Institut International de Philosophie

Abdullah KAYGI

Professeur

Université de Hacettepe, Ankara, Philosophie, Ethique, Philosophie des valeurs, Philosophie de l'art, Ontologie, Histoire de la pensée turque

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Abdullah Kaygı is professor emeritus of philosophy from Hacettepe University (Ankara). He was born in Ünye (Turkey), on 1.2.1954. He studied in the Department of Turkish Literature at Atatürk University (Erzurum) between1974-1978 and continued his studies in the Department of Philosophy at Hacettepe University, in which he was appointed as research assistant in the year 1984 and from which he got his M.A. degree in the year 1985 and his Ph. D. with a thesis on “The Idea of Westernization and/or Modernization in Turkish Thought”, under the supervision of Prof. Ioanna Kuçuradi, in the year 1990. He continued his academic carrier in the same University, until he became emeritus in February 2021.

His publications focus on problems related to the philosophy of values, ethics, philosophy of art, ontology and human rights. Among his publications in Turkish are the books on Modernization in Turkish Thought (1992), Literature and [Modes of] Being (1995, 1998, 2021), Religious World-views and Philosophy (2016) and many essays in the areas mentioned above. His Philosophy of Art and the Art of Cinema is in print. He also translated into turkish Edmund Husserl’s Philosophie als strenge Wissenschaft/Kesin bir Bilim Olarak Felsefe (1997, 2007, 2014).

Bibliographie

Books

Türk Düşüncesinde Çağdaşlaşma [Modernization in Turkish Thought], Gündoğan Publacitions, Ankara, 1992.

Edebiyat ve Varlık [Literature and Modes of Being], Kebikeç Publications, Ankara, 1995, 1998, 2021.

Dinsel Dünya Görüşü ve Felsefe [Religious World-views and Philosophy], Bibliotech Publacations, Ankara, 2016.

Sanat Felsefesi ve Sinema Sanatı [Philosophy of Art and the Art of Cinema], in print.

Translation: Edmund Husserl, Philosophie als strenge Wissenschaft/Kesin Bilim Olarak Felsefe, Publacations of the Philosophical Society of Turkey, Ankara, 1997, 2007, 2014.

Papers

“Ontolojik Olanak Kavramı ve İnsan Dünyası” [The Ontological Concept of Potentiality and the Human World], in Felsefe Söyleşileri IX-X, Varlık Felsefesi/ Tarih Felsefesi, Betül Çotuksöken, Ahu Tunçel (eds), Maltepe University Publications, Istanbul, 2018, pp. 99-111.

“Philosophy of Art and the Art of Cinema”, paper presented in the 23rd World Congress of Philosophy, Athens, 4-10 August 2013.

Link: https://www.pdcnet.org/wcp23/content/wcp23_2018_0001_0141_0146

“Nikomakhos’a Etikte Aklın İşi” [The Job of Reason in Nicomachean Ethics], Varlık, no: 1309, Istanbul, 2016, pp. 13-16.

“Felsefeyle Edebiyat Arasındaki Farklı İlişkiler” [Different Relations between Literature and Philosophy], in Felsefe ve Edebiyat, Mustafa Günay-Ali Osman Gündoğan (eds), Çizgi Books, Konya, 2014, pp. 73-86.

“Felsefi Bilgelik, Doğu Bilgeliği ve Dindarlık” [Religiousness, Eastern Wisdom and Philosophical Wisdom], İoanna Kuçuradi Çağın Olayları Arasında/Ioanna Kuçuradi Among the Events of the Era, Betül Çotuksöken-Gülriz Uygur-Hülya Şimga (eds), Tarihçi Books, Istanbul, 2014, pp. 322-335.

“Değer Yargıları ve Değerler” [Value Judgments and Values], in Tutarsızlığın İz Sürücüsü, Dilde/Düşüncede. Teo Grünberg’e Armağan, Zekiye Kutlusoy (ed.), İmge Publications, Ankara, 2013, pp. 403-410.

“Philosophy, World-views and Religion” in Philosophy of Religion, Contemporary Philosophy, Volume 9, Edited by G. Fløistad, Springer, Dordrecht, 2010, pp. 369-383.

“Felsefe Eğitimi ve Felsefenin Geleceği” [Philosophical Education and the Future of Philosophy], in 2007 Dünya Felsefe Günü Bildirileri/Papers of the 2007 World Philosophy Day, Publications of the Philosophical Society Turkey, Ankara, 2009, pp. 126-131.

“The Concepts of Referentiality and Possibility in the Context of Art”, in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, Contemporary Philosophy, Volume 9, Edited by G. Fløistad, Springer, Dordrecht, 2007, pp. 237-252.

“The Concept of the Right to Life”, Summerhill, IIAS Review (Indian Institute of Advanced Study Review), Vol. XII, no.2, 2006, General Editor: B. L. Mungekar, Editor of the volume: A. V. Afonso, Shimla, pp.30-34.

“Value-Judgments and Values”, in Philosophical Anthropology, The Proceedings of the Twenty-first World Congress of Philosophy, Volume 9, Stephen Voss (ed.), Philosophical Society of Turkey, Ankara, 2006, pp. 97-102.

“Sanat Olanla Olmayanın Sınırı” [The Borders between What is Art and What is not], in 8. Ulusal Sanat Sempozyumu, Hacettepe University Faculty of Arts Publications, Ankara, 2006, pp. 1-22.

“Filozoflar Hep Zıt Şeyler mi Söyler?” [Do Philosophers always Claim Contradictory Things?], Felsefelogos, no: 29, 2006/1, Istanbul, pp. 121-130.

“Felsefi Açıdan Dindarlık ve Tanrı Kavramları” [The Concepts of God and of Religiousness from a Philosophical Viewpoint], in Türkiye’de Felsefenin Kurumlaşması, Arslan Kaynardağ’a Armağan, Mustafa Günay (ed.), İlya Publications, Izmir, 2006, pp. 258-287.

“Değerlendirme Sorunu ve İnsan Hakları” [The Problem of Evaluation and Human Rights], in İnsan Hakları (Konferans, Panel ve Sempozyumlar), Publications of the Human Rights Centre of the Bar of Ankara, Ankara, 2006, pp. 51-81.

“Etik ve İnsan Hakları” [Ethics and Human Rights], in İnsan Hakları (Konferans, Panel ve Sempozyumlar), Publications of the Human Rights Centre of the Bar of Ankara, Ankara, 2006, pp. 85-116.

“Kesin Buyruğu Doğru Anlamak” [To Understand Correctly the Categorical Imperative], in Barışın Felsefesi, 200. Ölüm Yıldönümünde Kant, İoanna Kuçuradi (ed.), Publications of the Philosophical Society of Turkey, Ankara, 2006, pp. 7-53.

“Felsefe, Dinsel Dünya Görüşü ve Değerler” [Philosophy, Religious World-views and Values], Felsefelogos, no: 24, 2004/3, Istanbul, pp. 115-126.

“Felsefe Tarihi ve Felsefe” [Philosophy and its History], Maltepe Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 2004/2, Istanbul, pp. 127-149.

“Kimlik ve Ulus, Egemenlik ve İnsan Hakları” [Idendity and Nation, Sovereignty and Human Rights], Felsefelogos, no: 18, 2003/2, Istanbul, pp. 33-43.

“Felsefenin Felsefesi/Ne Olduğu Üzerine” [On the Philosophy of Philosophy], Düşünen Siyaset, no:18, Ankara, 2003, pp. 53-60.

“Sanat ve Özgöndergelilik” [Art and Self-referentiality], Felsefelogos, no: 20, 2003/1, Istanbul, pp. 85-91.

“Cultural Identity, Between Past and Future”, in Human Rights in Turkey and the World in the Light of Fifty-year Experience, Ioanna Kuçuradi (ed.), Hacettepe University Centre for Research and Application of the Philosophy of Human Rights, UNESCO Chair for the Philosophy of Human Rights, Ankara 2002, pp. 69-75.

“Sanat ve Yaratıcılık” [Art and Creativity], in I. Ulusal Mezuniyet Sergisi ve Sempozyumu, 3-21 Haziran 2002, Bildiriler Kitabı, Hacettepe Universty Faculty of Art Publications, Ankara, 2002, pp. 75-92.

“Remzi Savaş’ın Sanatı ve Genel Olarak Sanat Üzerine” [On Art in General and Remzi Savaş’ Paintings], in Sanat Yazıları 8, Hacettepe Universty Faculty of Arts Publications, Ankara, 2001, pp. 61-76.

“To Be Value Free or Free of Value-Judgments?”, in Journal of Turkish Studies, Türklük Bilgisi Araştırmaları, Volume 25, Şinasi Tekin-Gönül A. Tekin (eds), Essays in Honour of Ioanna Kuçuradi, Guest Editor: Sevgi Iyi, Published at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, 2001, pp. 199-214.

“Evrensellik Kavramı ve İnsan Hakları” [The Concept of Universality and Human Rights], in Cumhuriyet Döneminde Türkiye’de Öğretim ve Araştırma Alanı Olarak Felsefe, Betül Çotuksöken (ed.), Publications of the Philosophical Society of Turkey, Ankara, 2001, pp. 377-383.

“Geçmişle Gelecek Arasında Kimlik” [Identity between Past and Future], in 50 Yıllık Deneyimlerin Işığında Türkiye’de ve Dünyada İnsan Hakları, İoanna Kuçuradi and Bülent Peker (eds), Hacettepe University Centre of Research and Application of the Philosophy of Human Rights, UNESCO Chair of Philosophy for Human Rights, Ankara, 1999, pp. 69-80.

“Hasan-Âli Yücel ve Bugünkü Türkiye” [Hasan- Âli Yücel and Today’s Turkey], in Doğumunun 100. Yıldönümünde Hasan Ali Yücel Sempozyumu, Bildiriler, A Publication of the Society of the Members of Izmir Universities, Izmir, 1998, pp. 301-308.

“Uzun Sürmüş Bir Günün Akşamı’nda Andronikos, Uzun Sürmüş Bir Çağın Sonunda Türkiye” [Andronikos in the Evening of a too Long Day, Turkey in the End of a too Long Age], Anadolu Sanat, Special issue on Bilge Karasu, Anadolu University, Faculty of Arts, Eskişehir, 1996, pp. 99-121.

“Avrupa Fikri Bakımından Türk Düşünürlerinin Batı Kültürüne ve Bugünkü Batının Başka Kültürlere Bakışı” [The Way of Looking of Turkish Thinkers at Western Culture and the Way of Looking of Present Day West at Other Cultures, Considered from the Idea of Europe], Varlık, no: 1027, 1993, pp. 22-27.

“Ingarden’e Göre Yazınsal Yapıtın Bilinişi ve Değerler” [The Way of Knowing the Literary Works According to Ingarden and Values], Promete Edebiyat, no: 10-11, 1993, pp. 7-20.

“«E. Boutroux’da Zorunsuzluk Doktrini» Üzerine” [On “The Doctrine of Contingency” in E. Boutroux], Felsefe Tartışmaları, 12th Book, June 1992, Istanbul, pp. 84-94.

“Tarihte Nesnellik Sorunu ve E. H. Carr” [The Problem of Objectivity in Historiography and E. H. Carr], Ekin-Belleten, Fall-Spring 1989, pp. 25-38.

“Platon, Felsefe ve Şaşılık Üzerine” [On Plato, Philosophy and Strabismus], Felsefe Dergisi, no: 88/3, 1988, pp. 13-17.

“Platon ve Popper: Adaletli Toplum mu, Açık Toplum mu?” [Just Society or Open Society: Plato and Popper], Felsefe Dergisi, no: 87/1, January 1987, pp.127-137.

“Tanzimattan Cumhuriyete Kadar Ahlâk Öğretimi ve Ali Seydi Bey” [The Teaching of Ethics from Tanzimat to the Republic and Ali Seydi Bey], Felsefe Dergisi, no: 86/2,1986, pp.17-25.

“Sanatta -izmler Üzerine” [On –isms in Art I], Yaba-Öykü Dergisi, March-April 1986, no: 11, pp. 12-17.

“Sanatta -izmler Üzerine II, Sanat, Ahlâk ve Etik” [On –isms in Art II, Art, Morals and Ethics], Yaba-Öykü Dergisi, September-October 1986, no: 12, pp. 81-91.

“Sanatta -izmler Üzerine III, Sanat ve Nedeniyle Etkisi!” [On –isms in Art III, Art, its Why and its Impact], Yaba-Öykü Dergisi, September-October 1987, no: 14, pp. 30-33.
“«1984»ü Değer Felsefesiyle Okumak” [Reading “1984” from the Viewpoint of Axiology], Yaba-Öykü Dergisi, November-December 1984, no: 5, pp. 6-15.

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