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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.
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| July 3-6, 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) |
| Brief info 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 4-7, 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) |
| Brief info 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 Yeditepe 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.
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| July 5-8, 2004 Ancient Scepticism |
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 |
| Brief info 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 7-10, 2003 |
July 7 Monday:
19:00 Meeting at the Athena Temple: Blue Waters, wine and sunset
July 8 Tuesday:
14:00 Stephen Stich: “How Cross-Cultural Psychology Undermines What Epistemologists Have Been Doing For The Last 2500 Years”
18:00 Geraldine Coggins: “Using Ockham’s Razor In Metaphysics”
July 9 Wednesday:
14:00 Stephen Laurence: “Nativism and Number”
18:00 Paul van Tongeren: “Friendship and Solitude In Nietzsche”
July 10 Thursday:
11:00 Walter Cavini: “On Beauty”
15:00 Visit to the ruins of Troy |
| Brief info 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 3-6, 2002 |
July 3 Wednesday:
18:00 "Welcome" at the Athena Temple: Blue waters, wine, sunset
July 4 Thursday:
14:00 David Cooper: "Mystery"
18:00 Amihud Gilead: "The Mind: A New View"
July 5 Friday:
14:00 Asa Kasher: "Philosophy and the Meaning of Life"
18:00 Brian Elliott: "The Critical Space of Art"
July 6 Saturday:
11:00 Ahmet İnam: "Thoughts on Epistemiatry"
16:00 Visit the ruins of Troy
19:00 Farewell dinner at Sütlüce |
| Brief info about the speakers: |
David Cooper:
Durham University Department of Philosophy. Special areas of interest: European philosophy, aesthetics, philosophy and the environment, realism and anti-realism. Author of "Existentialism: A Reconstruction" (Blackwell), "Heidegger" (Claridge), "World Philosophies" (Blackwell); editor of "Aesthetics: The Classic Readings", "Ethics: The Classic Readings", "Epistemology: The Classic Readings" and "Metaphysics: The Classic Readings". (All from Blackwell).
Asa Kasher:
Tel Aviv University Department of Philosophy. Special areas of interest: ethics, philosophy of life, and the philosophy of language. Author of "Spirit of a Man", "Meaning of Life", "Virtues and Emotions"; editor of "The Chomskyan Turn" (Blackwell). Editor in Chief of the Israeli philosophy journal "Philosophia".
Ahmet İnam:
Middle East Technical University Department of Philosophy. Special areas of interest: Ethics, epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of the environment and culture. Author of "What Is Technology For Me?", "From Imagination to Thought" and "Logic In Edmund Husserl's Philosophy".
Amihud Gilead:
Haifa University Department of Philosophy. Special areas of interest: Plato, Spinoza, Kant, the philosophy of mind. Author of "The Way of Spinoza's Philosophy Towards A Philosophical System", "The Platonic Odyssey: A Philosophical-Literary Inquiry Into Phaedo" and "Saving Possibilities: A Study In Philosophical Psychology".
Brian Elliott:
University College Dublin Department of Philosophy. Special areas of interest: Phenomenology, existentialism, philosophy of the imagination, Heidegger, Aristoteles and Kant. |
| July 30-August 5, 2001 |
July 30, Monday:
Meeting at the Temple of Athena:
Blue waters, wine and sunset.
July 31, Tuesday:
Aristotle in Assos:
What are the foundations of knowledge in Aristotle's philosophy? (In Turkish)
August 1, Wednesday:
Aristotle in Assos:
What are the foundations of knowledge in Aristotle's philosophy? (In English)
August 2, Thursday:
Life & philosophy:
If any, what is the bond between life/death and philosophy? (In Turkish)
August 3, Friday:
Discussions on philosophical texts:
1)Sextus Empiricus: "Outlines of Pyrrhonism". Book 1 Parts 1-29; Book 2 Parts 1-9 2)Friedrich Nietzsche: "Truth and Lies In An Extra-Moral Sense" (In English)
Final:
Tuncay Yılmaz plays Johann Sebastian Bach in the Ancient Theater under full moon.
August 4, Saturday:
Visit the ruins of Troy & dinner in Sütlüce by the sea. |
| September 8-9, 2000 |
September 8, Friday:
Meeting at the Athena Temple / Blue waters, wine, sunset.
September 9, Saturday:
What is the relation between life and philosophy?
September 10, Sunday:
Must epistemology justify or search for the foundations of knowledge? |
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