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Felsefeci, Çevirmen

Doğum
26 Ağustos, 1950
Eğitim
Istanbul University Faculty of Literature Department of Philosophy
Burç

Philosopher, translator. She was born on August 26, 1950 in Istanbul. She is the wife of Linguist Yusuf Çotuksöken. She graduated from Hobyarlı Ahmet Pasha Primary School, Istanbul Girls’ High School and Istanbul University, Faculty of Literature, Department of Philosophy (1972). She worked as a teacher and as an administrator in secondary schools at Istanbul (Darussafaka and Huseyin Rahmı Gurpınar High Schools) (1972-78). She worked at the Istanbul University Central Library for a while (1978-82) and then she became a research assistant at Istanbul University, Faculty of Literature, Department of Philosophy, Subdivision of Systematic Philosophy and Logic in 1982. She became a doctor in 1984, an associate professor in 1988 and professor in 1996. Her Ph.D. thesis was about “The Moral Understanding of Petrus Abelardus”. She worked as Istanbul University, Hasan Ali Yücel Faculty of Education Department Head of Turkish Education (1999-00), and as visiting scholar at Uludag University (1991-94), Mimar Sinan University (1996-98) and Istanbul Technical University (1997-01). She continued with her career as a lecturer at Maltepe University Faculty of Sciences and Literature. She worked as Vice Rector, Erasmus Coordinator, Vice Dena of Faculty of Sciences and Literature and as the Department Head of Philosophy.

Her first article was published in Türk Dili journal (August 1978), followed by Gergedan, Argos, İnsancıl, Bilim ve Ütopya journals and Cumhuriyet newspaper; Cumhuriyet Kitap, Cumhuriyet Bilim Teknik attachments and in Türkiye Felsefe Kurumu Bülteni.  She worked as editorial board member of the same newsletter and as editor of Maltepe University Journal of Faculty of Science and Literature. She prepared and hosted the program named Philosophy Chats at Istanbul Radio (January 1998- June 1999). She participated in several radio and TV programs as speaker. Her area of expertise is the philosophy of middle Ages. She has been concentrating on the establishment of philosophy as a discourse and therefore she studies on ethics and human rights within the context of “argument on universals” which appeared in middle Ages around the concepts of existence, memory, language and information philosophy; she also examines the relation between the concepts of “subject” and “discourse”. The standing ground of her unique understanding can be summarized as the understanding of “nominalist” entity against the “essentialist” approach.  She also conducts studies at different levels for the teaching of philosophical discourse. She established Maltepe University Department of Philosophy. She received İnsancıl Journal Contribution to the Enlightenment Award (1999), Maltepe University Excellence Award (2004) and Troy Folkloric Research Association Special Award of Jury (2005). She has contributed to the world of thought as Executive Board Member and Vice President of Turkish Philosophy Institution, Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale member, Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie Executive Board member, and as the Organization Committee member of 22nd World Philosophy Congress (2008, Seoul).  

WORKS:

ESSAY-RESEARCH: Petrus Abelardus’un Ahlak Anlayışı (1988, Phd. thesis), Metinlerle Ortaçağda Felsefe (with Saffet Babür, 1989), Felsefi Söylem Nedir? (1991), Ortaçağ Yazıları (1993), Felsefe’yi Anlamak Felsefe ile Anlamak (1995), Nermi Uygur’un Felsefe Dünyası’ndan Kesitler (1995), Kavramlara Felsefe ile Bakmak (1998), Cumhuriyet Döneminde Türkiye’de Öğretim ve Araştırma Alanı Olarak Felsefe (anthology, 2001), Felsefe: Özne-Söyleme (2002), Radyoda Felsefe (2002), Bedia Akarsu Armağanı (edit. with Doğan Özlem, 2006).

EDITING: Felsefe Açısından Eğitim ve Türkiye’de Eğitim (proceedings, 1996), Bedia Akarsu Armağanı (with Doğan Özlem, 2002), Felsefe Söyleşileri I-II (2003).

TRANSLATION: Isagoge-Aristoteles’in Kategorilerine Giriş (dialectic book, from Porphyrios, 1986), Bir Mutsuzluk Öyküsü (philosophy, from P. Abelardus, 1988), Avrupa: Roma Yolu (from R. Brague, 1995), Ortaçağ Felsefesi (from E. Jeauneau, 1998).

REFERENCE: Mustafa Günay / Felsefe Açından Kavramlara Bir Bak

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