Philosophy Department Boğaziçi University
Graduate Programme in the History & Philosophy of Science and Technology
University of Athens & National Technical University of Athens
June 13: Propylaia Hall
June 14 & 15: Dracopoulos Hall
University of Athens, Central Building 30 Panepistimiou Street
Conference Program
Wednesday, June 13
'Epistemology' & 'On Action and Value I'
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-11:30 Welcoming Speeches
11:30-13:30 Epistemology
Genco Güralp: Singular Thought and Cartesian Epistemology
Demet Evrenosoğlu: The Legitimacy of the ‘Two Aspect’ and ‘Two World’ Debate
Philippos Georgiadis: Why Structure Is Not Enough for the Empiricist
Deniz Durmuş: Richard Rorty’s Rejection of Traditional Epistemology
16:30-18:30 On Action and Value I
İmge Oranlı: Representation of Evil in Plato's Laws X
Christina Melachrinou: The Role of Literature in Hume’s Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals
Banu Yılankaya: Marx’s Ontology of Value
18:30-19:00 Coffee Break
19:00-20:30 Keynote Address
Thought Experiments in Leibniz Professor Dionysios Anapolitanos, University of Athens
Thursday, June 14
'Philosophy of Science and Technology' & 'On Action and Value II'
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30-12:00 Philosophy of Science
Milena Ivanova: Pierre Duhem’s Concept of Good Sense
Valandis Stergiou: Some Remarks On Causal Processes in Classical Physics
Nikos Bisketzis: Is Negative Causation a Case of Causal Relation?
12:00-12:30 Coffee Break
12:30-14:00 Science & Technology
Christiana Christopoulou: Experimentation and Theories of Matter in the Seventeenth Century: Robert Boyle on Cold
Anna Lamprou: The Ethics of Synthetic Chemistry: Myths and Reality
Özge Koçak Artificial Intelligence: Re-evaluating the Artificial in the Story
16:30-18:30 On Action and Value II
Tuğba Sevinç: On the Possibility of Value-Neutral Understanding of Freedom
Maria Petroglou: Ethicism and Moderate Moralism. In Defence of the Ethical Evaluation of Art
Clinton Willey: On Bullshit
Friday, June 15
'Analytic Philosophy'
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30-12:00 Analytic Philosophy I
Güçsal Pusar: The Strange Case of ‘I’: A Gottlob Frege Philosophical Mystery
Eva Agalopoulou: Continuities Between ‘Logical’ and ‘Semantical’ Approaches in Carnap’s Philosophy
Ayşegül Çakal: Investigating the Private Language Argument
12:00-12:30 Coffee Break
12:30-14:00 Analytic Philosophy II
Georgia Rovatsou: On Natural Kinds
Dilek Arlı: The Paradox of Analysis (Can Analysis be Informative?)
Aspasia Kanellou: Fodor and Peacocke on Concept Possession
17:00-18:30 Keynote Address
In Defence of Structural Realism Professor John Worrall, London School of Economics
