International Philsophy Conference

Humboldt-Kolleg Istanbul

On Ideas: from Plato to Husserl

Über die Ideen: von Platon bis Husserl



Conference Program


4 October 2017


9.45-10.15 Opening


Session I: / Moderator: Prof. Dr. Önay Sözer


10.15-11.15 Prof. Dr. Rudolf Bernet, KU Leuven, Belgium: “Husserl on How Imagination and Ideas Open New Possibilities”

11.15-12.15 Prof. Dr. Vasso Kindi, University of Athens, Greece: “Ideas as Exemplars/Paradigms”

12.15-12.30 Break

12.30-13.30 Prof. Dr. Halil Turan, METU, Ankara, Turkey: “The Existence of Other Egos, Empathy and Morality”

13.30-14.45 Lunch Break


Session II / Moderator: Assoc. Prof. Gabriella Baptist


15.00-16.00 Prof. Dr. Rainer Schäfer, University of Bonn, Germany: “Dialectics and Ontology - The Theory of Ideas in Plato’s Later Dialogues”

16.00-17.00 Assist. Prof. Emre Şan, Istanbul 29 Mayıs University, Turkey: “Negative Platonism and Phenomenology in the Thought of Patočka”

17.00-17.20 Coffee Break

17.20-18.20 Assoc. Prof. Sanem Yazıcıoğlu, Istanbul University/Tilburg University: “Husserl on Ideas and Personal Identity”


5 October 2017


Session III / Moderator: Prof. Dr. Jeffrey A. Barash


09.30-10.30 Prof. Dr. Kenneth R. Westphal, Boğaziçi University, Turkey: “Hegel’s Idea Here and Now: Harmonizing Causal Naturalism and Emanationism”

10.30-11.30 Assoc. Prof. Gabriella Baptist, Cagliari University, Italy: “Welche Idee für das Leben? Hegel und die Folgen”

11.30-12.00 Break

12.00-13.00 Prof. Dr. Önay Sözer, Boğaziçi University: “Identität der Idee im Prozess und das Problem des Scheins bei Hegel”

13.00-14.20 Lunch Break


Session IV / Moderator: Assoc. Prof. Nazlı İnonü


14.30-15.30 Prof. Dr. Jeffrey A. Barash, University of Picardie, France: “Ideas and the Symbolic Underpinnings of World-Configuration”

15.30-16.30 Dr. Martin Baesler, University of Freiburg, Germany: “The Role of Ideas in Kant’s State”

16.30-16.45 Break

16.45-17.45 Prof. Dr. Martine S. Prange, Tilburg University, the Netherlands: “The Lived Experience as a Source of Knowledge for Nietzsche”

17.45-18.30 Presentations of the Humboldt Foundation’s Programs


6 October 2017


Session V / Moderator: Prof. Dr. Türker Armaner


09.30-10.30 Prof. Dr. Stelios Virvidakis, University of Athens, Greece: “Ideas in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason”

10.30-11.30 Assoc. Prof. Özgüç Güven, Istanbul University, Turkey: “Search for Objectivity: Transformation of Idea in Frege”

11.30-11.45 Break

11.45-12.45 Prof. Dr. Ruud B. J. M. Welten, Tilburg University, the Netherlands: “Ideas and Idols. On Levinas”

12.45-13.45 Lunch Break


Session VI / Moderator: Prof. Dr. Halil Turan & Assoc. Prof. Sanem Yazıcıoğlu


14.00-15.00 Assist. Prof. Stefano Micali, KU Leuven, Belgium: “Thinking in Anxiety”

15.00-16.00 Prof. Dr. Örsan Öymen, Isık University, Turkey: “Ideas and Belief in Sextus and Hume”

16.00-17.00 Assoc. Prof. Nazlı İnonü, Istanbul University, Turkey: “Charles Sanders Peirce on Ideas”

17.00-17.30 Break

17.30-18.30 Prof. Dr. Michael Forster, University of Bonn, Institute of Philosophy, Germany: “Hermeneutics and the Variability of the Concept of an Idea”

18.30-18.45 Closing Speeches (S. Yazıcıoğlu and M. Forster)



List of Participants

• Assoc. Prof. Gabriella Baptist, Cagliari University, Italy


• Dr. Martin Baesler, Husserl-Archive Freiburg, Germany


• Prof. Dr. Jeffrey A. Barash, University of Picardie, France


• Prof. Dr. Rudolf Bernet, KU Leuven, Belgium


• Prof. Dr. Michael Forster, University of Bonn, Germany


• Assoc. Prof. Özgüç Güven, Istanbul University, Turkey


• Assoc. Prof. Nazlı İnönü, Istanbul University, Turkey


• Prof. Dr. Vasso Kindi, University of Athens, Greece


• Assist. Prof. Stefano Micali, KU Leuven, Belgium


• Prof. Dr. Örsan Öymen, Isık University, Turkey


• Prof. Dr. Martine Prange, Tilburg University, the Netherlands


• Prof. Dr. Rainer Schäfer, University of Bonn, Germany


• Prof. Dr. Önay Sözer, Boğazici University, Turkey


• Assist. Prof. Emre Şan, Istanbul 29 Mayıs University, Turkey


• Prof. Dr. Halil Turan, METU, Turkey


• Prof. Dr. Stelios Virvidakis, University of Athens, Greece


• Prof. Dr. Ruud Welten, Tilburg University, the Netherlands


• Prof. Dr. Kenneth Westphal, Boğaziçi University, Turkey


• Assoc. Prof. Sanem Yazıcıoğlu, Istanbul University/Tilburg University