Seminar The Current State of Digital Technologies: 'New Wave Artificial Intelligence', Promises and Problems

21 May 2025 - The "New Wave of Artificial Intelligence" has made progress at a speed that most of us could not have predicted ten years ago, and even those working in the field twenty years ago would not have anticipated. So, what does this new paradigm promise for the future, and what issues does it inherently carry?

Exhibition dots/dashes/dots: S.O.S

SOS, - dots, dashes, dots - is a call for a new world, a plea for a new order, a geometry emerging from a world enclosed within itself, precipitated in our memories.

Program 1st International Philosophical Films Festival

Seminar Problems of Philosophy of Technology: Human and Machine Interaction

16 May 2024 - How does the use of artificial intelligence impact our ability to problem-solve and make decisions by aiding in analysing data and identifying unanticipated correlations? How are digital technologies contributing to the social processes of meaning-making?

Seminar Crisis of Recognition: Pathologies of Emotional Capitalism

25 April 2024 - This seminar aims to explore the novel pathologies arising from emotional capitalism through the lens of critical theory, and to propose methods for overcoming the "crisis of recognition", which pervades contemporary society with its economic, social, and psychological ramifications, eroding solidarity.

Seminar Identity Impasse: A Phenomenological Approach to the Problem of Identity

22 March 2024 - An essential yet overlooked aspect of identity debates surrounding race, gender and religion is that there is another basis on which distinctions are formed. Neglecting this foundation - one which arises only when contemplating existence and experience - can result in an "identity impasse".

Seminar Heidegger and the Crisis of Thinking

18 January 2024 - Heidegger discusses the crisis of thought and notes that the concept of thinking has been obscured and there is insufficient thinking. However, it remains unclear how thinking can be lost or vanish and what type of crisis this entails.

Seminar The Pathology of Community

14 December 2023

Conversation Akbank 41st Contemporary Artists Prize Exhibition Exhibition Talks: "Spinoza'ya Saygı"

Seminar Getting Out of the Anthropocene: Bernard Stiegler's Analysis of Contemporary Crisis - Emre Şan

Thursday, June 8th, 18:30, Emre Şan

Philosophy Seminar Series Writing and Difference

In the final session of our seminar series, we will examine Derrida, one of the leading figures of the discussions on difference in French thought that developed in the post-1960 period.

Philosophy Seminar Series The Visible and the Invisible

In the sixth seminar, titled The Visible and the Invisible, we will focus on Merleau-Ponty’s ontology and examine how he had transformed the classical philosophical terminology utilized in thinking about difference.