EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of Alberta (Department of Philosophy), Edmonton (2001)
Dissertation Title: "ALETHIC ACTUALISM: A Quasi-Realist Theory of Truth and Knowledge"

M.A., Middle East Technical University (Department of Philosophy), Ankara

B.Sc., Middle East Technical University (Department of Electronics Engineering), Ankara
 

RESEARCH

Killam Postdoctoral Fellow in the Philosophy Department at Dalhousie University, Halifax (2001-2003)
 

PUBLICATIONS (in English)
 

I.  ARTICLES IN INTERNATIONALLY INDEXED JOURNALS

Baç, Murat. "Memories of the Fourth Condition and Lessons to be Learned from a Suspicious Externalism," ORGANON F [Arts & Hum. Cit. Index, Phil. Index], vol. 16, no. 2, 127-145, 2009. è Download   (abstract)

Baç, Murat. "Cultural Frameworks, Goldman's Ontological Wardrobe, and a New Perspective Over Veritas," Philosophia: International Journal of Philosophy [Phil. Index], vol. 37, no. 1, 96-107, 2008.

Baç, Murat. "Causal Determinants, Reasons, and Substantive Autonomy: A Critical Approach to Agency," Problemos [Arts & Hum. Cit. Index, Phil. Index], vol. 72, 2007, 135-144. è Download

Baç, Murat. "Epistemological Naturalism, Skeptical Threat and the Question of Normativity in Post-Apocalyptic Times," Filozofia [Arts & Hum. Cit. Index, Phil. Index], vol. 62, no. 7, 2007, 590-600. è Download   (abstract)

Baç, Murat. "Pluralistic Kantianism," The Philosophical Forum [Arts & Hum. Cit. Index, Phil. Index], vol. 37, issue 2, 2006, 183-204. è Download

Baç, Murat. "The Myth of Nonepistemic Truth as a Necessary Condition of Knowledge," Philosophical Writings [Phil. Index], vol. 30, 2005, 33-48. è Download

Baç, Murat. "Can Realists Know that They Know?", Acta Analytica [Phil. Index], vol. 19, issue 32, 2004, 65-90. è Download   (abstract)

Baç, Murat and Elio, Renée. "Scheme-based Alethic Realism: Agency, the Environment, and Truthmaking," Minds and Machines [Science Cit. Index Exp., Phil. Index], vol. 14, no. 2, 2004, 173-196. è Download   (abstract)

Baç, Murat. "The Ontological Status of Truthmakers: An Alternative to Tractarianism and Metaphysical Anti-Realism," Metaphysica [Phil. Index], vol. 4, no. 2, 2003, 5-28. è Download

Baç, Murat. "Structure versus Process: Mach, Hertz, and the Normative Aspect of Science," Journal for General Philosophy of Science (Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie) [Phil. Index], vol. 31, no. 1, 2000, 39-56. è Download

Baç, Murat. "Propositional Knowledge and the Enigma of Realism," Philosophia [Arts & Hum. Cit. Index, Phil. Index], vol. 27, no.s 1-2, 1999, 199-223.

Baç, Murat. "Is Causation 'In Here' or 'Out There'?: Hume's Two Definitions of 'Cause'," History of Philosophy Quarterly [Phil. Index], vol. 16, no. 1, 1999, 19-35.

Baç, Murat. "All Are Divine and All Are Natural: The Hippocratic Conception of the Science/Art of Medicine," Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History and Science [Phil. Index], vol. 6, no.s 1-2, 1999, 39-58.

II.  BOOK REVIEW

Baç, Murat.  Invited review of Truth As One and Many by Michael Lynch (Oxford University Press, 2009), forthcoming in International Studies in the Philosophy of Science [Phil. Index].

III.  OTHER ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

Baç, Murat. "Pluralistic Kantianism and Understanding the 'Other'," in L. Scarantino (ed.), Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy, vol. 11 (Contemporary Philosophy), Ankara: Philosophical Society of Turkey, 2007, 13-18.

Baç, Murat. " 'Immortalia Mortali Sermone Notantes' or An Essay on Solitude and Death," Fait Accomplit: A Literary Miscellany, Spring 1999, 60-62. è Download (excerpts)

Baç, Murat. "Philosophy in Experimental Psychology: A Philosopher's Reply," Explorations in Knowledge, vol. XIII-2, 1996, 1-10.

PUBLICATIONS (in Turkish)
 

I.  ARTICLES IN INTERNATIONALLY INDEXED JOURNALS

Baç, Murat. "Çağdaş Bir Görüngü Olarak Özgürlüğün Dağıtımı ve Tüketimi" [Distribution and Consumption of Freedom as a Contemporary Phenomenon], Felsefe Tartışmaları: A Turkish Journal of Philosophy [Phil. Index], Special Issue on "Freedom", vol. 31, 2003, 11-32.

Baç, Murat. "Doğruluğun Doğası ve 'Pragma'nın Evi" [The Nature of Truth and Pragma's House], Yeditepe'de Felsefe [Phil. Index], vol. 2, no. 10, 2003, 383-401.

Baç, Murat. "Hume, Nedensellik ve Nesnelerin Varlıksal Konumu: Genelgeçer Yorumların Bir Eleştirisi" [Hume, Causation, and the Ontological Status of Objects: A Critique of the Common Interpretations], Felsefe Tartışmaları: A Turkish Journal of Philosophy [Phil. Index], vol. 29, 2002, 1-13.

Baç, Murat. "Hacıkadiroğlu'na Yanıt ve Deneyimcilik Üzerine Birkaç Söz" [Reply to Hacıkadiroğlu and Some Remarks On Empiricism], Felsefe Tartışmaları: A Turkish Journal of Philosophy [Phil. Index], vol. 29, 2002, 21-27.

II.  OTHER ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

Baç, Murat. "Deneyimsel Bilginin En Önemli, En İşlevsiz Koşulu" [The Most Significant, Least Functional Condition of Empirical Knowledge], forthcoming in Zekiye Kutlusoy (ed.), Teo Grünberg Armağanı.

Baç, Murat. “Bilgi ve Varlık Alanlarında Yeni-Kantçılık ve Nesnellik Sorunu” [Epistemo-Ontological Neo-Kantianism and the Problem of Objectivity], forthcoming in Betül Çotuksöken, Sevgi İyi, Ahu Tunçel (eds), Bilgi Felsefesi, Istanbul: Heyamola Yayınları.

Baç, Murat. "Geriye Gitme (veya 'Gerekçenin Gerekçesi') Sorunu" [The Regress Problem], forthcoming in Ahmet Cevizci (ed.), Felsefe Ansiklopedisi, İstanbul: Babil Yayıncılık.

Baç, Murat. "Epistemoloji" [Epistemology], in Ahmet Cevizci (ed.), Felsefe Ansiklopedisi, vol.5, İstanbul: Babil Yayıncılık, 2007, 567-581. è Download

Baç, Murat. “Felsefe Nedir?” [What is Philosophy?], Epistemoloji” [Epistemology], “Bilim Felsefesi” [Philosophy of Science], “Yakın Dönem Felsefesi” [Contemporary Philosophy], chapters from Felsefe, Demet Taşdelen (ed.), a textbook commissioned by Anadolu University, Eskişehir: Açıköğretim Yayınları, 2007, 1-13; 21-35; 93-107; 269-284.

Baç, Murat. “Bilgi Kavramının Çözümlenmesinin Karanlıkta Kalan Yüzleri” [Dark Sides of the Analysis of the Concept of Knowledge], in Aydan Turanlı and Gürcan Koçan (eds), Vehbi Hacıkadiroğlu Çalıştayı Bildirileri, İstanbul: İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2006, 46-55. 

Baç, Murat. "Donald Davidson," in Ahmet Cevizci (ed.), Felsefe Ansiklopedisi, vol. 4, İstanbul: Babil Yayıncılık, 2006, 30-35.

Baç, Murat. "Dışsalcılık" [Externalism], in Ahmet Cevizci (ed.), Felsefe Ansiklopedisi, vol. 4, İstanbul: Babil Yayıncılık, 2006, 305-309.

Baç, Murat. "Bağdaşımcılık" [Coherentism], in Ahmet Cevizci (ed.), Felsefe Ansiklopedisi, vol. 2, İstanbul: Etik Yayınları, 2004, 46-50.

Baç, Murat and Güneş, Itır. "Sükût ve Kelâm: Geçmişin ve Geleceğin Sessizlikleri İçin Görüngübilimsel Önsöylemler" [Silence and Word: Phenomenological Prolegomena to Past and Future Silences], in Doğan Özlem, Hayrettin Ökçesiz and Şükrü Argın (eds), Vehbi Hacıkadiroğlu Armağanı: Felsefe Tartışmaları, İstanbul: İstanbul Everest Yayınları, 2002, 152-160. è Download (seçme bölümler)

Baç, Murat. "Wittgenstein ve Anlamın 'Ortalıkta' Olması" [Wittgenstein and Meaning's Being 'Public'], Felsefe Tartışmaları, vol. 28, 2001, 47-60.

Baç, Murat. "Felsefede Temellendirme İşe Yarar mı?" [Does Substantiation Work?], Felsefe Tartışmaları, vol. 23, 1998, 54-59.

Baç, Murat. "Aristoteles'in 'Öz' ve 'Töz' Kavramları Üzerine" [On Aristotle's Conception of 'Essence' and 'Substance'], Felsefe Dünyası, vol. 12, 1994, 62-65.

III.  IN POPULAR JOURNALS

Baç, Murat. "Suvari Ölmüştü; Biz Biraz Daha Yalnız Kalmıştık", Us Atölyesi Felsefe Dergisi, vol. 19, Nisan-Mayıs 2008, 42-43.

Baç, Murat. "Görülmeyecek Yerler Ansiklopedisi'nin 'Batı Kanada'da Nasıl Gezilir' Bölümü İçin Temel Oluşturacak Felsefi Düşünceler", Us Atölyesi Felsefe Dergisi, vol. 18, Şubat-Mart 2008, 13-15.

Baç, Murat. "Kanada'yı Gezmek İsteyenler İçin Gevşek Rehber", Git Dergisi, Şubat 2002/2, 12-13.

Baç, Murat. "Kanada'da Felsefeci Olmak" (söyleşi), ODTÜ Baraka Dergisi, Eylül 2001, 28-30. è Download

Baç, Murat. "Felsefe ve Felsefeci Üzerine", Tübitak Bilim ve Teknik, vol. 329, 1995, 54. è Download

Baç, Murat. "İnsan'a Çiçekler", Cumhuriyet Kitap, vol. 250, 1995, 23. è Download  

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
 

"Önermesel Doğru: Doğum ve İkametine Dair Düşünceler," presented at Felsefe Günleri: "Anlam" Kongresi, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, December 2008.

"The Ontological Softening of Truth and Hope For Neo-Realists," presented at the Sixth European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, Krakow, August 2008.

"How Soft Can Truth Get?", presented at The Third Things and Thoughts Symposium, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, October 2007.

"Truth Returns: Factualism With a Human Face," presented at Metaphysics 2006: The Third World Conference, Rome, July 2006.

“Realist Goes Relativist: New Perspectives Over Some Old Ontological Issues,” presented at the Fourth Boğaziçi-Athens Philosophy Conference titled Realism/Universalism vs. Relativism/Culturalism: Philosophical, Historical and Political Perspectives, Istanbul, May 2006.

"States of Affairs, the Intensionalistic Turn, and Alethic Humility," presented at the Fourth European Congress of Dialogue and Universalism, Warsaw, July 2005.

"Pluralistic Kantianism and Understanding the 'Other'," presented at the 21st World Congress of Philosophy, Istanbul, August 2003.

"The Making of Truths," presented at Language, Thought, and Reality: East-West Perspectives, California State University, California, April 2001.

EDITORIAL WORK AND REFEREEING
 

Co-Editor of Felsefe Tartışmaları: A Turkish Journal of Philosophy

Reviewed manuscripts on Epistemology and Contemporary Theories of Truth for Longman Publishers, New York and McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal

Refereed research project applications in philosophy for TÜBİTAK, Ankara [The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey]

Refereed articles for the journals Erkenntnis, Dialectica, History of Philosophy Quarterly, Felsefe Tartışmaları: A Turkish Journal of Philosophy, Yeditepe'de Felsefe

Refereed papers for the National Philosophy Conference for Graduate Students, Canada

SCHOLARSHIPS AND ACADEMIC AWARDS
 

I. Assistant Professor Level:

Award for Superior Achievement in Academic Research, Boğaziçi University, 2004

II. Post-Doctoral Level:

Izaak Walton Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship, Dalhousie University, 2001-2003

III. Doctoral Level:

Mary Louise Imrie Graduate Student Award, University of Alberta, 2001

Andrew Stewart Memorial Graduate Prize, University of Alberta, 2000-2001

Dissertation Fellowship, University of Alberta, 2000-2001

Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship, University of Alberta, 1998-2000

University of Alberta Ph.D. Scholarship, University of Alberta, 1996-1998