Barry Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼
@barrystocker.bsky.social
I back Ukraine & Taiwan. British 🇬🇧 philosopher based in Istanbul🇹🇷, working at universities here for many years. Author of the monographs: *Derrida on Deconstruction (Routledge)*, *Kierkegaard on Politics* (Palgrave), Philosophy of the Novel* (Palgra
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Friday 9th October, 17:00. Gonsar Tulku Rinpoche, 'Compassion in Buddhism' hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com/2026/10/03/b... via @hespeisbosphor
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Friday 9th October, 17:00. Gonsar Tulku Rinpoche, ‘Compassion in Buddhism’
Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy Colloquium. Friday, 9th October, 17:00 ‘Compassion in Buddhism’ Gonsar Tulku Rinpoche (Rabten Choeling, Center for Highser Tibetan Studies,…
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October 3, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Friday 9th October, 17:00. Gonsar Tulku Rinpoche, 'Compassion in Buddhism' hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com/2026/10/03/b... via @hespeisbosphor
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Friday 2nd October, 17:00. Orhan Önder, 'Asymmetry, Control, and Explainability: A Relational Framework for Distributing Responsibility in Human-AI Networks' hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/b... via @hespeisbosphor
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Friday 2nd October, 17:00. Orhan Önder, ‘Asymmetry, Control, and Explainability: A Relational Framework for Distributing Responsibility in Human-AI Networks’
Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy Colloquium. Friday, 2nd October, 17:00 Asymmetry, Control, and Explainability: A Relational Framework for Distributing Responsibility in Human-AI Netwo…
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September 29, 2026 at 3:33 AM
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Friday 2nd October, 17:00. Orhan Önder, 'Asymmetry, Control, and Explainability: A Relational Framework for Distributing Responsibility in Human-AI Networks' hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/b... via @hespeisbosphor
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium, Friday 7th August, 17:00
August 5, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium, Friday 7th August, 17:00
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Friday 7th August, 17:00. Aran Arslan, 'Foundations for a Realist Mechanistic Interpretability' hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com/2026/08/02/b... via @hespeisbosphor
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Friday 7th August, 17:00. Aran Arslan, ‘Foundations for a Realist Mechanistic Interpretability’
Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy Colloquium. Friday, 7th August, 17:00 Foundations for a Realist Mechanistic Interpretability Aran Arslan (Asst Professor, Bahçeşehir University). Abstr…
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August 2, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Friday 7th August, 17:00. Aran Arslan, 'Foundations for a Realist Mechanistic Interpretability' hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com/2026/08/02/b... via @hespeisbosphor
Reposted by Barry Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼
In a time without heroes, be Larry.
Larry laid his mouse in front of the press to be photographed.
Lest you ask, this is a real photograph via the Press Association.
Lest you ask, this is a real photograph via the Press Association.
July 22, 2026 at 2:23 PM
In a time without heroes, be Larry.
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Friday 24th July, 17:00. Sotiris Mitralexis, 'Killable, Unsacrificeable: Agamben, Sovereignty and the Life the Law Abandons' hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/b... via @hespeisbosphor
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Friday 24th July, 17:00. Sotiris Mitralexis, ‘Killable, Unsacrificeable: Agamben, Sovereignty and the Life the Law Abandons’
Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy Colloquium. Friday, 24th July, 17:00 ‘Killable, Unsacrificeable: Agamben, Sovereignty and the Life the Law Abandons’ Sotiris Mitralexis (Boğaziçi Univ…
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July 19, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Friday 24th July, 17:00. Sotiris Mitralexis, 'Killable, Unsacrificeable: Agamben, Sovereignty and the Life the Law Abandons' hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/b... via @hespeisbosphor
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Schubert: Piano Trios, Op. 99 & 100
Listen to Schubert: Piano Trios, Op. 99 & 100 by David Moreau, Edgar Moreau, Jérémie Moreau, Franz Schubert. Stream now on IDAGIO
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June 6, 2026 at 7:09 AM
app.idagio.com/albums/schub... Strongly recommended
Is William James referring to g to the British politician Arthur James Balfour here (Prime Minister from 1903–1905, associated with the Balfour Declaration of 1917) in this passage from ‘The Will to Believe’
June 4, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Is William James referring to g to the British politician Arthur James Balfour here (Prime Minister from 1903–1905, associated with the Balfour Declaration of 1917) in this passage from ‘The Will to Believe’
Philosophy talk at Boğaziçi University on Friday at 17:00.
June 4, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Philosophy talk at Boğaziçi University on Friday at 17:00.
On Monday Rituparna Roy gave a talk on ‘Signs and Understanding: An Augustinian Response to Wittgenstein in the Time of LLM’ to the Boğaziçi Philosophy Colloquium. Investigation of language games, AI and consciousness was followed by a lively discussion.
June 4, 2026 at 12:35 AM
On Monday Rituparna Roy gave a talk on ‘Signs and Understanding: An Augustinian Response to Wittgenstein in the Time of LLM’ to the Boğaziçi Philosophy Colloquium. Investigation of language games, AI and consciousness was followed by a lively discussion.
I was attacked by a Yıldız Park cat in Istanbul
June 3, 2026 at 5:06 PM
I was attacked by a Yıldız Park cat in Istanbul
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Friday 5th June, 17:00. Gözde Yıldırım, Ambivalence and Moral Attention in the Brontë Sisters’ Fiction' hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com/2026/05/31/b... via
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Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Friday 5th June, 17:00. Gözde Yıldırım, Ambivalence and Moral Attention in the Brontë Sisters’ Fiction’
Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy Colloquium. Friday, 5th June, 17:00 ‘Ambivalence and Moral Attention in the Brontë Sisters’ Fiction’ (Gözde Yıldırım) (Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston Un…
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May 31, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Friday 5th June, 17:00. Gözde Yıldırım, Ambivalence and Moral Attention in the Brontë Sisters’ Fiction' hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com/2026/05/31/b... via
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Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy Colloquium.
Thursday, 4th June, 17:00
‘Self-Avowals Are Not Secure’
Krishnaswamy Ramakrishnan
Thursday, 4th June, 17:00
‘Self-Avowals Are Not Secure’
Krishnaswamy Ramakrishnan
May 31, 2026 at 5:18 AM
Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy Colloquium.
Thursday, 4th June, 17:00
‘Self-Avowals Are Not Secure’
Krishnaswamy Ramakrishnan
Thursday, 4th June, 17:00
‘Self-Avowals Are Not Secure’
Krishnaswamy Ramakrishnan
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Thursday 4th June, 17:00. Krishnaswamy Ramakrishnan, 'Self-Avowals Are Not Secure' hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com/2026/05/30/b... via
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Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Thursday 4th June, 17:00. Krishnaswamy Ramakrishnan, ‘Self-Avowals Are Not Secure’
Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy Colloquium. Monday, 4th June, 17:00 ‘Self-Avowals Are Not Secure’ (Associate Professor, OP Jindal Global University, Delh) Abstract In this article, …
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May 29, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Thursday 4th June, 17:00. Krishnaswamy Ramakrishnan, 'Self-Avowals Are Not Secure' hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com/2026/05/30/b... via
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Philosophy talk, Boğaziçi University, Monday. 17:00. Rituparna Roy, ‘Signs and Understanding: An Augustinian Response to Wittgenstein in the Time of LLM’
May 28, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Philosophy talk, Boğaziçi University, Monday. 17:00. Rituparna Roy, ‘Signs and Understanding: An Augustinian Response to Wittgenstein in the Time of LLM’
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Monday 1st June, 17:00. Rituparna Roy 'Signs and Understanding: An Augustinian Response to Wittgenstein in the Time of LLM' hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com/2026/05/27/b... via @hespeisbosphor
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Monday 1st June, 17:00. Rituparna Roy ‘Signs and Understanding: An Augustinian Response to Wittgenstein in the Time of LLM’
Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy Colloquium. Monday, 1st June, 17:00 ‘Signs and Understanding: An Augustinian Response to Wittgenstein in the Time of LLM ’ Rituparna Roy (Visiting Res…
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May 27, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Monday 1st June, 17:00. Rituparna Roy 'Signs and Understanding: An Augustinian Response to Wittgenstein in the Time of LLM' hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com/2026/05/27/b... via @hespeisbosphor
It appears that the state decision to close Bilgi University (a private ‘foundation’ university in Istanbul) has been reversed
May 24, 2026 at 9:17 PM
It appears that the state decision to close Bilgi University (a private ‘foundation’ university in Istanbul) has been reversed
On Wednesday (15:00 on 20th May) Lenny Moss talked to the Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium on ‘The Emergence of Interiority, Biomolecular Condensates and the Metaphysics of Nature’. The presentation covered cell structure, philosophical approaches to nature and scientific method,
May 22, 2026 at 10:42 AM
On Wednesday (15:00 on 20th May) Lenny Moss talked to the Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium on ‘The Emergence of Interiority, Biomolecular Condensates and the Metaphysics of Nature’. The presentation covered cell structure, philosophical approaches to nature and scientific method,