THE 4th BOĞAZİÇİ UNIVERSITY-ATHENS UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE
(18-20 MAY 2006)
PLACE: Büyük Toplantı Salonu (Kriton Curi Room), Saatli Bina
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BOĞAZİÇİ UNIVERSTY-ATHENS UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD ON OUR CAMPUS ON
18-20 MAY 2006. THE TITLE OF THE CONFERENCE IS:
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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 Thought14:00-15:30 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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