Afra Akram
Afra received her BSc in Physics from Bilkent University in 2020 and her MS in Physics from Koç University in 2022. Her areas of interest include the philosophy of physics, space-time and gravity.
She will be starting her PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science at Pittsburgh University in September 2024.
Email: fathima.mohamed@bilkent.edu.tr
İlayda Arık
İlayda recevied her BA in philosophy with honors, along with a minor
certificate in sociology from Middle East Technical University. Her main
areas of interest include ethics (especially media ethics), social and
political philosophy and philosophy of social sciences.
Email: ilayda.arik@bilkent.edu.tr
Room: tbd
Baran Altan
Baran received his BA in Western Languages and Literatures from Boğaziçi University. His primary research interests are philosophy of mind and philosophy of well-being.
Email: baran.altin@bilkent.edu.tr
Room: H-Z45B
Utku Batur
Utku received his BA in Philosophy from Boğaziçi University. His primary areas of interest are pragmatism, philosophy of perception and Analytic Hegelianism. He is also interested in Ancient Greek philosophy and how it relates to contemporary metaphysical discussions. He also wants to explore the ways in which analytic-continental split in philosophy can be bridged.
Email: utku.batur@bilkent.edu.tr
Room: G-B36
Tutku Bağcı
Tutku received her BA degree in International Relations from Bilkent University. Her primary area of interest is Mill’s version of utilitarianism and whether it could be applicable to the anarchic international system. Besides, she is also interested in ethics and in questions regarding the link of cinematography and reality
Email: tutku.bagci@bilkent.edu.tr
Erim Bakkal
Erim is an MA student at Bilkent University. His research is mainly at the intersection of ontology and philosophy of language. Currently, he is investigating how the fictionalist approach can be applied to social ontology. In August 2023, he presented his paper entitled “Social And Meta-Social Propositions” at the 11th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy. In November 2023, he presented his paper entitled “A Doxastic Approach to Social Scientific Explanation” at the University of Maribor. He has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to pursue his doctoral studies in the United States on social ontology and the social & political philosophy of language.
He will be starting his PhD in the Department of Philosophy at the
University of California at Irvine in Fall 2024.
Email: erim.bakkal@bilkent.edu.tr
Website: https://bilkent.academia.edu/
Çağın Tan Eroğlu
Çağın Tan graduated from Bilkent University Faculty of Law with a Bachelor’s degree, along with a minor certificate from Bilkent University Department of Turkish Literature. He is actively involved in civil society in Turkiye with his contributions to several national and international think tanks. His primary research interest is political philosophy, with a narrower emphasis on the notion of state and the concept of authority.
Email: tan.eroglu@bilkent.edu.tr
Room:G-B36
Zeynep İlkim Karali
İlkim received her BA degree in English Language and Literature from Bilkent University. She is interested in aesthetics, ethics and philosophy of religion.
Email: ilkim.karali@bilkent.edu.tr
Room:H-129B
Emre Kurçin
Emre graduated from Boğaziçi University in 2024 with a major in psychology and a minor in molecular biology and genetics. His interests in the philosophy of mind include the criterion of personal identity, functionalism, mental representations, and subjective experiences. In addition to these, he is interested in the philosophy of social sciences, analytical philosophy and humanities, orientalism and postcolonial literature, Turkish thought, cultural criticism, and analytical literary criticism. He also follows science fiction literature as a hobby.
Email: emre.kurcin@bilkent.edu.tr
Room:
Begüm Orhan
Begüm received her BA in Psychology from Bilkent University. She is interested in consciousness, existentialism, and philosophy of well-being.
Email: begum.orhan@bilkent.edu.tr
Room:H-129B
Sarp Özdemir
Sarp graduated from Koç University with a double major in Psychology and Philosophy, along with a track in Cognitive and Brain Sciences. He is interested in questions about how we relate to (represent, perceive, act within, etc.) the world around us; and, as a special case of this broader issue, in our urge to mistake the world for the frame through which we look at it, as highlighted in Wittgenstein’s later work.
Email: sarp.ozdemir@bilkent.edu.tr
Room: G-B36
İnci Öztürk
İnci received her BA in Philosophy from Bogazici University. She is interested in contemporary metaphysics and ontology of art objects.
Email: inci.ozturk@bilkent.edu.tr
Room: H-Z45B
Kerem Özcan
Kerem received his BA in Philosophy and BS in Psychology from Middle East Technical University. He is primarily interested in ethics and Ancient Greek Philosophy, especially Aristotle.
Email: kerem.ozcan@bilkent.edu.tr
Room: H-129B
Yiğit Aras Tarım
Yiğit Aras is a graduate from Bogazici University with a double major in Political Science and International Relations & Philosophy. His academic interests revolve around contemporary metaphysics, with a focus on ontology, ontological dependence and artifacts, alongside an interest in meta-ethics.
Email: aras.tarim@bilkent.edu.tr
Room: G-B36
Seda Umul
Seda received her BA degree in Philosophy from Middle East Technical University. Her primary academic interests revolve around Philosophy and Ethics of Technology, Philosophy of Mind, and Feminist Ethics. She has a special focus on Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness Debate, and Gender Inequality, respectively.
Email: seda.umul@bilkent.edu.tr
Room: HZ-49
Cansu Uraz
Cansu received her BA degree in philosophy from Bilkent University in 2022. Her primary research interests are in social and political philosophy and ethics.
Email: cansu.uraz@bilkent.edu.tr
Room: T-260
Turhan Yalçın
Turhan has earned his BA degree in Philosophy from Bilkent University, with a minor in Political Science. His academic interests are primarily centered on political philosophy, the philosophy of history, and German Idealism, with a particular emphasis on the works of Kant and Hegel. Additionally, he engages in intellectual exploration of subjects such as economics, geopolitics, culture, and the philosophical analysis of concepts such as time and reality
Email: turhan.yalcin@bilkent.edu.tr
Room: H-129B
Ecenur Yavaş
Ecenur received her BA degrees in history and philosophy from Middle East Technical University in 2022 and 2023 respectively. Her main areas of interest are social and political philosophy, especially the intersection between economics and political philosophy.
Email: ecenur.yavas@bilkent.edu.tr
Room: H-129B