{"id":5,"date":"2018-11-11T09:20:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T09:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/wwwflok\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2019-07-08T10:55:06","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T07:55:06","slug":"academicdegrees","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/esayan\/academicdegrees\/","title":{"rendered":"DEGREES &amp; TITLES"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Academic Degrees, Titles, and Achievements<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>ACADEMIC DEGREES AND TITLES :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Visiting Professor : Bilkent University, Department of Philosophy, July 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Professor : Middle East Technical University, Department of Philosophy, May 2014; retired March 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Associate Professor : Middle East Technical University, Department of Philosophy, March 1997.<\/li>\n<li>Assistant Professor : Middle East Technical University, Department of Philosophy, November 1994.<\/li>\n<li>Ph.D. (Philosophy) : The Ohio State University (U.S.A.), 1994.<br \/>\nDissertation title : <em>Idealizations, Approximations and Confirmation in Science<\/em>.<br \/>\nDissertation supervisor : Ronald Laymon.<\/li>\n<li>M.A. (Philosophy) : The Ohio State University, 1988.<\/li>\n<li>M.A. (Logic, Philosophy and History of Science) : Middle East Technical University, 1982.<\/li>\n<li>B.S. (Industrial Engineering) : Middle East Technical University, 1979.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"awards\"><\/a>ACADEMIC AWARDS, GRANTS, AND ACHIEVEMENTS :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>T\u00dcBA (The Turkish Academy of Sciences) \/ T\u00dcB\u0130TAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) awards for promotion of scholarly international publications (given to Turkish authors who publish in selected foreign journals and books): For &#8220;A Mereological Look at Motion&#8221; in 1996, for &#8220;Idealizations and Approximations in Science, and the Bayesian Theory of Confirmation&#8221; in 2006, for &#8220;Misrepresentation and Robustness of Meaning&#8221; in 2010, and for &#8220;Fodor on Causes of Mentalese Symbols&#8221; and &#8221; A Philosophical Assessment of Computational Models of Consciousness&#8221; in 2012. (See the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/esayan\/publications\/\">Publications<\/a>&#8221; list.)<\/li>\n<li>First Prize in The Sixth Annual William H. Fink Graduate Student Essay Competition, Department of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 1985.<\/li>\n<li>Second Prize in The Fifth Annual William H. Fink Graduate Student Essay Competition, Department of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 1984.<\/li>\n<li>Fulbright Grant for graduate study in the U.S.A., 1981-1987.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academic Degrees, Titles, and Achievements ACADEMIC DEGREES AND TITLES : Visiting Professor : Bilkent University, Department of Philosophy, July 2019. Professor : Middle East Technical University, Department of Philosophy, May 2014; retired March 2015. Associate Professor : Middle East Technical University, Department of Philosophy, March 1997. Assistant Professor : Middle &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6101,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","column","twocol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/esayan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/esayan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/esayan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/esayan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/esayan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/esayan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/esayan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}