierkegaard’s Philosophy of Becoming: Movements and Positions” (State University of New York Press, 2005).

Marc Sinclair: Manchester Metropolitan University Department of Philosophy. Area of interest and research: Ethics, Phenomenology, Aesthetics, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Heidegger. Author of various articles.

Ulrich Steinvorth: Bilkent University Department of Philosophy. Area of interest and research: Political Philosophy, Ethics, Metaphysics. Author of various articles and the books “Without Docks: How Fundamentalists and Philosophers Respond to Human Fallibility” (Mentis, 2006), “Classical & Modern Ethics” (L’Harmattan, 2003).

Iddo landau: University of Haifa Department of Philosophy. Area of interest and research: Feminism, Existentialism, Philosophy and Film. Author of numerous articles and the book “Is Philosophy Androcentric?” (Penn State University Press, 2006).

Keith Crome: Manchester Metropolitan University Department of Philosophy. Area of interest and research: 20th Century French Philosophy, Existentialism, Phenomenology, Ancient Greek Philosophy. Author of numerous articles and the book “Lyotard and Greek Thought: Sophistry” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2004).

July 1-5, 2007  "The Concept of Happiness in Ancient Philosophy and Contemporary Ethics"
July 1, Sunday:
19:00 Welcome Meeting at the Temple of Athena: Blue waters, wine, sunset
21:00 Dinner at the Harbour (Nazlihan Hotel Restaurant)
 
July 2, Monday:
11:00 Walter Cavini (University of Bologna): “On Happiness and the Highest Good: Some Ancient and Modern Reflections”
14:00 Christoph Horn (University of Bonn): “Four Contemporary Problems With Ancient Ethics of Happiness”
16:00 Pierre Destrée (University of Louvain-la-Neuve): “On Desire for Happiness and Human Nature: An Issue After Socrates”
18:00 Amber Carpenter (University of St Andrews): “Happiness and The Idea of the Good: How Plato Can Educate Our Eudaimonist Tendencies?”
 
July 3, Tuesday:
11:00 Philipp Brüllmann (Humboldt University): “ ‘It is for the sake of happiness that we all do everything else we do’: Remarks on a Problematic Claim”
14:00 Christopher Shields (Oxford University): “Perfecting Pleasures”
16:00 Anthony Price (Birkbeck College): “Acting and Living Well: An Issue after Aristotle”
18:00 Dan Russel (Monash University): “Happiness and Agency in the Stoics and Aristotle”
21:00 Dinner at the Harbour (Grand Assos Hotel Restaurant)
 
July 4, Wednesday:
14:00 Christof Rapp (Humboldt University): “Happiness: Psychological State or Activity?”
16:00 Visit to Troy
 
July 5, Thursday:
14:00 Christopher Gill (University of Exeter): “What’s Wrong with the Stoic Idea of Happiness?”
16:00 Jean Salem (University of Paris I): “Epicurus Our Contemporary”
18:00 Richard Bett (John Hopkins University): “Can An Ancient Greek Skeptic Be Happy and What Difference Does the Answer Make to Us?”
21:30 Farewell Dinner (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)
23:30 Bach in Assos (Cello- Cihan Türkoglu)
Brief info about the speakers:
Christoph Rapp:
Humboldt University Department of Philosophy. Area of research and interest: Ancient Philosophy. Author of the books “Identität, Persistenz und Substantialität. Untersuchung über das Verhältnis von sortalen Termen und Aristotelischer Substanz”, “Aristoteles, Metaphysik. Die Substanzbücher (Zêta, Êta, Thêta)”, “Vorsokratiker”,“Aristoteles zur Einführung” (mit Christoph Horn), “Wörterbuch der antiken Philosophie” (mit Christoph Horn) as well as of various articles and editor of various books in his field.

Christoph Horn:
Bonn University Department of Philosophy. Area of research and interest: Ancient Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Ethics, Political Philosophy. Author of the books “Plotin über Sein, Zahl und Einheit. Eine Studie zu den systematischen Grundlagen der Enneaden”, “Paradigmen mittelalterlicher Philosophie”, “Antike Lebenskunst. Glück und Moral von Sokrates bis zu den Neuplatonikern”, “Einführung in die Politische Philosophie” “Grundlegende Güter. Untersuchungen zu einer handlungsteleologischen Ethik” as well as of various articles and editor of various books in his field.

Pierre Destree:
University of Louvain-la-Neuve Department of Philosophy. Area of research and interest: Ancient Philosophy. Author of various articles and editor of various books in his field.

Anthony Price:
Birbeck College London Department of Philosophy. Area of research and interest: Ancient Philosophy. Author of the books “Mental Conflict”, “Love and Friendship in Plato and Aristotle” as well as of various articles and editor of various books in his field.

Christopher Shields:
Oxford University Department of Philosophy. Area of research and interest: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy. Author of the books “Aristotle”, “Classical Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction” , “The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas” (with Robert Pasnau), “Order in Multiplicity: Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle” as well as of various articles and editor of various books in his field.

Dan Russell:
Monash University Department of Philosophy. Area of research and interest: Ancient and Modern Philosophy. Author of the book “Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life” as well as of various articles and editor of various books in his field.

Philipp Brüllmann:
Humboldt University Department of Philosophy. Area of research and interest: Ancient Philosophy. Author of various articles and editor of various books in his field.

Christopher Gill:
University of Exeter Department of Philosophy. Area of research and interest: Ancient Philosophy. Author of the books “Greek Thought: Greece and Rome New Surveys in the Classics”, “Personality in Greek Epic, Tragedy and Philosophy: The Self in Dialogue”, “The Structured Self in Hellenistic and Roman Thought” as well as of various articles and editor of various books in his field.

Richard Bett:
John Hopkins University Department of Philosophy. Area of research and interest: Ancient Philosophy. Author of the book “Pyrrho, his Antecedents and his Legacy” as well as of various articles and editor of various books in his field.

Walter Cavini:
University of Bologna Department of Philosophy. Area of research and interest: Ancient Philosophy. Author of various articles and sections in books and editor of various books in his field.

Jean Salem:
University of Paris 1 Sorbonne Department of Philosophy. Area of research and interest: Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, Political Philosophy. Author of the books “Le Bonheur ou L’Art d’être heureux par gros temps”, “Philosophie de Maupassant”, “Cinq variations sur le plaisir, la sagesse et la mort”. “Karl Marx, Manuscrits de 1844”, “Démocrite. Grains de poussière dans un rayon de soleil”, “La Mort n’est rien pour nous. Lucrèce et l’éthique”,  “Tel un dieu parmi les hommes. L’éthique d’Épicure” as well as of various articles and editor of various books in his field.

Amber Carpenter:
University of St-Andrews Department of Philosophy. Area of research and interest: Ancient Philosophy. Author of various articles and editor of various books in her field.

July 3-6, 2006 The Philosophy of David Hume
July 3, Monday:
19:00 Welcome meeting at the Athena Temple: Blue waters, wine and sunset
21:30 Dinner at the Harbour
 
July 4, Tuesday:
14:00 David Owen (University of Arizona): "Scepticism With Regard To Reason"
17:00 Tito Magri (University of Rome): "Imagination, Content and Inference in Hume's Treatise"
 
July 5, Wednesday:
14:00 Colin Howson (London School of Economics): "Hume's Problem"
17:00 Don Garrett (New York University): "The First Virtuous Motive to Justice: Hume's Circle Argument Squared"
 
July 6, Thursday:
14:00 Visit to the ruins of Troy
20:30 The Violin in Assos: Annegret Bloch (Terrace Hotel)
21:00 Farewell dinner (Terrace Hotel Restaurant)
23:00 Homer in Assos: Stephen Evans and Cevat Çapan(Terrace Hotel)
Brief info about the speakers:
David Owen:
University of Arizona, Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Early Modern Philosophy, Descartes, Locke, Hume; metaphysics, problems of reasoning, theories of judgment in 17th and 18th century. Author of “Hume’s Reason” (Oxford University Press, 1999) as well as of numerous articles.

Tito Magri:
University of Rome “La Sapienze”, Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Practical Philosophy, Ethics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Emotions, Philosophy of Psychology, Theories of Imagination; Hobbes, Locke, Hume; Practical Philosophy in Aristotle and Kant. Author of various books and articles in his field.

Colin Howson:
London School of Economics, Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Philosophy of Science and the foundations of probability. Author of “Hume's Problem: Induction and the Justification of Belief” (Oxford University Press, 2000) and “Scientific Reasoning: the Bayesian Approach” (with Peter Urbach / Open Court Publishing Company, 1989) as well as of numerous articles. President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science (2003-2005).

Don Garrett:
New York University, Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Early Modern Philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, ethics. Author of “Cognition and Commitment in Hume’s Philosophy” (Oxford University Press, 1997) as well as of numerous articles and chapters in various books.
July 4-7, 2005
July 4, Monday:
19:00 Welcome meeting at the Athena Temple: Blue waters, wine and sunset
21:30 Dinner at the Harbour (Nazlihan Hotel Restaurant)
 
July 5, Tuesday:
14:00 Brian Elliott: "Sartre and the Invention of Self"
17:00 Matthias Bormuth: "Lifeconduct in Modern Times: Karl Jaspers and Psychoanalysis"
 
July 6, Wednesday:
14:00 Örsan K. Öymen: "Doubt and Anxiety: An Existentialist Reconstruction of Pyrrhonism"
17:00 Orly Shenker: "Physics and Our Knowledge of the Past"
 
July 7, Thursday:
11:00 Sylvana Chrysakopoulou: "Is Heracleitus A Unique Thinker?"
 
21:00 Farewell Dinner (Terrace Hotel)
23:00 Homer in Assos: A Homeric Performance by Stephen Evans (Terrace Hotel)
23:30 Bach in Assos: Cello / Caglayan Cetin (Terrace Hotel)
Brief info about the speakers:
Brian Elliott:
He received his MA degree from the University of Edinburgh (UK) and his PhD degree from the University of Freiburg (Germany). Areas of interest and research: Aesthetics, 20th century German philosophy, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. Besides being the author of various articles in his area, he is the author of “The Beginning and End of Philosophy” (“Anfang und Ende der Philosophie” / Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 2002) and “Phenomenology and Imagination in Husserl and Heidegger” / Routledge, 2005. He teaches at the University College Dublin (Ireland).

Matthias Bormuth:
He received his MA/PhD degree from the University of Tubingen and the University of Heidelberg (Germany). Areas of interest and research: Medical Ethics, History of Psychiatry and Psyhoanalysis, History of Philosophical Hermeneutics, Ethics, Karl Jaspers, Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Weber, Karl Lowith. He is the author of various articles in his field as well as of the award winning book titled “Lifeconduct in Modern Times. Karl Jaspers and Psychoanalysis” (“Lebensfuhrung in der Moderne. Karl Jaspers und die Psychoanalyse” / Fromman-Holzboog, 2002) which has also been translated into the English and will be published in the USA in the Fall of 2005 by Springer International Publishers / New York. He teaches at the University of Tubingen at the Institute for Ethics and the History of Medicine.

Orsan K. Oymen:
He received his MA degree from New York University (USA) and his PhD degree from the Middle East Technical University (Turkey). Areas of interest and research: Epistemology, Ethics, Scepticism, Subjectivism, Existentialism, Sextus Empiricus, David Hume, Friedrich Nietzsche, Soren Kierkegaard, Martin Heidegger, Jean Paul Sartre and Karl Marx. Author of various articles in his field. Founder and Director of Philosophy in Assos. He teaches at Yeditepe University (Turkey) Department of Philosophy.

Orly Shenker:
She received her MA and PhD degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel). Areas of interest and research: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Physics, Applied Ethics. Author of various articles in her field. She taught at the London School of Economics and is currently teaching at the Open University of Israel (Israel).

Sylvana Chrysakopoulou:
She received her MA/PhD degrees from Sorbonne University (France). Areas of interest and research: The Pre-Socratic philosophers, particularly Empedocles and Xenophanes, Theology and Physics in the Ancient period. Teaching at the University of Patras (Greece) Department of Philosophy.
July 5-8, 2004 Ancient Scepticism
July 5, Monday:
19:00 Welcome meeting at the Athena Temple: Blue waters, wine and sunset
 
21:00 Dinner at Assos Hotel
 
July 6, Tuesday:
15:00  Gisela Striker (Harvard Üniversitesi): "Academics and Pyrrhonists Reconsidered"
18:00 James Allen (University of Pittsburgh): "Epicurean and Pyrrhonian Conceptions of Experience"
 
July 7, Wednesday:
15:00 Richard Bett (John Hopkins University): "Greek Scepticism and The Self"
18:00 Julia Annas (University of Arizona): "Ancient Scepticism and Ancient Religion"
 
July 8, Thursday:
11:00 Walter Cavini (University of Bologna): "Dreaming Scepticism in Antiquity"
15:00 Visit to the ruins of Troy
  20:00 Farewell dinner at Terrace Hotel
Brief info about the speakers:
Julia Annas:
University of Arizona Department of Philosophy. Special areas of interest: Ancient philosophy. Author of "Aristotle's Metaphysics M & N" (Oxford Un. Press), "An Introduction to Plato's Republic" (Oxford Un. Press), "Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind" (Un.of California Press), "The Morality of Happiness" (Oxford Un. Press), "Platonic Ethics, Old & New" (Cornell Un. Press), "Ancient Philosophy" (Oxford Un. Press) and "Plato" (Oxford Un. Press).

Gisela Striker:
Harvard University Department of Philosophy. Special areas of interest: Ancient philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Epicureans and the Sceptics. Author of various articles in these areas. Her essays on Hellenistic philosophy were gathered in a book titled "Essays on Hellenistic Epistemology and Ethics" (Cambridge University Press).

James Allen:
University of Pittsburgh Department of Philosophy. Special areas of interest: Ancient and Hellenistic philosophy. Author of "Inference From Signs: Ancient Debates About the Nature of Evidence" (Oxford Un. Press) as well as of various articles in this area.

Richard Bett:
John Hopkins University Department of Philosophy. Special areas of interest: Ancient philosophy, ethics, epistemology, ancient and modern scepticism, Nietzsche. Author of "Pyrrho, His Antecedents and His Legacy" as well as of various articles in this area.

Walter Cavini:
University of Bologna Department of Philosophy. Special areas of interest: Ancient philosophy, Aristotle and the Stoics. Author of various articles in this area and contributer to various books written in this field.
July   7-10, 2003
July 7 Monday:
19:00  Meeting at the Athena Temple: Blue Waters, wine and sunset
 
July 8 Tuesday:
14:00 Stephen Stich: “How Cross-Cultural Psychology Undermines What Epistemologists Have Been Doing For The Last 2500 Years”
18:00  Geraldine Coggins: “Using Ockham’s Razor In Metaphysics”
 
July 9 Wednesday:  
14:00  Stephen Laurence: “Nativism and Number”  
18:00  Paul van Tongeren: “Friendship and Solitude In Nietzsche”
 
July 10 Thursday:
11:00  Walter Cavini: “On Beauty”  
15:00 Visit to the ruins of Troy 
Brief info about the speakers:
Stephen Stich:
Teaching at the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University / USA. Area of interest and research: philosophy of mind, cognitive science, philosophy of language, epistemology. Author of the books titled “From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science” (MIT Press, 1983), “The Fragmentation of Reason” (MIT Press, 1990), “Deconstructing the Mind” (Oxford University Press, 1996) and “Mind Reading” (Co-author/Oxford University Press, 2003)

Stephen Laurence:
Teaching at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield / UK. Area of interest and research: Philosophy of mind, cognitive science and metaphysics. Director of the “Innateness and the Structure of the Mind” project and the “Hang Seng Centre for Cognitive Science”. Editor of the books titled “Contemporary Readings in the Foundation of Metaphysics” (Blackwell, 1998), “Concepts: Core Readings” (MIT Press, 1999) and “Creations of the Mind” (Oxford University Pres, 2003).

Geraldine Coggins:
Teaching at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen / UK. Completed her Ph.D at Durham University. Area of interest and research: Analytic philosophy and metaphysics. Her article “World and Object: Metaphysical Nihilism and Three Accounts of Worlds” was published in 2003 in the “Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society”.

Walter Cavini:
Teaching at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bologna / Italy. Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek philosophy, Aristotle and the Stoics. Author of various articles and contributer to various books written in this field.

Paul van Tongeren:
Teaching at the Department of Philosophy at Nijmegen University / Holland. Area of interest and research: Ethics and Nietzsche’s philosophy. Author of the book titled “Reinterpreting Modern Culture: An Introduction to Friedrich Nietzsche’s Philosophy”. President of the “Center for Ethics” (CEKUN) in Holland.
July  3-6, 2002
July 3 Wednesday:
18:00 "Welcome" at the Athena Temple: Blue waters, wine, sunset

July 4 Thursday:
14:00 David Cooper: "Mystery"
18:00 Amihud Gilead: "The Mind: A New View"

July 5 Friday:
14:00 Asa Kasher: "Philosophy and the Meaning of Life"
18:00 Brian Elliott: "The Critical Space of Art"

July 6 Saturday:
11:00 Ahmet İnam: "Thoughts on Epistemiatry"
16:00 Visit the ruins of Troy
19:00 Farewell dinner at Sütlüce
Brief info about the speakers:
David Cooper:
Durham University Department of Philosophy. Special areas of interest: European philosophy, aesthetics, philosophy and the environment, realism and anti-realism. Author of "Existentialism: A Reconstruction" (Blackwell), "Heidegger" (Claridge), "World Philosophies" (Blackwell); editor of "Aesthetics: The Classic Readings", "Ethics: The Classic Readings", "Epistemology: The Classic Readings" and "Metaphysics: The Classic Readings". (All from Blackwell).

Asa Kasher:
Tel Aviv University Department of Philosophy. Special areas of interest: ethics, philosophy of life, and the philosophy of language. Author of "Spirit of a Man", "Meaning of Life", "Virtues and Emotions"; editor of "The Chomskyan Turn" (Blackwell). Editor in Chief of the Israeli philosophy journal "Philosophia".

Ahmet İnam:
Middle East Technical University Department of Philosophy. Special areas of interest: Ethics, epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of the environment and culture. Author of "What Is Technology For Me?", "From Imagination to Thought" and "Logic In Edmund Husserl's Philosophy".

Amihud Gilead:
Haifa University Department of Philosophy. Special areas of interest: Plato, Spinoza, Kant, the philosophy of mind. Author of "The Way of Spinoza's Philosophy Towards A Philosophical System", "The Platonic Odyssey: A Philosophical-Literary Inquiry Into Phaedo" and "Saving Possibilities: A Study In Philosophical Psychology".

Brian Elliott:
University College Dublin Department of Philosophy. Special areas of interest: Phenomenology, existentialism, philosophy of the imagination, Heidegger, Aristoteles and Kant.
July 30-August 5, 2001
July 30, Monday:
Meeting at the Temple of Athena:
Blue waters, wine and sunset.

July 31, Tuesday:
Aristotle in Assos:
What are the foundations of knowledge in Aristotle's philosophy? (In Turkish)

August 1, Wednesday:
Aristotle in Assos:
What are the foundations of knowledge in Aristotle's philosophy? (In English)

August 2, Thursday:
Life & philosophy:
If any, what is the bond between life/death and philosophy? (In Turkish)

August 3, Friday:
Discussions on philosophical texts:
1)Sextus Empiricus: "Outlines of Pyrrhonism". Book 1 Parts 1-29; Book 2 Parts 1-9 2)Friedrich Nietzsche: "Truth and Lies In An Extra-Moral Sense" (In English)

Final:
Tuncay Yılmaz plays Johann Sebastian Bach in the Ancient Theater under full moon.

August 4, Saturday:
Visit the ruins of Troy & dinner in Sütlüce by the sea.
September  8-9, 2000
September 8, Friday:
Meeting at the Athena Temple / Blue waters, wine, sunset.

September 9, Saturday:
What is the relation between life and philosophy?

September 10, Sunday:
Must epistemology justify or search for the foundations of knowledge?