Academics

SAMET BAĞÇE (Associate Professor): Ph.D. from London School of Economics–University of London (Great Britain), 1995. Research interests: philosophy and methodology of science with special attention to the problems of reason and change in science, and the "context of discovery"-"context of justification" distinction; history and philosophy of geometry, with a special interest in the role of "heuristics" in geometrical progress; social dimensions of knowledge; Kant, Poincaré and Reichenbach. Publications include:

"Poincaré’s Philosophy of Geometry and Its Relevance to His Philosophy of Science" in J.-L. Greffe, G. Heinzmann and K. Lorenz (eds.),Henri Poincaré: Science and Philosophy, Akademie Verlag, 1996, 299-314.

E-mail: sbagce@metu.edu.tr

JOHN BOLENDER (Assistant Professor)

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E-mail: bolender@metu.edu.tr

YASİN CEYLAN (Professor): Ph.D. from University of Edinburgh (Great Britain), 1980. Research interests: the relationship between theology and philosophy, Islamic philosophy, Medieval metaphysics, ethics. Publications include:

Theology and Tafsir in the Major Works of Fakhr al-Din al Razi, ISTAC, Kuala Lumpur, 1996.

"Al-Ghazali between Rationalism and Mysticism" Studies in Spirituality 4(1994), 5-11.

"A Kantian Approach to the Avicennian Doctrine of Abstraction" Islamic Studies 31(1992), 71-82.

"Mulla Sadra’s Theory of Knowledge in its Islamic Peripatetic Background" Islamic Studies 29(1990), 43-55.

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E-mail: yceylan@metu.edu.tr

ELİF ÇIRAKMAN (Assistant Professor)

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E-mail: cirakman@metu.edu.tr

AKIN ERGÜDEN (Retired Professor): Ph.D. from Michigan State University (U.S.A.), 1983. Research interests: philosophy of communication, methodology of science, political and social philosophy, philosophy of history. Publications include:

Uygarlik Tarihi (History of Civilization), Anadolu Universitesi Yayınları, revised 12. edition, 2005.

Chapter in a book (international): Civil Society, Religion, and the Nation (ed. G. Steunebrink, E.Van der Zwerde), Amsterdam, New York, NY, 2004.

"Truth and Method in Hermeneutics" Journal of Comparative Poetics 8(1988), 7-21.

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E-mail: akine@metu.edu.tr

DAVİD GRÜNBERG (Associate Professor): Ph.D. from Middle East Technical University, 1994. Specialization: Confirmation in science; Analytic philosophy with special interest in theories of meaning and truth; Later Wittgenstein.

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E-mail: david@metu.edu.tr

TEO GRÜNBERG (Retired Professor, part-time faculty member): Ph.D. from Istanbul University, 1964. Research interests: philosophy of logic, proof theory, intensional logics, knowledge and epistemic justification, confirmation of scientific theories. Publications include:

"Long Run Consistency of Beliefs as Criterion of Empirical Knowledge" in Ionna Kuçuradi and Robert S. Cohen (eds.), The Concept of Knowledge: The Ankara Seminar (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol.170), Kluwer, 1995, 149-163

(with Gürol Irzık) "Carnap and Kuhn: Arch Enemies or Close Allies?" British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 46(1995), 285-307

"Predicate-Functor Logic with Operation Symbols" Logique et Analyse 29(1986), 95-104

"A Tableau System of Proof for Predicate-Functor Logic and Identity" Journal of Symbolic Logic 48(1983), 1140-1144.

E-mail: teog@metu.edu.tr

AHMET İNAM (Professor, Chair): Ph.D. from Istanbul University, 1980. Research interests: philosophical problems in intercultural communication, philosophy of technology, philosophy of environment, ethics, philosophy of the sentimental. Publications include:

"Meinunungsfreiheit als Menschenrecht", in Ernst-Joachim Lampe (ed), Interdisziplinaere Studien zu Recht und Staat, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden Baden, 1998, 19-28.

"How to Save Immorality of Individuals" in Wolfgang Schirmacher (ed.), Ethik und Vernunft Schophenhauer: in unserer Zeit, Passagen Verlag, 1995, 69-74.

Teknoloji Benim Neyim Oluyor? (What is Technology to Me?), ODTÜ Yayıncılık, 1999.

"Some Footnotes to Polanyian Ethics" Polanyiana 2(1992), 35-49.

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E-mail: ainam@metu.edu.tr

TAHİR KOCAYİĞİT (Instructor): M.A. from Middle East Technical University, 1982. Specialization: history of philosophy, philosophy of time.

E-mail: tahirk@metu.edu.tr

BARIŞ PARKAN (Assistant Professor, Vice-Chair)

E-mail: parkan@metu.edu.tr

ERDİNÇ SAYAN (Associate Professor): Ph.D. from Ohio State University (U.S.A.), 1994. Research interests: philosophy of science, especially philosophy of physics; Analytic-style metaphysics, with special interest in the problems of causation, space, time, and motion; philosophy of mind. Publications include:

"Idealizations and Approximations in Science, and the Bayesian Theory of Confirmation," in Gürol Irzık and Güven Güzeldere (eds.), Turkish Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol.:244) (Dordrecht: Springer, 2005), 103-112.

"A Mereological Look at Motion" Philosophical Studies 84(1996), 75-89.

"Is Marxist Philosophy Withering Away?" Studies in East European Thought 45(1993), 313-315.

"A Closer Look at the Chinese Nation Argument" Philosophy Research Archives 13(1987-88), 129-136.

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E-mail: esayan@metu.edu.tr