AREAS OF INTEREST:

Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, Aesthetics, History of Philosophy (18th and 19th century)


ACADEMIC DEGREES:

PhD in Philosophy (2003)
Department of Philosophy, University of Kent at Canterbury
Title of thesis: Negative and Positive Conceptions of Freedom

Research Assistantship (1997-1998)
Department of Philosophy, Bogaziçi University

MA in Philosophy (1999)
Department of Philosophy, Bogaziçi University
Title of dissertation: Evolution of Needs: Enslavement or Liberation

BS in Mathematics (1997)
Department of Mathematics, Bogaziçi University


PUBLICATIONS:


“Mutluluk Nasıl İrdelen(me)meli?” (How Not to Examine Happiness?), Baykuş: Felsefe Yazıları Dergisi, sayı 1, Ocak 2008.

Özgürlük Yanılsaması: Rousseau ve Marx, Yordam Kitap, 2006, 2007.

Freedom: Political, Metaphysical, Negative and Positive, New Critical Thinking Series in Philosophy, Ashgate Publishing, 2005.

"İki Özgürlük Anlayışı", Felsefe Tartışmaları ("Özgürlük" Özel Sayısı), vol. 31, 2003, 51-68, ("Two Conceptions of Freedom").


TRANSLATIONS:

Theoni Pappas, Yaşayan Matematik, Sarmal Yayınevi, 1993; Mavi Ada Yayınevi, 2000; Doruk Yayıncılık, 2003, 2005 (The Joy of Mathematics).

Dirk J. Struik, Kısa Matematik Tarihi, Sarmal Yayınevi 1993; Mavi Ada Yayınevi 2000; Doruk Yayıncılık, 2002, 2007 (A Short History of Mathematics).


TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Social and Political Philosophy, Freedom, Introduction to Philosophy, Philosophical Texts, History of Philosophy IV, Aesthetics, Philosophy in Cinema.