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eduI am a philosopher from Istanbul. Currently, I am a postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows for Humanities at Columbia University. I also lecture in the Department of Philosophy. I received my Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2022.
I work on political disagreement—its material foundations, psychological and social manifestations, and epistemic properties.
My dissertation project examines how ideology is installed in our minds, generating social contestation not only over matters of fact or judgments of value, but also over what’s salient to each of us. I call these contestations ‘perspectival clashes’. I have been advised by and derive much inspiration from Susanna Siegel, Mark Richard, Bernhard Nickel, and Jane Friedman.
Drafts of my recent work are available for presentation and discussion:
(Title redacted due to review) A paper that questions the value of open-mindedness as an epistemic virtue, and argues that open-mindedness, in its standard conception, erodes rather than promotes certain democratic values.
(Title redacted due to review) proposes an affordance-theoretic account of salience properties in perceptual experience.
(Title redacted due to review) offers a critical examination of the notion of perspectives in philosophy and presents an account of perspectives that can illuminate the role of perspective talk in social life.
“Whence interrogative contents” draws a distinction between two kinds of inquisitive attitudes, only one of which admits the popular interrogative content analysis.
(Title redacted due to review) questions the notion of manipulation in political philosophy of language through an examination of norm enactment via political speech.
I am a charter member of my graduate student worker union and a member of UAW's reform caucus. You can email me to talk about running an issue-based campaign, building a feminist caucus, and strike organizing at ey2333columbiaedu
Recently, I’ve written for Boston Review (Why Unions Need More Democracy), the Forge magazine (An Uprising for a Democratic University in Turkey), the Point magazine (Where is the University?), Aesthetics for Birds (The Crusoes of this World), and the Drift magazine (#MeToo’s Strike Test).
You can find my CV on my academic profile. My name is pronounced like this.