About Me
I received my PhD in 2010 at the Department of Philosophy at York University, Canada with the dissertation, “Mad Narratives: Exploring Self-Constitutions Through the Diagnostic Looking Glass,” under the supervision of David Jopling, Kristin Andrews, and Ian Hacking.
After receiving my PhD at York, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Novel Tech Ethics at Dalhousie University, Canada, working within the project entitled “States of Mind: Emerging Issues in Neuroethics (2010-2012).” I was also trained in feminist bioethics during this time, under Françoise Baylis. After Dalhousie, I held another Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh (2012-2013).
I am a native of Denizli, Turkey. I spent my childhood and adolescence on the Aegean coast, hanging around the ruins of Ancient Greek civilization. I’d like to think that I am a philosopher because I walked on the soils that the Greek gods, goddesses, and philosophers left their footprints, inhaled the salty humid sea air they breathed in, and inhabited the sense of wonder that woke them up from the deepest sleeps everyday. As the daughter of a civil servant who was regularly sent to remote rural areas of Turkey's southeast (on exile!!) I also spent quite a bit of time in Anatolia, tracing the chaotic yet beautiful sights of the Silk Road, where religions, spices, traditions, wars, and love continue to clash and rise through their ashes.
The Olympic torch and sprinkles of cumin spice I have been carrying around since my early childhood days have helped me to happily make home in Canada and the US, connecting me to many beloved curious friends and students.
I am a cat lady, and the proud human of Chicken and Ozzy and an avid feeder of our strays, Green Bean, Green Pea, Skinny Bailey, and the unnamed Black cat, who regularly stop by in our backyard..
After receiving my PhD at York, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Novel Tech Ethics at Dalhousie University, Canada, working within the project entitled “States of Mind: Emerging Issues in Neuroethics (2010-2012).” I was also trained in feminist bioethics during this time, under Françoise Baylis. After Dalhousie, I held another Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh (2012-2013).
I am a native of Denizli, Turkey. I spent my childhood and adolescence on the Aegean coast, hanging around the ruins of Ancient Greek civilization. I’d like to think that I am a philosopher because I walked on the soils that the Greek gods, goddesses, and philosophers left their footprints, inhaled the salty humid sea air they breathed in, and inhabited the sense of wonder that woke them up from the deepest sleeps everyday. As the daughter of a civil servant who was regularly sent to remote rural areas of Turkey's southeast (on exile!!) I also spent quite a bit of time in Anatolia, tracing the chaotic yet beautiful sights of the Silk Road, where religions, spices, traditions, wars, and love continue to clash and rise through their ashes.
The Olympic torch and sprinkles of cumin spice I have been carrying around since my early childhood days have helped me to happily make home in Canada and the US, connecting me to many beloved curious friends and students.
I am a cat lady, and the proud human of Chicken and Ozzy and an avid feeder of our strays, Green Bean, Green Pea, Skinny Bailey, and the unnamed Black cat, who regularly stop by in our backyard..
Some recent highlights of my scholarly autobiography include:
I am the Poster Forum Chair for the 2022 Philosophy of Science Meeting.
I am on the Editorial Board of the Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology Journal.
I am an honorary fellow at The Center for Olfactory Research and Applications, Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK.
In the summer of 2021, I taught a seminar on Philosophy of Science at the San Antonio Teacher Training Astronomy Academy (SATTAA) organized by UTSA's Department of Astronomy.
In the summer of 2019 I taught a seminar on the Naturalistic Approaches to the Self at the Pitt-Tsinghua Summer School for Philosophy of Science at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
In May 2019, I was a Visiting Research fellow at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy, at Western University in Canada.
I co-organized the Early Career Scholars Conference in Philosophy of Psychiatry, held on November 21-22 2014, at the Center for Philosophy of Science at University of Pittsburgh. You can read a nice summary of it here and a commentary here.
Where I (sometimes) blog.
I am on the Editorial board of the Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Journal.
I am on the Editorial board of Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology Journal.
I am on the Executive Board of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry.
I edit the following PhilPapers categories:
Philosophy of Psychiatry and Psychopathology, Psychiatric Ethics, Psychopathology, Other Mental Disorders, Mental Illness, Philosophy of Psychiatry and Psychopathology, Misc.
