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, Department of Philosophy Colloquium.
Friday, 14th November, 17:00
Dinçer Çevik
(Associate Professor, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Üniversitesi)
‘The Curious Case of Economic Models: “The Explanation Paradox”’
Full information at Hespherus is Bosphorus website
Friday, 14th November, 17:00
Dinçer Çevik
(Associate Professor, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Üniversitesi)
‘The Curious Case of Economic Models: “The Explanation Paradox”’
Full information at Hespherus is Bosphorus website
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy Colloquium.
Friday, 14th November, 17:00
Dinçer Çevik
(Associate Professor, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Üniversitesi)
‘The Curious Case of Economic Models: “The Explanation Paradox”’
Full information at Hespherus is Bosphorus website
Friday, 14th November, 17:00
Dinçer Çevik
(Associate Professor, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Üniversitesi)
‘The Curious Case of Economic Models: “The Explanation Paradox”’
Full information at Hespherus is Bosphorus website
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Friday 14th November, 17:00. Dinçer Çevik, 'The Curious Case of Economic Models: “The Explanation Paradox”' hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/b... via @hespeisbosphor
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Friday 14th November, 17:00. Dinçer Çevik, ‘The Curious Case of Economic Models: “The Explanation Paradox”’
Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy Colloquium. Friday, 14th November, 17:00 Dinçer Çevik (Associate Professor, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Üniversitesi) ‘The Curious Case of Economic Models…
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November 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Friday 14th November, 17:00. Dinçer Çevik, 'The Curious Case of Economic Models: “The Explanation Paradox”' hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/b... via @hespeisbosphor
On Friday Hikmet Ünlü of Hacettepe University gave his talk ‘The Whether of Being: Aristotle on Truth as Existence’ to the Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. A scholarly and detailed account was followed by a full discussion.
November 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
On Friday Hikmet Ünlü of Hacettepe University gave his talk ‘The Whether of Being: Aristotle on Truth as Existence’ to the Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. A scholarly and detailed account was followed by a full discussion.
Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy Colloquium.
Friday, 7th November, 17:00
Hikmet Ünlü
(Associate Professor, Hacettepe University, Ankara)
‘The Whether of Being: Aristotle on Truth as Existence’
Friday, 7th November, 17:00
Hikmet Ünlü
(Associate Professor, Hacettepe University, Ankara)
‘The Whether of Being: Aristotle on Truth as Existence’
November 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy Colloquium.
Friday, 7th November, 17:00
Hikmet Ünlü
(Associate Professor, Hacettepe University, Ankara)
‘The Whether of Being: Aristotle on Truth as Existence’
Friday, 7th November, 17:00
Hikmet Ünlü
(Associate Professor, Hacettepe University, Ankara)
‘The Whether of Being: Aristotle on Truth as Existence’
Listening a lot recently to John Coltrane’s 1966 album *Ascension* (Impulse! Records). His turn towards free jazz open.spotify.com/album/2TtadF...
Ascension
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November 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Listening a lot recently to John Coltrane’s 1966 album *Ascension* (Impulse! Records). His turn towards free jazz open.spotify.com/album/2TtadF...
The proofs have arrived. My chapter ‘Foucault’s Baroque’ in *Metaphysics and Aesthetics of Decoration: Ornamental Thinking*, edited by Michaela Fišerova and Jakub Mácha. Routledge, 2026. Available in January. A cheeky look at at a few pages of my chapter in linked images.
November 6, 2025 at 12:36 AM
The proofs have arrived. My chapter ‘Foucault’s Baroque’ in *Metaphysics and Aesthetics of Decoration: Ornamental Thinking*, edited by Michaela Fišerova and Jakub Mácha. Routledge, 2026. Available in January. A cheeky look at at a few pages of my chapter in linked images.
1/3 More desperate academic peacocking 😬I’m pleased to see that a semi-substantive reference to my short monograph *Kierkegaard on Politics* appears in a forthcoming paper in *Political Theory* (a real top tier journal). Yes it is rather vulgar to emphasise this status, but I am shameless!
November 2, 2025 at 10:13 PM
1/3 More desperate academic peacocking 😬I’m pleased to see that a semi-substantive reference to my short monograph *Kierkegaard on Politics* appears in a forthcoming paper in *Political Theory* (a real top tier journal). Yes it is rather vulgar to emphasise this status, but I am shameless!
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Friday 7th November, 17:00. Hikmet Ünlü, ‘The Whether of Being: Aristotle on Truth as Existence’ hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/b... via
@hespeisbosphor
@hespeisbosphor
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Friday 7th November, 17:00. Hikmet Ünlü, ‘The Whether of Being: Aristotle on Truth as Existence’
Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy Colloquium. Friday, 7th November, 17:00 Hikmet Ünlü (Associate Professor, Hacettepe University, Ankara) ‘The Whether of Being: Aristotle on Truth as Ex…
hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Friday 7th November, 17:00. Hikmet Ünlü, ‘The Whether of Being: Aristotle on Truth as Existence’ hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/b... via
@hespeisbosphor
@hespeisbosphor
Little girl gives a ginger cat something on a stick to lick, presumably something sweet, maybe a lollipop, and not very good for cats, but they both seem happy so that’s alright. Outside a branch of Carrefour supermarket
November 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Little girl gives a ginger cat something on a stick to lick, presumably something sweet, maybe a lollipop, and not very good for cats, but they both seem happy so that’s alright. Outside a branch of Carrefour supermarket
Moon over Mecidiyeköy. Can’t say my phone camera caught the moon really well, still I wanted to share some of the impression it made on me
November 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Moon over Mecidiyeköy. Can’t say my phone camera caught the moon really well, still I wanted to share some of the impression it made on me
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I’m really touched by this Peanuts cartoon focused on Snoopy. I collected some of the books as a child then lost interest, but now I think the best ones really have emotions and situations for all ages. Some aspects are maybe best appreciated later in life.
November 1, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I’m really touched by this Peanuts cartoon focused on Snoopy. I collected some of the books as a child then lost interest, but now I think the best ones really have emotions and situations for all ages. Some aspects are maybe best appreciated later in life.
Strange but true, a well known philosophy journal that invited me to referee an article (OK that’s not the only strange but true thing) has a field for a fax number in the referee account section. The 90s just called, they want their clunky tech back.
October 31, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Strange but true, a well known philosophy journal that invited me to referee an article (OK that’s not the only strange but true thing) has a field for a fax number in the referee account section. The 90s just called, they want their clunky tech back.
Reposted by Barry Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼
1/2 I may be plumbing the depths of an academic’s need for public self-affirmation here, but I am anyway sharing the the news that my book *Derrida on Deconstruction*) has been cited in a substantive way (that is a couple of my arguments on Derrida’s positions
October 30, 2025 at 10:44 AM
1/2 I may be plumbing the depths of an academic’s need for public self-affirmation here, but I am anyway sharing the the news that my book *Derrida on Deconstruction*) has been cited in a substantive way (that is a couple of my arguments on Derrida’s positions
Good condition copy of *Der Prozeß* (*The Trial*) by Franz Kafka purchased from a bloke who sells books outside just by Boğaziçi University metro station. ₺200 (£3.61 at today’s exchange rate). In a handy place in my office so I can read a little bit in a spare few minutes
October 30, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Good condition copy of *Der Prozeß* (*The Trial*) by Franz Kafka purchased from a bloke who sells books outside just by Boğaziçi University metro station. ₺200 (£3.61 at today’s exchange rate). In a handy place in my office so I can read a little bit in a spare few minutes
Istanbul cats. The first cat is in the window of a branch of Migros supermarket chain
October 30, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Istanbul cats. The first cat is in the window of a branch of Migros supermarket chain
My Derrida hat trick. Three books with Routledge
October 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
My Derrida hat trick. Three books with Routledge
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Ad featuring words of Ronald Reagan against tariffs that Trump really really doesn’t want you to see, it’s paid for by the government of Ontario & was shown on US television including Fox. Trump retaliated by increasing tariffs on Canadian goods by 10%
Ad featuring words of Ronald Reagan against tariffs that Trump really really doesn’t want you to see, it’s paid for by the government of Ontario & was shown on US television including Fox. Trump retaliated by increasing tariffs on Canadian goods by 10%
Ontario launches $75 million ad campaign using the words of Ronald Reagan to argue against tariffs.
YouTube video by Toronto Sun
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October 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Ad featuring words of Ronald Reagan against tariffs that Trump really really doesn’t want you to see, it’s paid for by the government of Ontario & was shown on US television including Fox. Trump retaliated by increasing tariffs on Canadian goods by 10%
Ad featuring words of Ronald Reagan against tariffs that Trump really really doesn’t want you to see, it’s paid for by the government of Ontario & was shown on US television including Fox. Trump retaliated by increasing tariffs on Canadian goods by 10%
Emily Thomas of Durham University gave her paper ‘Bertrand Russell, Karin Costelloe-Stephen, and Temporal Experience’, in large part an account of reactions to Bergson, for the Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium on Friday 24th October, followed by a discussion.
October 25, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Emily Thomas of Durham University gave her paper ‘Bertrand Russell, Karin Costelloe-Stephen, and Temporal Experience’, in large part an account of reactions to Bergson, for the Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium on Friday 24th October, followed by a discussion.
The author and contributor copies have arrived. *Derrida: Ethics in Deconstruction* (Routledge 2026, but available now, a book version of *Angelaki* 29, 1-2, 2024). Includes my brief foreword and ‘After Thought — Derrida Escaping the Deserts of Moral Law’
October 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The author and contributor copies have arrived. *Derrida: Ethics in Deconstruction* (Routledge 2026, but available now, a book version of *Angelaki* 29, 1-2, 2024). Includes my brief foreword and ‘After Thought — Derrida Escaping the Deserts of Moral Law’
Emily Thomas of Durham University (UK) will give her paper ‘Bertrand Russell, Karin Costelloe-Stephen, & Temporal Experience’ to the Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium on Friday 24th October at 17:00. Email barry.stocker<at>bogazici.edu.tr to be on the guest list
October 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Emily Thomas of Durham University (UK) will give her paper ‘Bertrand Russell, Karin Costelloe-Stephen, & Temporal Experience’ to the Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium on Friday 24th October at 17:00. Email barry.stocker<at>bogazici.edu.tr to be on the guest list
Mecidiyeköy cats today
October 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Mecidiyeköy cats today
Listening to Charles Mingus, *Pithecanthropus Erectus* (1956 Atlantic Records). Charles Mingus – bass
Jackie McLean – alto saxophone
J. R. Monterose – tenor saxophone
Mal Waldron – piano
Willie Jones – drums, tambourine
open.spotify.com/album/4kZ55s...
Jackie McLean – alto saxophone
J. R. Monterose – tenor saxophone
Mal Waldron – piano
Willie Jones – drums, tambourine
open.spotify.com/album/4kZ55s...
Pithecanthropus Erectus
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October 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Listening to Charles Mingus, *Pithecanthropus Erectus* (1956 Atlantic Records). Charles Mingus – bass
Jackie McLean – alto saxophone
J. R. Monterose – tenor saxophone
Mal Waldron – piano
Willie Jones – drums, tambourine
open.spotify.com/album/4kZ55s...
Jackie McLean – alto saxophone
J. R. Monterose – tenor saxophone
Mal Waldron – piano
Willie Jones – drums, tambourine
open.spotify.com/album/4kZ55s...