İstanbul Seminars

Philosophers Bridge the Bosphorus

Date: May 15-20, 2014
Place: santralistanbul Campus

The Sources of Pluralism - Metaphysics, Epistemology, Law and Politics

The title of the Istanbul Seminars ‘14 is "The Sources of Pluralism – Metaphysics, Epistemology, Law and Politics". The Seminars will analyze the relationship between these varieties of pluralism. Particular attention will be paid to the fathers of contemporary pluralism – from Mahatma Gandhi to Isaiah Berlin, from Max Weber to Ludwig Wittgenstein – and to the historical sources and major traditions of pluralist thought – from the Edicts of Ashoka and the Ottoman Empire to American pragmatism. Case studies on political Islam after the Arab Spring and on pluralism in Turkey after Gezi Park will complete the conceptual analysis of the The Sources of Pluralism.

List of Speakers: Ferida Abidi, Cengiz Aktar, Mustafa Akyol, Giuliano Amato, Julian Baggini, Karen Barkey, Seyla Benhabib (video), Richard Bernstein, Rajeev Bhargava, Giancarlo Bosetti, Murat Borovalı, Cemil Boyraz, Paolo Costa, Mamadou Diouf, Markus Dressler, Khaled Abou El Fadl (video), Alessandro Ferrara, Maurizio Ferraris, Nilüfer Göle, Mohammed Haddad, Syafiq Hasyim, Amr Hamzawy, Engseng Ho, Ramin Jahanbegloo, Ferda Keskin, Fuat Keyman, Cécile Laborde, Jonathan Laurence, Karuna Mantena, Avishai Margalit, Alberto Melloni, İlay Romain Örs, Soli Özel, Ulrich K. Preuß, David Rasmussen, Saskia Schaefer, Sara Silvestri, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Roberto Toscano, Ömer Turan, Asaf Savaş Akat, Remzi Sanver, Nouzha Guessous

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