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: T-260
Emre Çelik
Emre received his BA degree in Philosophy with High Honors from Bilkent University. His primary research interests lie at the intersection of political philosophy and philosophy of law, with a focus on republicanism and philosophy of social sciences. He is also interested in neuroscience and cognitive science. His overarching aim is to understand the human condition—specifically, how human agents interact with, interpret, and transform their social and physical environment.
Email: emrecelik@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: G-B36
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
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: G-B36
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: T-260
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: G-B36
Elif Saygın
Elif received her BA in Philosophy from Middle East Technical University with high honors. Her research interests include the philosophy of logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and formal epistemology.
Email: elif.saygin@bilkent.edu.tr
Room: T-260
Serhat Sincar
Serhat received his BA in psychology from Bilkent University. His primary areas of interest are metaphysics, philosophy of mind and philosophy of religion. He is also interested in cognitive science, particularly the works regarding the nature of religious cognition.
Email: serhatsincar@bilkent.edu.tr
Room: G-B36
Sinem Toydaş
Sinem received her BA in philosophy from Boğaziçi University. She is particularly interested in Aristotle’s ontology and his concept of psyche. She investigates how the Aristotelian conception of psyche can be relevant to contemporary discussions of the nature of mental states. She is also concerned with Plato’s philosophical myths, his theory of the tripartite psyche, and his concept of eros for the formation of ethical life. She seeks to bring Ancient philosophy into dialogue with contemporary discussions by showing their relevance to questions about human existence.
Email: sinemtoydas@bilkent.edu.tr
Room: G-B36
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: G-B36
Ufuk Yazlık
Ufuk received his BA in Philosophy from Bilkent University in 2026 with high honors. His research interests include ethics, epistemology, and ancient philosophy, with a particular focus on virtue ethics, well-being, justice, metaethics, and skepticism.
Email: batuhanyazlik@bilkent.edu.tr
Room: H-Z49
Ahmet Yemenici
Ahmet received his BA in Philosophy from Bilkent University. His main areas of interest are essence, fundamentality, and modality in metaphysics, as well as some themes in philosophy of mind and religion. His objective is to investigate the most fundamental levels of reality and offer philosophically rigorous descriptions.
Email: oguzyemenici@bilkent.edu.tr
Room: G-B36
Emre Yüce
Emre graduated top of his class from the Department of Philosophy at Bilkent University. He is interested in the history of philosophy (especially the early modern period) and political philosophy. He is also very much into ancient languages and literature.
Email: emreyuce@bilkent.edu.tr
Room: G-B36