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
On Friday Erdal Yılmaz (Marmara University) gave a talk on ‘The possibility of ethical coexistence in cosmopolitan society: Independence Thesis’ to the Boğaziçi Philosophy Colloquium. The argument for an independent principle allowing co-existence was followed by a lively discussion.
November 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
On Friday Erdal Yılmaz (Marmara University) gave a talk on ‘The possibility of ethical coexistence in cosmopolitan society: Independence Thesis’ to the Boğaziçi Philosophy Colloquium. The argument for an independent principle allowing co-existence was followed by a lively discussion.
Barry Stocker philosophy talk at Marmara University, 3rd December. 12:30. Göztepe Campus. Faculty of Business Administration. GZISLCZ 02. ‘Liberty as Ontology of Ethics in Foucault’
November 28, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Barry Stocker philosophy talk at Marmara University, 3rd December. 12:30. Göztepe Campus. Faculty of Business Administration. GZISLCZ 02. ‘Liberty as Ontology of Ethics in Foucault’
oğaziçi Univ. Philosophy Colloquium.
28/11/25, 17:00
Erdal Yılmaz
Marmara Univ.
‘The possibility of ethical coexistence in cosmopolitan society: Independence Thesis’ if you do not have a Boğaziçi ID, you must send your name to barry.stocker(AT)bogazici.edu.tr)
28/11/25, 17:00
Erdal Yılmaz
Marmara Univ.
‘The possibility of ethical coexistence in cosmopolitan society: Independence Thesis’ if you do not have a Boğaziçi ID, you must send your name to barry.stocker(AT)bogazici.edu.tr)
November 27, 2025 at 3:30 AM
oğaziçi Univ. Philosophy Colloquium.
28/11/25, 17:00
Erdal Yılmaz
Marmara Univ.
‘The possibility of ethical coexistence in cosmopolitan society: Independence Thesis’ if you do not have a Boğaziçi ID, you must send your name to barry.stocker(AT)bogazici.edu.tr)
28/11/25, 17:00
Erdal Yılmaz
Marmara Univ.
‘The possibility of ethical coexistence in cosmopolitan society: Independence Thesis’ if you do not have a Boğaziçi ID, you must send your name to barry.stocker(AT)bogazici.edu.tr)
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Friday 28th November, 17:00. Erdal Yılmaz, 'The possibility of ethical coexistence in cosmopolitan society: Independence Thesis' hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/b... via @hespeisbosphor
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Friday 28th November, 17:00. Erdal Yılmaz, ‘The possibility of ethical coexistence in cosmopolitan society: Independence Thesis’
Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy Colloquium. Friday, 28th November, 17:00 Erdal Yılmaz (Associate Professor, Marmara University, Istanbul) ‘The possibility of ethical coexistence…
hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Friday 28th November, 17:00. Erdal Yılmaz, 'The possibility of ethical coexistence in cosmopolitan society: Independence Thesis' hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/b... via @hespeisbosphor
Reposted by Barry Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼
I think it's possible I may love the commentary on this photograph more than life itself
November 22, 2025 at 7:28 AM
I think it's possible I may love the commentary on this photograph more than life itself
On Friday Florence Ollivry (İbn Haldun University) gave a talk ‘From Mastery to Resonance: Rethinking Environmental Ethics’ to the Boğaziçi Univ Philosophy Colloquium. This was followed by a discussion of spiritual tradition, knowledge of nature, & ethics of the environment.
November 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
On Friday Florence Ollivry (İbn Haldun University) gave a talk ‘From Mastery to Resonance: Rethinking Environmental Ethics’ to the Boğaziçi Univ Philosophy Colloquium. This was followed by a discussion of spiritual tradition, knowledge of nature, & ethics of the environment.
Boğaziçi University, Philosophy Colloquium.
Friday, 21st November, 17:00
Florence Marie Anne Ollivry
İbn Haldun University
‘From Mastery to Resonance: Rethinking Environmental Ethics’
Send message to barry.stocker(at)bogazici.edu.tr to be on guest list and access campus
Friday, 21st November, 17:00
Florence Marie Anne Ollivry
İbn Haldun University
‘From Mastery to Resonance: Rethinking Environmental Ethics’
Send message to barry.stocker(at)bogazici.edu.tr to be on guest list and access campus
November 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Boğaziçi University, Philosophy Colloquium.
Friday, 21st November, 17:00
Florence Marie Anne Ollivry
İbn Haldun University
‘From Mastery to Resonance: Rethinking Environmental Ethics’
Send message to barry.stocker(at)bogazici.edu.tr to be on guest list and access campus
Friday, 21st November, 17:00
Florence Marie Anne Ollivry
İbn Haldun University
‘From Mastery to Resonance: Rethinking Environmental Ethics’
Send message to barry.stocker(at)bogazici.edu.tr to be on guest list and access campus
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Friday 21st November, 17:00. Florence Marie Anne Ollivry, 'From Mastery to Resonance: Rethinking Environmental Ethics' hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/b... via @hespeisbosphor
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Friday 21st November, 17:00. Florence Marie Anne Ollivry, ‘From Mastery to Resonance: Rethinking Environmental Ethics’
Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy Colloquium. Friday, 21st November, 17:00 Florence Marie Anne Ollivry (Assistant Professor, İbn Haldun University, Istanbul) ‘From Mastery to Reso…
hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Friday 21st November, 17:00. Florence Marie Anne Ollivry, 'From Mastery to Resonance: Rethinking Environmental Ethics' hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/b... via @hespeisbosphor
On Friday Dinçer Çevik (Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Üniversitesi) gave a talk on ‘The Curious Case of Economic Models: “The Explanation Paradox”’ to the Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy Colloquium.
November 15, 2025 at 10:23 PM
On Friday Dinçer Çevik (Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Üniversitesi) gave a talk on ‘The Curious Case of Economic Models: “The Explanation Paradox”’ to the Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy Colloquium.
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…
hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com
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
open.spotify.com
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
Reposted by Barry Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼
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