Music heals the soul, they say. So does a fine dish.
Pieter Claesz: “Allegory of the Five Senses, Still Life with Musical Instruments” Introduction This essay aims to develop an approach...
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- Oct 20, 2021
- 2 min
Article Summary: “On a confusion about a function of consciousness”
This essay is a summary of Ned Block’s article ‘’Confusion about Consciousness’’ and was submitted as an assignment for my course PHIL...
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- Oct 5, 2020
- 11 min
Higher-Order Thought and Higher-Order Perception Theories of Consciousness
This article was submitted as the Final Paper of the course ''PHIL 417: Philosophy of Mind/Nature of Consciousness''.
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- Oct 4, 2020
- 1 min
Psychology of Art 01: Introduction
This series aims to present psychological findings on artmaking, other artists' experiences and advices, and my personal comments on the...
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- Jun 4, 2020
- 4 min
Thoughts on Kitchens*
After the lecture about the Ismailis, I got curious about who their current Imam was. So, I looked it up, and found out that he was the...
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- Mar 29, 2020
- 2 min
I've lost my words the way I lost my lines.
Çizgilerimi kaybettiğim gibi kelimelerimi de kaybettim. Bunlar hep kendimden uzaklaşmamdan. Bilmiyorum, belki de sadece değişimdir....
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- Mar 9, 2020
- 2 min
Ibn Sina’s Floating Man Thought Experiment*
In this post, I’ll discuss one of the topics covered in lecture: Ibn Sina's Floating Man Thought Experiment; and would like to share my...
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- Feb 24, 2020
- 3 min
Why You Should Trust Your Gut Feeling*
In class, we discussed how al-Farabi proposes seven distinct types of sources of knowledge. Among these are testimony, empiricism,...
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- Feb 18, 2020
- 3 min
A Little About Depression and Sorrow*
We discussed about al-Kindi’s On the Means of Dispelling Sorrows and how he examines depression. Al-Kindi explains that all of our...
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