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THE 4th BOĞAZİÇİ UNIVERSITY-ATHENS UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE

(18-20 MAY 2006)

PLACE: Büyük Toplantı Salonu (Kriton Curi Room), Saatli Bina

 

 

  THE 4th BOĞAZİÇİ UNIVERSTY-ATHENS UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD ON OUR CAMPUS ON 18-20 MAY 2006. THE TITLE OF THE CONFERENCE IS:  

 

 

UNIVERSALISM/REALISM vs. CULTURALISM/RELATIVISM:

PHILOSOPHICAL, HISTORICAL, and POLITICAL PERSPECTIVES


 

P R O G R A M


Thursday, 18th May

9:30  Welcoming Speeches

10:00-12:00  Contemporary Perspectives on the Realism-Relativism Debate

    Aristides Baltas:  Realism, Relativism and Grammar

    Vaso Kindi:  Conceptual Frameworks and Relativism

    Murat Baç:  Realist Goes Relativist: New Perspectives over Some Old Ontological Issues

    Aristides Arageorgis: Interpolating an ‘R’: Relativistically/Reliable/Realism

12:00-12:15  Coffee Break

12:15-13:45   Historians Look at the Realism and Relativism Issue

    Theodore Arabatzis:  Relativism and the History of Science

    Kostas Gavroglu:  Relativism: An Unavoidable Nuisance in the History of Science

   (Commentator: Berna Kılınç)

14:00-15:30  Lunch Break

15:30-17:30  The Ubiquity of Realism and Relativism

    Stelios Virvidakis:  On the Compatibility of Moral Realism and Relativism

    Ivan Soll:  Experience as Construction: The Destiny of Kant’s Copernican Revolution

    İlhan İnan:  Curiosity and Relativism

    Güven Güzeldere:  Color Realism and the Inverse Optics Problem

 

Friday, 19th May

 

10:00-11:30  Plato and Hegel on Universals and Universalism

    Mehmet Erginel:  Protagorean Relativism in Plato's Theaetetus

    Yıldız Silier:  How Does Hegelian Immanent Critique Challenge Ahistoric Universalism and Relativism?

    Patrick Roney:  Aesthetics and the Universal in Art: Thoughts on Hegel’s statement concerning the End of Art

11:30-12:00   Coffee Break

12:00-14:00   Beyond Realism and Relativism

    Elias Markolefas:  Relativism at the Limit: Kant on the Peculiar Constitution of our Cognitive Faculties

    Demet Yuncu:  Putnam’s Ontology: How Metaphysical is Internal Realism

    Tereza Bouki: Norms, Rules, and the Relativized A Priori

    Ayşegül Çakal: One Philosopher, two Perspectives: Wittgenstein on Language and Meaning

    Genco Güralp: Davidson’s Critique of Relativism and the Possibility of Thought

14:00-15:30   Lunch Break

15:30-17:30  Panel Discussion: Why does ‘it’ matter?

    Chryssi Sidiropoulou, Stathis Psillos, Ferda Keskin, Stephen Voss

  

Saturday, 20th May

 

10:00-12:30  Science Under Attack

    Dimitris Papagiannakos:  Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: Relativism and Philosophical Skepticism

    Ayşegül Sezener:  Bias and Coincidence

    Andeas Karitzis:  Defending Realism: Can Ontology Do the Trick?

    Despina Ioannidou:  Scientific Models and Representation

    Melis Erdur:  Answering the Normative Question

12:30-13:30  General Assembly: Future Prospects

 

 

 
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