Eylem Ozaltun¨
Contact Ko¸cUniversity, Department of Philosophy, Rumelifeneri, 34450, Istanbul-Turkey email: [email protected] phone: +90 212 338 1116
Employment Assistant Professor of Philosophy Ko¸cUniversity, September 2014-present Fellow in Philosophy Harvard University, June 2013-July 2014
Education Harvard University, Ph.D., Philosophy, May 2013 Dissertation: “Knowledge in Action” Harvard University, M.A., Philosophy, January 2005 Thesis: “Dummett and Davidson on the Dependence of Thought on Language” Bogazici University, M.A, Logic, June 2002 Thesis: “Ecthesis in Mathematical Reasoning” Bogazici University, B.Sc., second of the class, Mathematics, June 1998 Thesis: “Some problems in Coding Theory”
Areas of Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Action Specialization
Areas of Logic, Kant’s Theoretical Philosophy, Early Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Competence Language, Aristotle
Research Newton Mobility Grant, British Academy, September 2016-September 2017 Grant “First-Person: Action and Perception”:This project aims to give an origi- nal account of the first-person perspective both in perception and action that is consistent with actions being part of the natural world, and perceptions revealing that world to us. Host Institution: Mind & Action Research Center, Warwick University
Publications “Dummett and Davidson on the Dependence of Thought on Language” forthcoming Felsefe Tartı¸smaları 56, 2019. “Overconfidence, self-knowledge and self-improvement” Palgrave Communications 3: 42, 2017. doi:10.1057/s41599-017-0049-5 (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599- 017-0049-5) “Practical Knowledge of What Happens: A Reading of §45” Klesis Revue Philosophique 35, 2016 (http://www.revue-klesis.org/pdf/Klesis-Anscombe-04-Eylem-Ozaltun-Practical- Knowledge-What-Happens-Reading-45.pdf) “The Subject/Object use of “I” ” in Mind, Language and Action: Contributions to the 36th International Wittgenstein Symposium, edited by Daniele Moyal-Sharrock, Volker A. Munz, Annalisa Coliva, published by Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein So- ciety, 2013. “On the Reconstruction of Kantian Intuitions: Modern Logic” in Recht und Frieden in der Philosopie Kants. Akten des X. Internatinalen Kant-Kogresses, Band 5, edited by Valerio Rohden, Ricardo R.Terra, Guido A. de Almelda, Margit Ruffing, published by Walter de Gruyter, 2008, pp.175-189.
Work in “Anscombe on the Expression of Self-Consciousness” Routledge Philosophical Minds: Progress The Anscombean Mind, ed. Wiseman & Haddock, expected 2020.
“Anscombe on the Subject of Action, Thought, and Sensation” Enrahonar An International Journal of Theoretical and Practical Reason Special Issue “Reason, Reasoning, and Action” ed. Garcia-Arnaldos & Miguens, expected 2020.
“Knowledge in Action & Knowledge of Perception” Perceptual Knowledge and Self- Awareness, ed. Roessler, Oxford University Press, expected 2021.
“The Structre of Action Awareness” co-authored with W. Christensen
“Two Unlikely Allies: Kant and Anscombe on Self-Thought”
“Kant and The First Person”
“Varieties of I think”monograph A critique of how we study self-consciousness in contemporary analytic phi- losophy under the influence of the Evans/Strawson approach. I propose, in studying self- consciousness, that our theme is not the manner of thinking of an object which is the subject of that thought, not a form of reference among many. Rather it is the manner of thinking of objects in general, the very possibility of objective reference.
Selected “Anscombe on the Expression of Self-Consciousness”invited Recent Anscombe on the First Person Workshop, Warwick Mind & Action Research Presentations Center, July 10, 2019 “Knowledge in Action & Knowledge of Perception”invited Perceptual Knowledge and Self-Awareness Workshop, Universite De Fribourg, Fribourg, September 24-26, 2018 “Kant and the First Person: Does the “I” of I think refer?” invited the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute Philosophy Seminar, Jerusalem, July 16, 2018 “Action Awareness as the Source of Flexibility in Skillful Copings” invited Lan- guage, Mind and Cognition Research Group, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, June 1, 2018 ‘The Structre of Action Awareness” co-authored with W. Christensen refereed ESPP, Hertfordshire, UK, August 14-17, 2017 Commentary on Johannes Roessler invited Self-Knowledge and Agency Work- shop, St Hilda’s College, Oxford, May 19-20, 2017 “A-users: Anscombe vs. Campbell” March 2017 “Kant and The First Person”February 2017 Warwick Mind & Action Research Center “Two Unlikely Allies: Kant and Anscombe on Self-Thought”refereed UK Kant Society Annual Conference, University of Southampton, September 5-6 2016 ‘Reading Anscombe with Descombe” invited C-MLAG 2016: Self-Knowledge and The First Person, University of Porto, June 17, 2016 “Knowledge in Action & Knowledge of Perception”invited University of Porto, February 3, 2015 “Awareness of One’s Own Intentional Actions”’refereed ESPP, Noto, Italy, September 16-19, 2014 “Knowledge in Action: Less Like Pain, More Like Perception”refereed APA Pacific Division Meeting, San Diego, April 2014 “Knowledge in Action & Knowledge of Perception”invited University of California, Santa Cruz, March 2014
Fellowships Graduate Society Fellowship, Harvard University, 2011-2012 and Awards Richard M. Martin Prize Fellowship, Harvard University, 2010-2011 Graduate Student Prize Fellowship, Harvard University 2002-2007
Academic Referee for Mind, Noˆus, Journal of American Philosophical Assosication, Analysis Service Organizer Workshop:“Seeing and Disjunctivisim” Ko¸cUniversity, May 22, 2015 Faculty Search Coordinator Ko¸cUniversity, 2014-15, 2017-18 Erasmus Exchange Programs Advisor for Philosophy Ko¸cUniversity, 2017-present
Teaching Ko¸cUniversity Harvard University Experience Full Responsibility Full Responsibility
Phil 438 Philosophy of Action Moral Psychology in Plato’s Republic Phil 338 Philosophy of Mind Aristotle and Anscombe on Action Phil 315 History of Early Analytic Philosophy Anscombe’s Intention Phil 131 Logic HUMS 117 Rationality & Irrationality
Partial Responsibility PSYC 348 Introduction to Cognitive Science
References Professor Sean Kelly ([email protected]) Harvard University Professor Richard Moran ([email protected]) Harvard University Professor Matthew Boyle ([email protected]) University of Chicago Professor Naomi Eilan ([email protected]) Warwick University Professor Charles Travis ([email protected]) King’s College London Professor Warren Goldfarb ([email protected]) Harvard University Professor Charles Parsons ([email protected]) Harvard University