Prof. ŞEREF HALİL TURAN | AVESİS

Research Information System

Academic and Administrative Experience

Academic Titles

2018 - Continues Professor

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Philosophy

Managerial Experience

2014 - Continues Head of Department

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Supervised Theses

The concept of akrasia in Ancient Greek philosophy: Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

B.AKKÖKLER(Student), Doctorate, 2022
The value of sociability in rousseau, Hegel, and Nietzsche

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

E.KARATEKELİ(Student), Doctorate, 2021
Understanding As Listening: Dostoevsky Influence on Bakhtinian Philosophy

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

D.KOCAOĞLU(Student), Postgraduate, 2021
Amartya Sen's capability approach and its relation with John Rawls' justice as fairness.

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

S.ESMER(Student), Postgraduate, 2021
Therapeutic philosophy: wittgenstein and heidegger

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

B.Temizler(Student), Postgraduate, 2020
On the possibility of a parallelism between Wittgenstein’s understanding of language and music

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

B.Durukan(Student), Postgraduate, 2019
Two cases of the golden age: the Hesiodic utopia and the Platonic ideal state

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

G.Vezir(Student), Postgraduate, 2019
Linguistic dimension of plastic arts: the names or lack of names of artworks

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

B.Karael(Student), Postgraduate, 2019
An Investigation of sāṃkhyakārikā: the history and philosophical problems of sāṃkhya darsana

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

Ö.Irmak(Student), Postgraduate, 2019
Understanding of music in the philosophy of Wittgenstein

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

S.Canlar(Student), Postgraduate, 2019
Problems of surveillance in the realm of 21st century’s information technologies

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

S.İNELER(Student), Postgraduate, 2018
Thomas Hobbes and Carl Schmitt on the tension between sovereign and law

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

Ö.ÜNLÜ(Student), Doctorate, 2018
Freedom in the social context: the positions of Aristotle and Jean-Jacques Rousseau

CEYLAN Y. (Co-Advisor), TURAN Ş. H. (Co-Advisor)

N.Aytemir(Student), Postgraduate, 2018
The Relation between ethics and aesthetics in philosophy of Mikhail Bakhtin

TURAN Ş. H. (Co-Advisor), PARKAN B. (Co-Advisor)

H.Babur(Student), Postgraduate, 2018
THE RELATION BETWEEN ETHICS AND AESTHETICS IN PHILOSOPHY OF MIKHAIL BAKHTIN

PARKAN B. (Co-Advisor), TURAN Ş. H. (Co-Advisor)

H.BABUR(Student), Postgraduate, 2018
FREEDOM IN THE SOCIAL CONTEXT: THE POSITIONS OF ARISTOTLE AND JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

TURAN Ş. H. (Co-Advisor), CEYLAN Y. (Co-Advisor)

N.AYTEMİR(Student), Postgraduate, 2018
An Analysis of self-love and sympathy with special reference to Bernard de Mandeville and Adam Smith

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

I.Çeşmeli(Student), Doctorate, 2017
An analysis of self-love and sympathy with special reference to ernard de Mandeville and Adam Smith

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

I.ÇEŞMELİ(Student), Doctorate, 2017
Rational choice theory: İts merits and limits in explaining and predicting cultural behavior

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

Y.ADANALI(Student), Doctorate, 2016
The concept of disinterestedness in modern philosophy of art: Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Heidegger

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

B.AKKÖKLER(Student), Postgraduate, 2016
The Concept of disinterestedness in modern philosophy of art: Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Heidegger

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

B.Akkökler(Student), Postgraduate, 2016
The concepts of (dis)pleasure and pain in Nietzsche and Foucault

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

E.KARATEKELİ(Student), Postgraduate, 2016
Virtuous life and happiness in Epictetus, Socrates & Stoicism

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

H.Kahveci(Student), Postgraduate, 2015
Theodor Adorno, on the relationship between critical theory and art

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

T.ERKAN(Student), Postgraduate, 2015
Amartya Sen’s idea of justice, and its relations with John Rawls and Adam Smith

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

U.DAĞ(Student), Postgraduate, 2015
Virtuous life and happiness in Epictetus, Socrates and Stoicism

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

H.KAHVECİ(Student), Postgraduate, 2015
Marx's critique of Hegel : stages in Marx's appropriation of dialectic

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

D.Barış(Student), Doctorate, 2013
Human nature, ethics and politics in the philosophies of Thomas Hobbes and Immanuel Kant

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

E.YAĞANAK(Student), Doctorate, 2013
On the Vichian conception of language

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

F.DEMİR(Student), Postgraduate, 2013
Schopenhauer’s philosophy of music and the possibility of self-transformation through aesthetic understanding of the world

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

A.ONUR(Student), Doctorate, 2013
A Critical reading of Alan Badiou: relativism in Badiou's theory of truth

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

E.Yenisoy(Student), Doctorate, 2012
The problem of justice in the philosophies of Rousseau and Kant

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

Ö.Ünlü(Student), Postgraduate, 2011
Camus: A rebel at the junction of existentialism and skepticism

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

D.BAŞAR(Student), Doctorate, 2011
Politics, law and morality: David Hume on justice

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

E.Eryılmaz(Student), Postgraduate, 2011
Epicurus and Kant: A comparison of their ethical systems

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

A.HAYDAR(Student), Postgraduate, 2010
Conceptual background of truth content of art in Gadamer’s "truth and method"

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

D.Soysal(Student), Doctorate, 2008
Will of the sovereign and contract in Thomas Hobbes and John Locke

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

T.ATASOY(Student), Postgraduate, 2008
The will of the sovereign and contract in thomas hobbes and john locke

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

T.Atasoy(Student), Postgraduate, 2008
On the possibility of wittgensteinian language of ethics

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

S.OKTAR(Student), Doctorate, 2008
Conceptual background of truth content of art in Gadamer's Truth and Method

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

D.SOYSAL(Student), Doctorate, 2008
Nietzsche’s perspectivist epistemology : epistemological implications of will to power

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

S.Soysal(Student), Doctorate, 2007
Nietzsche`s perspectivist epistemology: Epistemological implications of will to power

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

S.SOYSAL(Student), Doctorate, 2007
An inquiry on Wittgenstein's conception of meaning

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

D.Erşahin(Student), Postgraduate, 2007
The theory of passions in cartesian philosophy

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

I.Aksoy(Student), Postgraduate, 2006
The relation of freedom and evil in Kant’s moral philosophy

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

S.Aydın(Student), Postgraduate, 2006
The critiques of the enlightenment by Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno and their understanding of a new method and philosophy

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

E.Yenisoy(Student), Postgraduate, 2006
Labor, leisure and freedom in the philosophies of Aristotle, Karl Marx and Herbert Marcuse

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

D.BARIŞ(Student), Postgraduate, 2006
A survey of mathematical and philosophical problems generated by Zeno's paradoks

TURAN Ş. H. (Advisor)

T.Baş(Student), Postgraduate, 2005
Technological rationality and one-dimensional man: Herbert Marcuse`nin ileri endüstri toplumu eleştirisi

TURAN Ş. H. (Co-Advisor), İNAM A. (Co-Advisor)

S.SOYSAL(Student), Postgraduate, 2002