During Fall 2026-Spring 2027 I will be a Visiting Fellow in Philosophy at Princeton University. I am the Lecturer (≈Tenured Assistant Professor) in World Philosophy at University of Glasgow. My research brings together philosophy in the Islamic world and contemporary philosophy by drawing both from history of philosophy in 8-16th century Islamic world and from contemporary philosophy of language, epistemology and metaphysics. I develop ideas in the great Islamic era with contemporary philosophical rigor. I also work on the nature of modality, attitudes and misleading communication. On my free time I am also investigating how attention-based transformers teach us about age-old philosophical questions.

Before this I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Philosophy at Princeton University (as part of the wonderful PRÉCIS project). I obtained my Ph.D. in Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University in Spring 2024. I did my M.A. in Philosophy and B.A. in Translation and Interpreting Studies at Boğaziçi University in İstanbul, Turkey. I am originally from Havza, Samsun, a little town in northern Turkey with excellent hot springs. I have been a type-1 diabetic since 2002.

Here is my CV, research output, impact and teaching materials.