Doing Things Together: Knowledge, Lies and Responsibility
Online Conference on Social Ontology
Bilkent University
April 17-18, 2021
For the videos of the presentations please click here.
Conference Program:
(Istanbul time, GMT+3)
Printable Program: click here.
Saturday, April 17 2021
14:00 – 15:15 Leonie Smith (University of Manchester)
“What Are the Agents of the Press and What Are the Agents of Social Media?”
Commentator: Dilara Boğa
15:30 – 16:45 Säde Hormio (University of Helsinki)
“Lying Groups”
Commentator: Mete Han Gencer
17:00 – 18:15 Bill Wringe (Bilkent University)
“Never Mind the Gap: Collective Obligations without the ‘Quantum of Blame’”
Commentator: Roohollah Haghshenas
18:30 – 20:00 Kirk Ludwig – Keynote (Indiana University, Bloomington)
“From Individual to Institutional Agency”
Commentator: Tufan Kıymaz
Sunday, April 18 2021
14:00 – 15:15 Duygu Uygun Tunç (Middle East Technical University)
“Collective Scientific Knowledge without a Collective Subject”
Commentator: Eyşan Demirkaya
15:30 – 16:05 Evrensel Sebep (Bilkent University)
“The State as a Collective Agent”
16:10 – 16:45 Barış Kastaş (Bilkent University)
“Pushing Expressivism Further: A Narrative Paradigm for Collective Responsibility”
17:00 – 18:15 Saniye Vatansever (Bilkent University)
“Kant on Humanity’s Duty Toward Itself”
Commentator: Lucas Thorpe
18:30 – 20:00 Nurbay Irmak (Boğaziçi University)
“Artifactual Kinds, Types, and Properties”
Commentator: Utku Sonsayar
Contact: tufan.kiymaz@bilkent.edu.tr
