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
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’
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!
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
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.
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
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
I’ve just sent my responses to the copy editing for my chapter in *Metaphysics and Aesthetics of Decoration: Repetition* (eds. Michaela Fišerova & Jakub Mácha). ‘Foucault’s Baroque’ (largely a reading of *The Order of Things*). Routledge are publishing it in January.
October 19, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I’ve just sent my responses to the copy editing for my chapter in *Metaphysics and Aesthetics of Decoration: Repetition* (eds. Michaela Fišerova & Jakub Mácha). ‘Foucault’s Baroque’ (largely a reading of *The Order of Things*). Routledge are publishing it in January.
Germaine on the volumes of German Idealist philosophy
October 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Germaine on the volumes of German Idealist philosophy
On Friday Terence Cuneo of Vermont University presented a defence of intuitionist ethics ‘How Intuition Produces Action’ to the Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium (handout attached). A detailed exposition was followed by a lively discussion.
October 18, 2025 at 8:18 AM
On Friday Terence Cuneo of Vermont University presented a defence of intuitionist ethics ‘How Intuition Produces Action’ to the Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium (handout attached). A detailed exposition was followed by a lively discussion.
1/2 Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy Colloquium.
Friday, 17th October, 17:00
Terence Cuneo
University of Vermont, USA)
‘How Intuition Produces Action’
Location
Room 507
John Freely Building
South Campus
Bebek
Istanbul
Friday, 17th October, 17:00
Terence Cuneo
University of Vermont, USA)
‘How Intuition Produces Action’
Location
Room 507
John Freely Building
South Campus
Bebek
Istanbul
October 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
1/2 Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy Colloquium.
Friday, 17th October, 17:00
Terence Cuneo
University of Vermont, USA)
‘How Intuition Produces Action’
Location
Room 507
John Freely Building
South Campus
Bebek
Istanbul
Friday, 17th October, 17:00
Terence Cuneo
University of Vermont, USA)
‘How Intuition Produces Action’
Location
Room 507
John Freely Building
South Campus
Bebek
Istanbul
Yesterday James Hutchinson of Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan gave a talk to the Boğaziçi Philosophy Colloquium ‘Why Does Frege Think We Need To Talk About Language?’ with great animation. This was followed by a long lively discussion
October 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Yesterday James Hutchinson of Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan gave a talk to the Boğaziçi Philosophy Colloquium ‘Why Does Frege Think We Need To Talk About Language?’ with great animation. This was followed by a long lively discussion
1/2 Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy Colloquium.
Friday, 10th October, 17:00
James Hutchinson
(Assistant Professor, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan)
‘Why Does Frege Think We Need To Talk About Language?’
South campus
John Freely Building
JF 507
Friday, 10th October, 17:00
James Hutchinson
(Assistant Professor, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan)
‘Why Does Frege Think We Need To Talk About Language?’
South campus
John Freely Building
JF 507
October 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
1/2 Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy Colloquium.
Friday, 10th October, 17:00
James Hutchinson
(Assistant Professor, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan)
‘Why Does Frege Think We Need To Talk About Language?’
South campus
John Freely Building
JF 507
Friday, 10th October, 17:00
James Hutchinson
(Assistant Professor, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan)
‘Why Does Frege Think We Need To Talk About Language?’
South campus
John Freely Building
JF 507
Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy, Online Talk
Thursday 9th October, 17:00 (EEST/Istanbul time)
Dr Nikoleta Zampaki
Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
‘Colour Phenomenology in Odysseus Elitis’ The Axion Esti’
Thursday 9th October, 17:00 (EEST/Istanbul time)
Dr Nikoleta Zampaki
Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
‘Colour Phenomenology in Odysseus Elitis’ The Axion Esti’
October 6, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy, Online Talk
Thursday 9th October, 17:00 (EEST/Istanbul time)
Dr Nikoleta Zampaki
Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
‘Colour Phenomenology in Odysseus Elitis’ The Axion Esti’
Thursday 9th October, 17:00 (EEST/Istanbul time)
Dr Nikoleta Zampaki
Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
‘Colour Phenomenology in Odysseus Elitis’ The Axion Esti’
Cat at Friday’s Boğaziçi Philosophy Colloquium. Evidently very interested in philosophy of mind, perception and memory.
October 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Cat at Friday’s Boğaziçi Philosophy Colloquium. Evidently very interested in philosophy of mind, perception and memory.
On Friday István Aranyosi of Bilkent University gave his talk ‘Preteriception and the metaphysics of time’ to the Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. A stimulating and well structured argument for direct realism with regard to memory, followed by a lively discussion.
October 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
On Friday István Aranyosi of Bilkent University gave his talk ‘Preteriception and the metaphysics of time’ to the Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. A stimulating and well structured argument for direct realism with regard to memory, followed by a lively discussion.