TEACHING & WORK EXPERIENCE

Teaching and Other Work Experience

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

(The courses in italics below are at the graduate level.)

Middle East Technical University, 1994 to present :
As Assistant Professor and Associate Professor : Introduction to Philosophy, Symbolic Logic, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mathematics, Decision Theory, Philosophy of Physics, Aristotle and Leibniz, Russell and Wittgenstein, Introduction to Continental Philosophy, Advanced Research in Philosophy, Current Problems in Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Special Issues in Analytic Metaphysics (causation, determinism, free will, fatalism), Special Issues in Analytic Metaphysics (space and time), Personal Identity, Philosophy of Quantum Physics.

University of Helsinki, 18-22 September 2000 :
As visiting lecturer : Introduction to Philosophy of Science.

The Ohio State University, 1991-1993 :
As Instructor : Introduction to Logic, Introduction to Philosophy.

Middle East Technical University, 1989-1991 :
As Part-Time Instructor : Philosophy of Science, Confirmation of Scientific Theories.

Bilkent University, 1989-1990 :
As Part-Time Instructor : Introduction to Philosophy, Philosophy of Science.

The Ohio State University, 1981-1988 :
As Teaching Associate : Introduction to Logic, Introduction to Philosophy, Symbolic Logic.
As Instructor : Introduction to Logic, Introduction to Philosophy.

Middle East Technical University, 1979-1981 :
As Assistant : Introduction to Logic, Inductive Logic.

THESIS SUPERVISION :

Ph. D. :

Argun Abrek Canbolat, “Persisting Humans: A Study on Vague Composition in Four-Dimensional Space-Time”; Spring 2014-2015; Department of Philosophy, Middle East Technical University.

Daria Sugorakova, “An Attempt at Dissolution of the Notion of Self”; Fall 2013-2014; Department of Philosophy, Middle East Technical University.

Pakize Arıkan Sandıkçıoğlu, “Perception with and without Concepts: Searching for a Nonconceptualist Account for Perceptual Content”; Fall 2012-2013; Department of Philosophy, Middle East Technical University.

Murat Arıcı, “Physicalism and the Phenomenal-Physical Gap”; Spring 2010-2011; Department of Philosophy, Middle East Technical University.

Mehmet Cem Kamözüt, “A Coherentist Approach to the Justification of Scientific Theories”; Fall 2007-2008; Department of Philosophy, Middle East Technical University.

Tevfik Aytekin, “A Naturalistic Account of Mental Representation”; Fall 2006-2007; Department of Cognitive Science, Middle East Technical University.

Aysel Doğan, “Relation-Instance Account of Hypothesis Confirmation: A Semantic Approach”; Spring 1999-2000; Department of Philosophy, Middle East Technical University.

M.A. :

Kemal Türkay, “An Attempt to Define Nothingness and a Philosophical Analysis of the Ultimate Why Question: Why is There Something Rather then Nothing?”; Spring 2011-2012; Department of Philosophy, Middle East Technical University.

Ayşegül Özkan, “Structure and Process: Prospects for Theories of Cognitive Science “; Fall 2010-2011; Department of Philosophy, Middle East Technical University.

(As co-advisor) Işık Sarıhan, “Mental Content and Mentalistic Causal Explanation: A Case against Externalism”; Fall 2010-2011; Department of Cognitive Science, Middle East Technical University.

Cevriye Arzu Aydoğan, “Meaning of Life as a Mental Concept”; Spring 2009-2010; Department of Philosophy, Middle East Technical University.

Aybüke Küpçü Yoldaş, “In Search of Free Will”; Spring 2009-2010; Department of Philosophy, Middle East Technical University.

Selvi Elif Gök, “Modeling Consciousness: A Comparison of Computational Models”; Spring 2008-2009; Department of Cognitive Science, Middle East Technical University.

Pakize Arıkan, “A Physicalistic Approach to the Explanatory Gap Problem”; Fall 2006-2007; Department of Philosophy, Middle East Technical University.

(With a co-advisor) Serhan Mersin, “A Hypercomputational Approach to the Agent-Causation Theory of Free Will”; Spring 2005-2006; Department of Cognitive Science, Middle East Technical University.

Halise Özdemir, “An Attempt to Understand Hume’s Philosophy of Religion”; Fall 2005-2006; Department of Philosophy, Middle East Technical University.

Sarper Alkan, “Cognitive Basis of the Concept of Conscious Self”; Fall 2005-2006; Department of Cognitive Science, Middle East Technical University.

Ahmet Eyim, “On the Significance of Idealizations in Science”; Fall 2004-2005; Department of Philosophy, Middle East Technical University.

Hasan Karaağaç, “A Critical Evaluation of Kripke’s Interpretation of Wittgenstein”; Spring 2003-2004; Department of Philosophy, Middle East Technical University.

Tevfik Aytekin, “A New Theory of Content”; Fall 2003-2004; Department of Philosophy, Middle East Technical University.

Mehmet Cem Kamözüt, “A Realist Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics”; Fall 2001-2002; Department of Philosophy, Middle East Technical University.

Şengül Aslanoğlu, “Magic in the Laboratory of the Mind: A Philosophical Study of Thought Experiments”; Fall 1999-2000; Department of Philosophy, Middle East Technical University.

Necmi Buğdaycı, “Quantum Theory and Some Philosophical Implications of Its Two Major Interpretations”; Fall 1998-1999; Department of Philosophy, Middle East Technical University.

OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE AND SERVICE :

Referee for (refereed more than once for those marked with *):

Turkish Journal of Mathematics; Felsefe Tartışmaları [“Philosophical Discussions”]*; Kaygı [“Anxiety”]*; Yeditepe’de Felsefe [“Philosophy in Yeditepe”]*; “Minds, Bodies, and Problems” conference, Bilkent University, 7-8 June 2012; FLSF; Posseible; Ankara Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi [“The Journal of Ankara University Faculty of Divinity”]; Felsefe Dünyası [“The World of Philosophy”].

Member of the Advisory Board of Felsefe Tartışmaları [“Philosophical Discussions”]; June 2004-present.

ULAKBİM Sosyal Bilimler Veri Tabanı Kurulu [“ULAKBİM Social Sciences Data Base Committee”] membership (as philosophy representative); June 2002-June 2008.

Vice Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Middle East Technical University; April 1996 – April 1998.

Editorial Assistant for The Middle East and South Asia Folklore Bulletin, published by The Ohio State University, Division of Comparative Studies in the Humanities; 1993 Fall Quarter.