July 10 Thursday

11:00  Walter Cavini: “On Beauty”  

15:00 Visit to the ruins of Troy 

About the speakers:

Stephen Stich: Teaching at the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University / USA. Area of interest and research: philosophy of mind, cognitive science, philosophy of language, epistemology. Author of the books titled “From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science” (MIT Press, 1983), “The Fragmentation of Reason” (MIT Press, 1990), “Deconstructing the Mind” (Oxford University Press, 1996) and “Mind Reading” (Co-author/Oxford University Press, 2003)

Stephen Laurence: Teaching at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield / UK. Area of interest and research: Philosophy of mind, cognitive science and metaphysics. Director of the “Innateness and the Structure of the Mind” project and the “Hang Seng Centre for Cognitive Science”. Editor of the books titled “Contemporary Readings in the Foundation of Metaphysics” (Blackwell, 1998), “Concepts: Core Readings” (MIT Press, 1999) and “Creations of the Mind” (Oxford University Pres, 2003).

Geraldine Coggins: Teaching at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen / UK. Completed her Ph.D at Durham University. Area of interest and research: Analytic philosophy and metaphysics. Her article “World and Object: Metaphysical Nihilism and Three Accounts of Worlds” was published in 2003 in the “Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society”.

Walter Cavini: Teaching at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bologna / Italy. Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek philosophy, Aristotle and the Stoics. Author of various articles and contributer to various books written in this field.

Paul van Tongeren: Teaching at the Department of Philosophy at Nijmegen University / Holland. Area of interest and research: Ethics and Nietzsche’s philosophy. Author of the book titled “Reinterpreting Modern Culture: An Introduction to Friedrich Nietzsche’s Philosophy”. President of the “Center for Ethics” (CEKUN) in Holland.

July 2004

July 5, Monday

19:00 Welcome meeting at the Athena Temple: Blue waters, wine and sunset

21:00 Dinner at Assos Hotel

July 6, Tuesday

15:00  Gisela Striker (Harvard Üniversitesi): "Academics and Pyrrhonists Reconsidered"

18:00 James Allen (University of Pittsburgh): "Epicurean and Pyrrhonian Conceptions of Experience"

July 7, Wednesday

15:00 Richard Bett (John Hopkins University): "Greek Scepticism and The Self"

18:00 Julia Annas (University of Arizona): "Ancient Scepticism and Ancient Religion"

July 8, Thursday

11:00 Walter Cavini (University of Bologna): "Dreaming Scepticism in Antiquity"

15:00 Visit to the ruins of Troy

20:00 Farewell dinner at Terrace Hotel

About the speakers:

Julia Annas: University of Arizona Department of Philosophy. Special areas of interest: Ancient philosophy. Author of "Aristotle's Metaphysics M & N" (Oxford Un. Press), "An Introduction to Plato's Republic" (Oxford Un. Press), "Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind" (Un.of California Press), "The Morality of Happiness" (Oxford Un. Press), "Platonic Ethics, Old & New" (Cornell Un. Press), "Ancient Philosophy" (Oxford Un. Press) and "Plato" (Oxford Un. Press).

Gisela Striker: Harvard University Department of Philosophy. Special areas of interest: Ancient philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Epicureans and the Sceptics. Author of various articles in these areas. Her essays on Hellenistic philosophy were gathered in a book titled "Essays on Hellenistic Epistemology and Ethics" (Cambridge University Press).

James Allen: University of Pittsburgh Department of Philosophy. Special areas of interest: Ancient and Hellenistic philosophy. Author of "Inference From Signs: Ancient Debates About the Nature of Evidence" (Oxford Un. Press) as well as of various articles in this area.

Richard Bett: John Hopkins University Department of Philosophy. Special areas of interest: Ancient philosophy, ethics, epistemology, ancient and modern scepticism, Nietzsche. Author of "Pyrrho, His Antecedents and His Legacy" as well as of various articles in this area.

Walter Cavini: University of Bologna Department of Philosophy. Special areas of interest: Ancient philosophy, Aristotle and the Stoics. Author of various articles in this area and contributer to various books written in this field.

July  2005

July 4, Monday

19:00 Welcome meeting at the Athena Temple: Blue waters, wine and sunset

21:30 Dinner at the Harbour (Nazlihan Hotel Restaurant)

July 5, Tuesday

14:00 Brian Elliott: "Sartre and the Invention of Self"
17:00 Matthias Bormuth: "Lifeconduct in Modern Times: Karl Jaspers and Psychoanalysis"

July 6, Wednesday

14:00 Örsan K. Öymen: "Doubt and Anxiety: An Existentialist Reconstruction of Pyrrhonism"
17:00 Orly Shenker: "Physics and Our Knowledge of the Past"

July 7, Thursday

11:00 Sylvana Chrysakopoulou: "Is Heracleitus A Unique Thinker?"

21:00 Farewell Dinner (Terrace Hotel)

23:00 Homer in Assos: A Homeric Performance by Stephen Evans (Terrace Hotel)

23:30 Bach in Assos: Cello / Caglayan Cetin (Terrace Hotel)

About the speakers:

Brian Elliott: He received his MA degree from the University of Edinburgh (UK) and his PhD degree from the University of Freiburg (Germany). Areas of interest and research: Aesthetics, 20th century German philosophy, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. Besides being the author of various articles in his area, he is the author of “The Beginning and End of Philosophy” (“Anfang und Ende der Philosophie” / Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 2002) and “Phenomenology and Imagination in Husserl and Heidegger” / Routledge, 2005. He teaches at the University College Dublin (Ireland).

Matthias Bormuth: He received his MA/PhD degree from the University of Tubingen and the University of Heidelberg (Germany). Areas of interest and research: Medical Ethics, History of Psychiatry and Psyhoanalysis, History of Philosophical Hermeneutics, Ethics, Karl Jaspers, Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Weber, Karl Lowith. He is the author of various articles in his field as well as of the award winning book titled “Lifeconduct in Modern Times. Karl Jaspers and Psychoanalysis” (“Lebensfuhrung in der Moderne. Karl Jaspers und die Psychoanalyse” / Fromman-Holzboog, 2002) which has also been translated into the English and will be published in the USA in the Fall of 2005 by Springer International Publishers / New York. He teaches at the University of Tubingen at the Institute for Ethics and the History of Medicine.

Orsan K. Oymen: He received his MA degree from New York University (USA) and his PhD degree from the Middle East Technical University (Turkey). Areas of interest and research: Epistemology, Ethics, Scepticism, Subjectivism, Existentialism, Sextus Empiricus, David Hume, Friedrich Nietzsche, Soren Kierkegaard, Martin Heidegger, Jean Paul Sartre and Karl Marx. Author of various articles in his field. Founder and Director of Philosophy in Assos. He teaches at Bahcesehir University (Turkey) Department of Philosophy.

Orly Shenker: She received her MA and PhD degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel). Areas of interest and research: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Physics, Applied Ethics. Author of various articles in her field. She taught at the London School of Economics and is currently teaching at the Open University of Israel (Israel).

Sylvana Chrysakopoulou: She received her MA/PhD degrees from Sorbonne University (France). Areas of interest and research: The Pre-Socratic philosophers, particularly Empedocles and Xenophanes, Theology and Physics in the Ancient period. Teaching at the University of Patras (Greece) Department of Philosophy.

July  2006

The Philosophy of David Hume

July 3, Monday

19:00 Welcome meeting at the Athena Temple: Blue waters, wine and sunset

21:30 Dinner at the Harbour

July 4, Tuesday

14:00 David Owen (University of Arizona): "Scepticism With Regard To Reason"

17:00 Tito Magri (University of Rome): "Imagination, Content and Inference in Hume's Treatise"

July 5, Wednesday

14:00 Colin Howson (London School of Economics): "Hume's Problem"

17:00 Don Garrett (New York University): "The First Virtuous Motive to Justice: Hume's Circle Argument Squared"

July 6, Thursday

14:00 Visit to the ruins of Troy

20:30 The Violin in Assos: Annegret Bloch (Terrace Hotel)

21:00 Farewell dinner (Terrace Hotel Restaurant)

23:00 Homer in Assos: Stephen Evans and Cevat Çapan(Terrace Hotel)

About the speakers:

David Owen: University of Arizona, Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Early Modern Philosophy, Descartes, Locke, Hume; metaphysics, problems of reasoning, theories of judgment in 17th and 18th century. Author of “Hume’s Reason” (Oxford University Press, 1999) as well as of numerous articles.

Tito Magri: University of Rome “La Sapienze”, Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Practical Philosophy, Ethics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Emotions, Philosophy of Psychology, Theories of Imagination; Hobbes, Locke, Hume; Practical Philosophy in Aristotle and Kant. Author of various books and articles in his field.

Colin Howson: London School of Economics, Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Philosophy of Science and the foundations of probability. Author of “Hume's Problem: Induction and the Justification of Belief” (Oxford University Press, 2000) and “Scientific Reasoning: the Bayesian Approach” (with Peter Urbach / Open Court Publishing Company, 1989) as well as of numerous articles. President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science (2003-2005).

Don Garrett: New York University, Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Early Modern Philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, ethics. Author of “Cognition and Commitment in Hume’s Philosophy” (Oxford University Press, 1997) as well as of numerous articles and chapters in various books.

July 1-5, 2007

"The Concept of Happiness in Ancient Philosophy and Contemporary Ethics"

July 1, Sunday

19:00 Welcome Meeting at the Temple of Athena: Blue waters, wine, sunset

21:00 Dinner at the Harbour (Nazlihan Hotel Restaurant)

July 2, Monday

11:00 Walter Cavini (University of Bologna): “On Happiness and the Highest Good: Some Ancient and Modern Reflections”

14:00 Christoph Horn (University of Bonn): “Four Contemporary Problems With Ancient Ethics of Happiness”

16:00 Pierre Destrée (University of Louvain-la-Neuve): “On Desire for Happiness and Human Nature: An Issue After Socrates”

18:00 Amber Carpenter (University of St Andrews): “Happiness and The Idea of the Good: How Plato Can Educate Our Eudaimonist Tendencies?”

July 3, Tuesday

11:00 Philipp Brüllmann (Humboldt University): “ ‘It is for the sake of happiness that we all do everything else we do’: Remarks on a Problematic Claim”

14:00 Christopher Shields (Oxford University): “Perfecting Pleasures”

16:00 Anthony Price (Birkbeck College): “Acting and Living Well: An Issue after Aristotle”

18:00 Dan Russel (Monash University): “Happiness and Agency in the Stoics and Aristotle”

21:00 Dinner at the Harbour (Grand Assos Hotel Restaurant)

July 4, Wednesday

14:00 Christof Rapp (Humboldt University): “Happiness: Psychological State or Activity?”

16:00 Visit to Troy

July 5, Thursday

14:00 Christopher Gill (University of Exeter): “What’s Wrong with the Stoic Idea of Happiness?”

16:00 Jean Salem (University of Paris I): “Epicurus Our Contemporary”

18:00 Richard Bett (John Hopkins University): “Can An Ancient Greek Skeptic Be Happy and What Difference Does the Answer Make to Us?”

21:30 Farewell Dinner (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)

23:30 Bach in Assos (Cello- Cihan Türkoglu)

Brief info about the speakers:

Christoph Rapp: Humboldt University Department of Philosophy. Area of research and interest: Ancient Philosophy. Author of the books “Identität, Persistenz und Substantialität. Untersuchung über das Verhältnis von sortalen Termen und Aristotelischer Substanz”, “Aristoteles, Metaphysik. Die Substanzbücher (Zêta, Êta, Thêta)”, “Vorsokratiker”,“Aristoteles zur Einführung” (mit Christoph Horn), “Wörterbuch der antiken Philosophie” (mit Christoph Horn) as well as of various articles and editor of various books in his field.

Christoph Horn: Bonn University Department of Philosophy. Area of research and interest: Ancient Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Ethics, Political Philosophy. Author of the books “Plotin über Sein, Zahl und Einheit. Eine Studie zu den systematischen Grundlagen der Enneaden”, “Paradigmen mittelalterlicher Philosophie”, “Antike Lebenskunst. Glück und Moral von Sokrates bis zu den Neuplatonikern”, “Einführung in die Politische Philosophie” “Grundlegende Güter. Untersuchungen zu einer handlungsteleologischen Ethik” as well as of various articles and editor of various books in his field.

Pierre Destree: University of Louvain-la-Neuve Department of Philosophy. Area of research and interest: Ancient Philosophy. Author of various articles and editor of various books in his field.

Anthony Price: Birbeck College London Department of Philosophy. Area of research and interest: Ancient Philosophy. Author of the books “Mental Conflict”, “Love and Friendship in Plato and Aristotle” as well as of various articles and editor of various books in his field.

Christopher Shields: Oxford University Department of Philosophy. Area of research and interest: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy. Author of the books “Aristotle”, “Classical Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction” , “The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas” (with Robert Pasnau), “Order in Multiplicity: Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle” as well as of various articles and editor of various books in his field.

Dan Russell: Monash University Department of Philosophy. Area of research and interest: Ancient and Modern Philosophy. Author of the book “Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life” as well as of various articles and editor of various books in his field.

Philipp Brüllmann: Humboldt University Department of Philosophy. Area of research and interest: Ancient Philosophy. Author of various articles and editor of various books in his field.

Christopher Gill: University of Exeter Department of Philosophy. Area of research and interest: Ancient Philosophy. Author of the books “Greek Thought: Greece and Rome New Surveys in the Classics”, “Personality in Greek Epic, Tragedy and Philosophy: The Self in Dialogue”, “The Structured Self in Hellenistic and Roman Thought” as well as of various articles and editor of various books in his field.

Richard Bett: John Hopkins University Department of Philosophy. Area of research and interest: Ancient Philosophy. Author of the book “Pyrrho, his Antecedents and his Legacy” as well as of various articles and editor of various books in his field.

Walter Cavini: University of Bologna Department of Philosophy. Area of research and interest: Ancient Philosophy. Author of various articles and sections in books and editor of various books in his field.

Jean Salem: University of Paris 1 Sorbonne Department of Philosophy. Area of research and interest: Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, Political Philosophy. Author of the books “Le Bonheur ou L’Art d’être heureux par gros temps”, “Philosophie de Maupassant”, “Cinq variations sur le plaisir, la sagesse et la mort”. “Karl Marx, Manuscrits de 1844”, “Démocrite. Grains de poussière dans un rayon de soleil”, “La Mort n’est rien pour nous. Lucrèce et l’éthique”,  “Tel un dieu parmi les hommes. L’éthique d’Épicure” as well as of various articles and editor of various books in his field.

Amber Carpenter: University of St-Andrews Department of Philosophy. Area of research and interest: Ancient Philosophy. Author of various articles and editor of various books in her field.

June 30 - July 3, 2008

Alienation

June 30 Monday

19:00 Meeting at the Athena Temple: Blue waters, sunset and wine

21:00 Dinner at the Harbour / Nazlıhan Hotel Restaurant

July 1 Tuesday

14:00 Ulrich Haase (Manchester Metropolitan University): "The History of Alienation from Hegel to Nietzsche" 

16:00 Clare Carlisle (University of Liverpool): "Lost in Thought: Kierkegaard's Despair in the Age of Reflection"

18:00 Marc Sinclair (Manchester Metropolitan University): "The Alien and the Uncanny: Heidegger, Marx and the Question Concerning Technology"

21:00 Dinner at Kadirga Beach / Yildizsaray Hotel Restaurant

July 2 Wednesday

14:00 Ulrich Steinvorth (Bilkent University): "Alienation, World and Life in Hannah Arendt"

16:00 Iddo Landau (University of Haifa): "Alienation and the Meaning of Life in Camus"

18:00 Keith Crome (Manchester Metropolitan University): "Existential Alienation in Merleau-Ponty"

23:00 Cello at the Ancient Theater / Özde Tiknaz

July 3 Thursday

15:00 Visit to Troy

21:00 Farewell Dinner and the Cello (Özde Tiknaz) / Assos Terrace Hotel

About the speakers:

Ulrich Haase: Manchester Metropolitan University Department of Philosophy. Area of interest and research: Existentialism, Nietzsche, Sartre, Kant, Merleau-Ponty and Philosophy of Literature. Editor of the “Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology”. Author of numerous articles and the book “Maurice Blanchot” (Routledge, 2001).

Clare Carlisle: University of Liverpool Department of Philosophy. Area of interest and research: Kierkegaard, Philosophy of Habit, Philosophy of Religion. Author of numerous articles and the books “Kierkegaard: A Guide for the Perplexed” (Continiuum Press, 2006), “Kierkegaard’s Philosophy of Becoming: Movements and Positions” (State University of New York Press, 2005).

Marc Sinclair: Manchester Metropolitan University Department of Philosophy. Area of interest and research: Ethics, Phenomenology, Aesthetics, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Heidegger. Author of various articles.

Ulrich Steinvorth: Bilkent University Department of Philosophy. Area of interest and research: Political Philosophy, Ethics, Metaphysics. Author of various articles and the books “Without Docks: How Fundamentalists and Philosophers Respond to Human Fallibility” (Mentis, 2006), “Classical & Modern Ethics” (L’Harmattan, 2003).

Iddo landau: University of Haifa Department of Philosophy. Area of interest and research: Feminism, Existentialism, Philosophy and Film. Author of numerous articles and the book “Is Philosophy Androcentric?” (Penn State University Press, 2006).

Keith Crome: Manchester Metropolitan University Department of Philosophy. Area of interest and research: 20th Century French Philosophy, Existentialism, Phenomenology, Ancient Greek Philosophy. Author of numerous articles and the book “Lyotard and Greek Thought: Sophistry” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2004).

June 29 - July 2, 2009

Issues in Applied Ethics

June 29 Monday

19:00 Meeting at the Athena Temple: Blue waters, sunset & wine

21:00 Dinner at the harbour (Nazlihan Hotel Restaurant)

June 30 Tuesday

15:00 Jan Robert Bloch (University of Potsdam): "The Nature of Nature: An Enquiry Concerning the Understanding of Nature in Her Own Rights"

17:00 Alan Carter (University of Glasgow): "How to Solve Two Addition Paradoxes and Avoid the Repugnant Conclusion"

21:00 Dinner at Kadirga Beach (Yildizsaray Hotel Restaurant)

July 1 Wednesday

14:00 Sandrine Berges (Bilkent University): "Why Women Hug Their Chains: Sen and Wollstonecraft on Adapting Preferences"

16:00 Minou Friele (Heinrich-Heine  University Düsseldorf): "Collective Responsibility in a Pluralistic World"

18:00 Orly Shenker (Open University of Israel): "On Lazy Bums & Parasites"

23:00 Violin at the Ancient Theater (Anne-Monika Sommer) and a performance on Homer (Stephen Evans)

July 2 Thursday

15:00 Visit to Troy

21:00 Farewell dinner (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)

About the speakers:

Jan Robert Bloch: Potsdam University Department of Sociology and Economics. Areas of interest and research: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Nature, Philosophy of Science, Non-Linear Systems in Chemistry and Physics. Author of the books "Andere Ansichtern der Natur" (SZD Verlag, 1981), "Natur und Arbeit" (Beltz Verlag, 1982), "Wachstum der Grenzen" (Sendler Verlag, 1984)), "Naturwissenschaftlische Fachsystematik und Curriculum" (Beltz Verlag, 1984), "Kristalle der Utopie" (Tahlheimer Verlag, 1995), "Utopie: Ortsbestimmung im Nirgendwo" (Verlag Leske, 1997), "Perspektiven der Philosophie Ernst Bloch's" (Suhrkamp Verlag, 1999) and of numerous articles in his field. He is the founding member of the Ernst Bloch Foundation.

Alan Carter: University of Glasgow Department of Philosophy. Chair of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow, a position which was hold previously by Adam Smith, Francis Hutcheson and Thomas Reid. Areas of interest and research: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of the Environment. Author of the books “Marx: A Radical Critique” (Westview Press, 1988), “The Philosophical Foundations of Property Rights” (Hemel Hempstead, 1989) and “A Radical Green Political Theory” (Routledge, 1999) as well as of over 50 articles in his field.

Sandrine Berges: Bilkent University Department of Philosophy. Areas of research and interest: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Ethics, Friedrich Nietzsche. She is the author of the book (to be published) "Plato, Virtue and the Law" and of various articles in her field.

Minou Friele: Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf Department of Philosophy; member of the Oxford University Uehiro Center for Practical Ethics. Areas of interest and research: Applied Ethics, Bio-Ethics, Public Health Ethics, Business Ethics, Philosophy of Law, Political Philosophy. Author of the books “Rechtsethik der Embryoenforschung” (Mentis Verlag, 2008) and “Embryo Research in Pluralistic Europe” (Springer Verlag, 2003) as well as of various articles in her field.

Orly Shenker: Open University of Israel Department of Philosophy. Areas of research and interest: Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Applied Ethics. Author of the books (to be published) “Bio-Ethics: A Methodological Introduction” and “The Sociological Turn: Sociology of Scientific Knowledge and Social Construction of Scientific Facts”, as well as of various articles in her field.

June 28 – July 1, 2010

Aristotle’s Politics

June 28, Monday

19:00 Meeting at the Athena Temple: Blue waters, sunset, wine

21:30 Dinner at the harbour (Nazlıhan Otel Restaurant)

June 29, Tuesday

13:30 Dorothea Frede (University of California / Berkeley): “The Political Character of Aristotle’s Ethics”

15:00 Michael Pakaluk (The Institute for the Psychological Sciences): “The Political Anthropology”

16:30 Walter Cavini (University of Bologna): “Aristotle on Practical Knowledge & Political Science”

18:00 Pierre Destree (University of Louvain): “Political Education”

20:30 Dinner at Kadirga Beach (Yıldızsaray Otel Restaurant)

23:00 Classical Music (Anne Monika Sommer-Bloch) and Homer Reading at the Ancient Theater (Stephen Evans)

June 30, Wednesday

13:30 Andres Rosler (University of Buenos Aires): “Political Virtues”

15:00 Marguerite Deslauriers (University of McGill): “Politics II: Unity and Inequality”

16:30 Marco Zingano (University of Sao Paulo): “Natural, Ethical and Political Justice” 18:00 Christoph Horn (University of Bonn): “Law, Authority & Governance in Aristotle’s Politics”

20:00 Performance of an Ancient Greek Tragedy and Comedy at the Ancient Theater (Sophocles: “Antigone” / Aristophanes: “The Wasps”; Istanbul Culture University / Directed by: Kubilay Karslioglu  Actors: Saydam Yeniay, Ezgi Aldemir, Gizem Tugan and Students of Istanbul Culture University)

21:30 Dinner at the harbour (Grand Assos Restaurant)

July 1, Thursday

13:30 Antony Hatzistavrou (University of Hull): “Political Change and Revolution”

15:00 Karen Nielsen (University of Western Ontario): “On Economy and Private Property”

16:30 Visit to the ruins of Troy

21:30 Farewell Dinner (Terrace Otel Restaurant)

About the speakers:

Dorothea Frede: University of California at Berkeley, Department of Philosophy. Her areas of research are: Metaphysics, Ethics, Ancient Philosophy, Plato, Aristotle and Heidegger. She is the author of the books “Plato / Philebus”, “Ernst Cassiers Werk und Wirkung”, “Traditions of Theology”, “Forschungsfreiheit und Ihre Ethischen Grenzen”, “Language and Learning” as well as of numerous articles.

Michael Pakaluk: The Institute for the Psychological Sciences at Arlington. His areas of research are: Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, Political Philosophy, Philosophical Psychology, Philosophical Logic and Aristotle. He is the author of the books “Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics: An Introduction”, “Aristotelian Theory of Action and Moral Psychology” (with Giles Pearson) as well as of numerous articles.

Walter Cavini: University of Bologna Department of Philosophy. His areas of research are: Ancient Philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Sextus Empiricus and Ludwig Wittgenstein. He is the author of numerous articles and chapters in books.

Pierre Destree: University of Louvain Department of Philosophy. His areas of research are: Ancient Philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Ethics and Aesthetics. He is the author of the books (to be published) “Socrate, L’invention de l’Ethique Grecque”, “Aristote / La Poetique”, “Plato and Aristotle on Poetry” as well as of numerous articles.

Andres Rosler: University of Buenos Aires Department of Philosophy. His areas of research are: Political Philosophy, Contemporary Political and Legal Theory, Aristotle. He is the author of the book “Political Authority and Obligation in Aristotle” and “Thomas Hobbes / De Cive” as well as of numerous articles.

Marguerite Deslauriers: University of McGill Department of Philosophy. Her areas of research are: Ancient Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy. She is the author of the book “Aristotle on Definition” as well as of numerous articles.

Marco Zingano: University of Sao Paulo Department of Philosophy. His areas of research are: Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle and Kant. He is the author of the books “Reason As History in Kant”, “Reason and Perception in Aristotle”, “Essays on Ancient Ethics”, “Aristotle on Moral Virtue” as well as of numerous articles.

Christoph Horn: University of Bonn Department of Philosophy. His area of research are: Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Ethics and Political Philosophy. He is the author of the books “Augustinus / De Cevitate Dei”, “Wörterbuch der Antiken Philosophie” (with Christof Rapp), “Philosophie der Gerechtigkeit” (with Nico Scarano), “Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals” (with Dieter Schönecker) as well as of numerous articles.

Antony Hatzistavrou: University of Hull Department of Philosophy. His areas of research are: Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Action. He is the author of various articles in his field.

Karen Nielsen: University of Western Ontario Department of Philosophy. Her areas of research are: Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, Theory of Action. She is the author of various articles in her field.

July 4-7, 2011

On Occasion of the 300th Anniversary of David Hume’s Birth: Hume on God, Religion and Morality

July 4, Monday

19:00 Temple of Athena: Welcome, Blue Waters, Wine & Sunset

21:30 Dinner at the Harbour (Nazlıhan Hotel Restaurant)

July 5, Tuesday

13:30 Paul Russell (University of British Columbia): “Hume on Belief and Atheism”

15:00 Don Garrett (New York University): “What’s True About Hume’s ‘True Religion’?”

16:30 Örsan K. Öymen (Bahcesehir University): “Hume’s Agnosticism in Relation to Pyrrhonism”

18:00 Stephen Darwall (Yale University): “Hume on Modern Morality and Religion’s Influence”

20:00 Dinner at the Village (Asosyal Hotel Restaurant)

23:00 Classical Music in the Ancient Theater (Anne Monika Sommer-Bloch)

July 6, Wednesday

13:30 John Prentice Wright (Central Michigan University): “The Slave of the Passions: Hume on Religion and Morality”

15:00 Simon Blackburn (University of Cambridge): “Human and Humean Practical Reason”

16:30 David Owen (University of Arizona): “Reason, Belief and Moral Sentiments”

18:00 Michael B. Gill (University of Arizona): “Non-Consequentialist Thinking and Humean Sentimentalism”

20:00 Performance of an Ancient Greek Tragedy in the Ancient Theater (Sophocles: “Antigone”; Aristophanes: "Lysistrata". İstanbul Culture University; Director: Kubilay Karslıoğlu Act: Saydam Yeniay, Ezgi Aldemir, Gizem Tugan & Students of İstanbul Culture University)

21:30 Dinner at Kadırga Beach (Yıldızsaray Hotel Restaurant)

23:30 Beach Party (Kadırga / Yıldızsaray Hotel Beach) / DJ Kerem Savaş & Metehan Korkmazel

July 7, Thursday

12:00 Charlotte Brown (Illinois Wesleyan University): “The Structure of Hume’s Second Inquiry”

13:30 William Edward Morris (Illinois Wesleyan University): “Another Look at Hume’s Determinism”

15:00 Tito Magri (University of Rome-La Sapienza): “Hume’s Justice: A Reappraisal”

16:30 Visit to Troy

21:30 Farewell Dinner (Terrace Hotel Restaurant)

Brief information about the speakers:

Simon Blackburn: Cambridge University Department of Philosophy. (Chairman / Professor). Area of interest and research: Metaphysics, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Hume, Plato. He is the author of the books “Spreading the Word”, “Essay in Quasi-Realism”, “The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy”, “Ruling Passions”, “Think”, “Being Good”, “Lust”, “Hume”, “Plato’s Republic” and also of numerous articles in his field.

Stephen Darwall: Yale University Department of Philosophy. (Professor). Area of interest and research: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Hume. He is the author of the books ”Impartial Reason”, “The British Moralists and the Internal ‘Ought’ “, “Philosophical Ethics”, “Welfare and Rational Care”, “The Second-Person Standpoint: Respect, Morality and Accountability” and also of numerous articles in his field.

John Prentice Wright: Central Michigan University Department of Philosophy. (Professor). Area of interest and research: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics, Hume, Locke. He is the author of the books “Hume’s ‘A Treatise of Human Nature’: An Introduction”, “David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature”, “The Sceptical Realism of David Hume” and also of numerous articles in his field.

David Owen: University of Arizona Department of Philosophy. (Associate Professor). Area of interest and research: Epistemology, Ethics, Descartes, Locke, Hume. He is the author of the book “Hume’s Reason” and also of numerous articles in his field.

Don Garrett: New York University (NYU) Department of Philosophy. (Chairman / Professor). Area of interest and research: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Hume. He is the author of the book “Cognition and Commitment in Hume’s Philosophy” and also of numerous articles in his field.

Paul Russell: University of British Columbia Department of Philosophy. (Professor). Area of interest and research: Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, Hume, Locke, Hobbes, Butler. He is the author of “The Riddle of Hume’s Treatise: Scepticism, Naturalism and Irreligion”, “Freedom and Moral Sentiment” and also of numerous articles in his field. (“The Riddle of Hume’s Treatise...” won the book prize from the “Journal of the History of Philosophy” for being the best published book in 2008 in the area “History of Philosophy”)

William Edward Morris: Illinois Wesleyan University Department of Philosophy. (Professor). Area of interest and research: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, Hume. He is the author of the book “Starting With Hume” (with Charlotte Brown) and also of numerous articles in his field.

Charlotte Brown: Illinois Wesleyan University Department of Philosophy. (Associate Professor). Area of interest and research: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Hume. She is the author of the book “Starting With Hume” (with William Edward Morris) and also of numerous articles in her field.

Michael B. Gill: University of Arizona Department of Philosophy. (Associate Professor). Area of interest and research: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Locke, Hobbes, Hume. He is the author of “The British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular Ethics” and also of numerous articles in his field.

Tito Magri: University of Roma La Sapienza Department of Philosophy. (Professor). Area of interest and research: Epistemology, Ethics, Political Philosophy, Hume. He is the author of the book “Contratto e Convenzione” and also of numerous articles in his field.

Örsan K. Öymen: Bahcesehir University (Istanbul) Graduate Programme for Philosophy. (Associate Professor). Area of interest and research: Epistemology, Ethics, Sextus, Hume, Nietzsche. He is the author of the book “Hume” and also of numerous articles in his field. He is founder and director of Philosophy in Assos and also President of the Association of Philosophy, Art & Science.

July 2-5, 2012

Passions and Emotions in Ancient and Modern Philosophy

July 2, Monday

19:00 Temple of Athena: Welcome, Blue Waters, Wine & Sunset

21:30 Dinner at the Harbour (Nazlıhan Hotel Restaurant)

July 3, Tuesday

13:30 Walter Cavini (University of Bologna): “I Wonder at the Existence of the World: Wondering as a Philosophical Emotion”

15:00 Fulvia De Luise (University of Trento): “Eros the Builder: Intensive Passions and Personal Identity in Plato”

16:30 Stephen Leighton (Queen’s University): “Aristotle on Fear’s Expression”

18:00 Pascal Engel (University of Geneva): “Epistemic Anxiety and Other Epistemic Emotions”

20:00 Dinner at the Village (Assosyal Hotel Restaurant)

July 4, Wednesday

13:30 Amy Schmitter (University of Alberta): “Classification and Forms of Explanation in Early Modern Approaches to the Passions”

15:00 Ivan Soll (University of Wisconsin-Madison): “Nietzsche as a Proponent of 'the Passions'“

16:30 Kevin Mulligan (University of Geneva): “Affective Identification”

18:00 Toni Ronnow-Rasmussen (Lund University): “Favouring and Motivating Reasons”

20:30 Dinner at Kadırga Beach (Bronz Motel Restaurant)

23:00 Classical Music in the Ancient Theater (Anne Monika Sommer-Bloch) 

July 5, Thursday

14:30 Visit to the Temple of Smintheion and the city of Troy

21:30 Farewell Dinner (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)

About the speakers:

Pascal Engel: University of Geneva Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Logic, Epistemology. He is the author of the books “The Norm of Truth”, “Davidson et la Philosophie du Langage”, “Introduction à la Philosophie de L’esprit”, “Philosophie et Psychologie”, “La Dispute”, “Truth”, “Ramsey, Truth and Success” (with Jérôme Dokic), “A Quoi Bon la Vérité?” (with Richard Rorty), “Va savoir!” and also of numerous articles in his field.

Ivan Soll: University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Philosophy. His areas of interest and research: Ethics, Aesthetics, Existentialism, Nietzsche, Sartre, Freud, Hegel. He is the author of "Introduction to Hegel's Metaphysics" and of numerous articles in his field.

Toni Ronnow-Rasmussen: Lund University Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Ethics and Value Theory. He is the author of the books “Personal Value” and “Logic, Fact and Representation” and also of numerous articles in his field.

Fulvia De Luise: University of Trento Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Augustinus, Kant, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Heidegger. She is the author of the books “Felicita Socratica” and “Storia Della Felicita” (with Guiseppe Farinetti) and of numerous articles in her field.

Kevin Mulligan: University of Geneva Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Philosophy of Mind, Ontology and Philosophy of Logic. He is the author of numerous articles in his field.

Stephen Leighton: Queen’s University Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Philosophical Psychology, Ethics, Ancient Greek philosophy. He is the author of numerous articles in his field.

Walter Cavini: University of Bologna Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Zeno, Sextus Empiricus and Ludwig Wittgenstein. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters in his field.

Amy Schmitter: University of Alberta Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Aesthetics, Feminist Philosophy, Aristotle, Locke, Hobbes, Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Foucault, Althusser. She is the author of numerous articles in her field.

July 1-4, 2013

Friedrich Nietzsche

July 1, Monday

19:00 Temple of Athena: Welcome, Blue Waters, Wine & Sunset

21:30 Dinner at the Harbour (Nazlıhan Hotel Restaurant)

July 2, Tuesday

11:30 John Richardson (New York University): "Nietzsche's Naturalized Values"

13:00 Kenneth Gemes (Birbeck College): “Nietzsche on the Value of Truth”

14:30 Alexander Aichele (Martin Luther University): "Causation and Reality: Nietzsche on What There Is."

16:00 Örsan K. Öymen (Işık University): “Nietzsche’s Scepticism”

17:30 Christa Davis Acampora (Hunter College): "Nietzsche's Critical Philosophy"

19:00 Werner Stegmaier (Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald): “Subject(iv)ity: Nietzsche, Before and After”

20:30 Dinner at the Village (Assosyal Hotel Restaurant)

July 3, Wednesday

12:00 Ivan Soll (University Of Wisconsin-Madison): "Nietzsche on Pleasure and Power."

13:30 Simon May (King’s College London): “Does Nietzsche Affirm Life?”

15:00 Oruç Aruoba (Independent Researcher): "A Key to Nietzsche: Death."

16:30 Gary Shapiro (University of Richmond): "The Time of the Political After World-History."

18:00 Rainer Hanshe (Independent Researcher): “Zarathustra’s Stillness: Dreaming and the Art of Incubation”

19:30 Dinner (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)

22:30 Classical Music in the Ancient Theater (Anne Monika Sommer-Bloch)

23:15 Symposium in the Ancient Theater with Dionysos (Oruç Aruoba)

July 4, Thursday

15:00 Visit to the ancient city of Troy

21:15 Farewell Dinner (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)

About the speakers:

John Richardson: New York University (NYU) Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: 19th and 20th century European Continental Philosophy, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Darwin and Aristotle. He is the author of the books “Existential Epistemology: A Heideggerian Critique of the Cartesian Project”, “Nietzsche’s System”, “Nietzsche’s New Darwinism”, “Heidegger” and “The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche” (with Kenneth Gemes) and also the author of numerous articles.

Kenneth Gemes: Birbeck College (London) Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Philosophy of Science, Philosophical Logic, Epistemology, Nietzsche and Freud. He is the author of the book “The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche” (with John Richardson) and the editor of the book “Nietzsche on Freedom and Autonomy” (with Simon May) and also the author of numerous articles.

Alexander Aichele: Martin Luther University Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Metaphysics, Aesthetics, Ethics, Epistemology, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Hermeneutics, Plato, Aristotle, Kant and Nietzsche. He is the author of the books “Philosophie als Spiel: Platon-Kant-Nietzsche” and “Ontologie des Nicht-Seienden: Aristoteles' Metaphysik der Bewegung” and also the author of numerous articles.

Örsan K. Öymen: Işık University (Istanbul) Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. (Chairman). Areas of interest and research: Epistemology, Ethics, Scepticism, Existentialism, Sextus Empiricus, Hume, Nietzsche, Marx, Heidegger and Sartre. He is the author and editor of the book “Hume” and also the author of numerous articles. He is also the founder and director of the project “Philosophy in Assos”.

Christa Davis Acampora: City University of New York Hunter College Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Modern European Continental Philosophy, Moral Psychology, Political Philosophy, Nietzsche and Heidegger. She is the author of the books “Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil: A Reader’s Guide” (with Keith Ansell Pearson) and “Contesting Nietzsche” and also the author of numerous articles.

Werner Stegmaier: Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Ethics, Aesthetics, Hermeneutics, Philosophy of Religion, Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Dilthey, Derrida and Levinas. He is the author of the books “Der Substanzbegriff der Metaphysik. Aristoteles - Descartes –Leibniz”, “Bedingungen der Zukunft. Ein naturwissenschaftlich-philosophischer Dialog” (with Karl Ulmer ve Wolf Hafele), “Philosophie der Fluktuanz. Dilthey und Nietzsche”, “Wirtschaftsethik als Dialog und Diskurs” , “Nietzsches ‘Genealogie der Moral’”, “Interpretationen. Hauptwerke der Philosophie. Von Kant bis Nietzsche” , “Levinas”, “Philosophie der Orientierung”, “Nietzsche zur Einführung” and “Nietzsches Befreiung der Philosophie” and also the author of numerous articles.

Ivan Soll: University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Metaphysics, Ethics, Aesthetics, Existentialism, Nietzsche, Sartre, Freud, Hegel, Schopenhauer and Camus. He is the author of the book "Introduction to Hegel's Metaphysics" and also the author of numerous articles.

Simon May: King’s College London Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Ethics, German Idealism, Philosophy of Emotions, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Heidegger. He is the author of the books “Love: A History” , “Nietzsche's Ethics and his War on ‘Morality’” and “Thinking Aloud: A Collection of Aphorisms” (which received the Book of the Year Price of the Financial Times Newspaper in 2009). He is also the editor of “Nietzsche on Freedom and Autonomy” (with Kenneth Gemes) and the author of numerous articles.

Oruç Aruoba: Areas of interest and research: Epistemology, Ethics, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Marx, Heidegger and Wittgenstein. He is the author of the books “Benlik”, “Sayıklamalar”, “Kesik Esintiler”, “Geç Gelen Ağıtlar”, “Ol / An”, “Doğançay'ın Çınarları”, “Zilif”, “Çengelköy Defteri”, “İle İlişki Defteri”, “Yakın”, “Ne Ki Hiç Haikular”, “Tümceler Bir Yerlerden Bir Zamanlar”, “De ki İşte”, “Yürüme”, “Uzak”, “Hani”, “Olmayalı”, “Ne Otuz Altı Tanzaku”. He translated Nietzsche’s “Anti-Christ” from the German to the Turkish. He is also the author of numerous articles.

Gary Shapiro: University of Richmond Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Ethics, Aesthetics, European Continental Philosophy, American Philosophy, Kant, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Hegel, Peirce, Gadamer, Habermas, Derrida and Foucault. He is the author of the books “Archaeologies of Vision: Foucault and Nietzsche on Seeing and Saying”, “Earthwards: Robert Smithson and Art After Babel”, “Alcyone: Nietzsche on Gifts, Noise, and Women” and “Nietzschean Narratives” and also the author of numerous articles. Rainer Hanshe: Areas of interest and research: Ethics, Aesthetics, Philosophy and Literature and Nietzsche. He is the author of the books “The Acolytes” and “The Abdication” and also the author of numerous articles. He is the co-founder of “The Nietzsche Circle” based in New York.

Rainer Hanshe: Areas of interest and research: Ethics, Aesthetics, Philosophy and Literature and Nietzsche. He is the author of the books “The Acolytes” and “The Abdication” and also the author of numerous articles. He is the co-founder of “The Nietzsche Circle” based in New York.

June 30 – July 3 2014

Philosophy of Mind

June 30 Monday

19:00 Temple of Athena: Welcome, Blue Waters, Wine and Sunset

21:30 Dinner at the Harbour (Nazlıhan Hotel Restaurant)

July 1 Tuesday

13:30 Barry Smith (University of London / Birkbeck): “What Can We Know About Our Own Experience?”

15:00 David Papineau (King’s College London): “The Nature of Sensory Experience”

16:30 Paul Boghossian (New York University): “Intuition and Experience”

18:00 Shaun Gallagher (University of Memphis): “Seeing Without an I: IEM and the First-Person Perspective”

20:30 Dinner at the Village (Assosyal Hotel Restaurant)

July 2 Wednesday

13:30 Michael Tye (University of Texas at Austin): “Can Honeybees Feel Anxious?”

15:00 Paul Horwich (New York University): “Qualia Skepticism”

16:30 Bill Wringe (Bilkent University): “Emotion and Perception: A Fruitful Analogy?”

18:00 Daniel Hutto (University of Wollongong / University of Hertfordshire): “Rethinking the Cognitive Revolution”

19:30 Dinner (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)

22:30 Classical Music in the Ancient Theater (Anne Monika Sommer-Bloch) 

July 3 Thursday

15:00 Visit to the Ancient City of Troy

21:00 Farewell Dinner (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)

About the speakers:

David Papineau: King’s College London Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Mathematics. He is the author of the books “For Science in the Social Sciences”, “Theory and Meaning”, “Reality and Representation”, “Philosophical Naturalism”, “Introducing Consciousness”, “Thinking About Consciousness”, “The Roots of Reason: Philosophical Essays on Rationality, Evolution and Probability” and “Philosophical Devices: Proofs, Probabilities, Possibilities and Sets” and the editor of the books “The Philosophy of Science”, “Philosophy” and “Essays on Teleosemantics” (with Graham Macdonald) and also the author of numerous articles. He served as President of the “British Society for the Philosophy of Science” and “The Mind Association” and is currently the President of the “Aristotelian Society”.

Shaun Gallagher: University of Memphis Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Philosophy of Mind, Phenomenology, Cognitive Science, Hermeneutics, Philosophy of Time. He is the author of the books “Phenomenology”, “The Phenomenological Mind” (with D. Zahavi), “Brainstorming: Views and Interviews on the Mind”, “How the Body Shapes the Mind” , “The Inordinance of Time” and “Hermeneutics and Education” and the editor of the books “Oxford Handbook of the Self”, “Hegel, History and Interpretation”, “Merleau-Ponty, Hermeneutics and Post Modernism”, “Does Consciousness Cause Baheaviour?” (with W. Banks, S. Pockett), “Models of the Self” (with J. Shear), “Handbook of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science” (with D. Schmicking) and “Ipseity and Alterity: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Intersubjectivity” (with S. Watson) and also the author of numerous articles.

Michael Tye: University of Texas (at Austin) Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language and Metaphysics. He is the author of the books “The Metaphysics of Mind”, “The Imagery Debate”, “Ten Problems of Consciousness: A Representational Theory of the Phenomenal Mind”, “Color, Consciousness and Content”, “Consciousness and Persons: Unity and Identity”, “Consciousness Revisited: Materialism Without Phenomenal Concepts” and “Seven Puzzles of Thought: An Originalist Theory of Concepts” (with Mark Sainsbury) and also the author of numerous articles.

Paul Horwich: New York University Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Logic, Metaphysics. He is the author of the books “Probability and Evidence”, “Asymmetries in Time”, “Truth”, “Meaning”, “From a Deflationary Point of View”, “Reflections on Meaning” and “Truth-Meaning-Reality” and also of numerous articles.

Daniel Hutto: University of Wollongong / University of Hertfordshire Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Language. He is the author of the books “The Presence of Mind”, “Beyond Physicalism”, “Wittgenstein and the End of Philosophy”, “Folk Psychological Narratives” and “Radicalizing Enactivism: Basic Minds Without Content” (with Erik Myin) and the editor of the books “Folk-Psychology Re-Assessed”, “Narratives and Understanding Persons” and “Narrative and Folk-Psychology” and also the author of numerous articles.

Paul Boghossian: New York University (NYU) Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language. He is the author of the books “Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism” and “Content and Justification: Philosophical Essays” and the editor of the book “New Essays on the A Priori” (with Christopher Peacocke) and the author of numerous articles.

Barry Smith: University of London / Birkbeck Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Language. He is the author of the books “Realism and Anti-Realism: An Enquiry into Meaning, Truth and Objectivity” and “The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language” (with Ernest Lepore) and the editor of the books “Knowing Our Own Minds” (with Crispin Wright and Cynthia Macdonald ) and “Questions of Taste. The Philosophy of Wine” and also the author of numerous articles. He prepared and hosted the BBC radio programme “Mysteries of the Brain”.

Bill Wringe: Bilkent University Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language and Philosophy of Science. He is the author of various articles.

July 6-9, 2015

The Concept of “Ataraxia” in Stoicism, Epicureanism and Scepticism

July 6 Monday
19:00 Temple of Athena: Welcome, Blue Waters, Wine and Sunset
21:30 Dinner at the Village (Assosyal Hotel Restaurant)

July 7 Tuesday
13:30 Monte R. Johnson (University of California San Diego): “Ataraxia and Euthumia: Democritus’ Influence on Hellenistic Philosophy”
15:00 Gisela Striker (Harvard University): “Ataraxia and the Stoics”
16:30 Carlos Levy (University of Paris-Sorbonne): “Ataraxia and Its Middle Platonic Sequels”
18:00 David Wolfsdorf (Temple University): “Epicurus on the Telos of the Mind”
20:30 Dinner at the Harbour (Nazlıhan Hotel Restaurant)
 

July 8 Wednesday
13:30 Richard Bett (Johns Hopkins University): “What’s So Special About Ataraxia?”
15:00 Svavar H. Svavarsson (University of Iceland): “The End of Scepticism According to Sextus Empiricus”
16:30 Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins University): “The Sceptic’s Way”
18:00 Örsan K. Öymen (Işık University): “Doubt and Anxiety”
19:30 Dinner (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)
22:30 Classical Music in the Ancient Theater (Anne Monika Sommer-Bloch)
 

July 9 Thursday
14:00 Visit to the Ancient City of Troy
21:00 Farewell Dinner (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)


Brief information about the speakers:

Gisela Striker: Harvard University Department of Philosophy. Areas of research and interest: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Hellenistic Philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism, Epicureanism, Scepticism. She is the author of the book “Essays On Hellenistic Epistemology and Ethics” and also of numerous articles and book chapters.

Carlos Levy: University of Paris-Sorbonne Department of Philosophy. Areas of research and interest: Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, the relationship between philosophy, literature and religion, Cicero, Seneca, Philo of Alexandria, Sextus Empiricus. He is the author of the books “Cicero Academicus”, “Les Philosophies Hellénistiques”, "Le Presocratiques Latins. Heraclite” (with Lucia Saudelli), “Les Scepticismes” , “Devenir Dieux” and also of numerous articles and book chapters.

Michael Williams: Johns Hopkins University Department of Philosophy. Areas of research and interest: Epistemology, Ancient and Modern Scepticism, Philosophy of Language, History of Modern Philosophy. He is the author of the books “Groundless Belief”, “Unnatural Doubts” and “Problems of Knowledge” and also of numerous articles.

Richard Bett: Johns Hopkins University Department of Philosophy (Chairman). Areas of research and interest: Epistemology, Ethics, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Plato, Stoicism, Epicureanism, Scepticism, Friedrich Nietzsche. He is the author of the book “Pyrrho: His Antecedents and His Legacy” and of numerous book chapters and articles and also editor of “The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism”.

David Wolfsdorf: Temple University Department of Philosophy. Areas of research and interest: Ethics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Psychology, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Roman Philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus. He is the author of the books “Pleasure in Ancient Greek Philosophy” and “Trials of Reason: Plato and the Crafting of Philosophy” and of numerous articles and book chapters.

Svavar H. Svavarsson: University of Iceland Department of Philosophy. Areas of research and interest: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Sextus Empiricus, Scepticism. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters.

Monte R. Johnson: University of California San Diego Department of Philosophy. Areas of research and interest: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Democritus, Aristotle. He is the author of the book “Aristotle on Teleology” and of various articles.

Örsan K. Öymen: Isik University (Feyziye Mektepleri Foundation) Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (Chairman). Founder and Director of the project “Philosophy in Assos” and Founder and President of the Association of Philosophy, Art and Science. Areas of research and interest: Epistemology, Ethics, Sextus Empiricus, David Hume, Friedrich Nietzsche. He is the author and editor of the book “Hume” and of numerous articles.

June 27-30, 2016

Aristotle’s Ethics

2400th Anniversary of Aristotle’s Birth

June 27 Monday

19:00 Temple of Athena: Welcome, Blue Waters, Wine and Sunset

21:30 Dinner at the Village (Assosyal Hotel Restaurant)

June 28 Tuesday

13:30 Christopher Shields (University of Notre Dame): “Goodness as Cause”

15:00 Joachim Aufderheide (King's College London): “Aristotle and the Wrong Kinds of Pleasure”

16:30 Stephen Leighton (Queen's University): “The Place of Affect in the Nicomachean Ethics’ Understanding of Two Virtues”

18:00 Mehmet M. Erginel (Eastern Mediterranean University): “Aristotle's Practical Syllogism and the Movement of Rational Animals”

20:30 Dinner at the Harbour (Nazlıhan Hotel Restaurant)

June 29 Wednesday

13:30 Katja Vogt (Columbia University): “The Subject Matter of Ethics: A Metaphysical Reading of NE I.3.”

15:00 Maria Liatsi (University of Ioannina): “Natural Inclination to Ethics in Aristotle”

16:30 Christiana Olfert (Tufts University): “What is Practical Truth?”

18:00 Walter Cavini (University of Bologna): “Aristotle and the Ethics of Death”

19:30 Dinner (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)

22:30 Classical Music in the Ancient Theater (Anne Monika Sommer-Bloch)

June 30 Thursday

14:00 Visit to the Ancient City of Troy

21:00 Farewell Dinner (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)

About the speakers:

Christopher Shields: University of Notre Dame Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Aristotle, Metaphysics. He is the author of the books “Order in Multiplicity: Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle”, “Classical Philosophy: An Introduction”, “Aristotle”, “Ancient Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction”, “The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas” (with Robert Pasnau) and “Arsitotle’s De Anima” and also of numerous book chapters and articles in his area.

Walter Cavini: University of Bologna Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism, Scepticism and Ludwig Wittgenstein. He is the author of numerous book chapters and articles in his area.

Stephen Leighton: Queen's University Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Aristotle, Philosophical Psychology, Ethics. He is the author of numerous book chapters and articles in his area.

Katja Vogt: Columbia University Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Ethics, Epistemology, Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism, Scepticism. She is the author of the books “Belief and Truth: A Sceptic Reading of Plato”, “Law, Reason and the Cosmic City: Political Philosophy in the Early Stoa” and “Skepsis und Lebenspraxis: Das Pyrrhonische Leben ohne Meinungen” and also of numerous articles in her area.

Joachim Aufderheide: King's College London Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Ethics. He is the author of numerous articles in his area.

Christiana Olfert: Tufts University Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Aristotle, Early Modern Philosophy, Ethics. She is the author of the book “Aristotle on Practical Truth” (forthcoming) and of numerous articles in her area.

Maria Liatsi: University of Ioannina Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Ancient Greek Science, Plato, Aristotle, Ethics. She is the author of the books “Aristoteles, De Generatione Animalium”, “Interpretation der Antike. Die Pragmatistische Methode Historischer Forschung” and “Die Semiotische Erkenntnistheorie Platons im Siebten Brief. Eine Einführung in den Sogenannten Philosophischen Exkurs” and of numerous articles in her area.

Mehmet M. Erginel: Eastern Mediterranean University Department of Psychology. (M.A. & PhD: University of Texas –Austin- Department of Philosophy). Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Ethics. He is the author of numerous articles in his area.

July 3-6, 2017

Immanuel Kant

July 3, Monday

19:00 Temple of Athena: Welcome, blue sea, wine and sun set.

21:30 Dinner at the harbour (Nazlıhan Otel Restaurant)

July 4, Tuesday

13:30 Rolf-Peter Horstmann (Humboldt University): “Kant on Imagination”

15:00 Desmond Hogan (Princeton University): “The Antinomy of Pure Reason and Transcendental Idealism”

16:30 Frederick Beiser (Syracuse University): “Hermann Cohen: A Centenary Reappraisal”

18:00 Patricia Kitcher (Columbia University): “Kant on Freedom in Thought and Action” 

20:00 Dinner at the Symposium Area (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)  

July 5, Wednesday

13:30 Kenneth Westphal (Boğaziçi University): “Free Agency without Transcendental Idealism”

15:00 Jan-Willem van der Rijt (University of Bayreuth): “The Dignity of Moral Agents”

16:30 Lucas Thorpe (Boğaziçi University): “Kantian Humanity and Chimps”

18:00 Andrew Chignell (University of Pennsylvania): “The Role of Hope in Kant’s Moral Psychology”

22:30 Classical music at the Ancient Theater: Anne Monika Sommer-Bloch

July 6, Thursday

14:00 Visit to Troy

21:00 Farewell dinner (Assos Terrace Otel Restaurant)

About the speakers:

Rolf-Peter Horstmann: Humboldt University of Berlin. Areas of interest and research: Metaphysics, Ontology, Epistemology, 18th, 19th and 20th century philosophy, Kant and Hegel. He is the author of the books “Hegels vorphänomenologische Entwürfe zu einer Philosophie der Subjektivität in Beziehung auf die Kritik an den Prinzipien der Reflexionsphilosophie”, “Kritische Darstellung der Metaphysik. Eine Diskussion zu Hegels 'Logik'” (with H. F. Fulda ve M. Theunissen), “Ontologie und Relationen. Hegel, Bradley, Russell und die Kontroverse über interne und externe Beziehungen”, “Wahrheit aus dem Begriff. Eine Einführung in Hegel”, “Die Grenzen der Vernunft. Eine Untersuchung zu Zielen und Motiven des Deutschen Idealismus”, “Bausteine kritischer Philosophie. Arbeiten zu Kant” and “G. W. F. Hegel. Eine Einführung” (with D. Emundts) and of numerous articles is his area.

Frederick Beiser: Syracuse University Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: German philosophy, Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Schelling. He is the author of the books “The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte”, “Enlightenment, Revolution & Romanticism: The Genesis of Modern German Political Thought, 1790-1800”, “The Sovereignty of Reason: The Defense of Rationality in the Early English Enlightnement”, “German Idealism: The Struggle against Subjectivism, 1871-1900”, “The Romantic Imperative: The Concept of Early German Romanticism”, “Hegel”, “Schiller as Philosopher”, “Diotima’s Children: German Aesthetic Rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing”, “The German Historicist Tradition” and “Late German Idealism: Trendelenburg and Lotze” and of numerous articles in his area.

Kenneth Westphal: Boğaziçi University Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Epistemology, Ethics, Political Philosophy, Descartes, Hume, Kant and Hegel. He is the author of the books “Kant’s Transcendental Proof of Realism”, “Hegel’s Epistemology: A Philosophical Introduction to the Phenomenology of Spirit”, “Hegel, Hume und die Identität wahrnehmbarer Dinge” and “Hegel’s Epistemological Realism” and of numerous articles in his area.

Patricia Kitcher: Columbia University Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: History of Modern Philosophy, Kant, Philosophy of Psychology, Freud, Personal Identity. She is the author of the books “Kant’s Transcendental Psychology”, “Freud’s Dream: A Complete Interdisciplinary Science of Mind” and “Kant’s Thinker” and of numerous articles in her area.

Desmond Hogan: Princeton University Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Early Modern Philosophy, Leibniz, Kant. He is the author of numerous articles in his area.

Andrew Chignell: University of Pennsylvania Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: 17th, 18th and 19th century philosophy, Epistemology, Ethics, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Religion, Kant. He is the author of the book “What May I Hope?” (forthcoming) and of numerous articles in his area.

Jan-Willem van der Rijt: University of Bayreuth Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law. He is the author of the book “The Importance of Assent: A Theory of Coercion and Dignity” and of numerous articles in his area.

Lucas Thorpe: Boğaziçi University Department of Philosophy. Areas of interest and research: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, Kant. He is the author of the book “The Kant Dictionary” (forthcoming) and of numerous articles in his area.

July 2-5, 2018

Karl Marx On the 200th Anniversary of His Birth

July 2, Monday

19:00 Temple of Athena: Welcome, blue sea, wine and sun set.

21:30 Dinner at the harbour (Nazlıhan Otel Restaurant)

July 3, Tuesday

12:30 Andrew Chitty (University of Sussex): “Hegel's and Marx's Intentions: Self-clarification, Justification and Disjustification”

14:00 Türker Armaner (Galatasaray University): “Marx on Consciousness and Self-Consciousness”

15:30 Jan Kandiyali (Istanbul Technical University): “Marx, Communism and Basic Income”

17:00 Tony Smith (Iowa State University): “Karl Marx on Technology in Capitalism”

18:30 Doğan Göçmen (Dokuz Eylül University): “What is Philosophical in Marx’s Capital?”

20:00 Dinner at the Symposium Area (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)

July 4, Wednesday

13:30 Richard Miller (Cornell University): “Rejecting and Using Marx: Capitalism, Power and Reform”

15:00 William H. Shaw (San Jose State University): “Karl Marx on History, Capitalism, and…Business Ethics?”

16:30 Larry Udell (West Chester State University): “Capital in the 21st Century: What are the Questions?”

18:00 Karsten J. Struhl (City University of New York): “Buddhism and Marxism: Points of Intersection”

22:30 Classical music at the Ancient Theater: Anne Monika Sommer-Bloch

July 5, Thursday

14:30 Visit to Troy

21:00 Farewell dinner (Assos Terrace Otel Restaurant)

About the speakers:

Richard Miller: Cornell University, Department of Philosophy. (Professor). Areas of interest and research: Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics. He is the author of the books “Equality, Democracy and National Sovereignty: Reconciling East and West”, “Globalizing Justice: The Ethics of Poverty and Power”, “Moral Differences: Truth, Justice and Conscience in a World of Conflict”, “Fact and Method: Explanation, Confirmation and Reality in the Natural and the Social Sciences”, “Analyzing Marx: Morality, Power and History” and of numerous articles in his area.

Tony Smith: Iowa State University, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies. (Professor). Areas of interest and research: Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Technology, Marx, Hegel, Habermas. He is the author of the books “Globalisation: A Systematic Marxian Account”, “Technology and Capital in the Age of Lean Production: A Marxian Critique of the ‘New Economy’ ”, “Dialectical Social Theory and Its Critics: From Hegel to Analytical Marxism and Postmodernism”, “The Role of Ethics in Social Theory: Essays from a Habermasian Perspective”, “The Logic of Marx’s Capital: Replies to Hegelian Criticisms”, “Beyond Liberal Egalitarianism: Marx and Normative Social Theory in the Twenty-First Century” and of numerous articles in his area.

William H. Shaw: San Jose State University, Department of Philosophy. (Professor Emeritus). Areas of interest and research: Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy. He is the author of the books “Marx's Theory of History”, “Business Ethics”, “Moore on Right and Wrong: The Normative Ethics of G.E. Moore”, “Contemporary Ethics: Taking Account of Utilitarianism”, “Utilitarianism and the Ethics of War” and of numerous articles in his area.

Andrew Chitty: University of Sussex, Department of Philosophy. (Senior Lecturer). Areas of interest and research: Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Marx. He is the author of the book “Karl Marx and Contemporary Philosophy” (with Martin Mc Ivor) and of numerous articles in his area.

Karsten Struhl: City University of New York (John Jay College of Criminal Justice) Department of Philosophy. (Adjunct Lecturer). Areas of interest and research: Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, Epistemology, Marxist Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy, Chinese Philosophy, Human Nature, Just War Theory, Ecology, Cross-cultural Philosophy and Problems of Revenge and Punishment. He is the editor of various books and also author of numerous articles in his area.

Türker Armaner: Galatasaray University, Department of Philosophy. (Professor). Areas of interest and research: Social and Political Philosophy, Aesthetics, Spinoza, Hegel, Fichte, Marx, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard. He is the author of the books “Dalgakıran,” “Taş Hücre”, “Kıyısız” (short stories), “Tahta Saplı Bıçak”, “Hüküm” (novel), “Tarih ve Temsil” and of numerous articles in his area.

Doğan Göçmen: Dokuz Eylül University, Department of Philosophy. (Professor). Areas of interest and research: Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Economics, Hobbes, Smith, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Husserl. He is the author of the books “Modern Felsefe: Tarihsel Anlamı, Güncel Mirası; Adam Smith, Hegel ve Marx”, “The Adam Smith Problem: Reconciling Human Nature and Society in the ‘Theory of Moral Sentiments’ and ‘Wealth of Nations’” and of numerous articles in his area.

Larry Udell: West Chester State University, Department of Philosophy. (Assistant Professor). Areas of interest and research: Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Economics, Philosophy of Social Sciences. He is the author of various articles in his area.

Jan Kandiyali: İstanbul Technical University, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. (Assistant Professor). Areas of interest and research: Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, Marx. He is the author of various articles in his area.

July 1-4, 2019

Plato

July 1 Monday

19:00 Temple of Athena: Welcome, blue sea, wine, sunset

21:30 Dinner at the harbour (Nazlıhan Hotel Restaurant)

July 2 Tuesday

13:00 David Ebrey (Humboldt University of Berlin): “Misology and the Method of Hypothesis”

14:30 Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell University): “Plato on Intelligent Agents”

16:00 Naly Thaler (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): “The Philosopher’s Polla Kala in Republic V”

17:30 Anthony Price (University of London Birkbeck College): "Plato's Symposium: Once More Unto the Ascent"

19:00 Suzanne Obdrzalek (Claremont MacKenna College): "Plato on Soul-Body Unity"

20:30 Dinner (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)

July 3 Wednesday

14:30 Christoph Horn (University of Bonn): “Tripartition in Plato's Psychology Reconsidered”

16:00 Cinzia Arruzza (New School for Social Research): "Shamelessness and Injustice in Plato"

17:30 Myrthe Bartels (Durham University): “Plato on Applying the Law”

19:00 Simon Weber (University of Bonn): “Is There Only One Kind of Rule? (Statesman 258e-259c)”

22:30 Classical Music in the Ancient Theater: Anne Monika Sommer-Bloch (solo violin)

July 4 Thursday

14:00 Visit to Troy

21:00 Farewell Dinner (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)

About the speakers:

Anthony Price: University of London Birkbeck College Department of Philosophy (Professor). Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Ethics. He is the author of the books “Virtue and Reason in Plato and Aristotle”, “Love and Friendship in Plato and Aristotle”, “Mental Conflict”, “Contextuality in Practical Reason” and of numerous articles in his area.

Christoph Horn: University of Bonn Department of Philosophy (Professor). Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Ethics, Political Philosophy, Plato, Augustinus, Kant. He is the author of the books “Plotin über Sein, Zahl und Einheit.”, “Augustinus”, “Paradigmen mittelalterlicher Philosophie”, “Antike Lebenskunst. Glück und Moral von Sokrates bis zu den Neuplatonikern”, “Einführung in die Politische Philosophie”, “Agostinho”, “Philosophie der Antike. Von den Vorsokratikern bis Augustinus”, “Nichtideale Normativität. Ein neuer Blick auf Kants politische Philosophie”, “Einführung in die Moralphilosophie” and of numerous articles in his area.

Rachana Kamtekar: Cornell University Department of Philosophy (Professor). Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Ethics, Moral Psychology, Political Philosophy. She is the author of the book “Plato's Moral Psychology: Intellectualism, the Divided Soul, and Desire for Good” and of numerous articles in her area.

Cinzia Arruzza: New School for Social Research Department of Philosophy (Associate Professor). Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy and Contemporary Political Philosophy. She is the author of the books “Feminism for the 99%. A Manifesto” (with Tithi Bhattacharya ve Nancy Fraser), “A Wolf in the City. Tyranny and the Tyrant in Plato’s Republic”, “Plotinus. Ennead II 5. On What is Potentially and What Actually”, “Dangerous Liaisons, Marriages and Divorces of Marxism and Feminism”, “Les Mésaventures de la théodicée. Plotin, Origène et Grégoire de Nysse” and of numerous articles in her area.

Suzanne Obdrzalek: Claremont McKenna College Department of Philosophy (Associate Professor). Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Moral Psychology. She is the author of numerous articles in her area.

Myrthe Bartels: Durham University Department of Classics and Ancient History (Assistant Professor). Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Ethics, Political Philosophy. She is the author of the book “Plato’s Pragmatic Project: A Reading of Plato’s Laws” and of numerous articles in her area.

David Ebrey: Humboldt University of Berlin Department of Philosophy (Assistant Professor). Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philossophy, Plato, Aristotle. He is the author of numerous articles in his area.

Simon Weber: University of Bonn Department of Philosophy (Assistant Professor). Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Plato, Aristotle. He is the author of the book “Herrschaft und Recht bei Aristoteles” and of numerous articles in his area.

Naly Thaler: Hebrew University of Jerusalem Department of Philosophy (Assistant Professor). Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Ethics, Plato. He is the author of numerous articles in his area.

PHILOSOPHY IN ASSOS 20th ANNIVERSARY

September 30-October 3, 2020

Ancient Philosophy and Science in Asia Minor

September 30 Wednesday

18:00 Temple of Athena: Welcome, wine, the blue sea and sunset

20:30 Dinner at the harbour (Nazlıhan Hotel Restaurant) 

October 1 Thursday

14:00 Örsan K. Öymen (FMV Işık University): “The Anatolian Enlightenment”

15:30 James Griffith (Middle East Technical University): “The Natural Geometry of Hesiod's 'Chaos' and Anaximander's 'Apeiron'”

17:00 Geoffrey Bowe (Istanbul Technical University): “Anaxagoras and Plato: From Natural Science to Socratic Humanism”

20:30 Dinner (Assos Terrace Otel Restaurant)

October 2 Friday

14:00 Cemil Güzey (Mimar Sinan University): “Heraclitus, Logos and Mythos”

15:30 Oğuz Haşlakoğlu (İstanbul Technical University): “Heraclitean Flux and Platonic Khora: Time and Determinism”

17:00 Robert Howton (Koç University): “Aristotle on the End of an Organism's Nature”

22:30 Classical music at the ancient theater: Anne Monika Sommer-Bloch (solo violin)

October 3 Saturday

14:00 Visit to the ruins and museum of Troy

20:30 Farewell dinner (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant) 

About the speakers:

Örsan K. Öymen: FMV Işık University, Department of Political Science (Professor); founder and president of the Association of Philosophy, Art and Science; founder and director of the project “Philosophy in Assos”. His area of interest and research: Epistemology, Ethics, Political Philosophy, Sextus, Hume, Nietzsche, Marx. He is the author of the books “Hume”, “Tanrı Var mıdır?”, “Karanlıktan Yağan Kar” and “Varlık ve Kuşku” (forthcoming) and of numerous articles in his area.

Geoffrey Bowe: İstanbul Technical University, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (Associate Professor). His area of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, History of Ideas, Philosophy of Art, Plato, Plotinus. He is the author of the books “Plotinus and the Platonic Metaphysical Hierarchy” and “Platon’un Devlet’i Üzerine Makaleler” and of numerous articles in his area.

Cemil Güzey: Mimar Sinan University, Department of Philosophy (Associate Professor). His area of interest and research: Ontology, Ethics, Aesthetics, Logic, Philosophy of Language, Heraclitus, Epictetus, Aurelius, Hobbes, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Hartmann. He is the author of numerous articles in his area.

Oğuz Haşlakoğlu: İstanbul Technical University Department of Fine Arts (Chairman) and Architecture. (Associate Professor). His area of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Philosophy of Art, Aesthetics, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Plato, Adorno. He is the author of the books “Platon Düşüncesinde Tekhne” and “Sanat Felsefesi ve Estetik Yazıları” and of numerous articles in his area.

James Griffith: Middle East Technical University, Department of Philosophy (Assistant Professor). His area of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Hobbes, Descartes. He is the author of various articles in his area.

Robert Howton: Koç University, Department of Philosophy (Assistant Professor). His area of interest and research: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Perception. He is the author of various articles in his area.

September 16-18, 2021

Knowledge and Certainty

September 16 Thursday

18:00 Temple of Athena and the Ancient Theater: Opening speech, welcome, wine, the blue sea, sunset

20:30 Dinner (Eden Gardens Otel Restaurant)

September 17 Friday

14:00 Stephen Voss (Boğaziçi University): “How in the World is Self-Knowledge Possible?”

15:30 Halil Turan (Middle East Technical University): “Descartes’ Doubt Experiment”

17:00 Örsan K. Öymen (Işık University): “Knowledge and Certainty in Hume’s Epistemology”

September 18 Saturday

14:00 Bill Wringe (Bilkent University): “Shared Emotions and Knowledge of Other Minds”

15:30 Lucas Thorpe (Boğaziçi University): “Reid and Wittgenstein on Knowledge and Common Sense”

17:00 Cemil Güzey (Mimar Sinan University): “Left Hand of Knowledge”

18:30 Frank Zenker (Boğaziçi University): “Theoretical Knowledge and the Behavioral Sciences”

21:00 Farewell dinner and music (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)

About the speakers:

Stephen Voss: Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy (Professor). His area of interest and research: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophical Ways of Life, Philosophy of the Self, History of Philosophy, Descartes. He is the editor of the book “Essays on the Philosophy and Science of Rene Descartes” and the author of numerous articles in his area.

Halil Turan: Middle East Technical University, Department of Philosophy. (Professor / Chairman). His area of interest and research: Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Ontology, Ethics, Political Philosophy, Descartes, Locke, Rousseau, Hume, Kant, Kuhn. He is the author of the book “Mantık Terimleri Sözlüğü” (with Teo Grünberg, David Grünberg and Adnan Onart) and author of numerous articles in his area.

Örsan K. Öymen: FMV Işık University, Department of Political Science (Professor); founder and president of the Association of Philosophy, Art and Science; founder and director of the project “Philosophy in Assos”. His area of interest and research: Epistemology, Ethics, Political Philosophy, Sextus, Hume, Nietzsche, Marx. He is the author of the books “Hume”, “Tanrı Var mıdır?”, “Karanlıktan Yağan Kar” and “Varlık ve Kuşku” (forthcoming) and of numerous articles in his area.

Cemil Güzey: Mimar Sinan University, Department of Philosophy (Associate Professor). His area of interest and research: Ontology, Ethics, Aesthetics, Logic, Philosophy of Language, Heraclitus, Epictetus, Aurelius, Hobbes, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Hartmann. He is the author of numerous articles in his area.

Bill Wringe: Bilkent University, Department of Philosophy (Associate Professor). Areas of interest and research: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology, Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics. He is the author of the book “An Expressive Theory of Punishment” and author of numerous articles.

Lucas Thorpe: Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy (Associate Professor). Areas of interest and research: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, The Philosophy of Cognitive-Science, Reid, Kant, Rawls. He is the author of the book “The Kant Dictionary” and of numerous articles in his area.

Frank Zenker: Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy (Assistant Professor). Areas of interest and research: Philosophy of Science, Social Epistemology, Cognitive Science. He is the author of the books “Ceteris Paribus in Conservative Belief Revision. On the Role of Minimal Change in Rational Theory Development”, “The Etymological Argument: Fallacy or Sound Move?” and the author of numerous articles in his area.

July 4-7, 2022

John Locke

July 4 Monday

17:30 Visit to the ancient city of Assos, the temple of Athena, the ancient theater; opening speech of Örsan K. Öymen in the ancient theatre; wine, blue sea, sunset across the ancient Assos city gate, city walls and Nekropolis.

21:00 Dinner (Eden Beach Hotel Restaurant / Kadırga bay)

July 5 Tuesday

14:00 Antonia LoLordo: “Locke on Ethics”

15:30 Samuel Rickless: “Locke on Free Will and Epistemic Responsibility”

17:00 Shelley Weinberg: “Locke’s Epistemology of Traditional Revelation”

18:30 Patrick Connolly: “Causation in Locke’s Proof of God’s Existence”

July 6 Wednesday

14:00 Nathan Rockwood: “Locke’s Criticism of Religious Experience”

15:30 Douglas Casson: “Locke on Fanaticism: An Unenthusiastic Account”

17:00 Daniel Layman: “Trust, Accountability and Salvation: Locke’s Legal Case for Toleration”

18:30 Larry Udell: “Locke on Slavery: Racism or Prejudice?”

July 7 Thursday

15:00 Visit to the ancient city and museum of Troy

21:00 Farewell dinner (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)

About the speakers:

Samuel Rickless: University of California (San Diego) Department of Philosophy (Professor). Areas of interest and research: History of ancient philosophy, history of modern philosophy, ethics, philosophy of law, philosophy of language. He is the author of the books “Plato’s Forms in Transition: A Reading of the Parmenides”, “Berkeley’s Argument for Idealism” and “Locke” as well as the author of numerous articles in his area.

Antonia LoLordo: University of Virginia Department of Philosophy (Professor/Chairperson). Areas of interest and research: 17th and 18th century philosophy, Gassendi, Locke, Shepherd. She is the author of the books “Locke’s Moral Man” and “Pierre Gassendi and the Birth of Early Modern Philosophy” as well as the author of numerous articles in her area.

Douglas Casson: St. Olaf College Department of Political Science (Professor). Areas of interest and research: ancient and modern political philosophy, religion and politics, constitutional law. He is the author of the book “Liberating Judgment: Fanaticism, Skepticism and John Locke’s Politics of Probability” as well as the author of numerous articles in his area.

Shelley Weinberg: University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) Department of Philosophy (Associate Professor). Areas of interest and research: Early modern philosophy, epistemology, philosophy of mind, feminist philosophy. She is the author of the book “Consciousness in Locke” as well as the author of numerous articles in her area.

Larry Udell: West Chester University Department of Philosophy (Assistant Professor). Areas of interest and research: Social and political philosophy, philosophy of law, philosophy of economics, philosophy of the social sciences. He is the author of various articles in his area.

Daniel Layman: Davidson College Department of Philosophy (Assistant Professor). Areas of interest and research: Political philosophy, ethics. He is the author of the books “Is Political Authority an Illusion? A Debate” (with Michael Huemer) and “Locke Among the Radicals: Liberty and Property in the 19th Century” as well as the author of various articles in his area.

Patrick Connolly: Lehigh University Department of Philosophy (Assistant Professor). Areas of interest and research: Early modern philosophy, history of science, philosophy of science, applied ethics, medieval philosophy, Kant. He is the author of various articles in his area.

Nathan Rockwood: Brigham Young University Department of Philosophy (Assistant Professor). Areas of interest and research: Early modern epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, Descartes, Locke, Hume. He is the author of various articles in his area.

July 3-6, 2023

Stoicism

In memory of Cleanthes of Assos 

July 3, Monday

17:30 Meeting in the temple of Athena; tour of the ancient city of Assos; opening speech of Örsan K. Öymen in the ancient theater; wine near the ancient city walls.

21:00 Dinner at the harbour (Nazlıhan Hotel Restaurant)

July 4, Tuesday

14:00 Vanessa de Harven (University of Massachusetts in Amherst): “Existence, Subsistence and Obtaining in Stoic Metaphysics”

15:30 Eric Brown (Washington University in St. Louis): “Stoics on Uncertainty.”

17:00 Tamer Nawar (ICREA-University of Barcelona): “Stoic Logic and Paradox”

18:30 Enrico Piergiacomi (Technion/Israel Institute of Technology): “Manilius and Stoic Science/Medicine”

July 5, Wednesday

14:00 Simon Shogry (University of Oxford): “Chrysippus on Harming and Making Worse”

15:30 Jacob Klein (Colgate University): “The Stoic Theory of Motivation.”

17:00 Margaret Graver (Dartmouth College): “Honor and Glory in Hellenistic Stoicism”

18:30 Panos Eliopoulos (University of Ioannina): “Society and the State in Seneca’s Stoic Philosophy”

July 6, Thursday

15:00 Visit to the museum and ancient city of Troy

21:00 Farewell dinner (Assos Terrace Otel Restaurant)

About the speakers:

Margaret Graver: Darmouth College, Department of Classics (Professor /Chairperson). Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek, Helenistic and Roman philosophy, the philosophy of mind and emotions; Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism, Seneca, Cicero. She is the author of the books “Stoicism and Emotion”, “Seneca: Letters on Ethics”, “Cicero on the Emotions: Tusculan Disputations 3 & 4”, “Seneca: Fifty Letters of a Roman Stoic” (with A. A. Long) and “Seneca: The Literary Philosopher” (forthcoming) and the author of numerous articles in her area.

Vanessa de Harven: University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Philosophy (Associate Professor). Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind; Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism. She is the author of numerous articles in her area.

Eric Brown: Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Philosophy (Associate Professor). Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, ethics; Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Stoicism. He is the author of numerous articles in his area.

Jacob Klein: Colgate University, Department of Philosophy (Associate Professor). Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism; ethics, moral psychology. He is the author of numerous articles in his area.

Simon Shogry: Oxford University, Department of Philosophy (Associate Professor). Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Stoicism. He is the author of numerous articles in his area.

Panos Eliopoulos: University of Ioannina, Department of Philosophy (Associate Professor). Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy; Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Lucretius, Seneca, Stoicism. He is the author of numerous articles in his area.

Tamer Nawar: University of Barcelona, Department of Philosophy (Associate Professor). Areas of interest and research: Ancient Greek philosophy, Medieval philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, logic. He is the author of various articles in his area.

Enrico Piergiacomi: Technion/Israel Institute of Technology, Department of Humanities & the Arts (Assistant Professor). Areas of interest and research: Ethics, history of ancient and modern philosophy, theology. He is the author of various articles in his area.

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Discussions and Dialogues

The meetings of Philosophy in Assos take place in an informal atmosphere where everyone has a chance to express his/her ideas on the relevant topics. Our aim is to increase active interaction as much as possible. In our meetings, we make sure that after the presentation of the speaker, there is also sufficient time for a discussion and dialogue about the ideas expressed by the speaker and that every participant has a chance to express his/her ideas, comments and questions. Each presentation is approximately 40 minutes and there is another 30 minutes time following the presentation for questions, answers and discussion.

Those speakers who want their ideas to be known in written form may distribute their written texts and/or a summary of it to the participants before or during the meetings.

The international meetings take place with a group of approximately 80 people. In order to avoid a chaos of sound and understanding, it is very important to wait for your turn until the speaker or moderator lets you speak. There is no simultaneous (or any kind of) translation for the sake of protecting the spontaneity of the discussions and dialogues. The international meetings are conducted in English. Local meetings are in Turkish

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Participants

More then 250 professors from various universities around the world have participated in the meetings of Philosophy in Assos as speakers. Together with the non-speaker participants until today more then 6000 people participated in the meetings of Philosophy in Assos.

Among the speakers were globally leading top scholars, experts and professors from various countries such as the USA, Canada, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Israel. Among them were the following persons: Julia Annas (University of Arizona), Gisela Striker (Harvard University), Stephen Stich (Rutgers University), David Owen (University of Arizona), David Cooper (Durham University), Richard Bett (John Hopkins University), Colin Howson (London School of Economics), Don Garrett (New York University), Anthony Price (Birbeck College London), Christopher Gill (University of Exeter), Christof Rapp (Humboldt University), Alan Carter (University of Glasgow), Dorothea Frede (University of California Berkeley), Simon Blackburn (Cambridge University), Stephen Darwall (Yale University), John Prentice Wright (Central Michigan University), Pascal Engel (University of Geneva), John Richardson (New York University), Werner Stegmaier (Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald), Gary Shapiro (University of Richmond), David Papineau (King's College), Paul Boghossian (New York University), Shaun Gallagher (University of Memphis), Michael Tye (University of Texas), Paul Horwich (New York University), Carlos Levy (University of Paris Sorbonne), Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins University), Christopher Shields (University of Notre Dame), Rolf-Peter Horstmann (Humboldt University), Frederick Beiser (Syracuse University), Patricia Kitcher (Columbia University) and Richard Miller (Cornell University).

Leading philosophy scholars and university professors from Turkey took place as speakers at the national meetings. Among them were the following persons: Cemal Yıldırım (Middle East Technical University), Ahmet İnam (Middle East Technical University), Uluğ Nutku (Sivas Republic University), Pınar Canevi (Bosphorus University), Doğan Özlem (Muğla University), Afşar Timuçin (Kocaeli University), Ahmet Arslan (Aegean University), Oruç Aruoba (Hacettepe University), Harun Tepe (Hacettepe University), Örsan K. Öymen (FMV Işık University), Türker Armaner (Galatasaray University), Halil Turan (Middle East Technical University), Doğan Göçmen (September Nine University), Sanem Yazıcıoğlu (İstanbul University), Cemil Güzey (Mimar Sinan University), Elif Çırakman (Middle East Technical University), Barış Parkan (Middle East Technical University).

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Expenses

Philosophy in Assos is organized by the Association of Philosophy, Art & Science. The costs of organizing Philosophy in Assos are covered through the donations and membership fees in the budget of the association. Membership fees are pretty symbolic and represent a very low percentage of the total budget. Thus the association depends heavily on donations and organizes its events through these donations. Each participant is free to determine the amount he or she wishes to donate. We hope all participants will be sensitive and understanding about this issue. For those who wish to make a donation, we will inform you as to the procedure of making the donation after your registration. Donations are not obligatory.

Participants will be responsible for all their expenses including accommodation, transportation, food and drinks. We may have a limited number of free rooms available for non-speaker professors who travel from abroad. If you are interested, please inquire by writing to aristotle@philosophyinassos.org. We also assist all participants from abroad professors, students, graduates with their reservations for accomodation. Payments for accommodation may be made when checking out. "Philosophy In Assos" is not involved in the payment process and takes no responsibility for it.

Room rates range from $20 to $70 per night including breakfast. The guest houses in the village are usually less expensive than those at the sea side although there are also some hotels and guest houses at the sea side that offer rooms for approximately $30 to $50 per night including breakfast. A meal costs between $ 10 and $40.

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Getting There

Assos is located in Turkey in the province of Çanakkale on the Aegean coast. Via Tekirdag-Gelibolu/Eceabat it is an 8 hour bus ride, via Bursa-Balıkesir-Edremit a 5 hour bus ride from Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey, where daily world wide airline connections are available. It is a 5 hour bus ride from Izmir which is the third largest city in the country and has international flight connections as well. Busses to the province of Çanakkale depart from the central bus stations in Istanbul and Izmir. The connection point for Assos on the main highway is the town of Ayvacik in the province of Çanakkale. (Not to be confused with Ayvalik which is in the province of Balikesir). Those taking busses from Istanbul or Izmir must buy a ticket to Ayvacik/Çanakkale. Ayvacik is a half hour drive from Assos and there are regular public transportation vans as well as taxis from Ayvacik to Assos. There is also a ferry from Yenikapi-Istanbul to Bandirma (IDO). The ferry trip is 2 hours and the trip from Bandırma to Assos is 4 hours.

There are daily direct flights to Istanbul from all major European cities. (Most of the Izmir connections are via Istanbul). All major European airline companies including British Airways, Lufthansa, Air France, Alitalia, Iberia, Scandinavian as well as Turkish Airlines fly daily to Istanbul. Turkish Airlines has regular direct flights to Istanbul from New York City, Boston, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Dallas, Toronto and Montreal. For more information about US flights, contact the Turkish Airlines offices and/or web site www.turkishairlines.com. The airport close to Assos is in Edremit (Balıkesir Koca Seyit Airport). There are daily flights from Istanbul to Edremit. Edremit is 45 minutes by land to Assos. There are no direct international flights to Edremit.

From Greece, Assos may be reached via the island of Lesbos or the island of Chios. There is a daily boat from Lesbos (from the town of Mitillini) to Ayvalik (in the province of Balikesir) which is a 1-2 hours trip. The bus ride from Ayvalik/Balikesir to Ayvacik/Çanakkale is another 2 hours. The Lesbos connection is the shortest way to reach Assos via Greece. Those coming from Chios may take the daily boat to Çesme. The bus ride from Çesme to Izmir is half an hour. The trip from Izmir to Ayvacik/Çanakkale as indicated above is 5 hours by bus. There is a daily sealine connection from all the Greek islands in the Aegean to Lesbos and Chios. There are also daily flights to Lesbos and Chios from Athens.

"Philosophy In Assos" will provide free assistance with accommodation reservations in Assos as well as organize your direct transfer from Izmir and Edremit airport to Assos via taxi for those who do not wish to take a bus. (The price is approximately 120-150 US dollars from Izmir, 25 dollars from Edremit). There are no taxi transfers from Istanbul. If you decide to stop in Istanbul or Izmir we can also assist you with reservations and provide information about historic and scenic places to visit. Hotel prices range from $40 to $300 in Istanbul and $40 to $150 in Izmir per night including breakfast. (We cannot guarantee a discount for hotels in Istanbul and Izmir).

Please be sure to include 1) your daily accommodation budget for Assos and, if applicable in Istanbul or Izmir and 2) your arrival/departure dates to/from Istanbul, Izmir and Assos when you fill out the registration form.

For more information about Assos, visit www.assos.org.

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Application and Registration

It is necessary to implement an application and registration procedure in order to avoid any organizational and conceptual inconveniences. Everybody interested in participating in the meetings must apply beforehand. To apply, fill in the form and send a confirmation message by e-mail to aristotle@philosophyinassos.org.

After receiving your application, we will send you a confirmation message to let you know you have been registered on our list of participants. The sooner you apply, the better the chance of your application being accepted. Remember, we can only accept a limited number of people. Also, if you don't hear from us within four weeks, it probably means there were some technical problems. If this occurs, please e-mail us again. Including Philosophy in Assos, all events of the association are organized with the support of donations. (See “Expenses”). Those who wish to make a donation will be informed about the procedure as to how to make the donation after registration.

The final application deadline for the July 1-4, 2024  meeting is June 30, 2024.

All interested parties may apply. If you are a philosophy student, teacher or graduate, please be sure to include your university when you fill out the application form.

If a technical problem occurs in filling in and submitting the application and registration form, you can send an e-mail message from your own e-mail adress to our e-mail adress aristotle@philosophyinassos.org, by including in your message the compulsory information in the form. In this case your application and registration will also be valid and you will receive a confirmation message as soon as possible.

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Founder

Örsan K. Öymen, founder and director of Philosophy In Assos was born in Berlin in 1965. He received his basic education in T.E.D. Ankara Koleji and Bonn American High School. After school he decided to study philosophy and entered the Middle East Technical University (M.E.T.U.) in Ankara, one of the leading universities of Turkey. He graduated from the Department of Philosophy at M.E.T.U. in 1987. He continued his studies in the United States and received his M.A. degree in 1990 from the Department of Philosophy at New York University (N.Y.U.). The topic of his master thesis was "David Hume's Problem of Induction". After returning to Turkey he started his doctoral studies at the philosophy department in M.E.T.U. and received his Ph.D. degree from there in 1999. He wrote his Ph.D. thesis on "Sextus Empiricus' Problem of Criterion". His areas of interest and research are: Epistemology, Ethics, Political Philosophy; Pyrrho, Aenesedimus, Sextus Empiricus, David Hume, Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx, Jean-Paul Sartre. He is currently Professor at Isik University and President of the Association of Philosophy, Art and Science both based in Istanbul. He came up with the idea about Philosophy In Assos during his student years at M.E.T.U. and started the project in September 2000.

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The Team

The meetings of Philosophy in Assos are organized by the Association of Philosophy, Art and Science. The team under the direction of Örsan K. Öymen, the Founder and President of the association, consists of members Sırrı Küçük , Beratiye Şener , Alparslan Esmer , Onur Peştimalcioğlu , and Baver Demircan.

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