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
Betül Aydın
Betül received her BA in Philosophy with the highest GPA in the Class of ’25 from Anadolu University. Her main research interest is the philosophy of mind. With her background in medical school, she is particularly interested in the philosophy of cognition, memory, and mind. She has also conducted research on the philosophy of dialogue—first as an Erasmus Scholar at Adam Mickiewicz University, and later as a participant in the 4th World Analogy Congress. In addition, she is a professional radio DJ who enjoys playing hard rock and heavy metal music for her listeners.
Email: betul.aydin@bilkent.edu.tr
Room: tbd
Baran Altın
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
Kaan Erdaş
Kaan received his BA degree in Philosophy from Bilkent University. His main area of interest is phenomenology, with a particular focus on the works of Edmund Husserl. In addition, he is engaged with the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of technology, exploring questions that connect consciousness, reality, and digital experience.
Email: tuncay.erdas@bilkent.edu.tr
Room: tbd
Kerim Eren
Kerim received his B.A. in Philosophy with High Honors from Middle East Technical University. His primary research interests lie in the philosophy of mind, especially in its intersections with the philosophy of language and metaphysics. He is also interested in artificial intelligence, with a focus on the possibility of conscious machines.
Email: furkan.eren@bilkent.edu.tr
Room: G-B36
Çağın Tan Eroğlu
Tan graduated from Bilkent University Faculty of Law, along with a minor certificate from Bilkent University Department of Turkish Literature. He is primarily interested in meta- and normative ethics, political philosophy and decision theory. He has so far presented his research at UNC Charlotte Philosophical Union’s 7th Ethics and Applied Philosophy Graduate Conference, European Consortium for Political Research’s (ECPR) 2025 Joint Sessions of Workshops, and Minho University Center for Ethics, Politics and Society’s (CEPS) 15th Braga Summer School. In November 2025, he will present at METU 5th International Applied Ethics Conference.
Email: tan.eroglu@bilkent.edu.tr
Room: G-B36
Asmin Karaçöp
Asmin received her BA in Philosophy with Honors from Bilkent University. Her areas of interest lie at the intersection of political philosophy, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics. She is particularly interested in how concepts of rationality, agency, and identity shape political structures, and on how cognitive science and philosophy of language can inform democratic theory and social epistemology.
Email: elif.karacop@bilkent.edu.tr
Room: tbd
Umay Göllü
Umay received her BA in Political Science and Public Administration with Honours from Bilkent University. During her undergraduate studies, her research focused on how different political systems shape patterns of statecraft and political behaviour. With a longstanding interest in philosophy, she is especially interested in writings of Hobbes, Machiavelli, and Berlin. Currently, her research interests include the ethical implications of political power and the ways in which ideological commitments shape governance in both historical and contemporary contexts.
Email: umay.gollu@bilkent.edu.tr
Room: tbd
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
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Orkun Küser
Orkun received his BSc in Molecular Biology and Genetics from Boğaziçi University. During his undergraduate studies, he conducted research internships in plant genetics, molecular dynamics simulations, and neural diseases across various laboratories at Boğaziçi University. He also completed a research internship on neural development at Freie Universität Berlin, where he presented his findings. He is primarily interested in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of mind, biology, ethics, and the history of science.
Email: orkun.kuser@bilkent.edu.tr
Room: tbd
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
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
Ülgen Deniz Ülgen
Ülgen received her BA in Philosophy and BSc in Physics from Koç University in 2025. The areas she is mainly interested in are time and persistence, ancient philosophy, and philosophy of science.
Email: deniz.ulgen@bilkent.edu.tr
Room: tbd
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