We are very happy to announce that Daniel Ferguson, Alex Moran and Jack Woods will be joining the department in September 2025.
Daniel Ferguson is currently a British Academy Newton International Fellow at King’s College London. Before joining KCL, he held positions as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern University and as a Lecturer at Yale University. Ferguson completed his PhD in Classics and Philosophy at Yale University. Dr Ferguson’s research focuses on ancient ethics, specifically on questions about happiness, virtue, and ideal agency in Plato and Aristotle. His scholarly contributions have been published in prominent journals such as Phronesis and Ancient Philosophy. Find out more about Dr, Ferguson here.
Alex Moran received his received his PhD in philosophy from Cambridge University. Before the move to Bilkent, he was an SNSF Research Fellow at the Université de Fribourg, and remains a Research Associate at Stockholm University. His research primarily explores issues in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics, with additional interests in early analytic philosophy, early modern philosophy, meta-ethics, and the philosophy of religion. His articles have appeared in such journals as Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, Analytic Philosophy, Philosophical Perspectives. Find out more about Dr. Moran here.
Jack Woods received his PhD in philosophy from Princeton University. A Humboldt Foundation fellow and alumni and a former University Academic Fellow at Leeds, he has been invited to speak at many prestigious venues, including the Aristotelian Society and the Cambridge Moral Sciences Club. He has published numerous prominent articles in Metaethics; Epistemology; Logic and the Philosophy of Logic, and a bit of Normative Ethics. These have appeared in venues such as the Philosophical Review, Noûs, Ethics, and Oxford Studies in Metaethics and Normative Ethics. Find out more about Dr. Woods here.
