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I. Boğaziçi University philosophy students currently pursuing a Ph.D.: 74

 These people are pursuing a Ph.D. in philosophy unless otherwise noted.

Aliş Sağıroğlu, Galatasaray U

Aliye Mataracı, Boğaziçi U (history)

Alper Türken, Boğaziçi U

Alptekin Sanlı, U of Chicago

Asuman Kırlangıç, Istanbul Technical U (art history)

Ayça Boylu, U of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Ayfer Dost, Clark U, Worcester, MA (psychology)

Aysu Kızıltaş Erdemir, Vanderbilt U, Nashville, TN (psychology & human development)

Ayşe Küçükkırça, Binghamton U, Binghamton, NY

Ayşegül Sezener, London School of Economics (gender)

Banu Yılankaya, Northwestern U, Evanston, IL

Barış Şentuna, Middle East Technical U (physical education & sports)

Başak Özgenç, SUNY at Albany, NY (sociology)

Buket Korkut-Raptis, U of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN

Burcu Erciyes, York U, Toronto, Canada

Burcu Polat, U of California, Irvine, CA (comparative literature)

Bürkem Cevher Aydın, Boğaziçi U

Can (John) Noras, Catholic U of Leuven, Flanders, Belgium

Cansu Canca, National U of Singapore, Singapore

Cavit Hacıhamdioğlu, School of Humanities, Australian National U, Canberra

Celal Mordeniz, Istanbul U (theater criticism & dramaturgy)

Cem Şişkolar, Boğaziçi U

Cihat Arınç, Goldsmiths College, U of London (visual cultures - curatorial/knowledge)

Çetin Eren, Johns Hopkins U, Baltimore (sociology)

Çiğdem Yazıcı, U of Memphis, Memphis, TN

Demet Yuncu Evrenosoğlu, Boğaziçi U

Deniz Durmuş, Pennsylvania State U, University Park, PA

Deniz Yetkin, Bilkent U (political science)

Dilek Hüseyinzadeğan, DePaul U, Chicago

Elif Bayraktar, Bilkent U (history)

Elif Şendur, Binghamton U, Binghamton, NY (comparative literature)

Erhan Demircioğlu, U of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Eylem Özaltun, Harvard U, Cambridge, MA

Fatih Hüseyinoğlu, Boğaziçi University (environmental sciences)

Ferit Toska, U of Florida, Gainesville, FL (mathematics)

Fırat Şenol, Istanbul U

Fuat Gürsözlü, Binghamton U, Binghamton, NY

Fulya Daşhan, State Conservatory of Turkish Music, Istanbul Technical U (music) & U of Athens (philosophy & history of science)

Gökhan İrfanoğlu, U of California, Berkeley (sociology)

Gülberk Koç, McMaster U, Hamilton, Canada

Hakan İşözen, Galatasaray U

Hakan Soyalp, Galatasaray U

Hakkı Başgüney, Boğaziçi U and Marc Bloch U, Strasbourg, France (history; cotutelle)

Işıl Uluç, Middle East Technical U

İlke Yiğit, Boğaziçi U

İlksen Necati İçen, U of Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands

İmge Oranlı, DePaul U, Chicago

Kerem Eksen, Boğaziçi U and U of Paris X, Nanterre (cotutelle)

Kurtul Gülenç, Hacettepe U

Mahmut Özer, Middle East Technical U

Melis Erdur, New York U, New York

Menekşe Polatcan Serbest, Istanbul U (human resources management)

Mirza Kuzu, Galatasaray U

Nalan Saraç, Duquesne U, Pittsburgh, PA

Nazım Gökel, Boğaziçi U

Nazif Muhtaroğlu, U of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

Onat Işık, Boğaziçi U

Onur Küçükarslan, Free U of Berlin

Oyman Başaran, U of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (sociology)

Ömer Albayrak, Galatasaray U

Övgü Gökçe, Ohio U, Athens, OH (interdisciplinary arts)

Özge Koçak, Northwestern U, Evanston, IL

Özgür Aktok, Boğaziçi U

Pakize Arıkan Sandıkçıoğlu, Middle East Technical U

Refik Güremen, U of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne

Sanem Soyarslan, Duke U, Durham, NC

Selin Süslü Gürsözlü, Binghamton U, Binghamton, NY

Sezgi Durgun Armaner, Marmara U (political science & international relations)

Simon Bowes, U of Sussex, Brighton, UK (cognitive science)

Şehnaz Şişmanoğlu Şimşek, Boğaziçi U (Turkish language & literature)

Tuğba Sevinç, Boğaziçi U

Tuğrul Özkaracalar, Binghamton U, Binghamton, NY

Uygar Abacı, U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Vicdan Mutlu, U of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

Where are they studying?

Australia 1

Australian National University

Belgium 1

Catholic Universıty of Leuven

Canada 2

McMaster

York

France 2

Marc Bloch ½

Paris I

Paris X ½

        Germany 1

Free University of Berlin

            Greece 1

Athens

            Netherlands 1

Leiden

National University of Singapore

Turkey 31

Bilkent 2

Boğaziçi 13

Galatasaray 5

METU 4

Hacettepe

Istanbul 3

Istanbul Technical University 2

Marmara

UK 4

East Anglia

Goldsmiths College, University of London

London School of Economics

Sussex

USA 30

Binghamton 5

California, Berkeley

California, Irvine

Chicago

Clark

DePaul 2

Duke

Duquesne

Florida

Harvard

Johns Hopkins

Kentucky

Massachusetts, Amherst

Memphis

Northwestern 2

Notre Dame

NYU

Ohio

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania State

Pittsburgh

SUNY, Albany

Vanderbilt

Virginia

            What are they studying? Among these 74 students, 49 are studying philosophy and 25 are studying another discipline – art history, cognitive science, comparative literature (2), environmental sciences, gender studies, history (3), human resources management, interdisciplinary arts, mathematics, music, philosophy and history of science, physical education and sports, political science, political science and international relations, psychology, psychology and human development, sociology (4), theater criticism and dramaturgy, Turkish language and literature, and visual cultures and curatorial/knowledge.

II. Boğaziçi University philosophy students who have received the Ph.D.: 31

The following people have earned either a B.A. or an M.A. or a “virtual” B.A. degree in our department and then gone on to earn a Ph.D. (Güven and Ümit took many philosophy classes here as undergraduates and then continued officially in philosophy.) The Ph.D. is in philosophy unless otherwise noted. The list below turns out to include everyone who has received a Ph.D. from our department. We mention the university that granted the Ph.D. and the title of the doctoral dissertation.

Aliye Kovanlıkaya, Boğaziçi U. A critical approach to Kant’s conception of experience in view of Leibniz’s ontology

Ayhan Çitil, Boğaziçi U. The theory of object in Kant's transcendental thought and some consequences of a deepening of this theory

Bülent Gözkan, Boğaziçi U. The problem of the constitution of self and reason in Kant’s transcendental thought

Ceren Belge, U of Washington, Seattle (political science). Whose law?: Clans, honor killings and state-minority relations in Turkey and Israel

Ece Erdivanlı Yetiş, U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Xenophon's Socrates: Living as a techné

Elaine Miller, DePaul U, Chicago. Science as a work of art: The construction of nature and culture in Kant, Goethe, Hölderlin, Hegel, and Nietzsche

Ergün Akça, Boğaziçi U. One is: A reading of Plato’s Parmenides in respect of Parmenides’ poem

Erol Mutlu, Boğaziçi U. The concept of “ideology” in Nietzsche’s philosophy: The construction of the subject

Ferda Keskin, Columbia U, New York. Problematization and games of truth: Michel Foucault’s analytics of the constitution of the subject in political

Ferit Güven, DePaul U, Chicago. The death of philosophy and the beginning of madness: Plato, Hegel, Heidegger, and Foucault on madness and death

Fiona Tomkinson, Boğaziçi U. From Ricoeur’s theory of metaphoric reference towards a phenomenological ontology of metaphor

Güven Güzeldere, Stanford U, Stanford, CA. The many faces of consciousness

Güzin Gülsün Arıkan, U of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL (economics). Essays on economic aspects of corruption

Hakan Güneş, Marmara University, Istanbul (international relations). Post-Sovyet Kazakistan, Kırgızistan ve Özbekistan’da siyasal konsolidasyon ve mobilizasyon örüntüleri

Hilmi Demir, Indiana U, Bloomington, IN. Error comes with imagination: A probabilistic theory of mental content

Hülya Şimga Durudoğan, Duquesne U, Pittsburgh, PA. Truth, assumption, and the subject

Itır Beyazyürek Erhart, Boğaziçi U. What am I? A non-psychological answer to a fundamental question

İrem Kurtsal Steen, Syracuse U, Syracuse, NY. Composition, vagueness, and persistence

Karanfil Soyhun, U of Rochester, Rochester, NY. The theory of direct reference, belief attributions, and conversational implicatures

Meltem Gürle, Boğaziçi U (western languages & literatures). Oğuz Atay's dialogue with the western canon in The Disconnected

Meral Yalçınay Elçi, Gebze Institute of Technology, Kocaeli (business administration). Örgütlerde etik iklimin personelin vatandaşlık davranışlarına etkileri

Murat Aydede, U of Maryland, College Park, MD. Syntax, functionalism, connectionism, and the language of thought

Nazlı İnönü, Istanbul U. Yeni bir çıkarım türü: Geriçıkarım

Necati Ilgıcıoğlu, Boğaziçi U. A critical consideration of Kant’s doctrine of ideas in view of Plato’s text

Özge Özdemir Özaydın, Istanbul U. Özcülük-karşıtlığı çerçevesinde şiddetin ele alınışı

Sun Demirli, Syracuse U, Syracuse, NY. Hume’s account of causation (David Hume)

Şahabettin Yalçın, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK. Kant and the paradox of self-knowledge

Türker Armaner, U of Paris VIII, Vincennes – St. Denis. Le concept de “l'Etat politique” chez Fichte

Ümit Yalçın, U of California, Berkeley, CA. Underdetermination, truth and realism

Yıldız Silier, U of Kent, Canterbury, UK. Negative and positive conceptions of freedom

Zeynep Direk, U of Memphis, Memphis, TN. The renovation of the notion of experience in Derrida's philosophy

            All 31 remain in academia, either doing research or teaching (unless otherwise noted in philosophy). Where?

            Canada 1

University of British Columbia:  Murat 

            Turkey 22 ½

Bilkent:  Hilmi

Boğaziçi:  Güven ½, Karanfil, Sun, Yıldız

Boğaziçi (advanced English):  Meltem

Boğaziçi (economics):  Güzin

Çamlıca Kız Lisesi, Istanbul:  Ergün

Galatasaray:  Aliye, Necati, Türker, Zeynep

Gebze Institute of Technology (business admin), Kocaeli:  Meral

Istanbul:  Nazlı

Istanbul (international relations):  Hakan

Istanbul Bilgi (comparative literature):  Ferda

Istanbul Bilgi (media & communication systems):  Itır

Istanbul Technical University:  Özge

Koç:  Hülya

Mimar Sinan & Yıldız Technical University:  Erol

Muğla:  Şahabettin

Yeditepe:  Bülent

Yeditepe (English & philosophy):  Fiona

            USA 7 ½

Independent research:  Ece

CUNY Graduate Center, NY (research):  Ayhan

Duke:  Güven ½

Earlham College:  Ferit

East Carolina University:  Ümit

Harvard (political science; post-doc):  Ceren

Miami University of Ohio:  Elaine

Missouri, St. Louis:  İrem