World Philosophy Day

 

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What we did on Wpd2007? 

Atatürk Cultural Center and The Marmara Hotel 

Istanbul , Turkey 

November 21-23, 2007 

November 22, 2007

9.30 – 11.00

Atatürk Cultural Center

 

Official Opening

 

· Address by Professor Arsın Aydınuraz, President of the Turkish National Commission for UNESCO

· Address by Mr Kadir Topbaş, Metropolitan Mayor of Istanbul

· Address by Mr Muammer Güler, Governor of Istanbul

· Address by H.E. Mr Ali Tınaz Tuygan, Permanent Delegate of Turkey to UNESCO

· Address by Mr Pierre Sané, Assistant Director-General of UNESCO for Social and Human Sciences

 

Key Note Lectures

“Dialogue: Between Whom, On What?”

Otfried Höffe (Germany)

İoanna Kuçuradi (Turkey)

Chair: Pierre Sané 

 

 

11.00 – 11.30

Atatürk Cultural Center

Philosophical interlude around coffee

 

11:30 – 13:30 The Marmara Hotel, Plato Hall

ROUND TABLE I

  The Philosophical Foundations of Peace and Human Rights: 

  Where do we stand?

 

  Chair: Betül Çotuksöken (Turkey) 

  Participants: Bhuvan Chandel (India)

Samuel Lee (Republic of Korea)

Maija Kule (Latvia)

Monica Gomez (Mexico)

 

 

11:30 – 13:30 The Marmara Hotel, Kant Hall

ROUND TABLE II

  Philosophical Ethics, and Professional and Other Non-

  philosophical Ethics

 

  Chair: Harun Tepe (Turkey) 

  Participants: Myrto Dragona-Monachou (Greece)

Carlin Romano (USA)

Ghazala Irfan (Pakistan)

Leon Olive (Mexico)

Alya Saada (Tunisia)

 

 

11:30 – 13:30 The Marmara Hotel, Ibn Rushd Hall

ROUND TABLE III

  What is Free Market: A Way out from Poverty or a Cause of 

  New Global Problems?  

 

  Chair: Kadri Yamaç (Turkey) 

  Participants: Ayşe Buğra (Turkey)

Paulin Hountondji (Benin)

Marcelo Dascal (Israel)

Ferda Keskin (Turkey)

 

 

11:30 – 13:30 The Marmara Hotel, Nietzsche Hall

ROUND TABLE IV

  Philosophy and Its Future 

 

  Chair: Korkmaz Alemdar (Turkey) 

  Participants: Abdussalam Guseinov (Russia)

Sémou Pathé Gueye (Senegal)

Doğan Özlem (Turkey)

Abdullah Kaygı (Turkey)

 

 

14.30 – 15.00

The Marmara Hotel, Kant Hall

Tribute to three philosophers: 

Alan Gewirth, Richard Rorty, Iris Marion Young

by William L. McBride (USA)

 

 

15:00 – 17:00 The Marmara Hotel, Kant Hall

ROUND TABLE V

  The Role Women Philosophers Could Play in Shaping the Future 

  of Humanity

 

  Chair: Moufida Goucha (UNESCO) 

  Participants: Hourya Benis Sinaceur (Morocco)

Ghazala Irfan (Pakistan)

Zeynep Davran (Turkey)

Geneviève Fraisse (France)

 

 

15:00 – 17:00 The Marmara Hotel, Plato Hall

ROUND TABLE VI

  Security or Human Rights: A Real or a Pseudo-dilemma?

 

  Chair: Stephen Voss (Turkey) 

  Participants: Anat Biletzki (Israel)

Jacques Poulain (France)

Uluğ Nutku (Turkey)

Bensalem Himmich (Morocco)

 

15:00 – 17:00 The Marmara Hotel, Nietzsche Hall

ROUND TABLE VII

  How has Our Notion of the World Changed: What is Global, What 

  is Local, What is Common?

 

  Chair: Pınar Canevi (Turkey) 

  Participants: Yersu Kim (Republic of Korea)

Ivan Kaltchev (Bulgaria)

Gürol Irzık (Turkey)

Nkolo Foé (Cameroon)

 

15:00 – 17:00 The Marmara Hotel, Ibn Rushd Hall

ROUND TABLE VIII

  Answering the Question: What is Secularism?

 

Organized by Reset-Dialogues on Civilizations

 

  Chair: Nina zu Fürstenberg (Switzerland) 

  Participants: Giancarlo Bosetti (Italy)

 Faruk Birtek (Turkey)

 Alessandro Ferrara (Italy)

 Ramin Jahanbegloo (Iran)

 Gianni Vattimo (Italy)

 

17:30 – 19:30 The Marmara Hotel, Kant Hall

ROUND TABLE IX

  What can Philosophy Contribute to a More Humane Governance 

  of the World?

 

  Chair: Numan Hazar (Turkey) 

  Participants: María Pilar Armanet (Chile)

Anaisabel Prera (Guatemala)

Almerindo Jaka Jamba (Angola)

Petr Janyska (Czech Republic)

 

20.00 – 21.00

Atatürk Cultural Center

Concert

 

by the Istanbul State Symphonic Orchestra

Conductor: Fedor Gluşenko

Solist: Emre Elivar

 

 

November 23, 2007

 

Café philosophique

 

11:00 – 13:00 

The Marmara Hotel, Aristotle Hall

 

Sharing Philosophy I

Moderators: Halil Turan-Gülriz Uygur-Tansu Açık

Public Participation

 

 

15.00 – 17:00

The Marmara Hotel, Aristotle Hall

 

Sharing Philosophy II

Moderators: Ferda Keskin-Kurtul Gülenç-Dilek Arlı

Public Participation

 

 

Book exhibition and sale of the special stamp of the 2007 World Philosophy Day

 

 

 

9:30 – 11:30 The Marmara Hotel, Plato Hall

ROUND TABLE X

  Philosophy in Dialogue

 

Organized by the International Federation of Philosophical Societies

 

  Chair: William L. McBride (USA)

  Participants: Betül Çotuksöken (Turkey)

 David Evans (N. Ireland)

 Ivan Kaltchev (Bulgaria)

 

 

9:30 – 11:30 The Marmara Hotel, Nietzsche Hall

ROUND TABLE XI

  Violence, Education, and Democracy

 

Organized jointly by the International Federation of Philosophical Societies, the International Institute of Philosophy and the International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies

 

  Chair: Luca Scarantino (Italy/France)

  Participants: Marcelo Dascal (Israel)

 Maija Kule (Latvia)

 Hourya Benis Sinaceur (Morocco)

 

 

9:30 – 11:30 The Marmara Hotel, Ibn Rushd Hall

ROUND TABLE XII

  What is Philosophical Practice?

 

Organized by the Institut de pratiques philosophiques

 

  Chair: Oscar Brenifier (France)

  Participants: Nuran Direk (Turkey)

 Sevgi İyi (Turkey)

 Nimet Küçük (Turkey)

 

 

9:30 – 11:30 The Marmara Hotel, Kant Hall

ROUND TABLE XIII

  Why Philosophy Education?

 

Organized by the Philosophical Society of Turkey, with the participation of prize winners of the Philosophy Olympiads

 

  Chair: Sezen Kayhan (Turkey)

  Participants: Begüm Naz Bayırbaş (Turkey)

 Daria Cybulska (Poland)

 Martin Hergouth (Slovenia)

 Alexander Johann (Germany)

 Elodi Moreau (Turkey)

 

 

 12:00 – 13:00

The Marmara Hotel, Kant Hall

 

· Official launch of the UNESCO Study 

“Philosophy, A School of Freedom. 

Teaching philosophy and learning to philosophize: 

status and prospects”

by 

Pierre Sané (UNESCO)

Moufida Goucha (UNESCO) 

and with the presence of 

Oscar Brenifier (France) and

Luca Scarantino (Italy/France)

 

 

· Official launch of the Proceedings of 

the Twenty-first World Congress of Philosophy

by 

İoanna Kuçuradi

Stephen Voss

and with the presence of

Pınar Canevi (Turkey)

Catherine Champniers (France)

Zeynep Davran (Turkey)

Cemal Güzel (Turkey)

Gürol Irzık (Turkey)

Ferda Keskin (Turkey)

Berna Kılınç (Turkey)

William McBride (USA)

Luca Scarantino (Italy/France) and

Harun Tepe (Turkey)

 

13.00 – 14.00

The Marmara Hotel, Kant Hall

 

Award Ceremony and Closing Ceremony

Key Note Lecture

by Federico Mayor (Spain)

Chair: İbrahim Özdemir (Turkey)

 

World Philosophy Day 2007

Istanbul, Turkey

 

Organizing Committee

 

Turkish Organizing Committee

 

· Korkmaz Alemdar, Turkish National Commission for UNESCO

· Arsın Aydınuraz, President, Turkish National Commission for UNESCO

· Deniz Çakar, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

· Arif Gülen, Office of the Prime Minister, Directorate General of Press and Information

· Numan Hazar, Ambassador, Former Permanent Delegate of Turkey to UNESCO

· İoanna Kuçuradi, President, Philosophical Society of Turkey

· Yusuf Örnek, Philosophical Society of Turkey

· İbrahim Özdemir, Ministry of National Education

· Salih Mutlu Şen, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

· Harun Tepe, Philosophical Society of Turkey

 

 

UNESCO

 

· Pierre Sané, Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences

· Moufida Goucha, Chief of Human Security, Democracy and Philosophy Section

· Feriel Ait-ouyahia, Security, Democracy and Philosophy Section

· Kristina Balalovska, Human Security, Democracy and Philosophy Section

 

 

Permanent Delegation of Turkey to UNESCO

 

· Ali Tınaz Tuygan, Ambassador, Permanent Delegate of Turkey to UNESCO

· Esra Cankorur, First Secretary