Caner Turan

Education

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.