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Caner Turan, Department of Philosophy at Tulane University

Caner Turan

Visiting Assistant Professor
Newcomb 107

Education

M.A., Philosophy, King's College London, 2014
B.A., Philosophy, Bogazici University, 2013

Biography

Academic Interests

  • Metaethics
  • Kant (ethics and epistemology)
  • Evolutionary ethics
  • Applied ethics

Peer-Reviewed Articles

  • Does Autonomous Reasoning Favor Consequentialism?, Estudios de Filosofía (forthcoming, 2022)
  • Are Ambitious Evolutionary Debunking Arguments Self-Refuting?, Southwest Philosophical Studies (forthcoming, 2021).

Book Chapters

  • "Necessary Constructivism in Kant's Moral Theory," The Philosophy of Kant, Nova Science Publishers (2019).

Recent Presentations

  • On Greene's Evolutionary Challenge to Deontological Ethics, Syracuse University Graduate Philosophy Conference, 2019.
  • Does Autonomous Reasoning Favor Consequentialism?, Minnesota Philosophical Association Conference, 2019.
  • Does Autonomous Reasoning Favor Consequentialism?, Binghamton SPEL Philosophy Conference, 2019.
  • Does Autonomous Reasoning Favor Consequentialism?, University of Utah Action and Ethics Conference, 2019.
  • Does Autonomous Reasoning Favor Consequentialism?, Ohio Philosophical Association Conference, 2021.
  • Does Autonomous Reasoning Favor Consequentialism?, 14th Annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, University of Colorado, 2021.
  • Are Ambitious Evolutionary Debunking Arguments Self-Refuting?, 71st Annual Meeting of the New Mexico-Texas Philosophical Society, 2021.
  • Are Ambitious Evolutionary Debunking Arguments Self-Refuting?, The 42nd Annual Graduate Philosophy Conference at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2021.
  • Kantian Constitutivism as an Alternative to Moral Realism, International Conference for Doctoral Students in Philosophy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2021.

Recent Awards

  • School of Liberal Arts, Tulane University, Summer Research and Write-Up Award, 2021.
  • Murphy Institute Graduate Fellowship, 2019-2020.
  • Department of Philosophy, Tulane University, Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2019.
  • Graduate Student Philosophy Conference at Binghamton University Best Paper Award, 2019.