Peter Adamson (Keynote Speaker):
The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and King's College London. His primary areas of interest are late ancient philosophy and Arabic philosophy. Besides his many monographs and articles on Plotinus in Arabic, Kindi, Avicenna, Averroes, and many others, Professor Adamson is also the writer and presenter of the monumental podcast series “History of Philosophy without any Gaps.” Which is about to reach its 400th episode. In his keynote closing lecture, Professor Adamson will inform us on what it means to discuss the history of philosophy "without gaps."
Sarah Hutton:
Women and the history of philosophy: progress and problems.
A Professor of Philosophy at the University of York, Sarah Hutton, is the writer of “British Philosophy in the Seventeenth-Century,” and “Anne Conway, a Woman Philosopher.” She edited collections and wrote articles on Cambridge Platonists and women philosophers. Also, Professor Hutton is the director of the book series International Archives of the History of Ideas. Professor Hutton will be speaking to us on the impacts of the increasing attention to women philosophers in the historiography of philosophy and the progress towards a more inclusive history of philosophy.
Lenn E. Goodman
The Heritage of Islamic Humanism.
A Professor of Philosophy, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University Lenn Goodman has written many essays, encyclopedia entries and books, edited journals, and collections on most of the major figures of Muslim and Jewish philosophy. He is the winner of the American Philosophical Association Baumgardt Memorial Prize and was a rare Humanities Recipient of Vanderbilt University's top research award, the Earl Sutherland Prize. In 2008 Oxford University Press published Goodman's Gifford lectures under the title Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself. Professor Goodman will give a lecture on the heritage of Islamic Humanism by following humanistic themes in the works of al-Kindî, al-Râzî, al-Fârâbî, Ikhwân al-Safâ’, and Miskawayh.
Aditya Nigam:
Time and Revolution in the Global South
A professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, Aditya Nigam’s main areas of interest are political philosophy and social theory, especially in the context of Marxist theory. He is the author of Power and Contestation India since 1989 (with N. Menon), and Decolonizing Theory Thinking across Traditions. Professor Nigam has written on varying subjects such as de-colonialism, discursive formations, and the emergence of political subjectivities in the non-West countries. In his speech, he will focus on the question of how theory encounters time, especially how historical materialism encounters historical time, in the context of the underdeveloped worlds of the Global South.
İ. Halil Üçer:
Time, Change and History: On the Ways of Periodizing the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences
An alumni of Marmara University Faculty of Theology, Associate Prof. İ.Halil Üçer worked as an invited researcher at McGill University Institute of Islamic Studies. After presenting his dissertation on Avicenna’s philosophy, he became a member of the department of philosophy at İstanbul Medeniyet University. He published several essays on Avicennian and post-Avicennian Muslim philosophy and published a monography on Avicenna. Also, Üçer is the coordinator of the “Atlas of İslamic Thought” project and the editor of the books published under the same name. In his speech, Üçer will talk about how the processions of concepts presents us a continuous, but multi-layered “time of thought,” by investigating the lack of this account in the historiography of İslamic philosophy and science.
Didar Deniz Altınkaya:
Philosophy And Spirituality
Didar Deniz Altınkaya is a doctor of philosophy currently working as a research assistant at Katip Çelebi University in İzmir. Altınkaya has defended her dissertation on Foucault's philosophy and since then has written several articles on ancient Greek philosophy and culture, as well as contemporary French philosophers. In her speech, departing from the later investigations of Michel Foucault, Altınkaya aims to show the relationship between philosophy and spirituality in the context of the history of philosophy.
Sandrine Berges
Writing about Women in the History of Political Thought: Do’s and Don’ts
Sandrine Berges is an Associate Professor of Philosophy in Bilkent University. Her primary areas of interest are History of Social and Political Philosophy and Feminist Philosophy. She is the author and editor of many publications on Mary Wollstonecraft’s political thought, feminist virtue ethics and ancient and medieval political philosophy. In addition, Dr. Berges is the co-founder of the Turkish-European Network for the Study of Women Philosophers and of SWIP-TR (Society for Women in Philosophy in Turkey) and she is also an active member of Project Vox and the New Narratives Project international groups. In her talk, Dr. Berges will illustrate some common errors committed while writing about women political philosophers via examples from well-known texts in the history of political philosophy and she will explain what to do when writing about women philosophers.
Zeynep Savaşçın
Freedom in Hegel and Axel Honneth: Who’s the Actor of History
Dr. Zeynep Savaşçın is a scholar in Galatasaray University Department of Philosophy. Her main areas of research are Political Philosophy, Kant, Hegel and Critical Theory. She has written articles on Hegelian thought and contemporary political philosophy and has also edited and translated Marcel Gauchet’s Democracy Against Itself to Turkish. In her lecture, she will be speaking about freedom in Hegel and Honneth via notions such as recognition, ethical life and the relation of theory and practice.
Bret Davis
Is Philosophy Western?
Bret W. Davis is a Professor and the Higgins Chair in Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland, where he teaches classes on the histories of Asian as well as Western philosophical traditions, and where he also leads The Heart of Zen Meditation Group. Prof. Davis has studied and taught in Germany and for many years in Japan as well as in the United States. He has published many books and articles, in Japanese as well as in English, on Zen Buddhism, the Kyoto School, Heidegger and other Continental philosophers, and various issues in cross-cultural philosophy. In his lecture, “Is Philosophy Western?”, Prof. Davis will evaluate debates among both Continental and Japanese philosophers over this crucial meta-philosophical question.
Tom Sorell
Analytic Philosophy and History of Philosophy
Tom Sorell is Professor of Politics and Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He works in several areas of philosophy, but is best known for his writings in early modern philosophy and the historiography of philosophy. He has published extensively on Hobbes and Descartes, and a collection he edited with John Rogers on analytic philosophy and history of philosophy has provoked considerable discussion. He was previously on the editorial board of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy. In his talk he will reconsider the tension between analytic philosophy and history of philosophy and will ask whether it is possible to reconcile work on historical figures with philosophical problem-solving.
Maya Mandalinci
Historical Aspects of the Relationship Between Philosophy and Death
Dr. Maya Mandalinci is is currently a part-time lecturer in Boğaziçi and Bahçeşehir University. Her master’s thesis is on the notion of “anxiety” in Heidegger and Freud and her doctoral dissertation examines the relationship between philosophy and death, with a focus on Hegel’s and Heidegger’s thought. She has also translated McTaggart’s Studies in Hegelian Cosmology to Turkish. In her lecture, Dr. Mandalinci will be tracing the transformation of the philosophical meaning of death through a comparison of Plato’s Pheado and Heidegger’s philosophy.
