Author: Bilkent Philosophy
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Story Behind the Picture: Lictors Bringing to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons
In his painting Lictors Bringing to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons (1789), Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) portrays a moment from Roman history that had never been illustrated before. Even though […]
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First Princeton-Bilkent Workshop held
The inaugural History and Philosophy of Science Workshop, bringing together faculty and graduate students from the Philosophy departments of Princeton University and Bilkent University, was held from October 13-15. The […]
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Story Behind the Picture: The Davos Disputation
This photograph depicts Ernst Cassirer (left) and Martin Heidegger (right) at the Second Davos Hochschulkurs in Davos, Switzerland in 1929. The debate between Cassirer and Heidegger at this conference—the so-called […]
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Online Philosophy Dictionary Launched!
We are happy to launch the Bilkent Philosophy Dictionary at World Philosophy Day! Our faculty members and graduate students prepared English-to-Turkish translations of over 4000 philosophical terms to provide an […]
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Story Behind the Picture: The Three Urns or Olympe de Gouges’s Democratic Paradox
While the French revolution, and especially its Declaration of the Rights of Man, is often hailed as the birth of modern democracy, the actors of the revolution did not think […]
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New Appointments
We are extremely happy to announce the appointment of two outstanding scholars: Monica Solomon received her Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science from the Reilly Center and the Department […]
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Department ranked first in Turkey for research
According to a newly published report by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, Bilkent Philosophy ranks first in the country in terms of research volume and quality. Bölümlerin […]
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Story Behind the Picture: The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David’s The Death of Socrates belongs to a genre of paintings of the Greek philosophers that seek to represent not only the philosopher but also something about their […]
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New Appointments
Murali Ramachandran specializes in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophical logic, and the philosophy of language. The main focus of his research is: paradoxes, causation, conditionals, identity, the theory of descriptions, and more […]
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Regular application deadline for MA/PhD (May 29)
We are now accepting applications for our M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy, for those starting in Fall 2020. Deadline for regular applications: 29 May, 2020 All successful applicants receive a comprehensive […]
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