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Hesperus is Bosphorus

A group blog by philosophers in and from Turkey

Barry Allen (McMaster) at Istanbul Technical University, 08.10.2013

KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

This talk is an essay in Comparative Philosophy, comparing ancient and modern western ideas of knowledge and wisdom with the conception found in classical Chinese thought. Compared with the Greeks and their contemplative theory the Chinese are pragmatists. Compared with the Moderns and their epistemology the Chinese are postmodern. Problematic ideas of truth and representation play no part in their understanding of knowledge or its value. Nor does their perplexity about knowledge turn on untenable dichotomies like mind and matter, being and becoming, or appearance and reality. Their questions concern, for example, the relation of knowledge to wisdom and virtue; the limits of its effectiveness; and the right appreciation of its contribution to civilized life. These are not logical but ethical questions, questions not about essence or being but quality and value. What desirable quality distinguishes knowledge? What value makes it wise and worth pursuing?

13:30 ITB Seminar Room

Istanbul Technical University

Ayazağı Campus (which is in Maslak not Ayazağı!)

Fen-Edebiyat Fakultesi

Right by the İTU-Ayazağı metro station

Professor Allen is a visitor in the Department of Philosophy at Boğaziçi University for the current semester.

His homepage at McMaster http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~philos/people/profile_allen.php

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İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesini Nano parçacıklar üzerine başarılı çalışmaları için tebrik ediyoruz

Researchers from Istanbul Technical University Describe Findings in Nanoparticles

October 11, 2013

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Science Letter — New research on Nanoparticles is the subject of a report. According to news reporting originating in Istanbul, Turkey, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “The kinetics of ZnO nanoparticles was examined by fluorescence measurements. Emission peak intensities of the ZnO nanoparticles synthesized at different conditions were monitored during wet-chemical reactions.”

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Istanbul Technical University, “It was shown that the three stages of the reaction; nucleation, growth, and reaching the average size, can be followed by means of the fluorescence intensities corresponding to both bandedge (similar to 375 nm, similar to 445 nm, and similar to 485 nm) and deep-trap (similar to 520 nm and similar to 545 nm) transitions. With both higher stirring velocity and temperature the particle formation is faster. Although the nucleation time is not affected by stirring velocity, higher temperature causes faster reaction rate in all stages including nucleation.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “This method can be used for controlling the size of the nanoparticles.”

For more information on this research see: Kinetics of ZnO nanoparticle formation via fluorescence measurements. Journal of Luminescence, 2013;143():741-745. Journal of Luminescence can be contacted at: Elsevier Science Bv, PO Box 211, 1000 Ae Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Elsevier – www.elsevier.com; Journal of Luminescence – www.elsevier.com/wps/product/cws_home/505700)

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting E. Alveroglu, Istanbul Technical University, Fac Sci & Letters, Dept. of Engn Phys, TR-34469 Istanbul, Turkey. Additional authors for this research include N. Yavarinia and Y. Yilmaz (see also Nanoparticles).

Keywords for this news article include: Turkey, Eurasia, Istanbul, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies

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Source: Science Letter

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The Pratt Visiting School, lead by Prof. Sulan Kolatan* from Pratt Institute, is a five days workshop along with supporting lectures that will take place in Istanbul, on February 2013, at Istanbul Technical University (ITU) and Istanbul Kültür University (IKU) venues. The workshop will be hold in IKU, while lectures will take place in ITU.

The workshop will give participants opportunities for acquiring digital design methods, in order to address a number of urban problematics. One of these is the way in which 20th century urban planning fails to consider the special spatial relationship between car and pedestrian flows. The Büyükdere trajectory, starting at the Beşiktaş Piers and connecting via Zincirlikuyu, and the 1- 4th Levents all the way to Maslak, Istanbul’s new Central Business District, is a perfect case in point. Here as elsewhere, the car is given priority as a multi-lane road cuts into urban tissue and disconnects vital pedestrian flows. The existing solutions for reconnection –underground passageways, bridges and badly conceived “public spaces”- constitute poor but typical examples of this kind of planning. The workshop will identify points of intervention along this trajectory and propose alternative urban spaces for these. Students will be asked to develop individuated proposals for each case while starting from the same methodology. There will be a strong emphasis on using topological and fractal geometry in place of the Cartesian geometry and point-to-point linear connectivity underlying the existing conditions. In moving between geometries, students will intensify their knowledge of “3 dimensional spatial qualities” and their critical link to abstract geometry.

While addressing a real urban problem, the workshop is not intended as a “problem-solving” exercise but rather as an opportunity to elevate these mundane urban spaces into the realm of architectural discourse through design. Or, in Latourian terms, to trigger a shift from “what is badly constructed to what is well-constructed” – both, in terms of the material world and the world of theoretical arguments.

https://prattistanbul.wordpress.com/

via Bustler: Pratt Visiting School Istanbul.