Barry Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼
@barrystocker
I back Ukraine & Taiwan. British 🇬🇧 philosopher based in Istanbul🇹🇷, working at universities here for many years. Author of the monographs: *Derrida on Deconstruction (Routledge)*, *Kierkegaard on Politics* (Palgrave), Philosophy of the Novel* (Palgra
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium, Friday 7th August, 17:00
Is William James referring to g to the British politician Arthur James Balfour here (Prime Minister from 1903–1905, associated with the Balfour Declaration of 1917) in this passage from ‘The Will to Believe’
On Monday Rituparna Roy gave a talk on ‘Signs and Understanding: An Augustinian Response to Wittgenstein in the Time of LLM’ to the Boğaziçi Philosophy Colloquium. Investigation of language games, AI and consciousness was followed by a lively discussion.
Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy Colloquium. Thursday, 4th June, 17:00 ‘Self-Avowals Are Not Secure’ Krishnaswamy Ramakrishnan
Philosophy talk, Boğaziçi University, Monday. 17:00. Rituparna Roy, ‘Signs and Understanding: An Augustinian Response to Wittgenstein in the Time of LLM’
It appears that the state decision to close Bilgi University (a private ‘foundation’ university in Istanbul) has been reversed
On Wednesday (15:00 on 20th May) Lenny Moss talked to the Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium on ‘The Emergence of Interiority, Biomolecular Condensates and the Metaphysics of Nature’. The presentation covered cell structure, philosophical approaches to nature and scientific method,
On Wednesday (17:00 on 20th May) Merve Rumeysa Tapınç presented her paper ‘To Know as One Who Cares: The Ethical Demands of Self-Knowledge ’ to the Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. An investigation of knowledge, self-knowledge and ethical responsibility .
Merve Rumeysa Tapınç, ‘To Know as One Who Cares: The Ethical Demands of Self-Knowledge’. Boğaziçi University. 20th May, 17:00
Lenny Moss on ‘The Emergence of Interiority, Biomolecular Condensates and the Metaphysics of Nature’. Boğaziçi University, 29th May, 15:00.
On Friday Haydar Oğuz Erdin (a recent Boğaziçi PhD) gave a talk on ‘Interactivism: Grounding Cognition On Dynamic Implicit Definition’ to the Boğaziçi Phil Colloquium. It was a wide ranging investigation of cognition, representation and action, mental models and consciousness.
On Thursday, Samuel Fletcher (Merton College, University of Oxford) gave his talk on ‘Quantum Biology’ on the use of quantum mechanics in biological sciences to the Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium’, followed by a discussion of philosophy of science and the status of biology as a science.
The Quest for Knowledge: Elegance, Emotions and the Cognizability of Nature. Saturday, May 2nd, 2026, 1pm-6pm. Boğaziçi University, Philosophy Department. JF507. Nick Stang (Toronto) Joseph Berkovitz (Toronto) Jack Woods (Bilkent)
I will speak on ‘Art, Utopia, and Heterotopia in Foucault’ on Wednesday afternoon at an online panel ‘Counter Models of Opimization and Communication: Ecological Pieces of Art’, as part of the ICDS Symposium hosted by Aydın University. The panel starts at 15:00, April 29th.
The Quest for Knowledge: Elegance, Emotions and the Cognizability of Nature. Saturday, May 2nd, 2026, 1pm-6pm. Boğaziçi University, Philosophy Department. JF507. Nick Stang (Toronto), Joseph Berkovitz (Toronto), Jack Woods (Bilkent)
Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy Colloquium. Online only Friday, April 24th, 17:00 ‘From Harmony to Serialism (And Back?)’ Bogdan Dicher (University of the Witwatersrand)
Good guys in cinema and literature are masters. Villains are Dr! I’ve definitely become more evil since I became a doctoral student and even more after I received it 😈
Follow Bulgarian elections tomorrow. A ‘new Orbán’ may be rising. Roman Radev, who has recently resigned as President of Bulgaria) and is running for the more powerful office of Prime Minister as the leader of the Progressive Bulgaria Party. Not the same as Orbán, but with some similar positions
On Friday Ekrem Çetinkaya (Boğaziçi University) gave his talk ‘Aristotle on Conflicting Appearances’ to the Boğaziçi Philosophy Colloquium. A scholarly presentation was followed by an engaged discussion of Aristotle, scepticism, realism, perception, relativism etc
Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy Colloquium. Friday, April 17th, 17:00 ‘Aristotle on Conflicting Appearances’ Ekrem Çetinkaya (Boğaziçi University)
Just one of multiple reports that the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktoria Orbán has phoned opposition leader Péter Magyar with his congratulations on winning the election.