What counseling in general and especially philosophical counseling means, the differences of philosophical counseling from psychological counseling as the most common counseling kind and other kinds are the object of focus of this course.

This course studies the problems of human sciences from a philosophical perspective, in a theoretical frame. It examines the basic concepts and problems of human sciences and different philosophical solutions brought to these problems.

The aim of this course is to discuss the concept of public sphere within the frame of individual society and state citizen relations. The changes and development of the concept of public sphere, views of liberal and republican trends to this concept, multiculturalism, democracy and discussion of contemporary political theorists who study these matters are some contents of this course.

The aim of this course is to help students to recognize the knowledge that Aristotle has produced, and the concepts he has brought to different fields of philosophy, to draw attention to their importance on philosophical knowledge by reading his texts. Aristotelian ethics will be also specially considered throughout the course.

In this course, historical backgrounds of contemporary events and the problems they create will be considered with supporting studies of philosophical views which have formed our age. The social changes and developments at the world and our country will

In this course, the evaluation problem, which is one of the main subject-matters of ethics and philosophy of values, will be examined in detail. Matters such as, what evaluation is, moral dilemmas and decisions, the role of evaluation on decisions, evaluation and values, evaluation types will also be considered at this course.

The aim of this course is to help philosophy teachers to gain the necessary abilities to introduce the courses Thinking education and philosophy successfully and suitably at elemental education level. Platos related dialogues will be read and literary sources suiting the objective (both from child literature and world classics) will be examined in terms of philosophy.

The main objective of this course is to study the background of Kant?s important concepts, while defining the philosophical knowledge he has produced and the concepts he has brought to different fields of philosophy with support from his basic texts. This course will also specially focus on Kant?s primary works on the field of ethics: ?Critique of Practical Reason? and ?Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals.?

Environmental ethics is a course where the different dimensions of the human nature relation will be discussed. Humans moral responsibilities against todays increasing negative developments in terms of the destruction of environment will be an discussion issue.

The place and the features of the body is an old subject matter in the context of mind-body problem in philosophy. The founder of the discussion, in modern ages, is Rene Descrates. The soul/mind and body are admitted as two distinct entities and attributed different features to each by Descartes. Since the end of 19th and, especially, 20th century, physicalist and identity theories began to emerged. In this course, firstly, the origins of the debate in the modern era will be revealed; then from the perspective of mind-body / brain integrity, the existentialist phenomenological approach and Antonio Damasio's determinations on emotions and feelings will be discussed.

The foundations, of Philosophical Counseling, especially with respect to acquaintance of human as an individual and person, are considered. Moreover, basic methods of analysis, concerning the problems that emerge within the relations such as human ? human, human ? world, are emphasized.

On the grounds of taking human especially as a thinking and communicating, verbally and in written, being, the course is focused on humain phenomena in detail and in the course the outcomes are deepened in terms of philosophical counseling

Via taking the examples of general philosophical discourse into account, the relations among human the world of living, human nature, human environment are examined in detail.

In the axis of philosophical counseling, Plato is reevaluated and the importance of his texts, especially the ones in the dialogue format, in the context of philosophical counseling is considered.

This course shows students how research is carried out in philosophy. The features of philosophical research, which are different from other research areas, are
underlined. Philosophy, as a research area, is compared with other research areas. It is highlighted that philosophical researches are based on foundation method.

With reference to the most fundamental act of human is sense-making, the problems, concerning interpretation, agreement and disability for agreement, are considered by an analytic method.

Heideggers opinions about being, time, technique and art, especially in the context of being of human, are examined.

Departing from the philosophers texts and his attitude in face of the life, his critiques concerning his contemporaries and especially his assignations about human understanding are examined.

With respect to his texts, Schopenhauers views, especially the ones concerning anthropology and ethics, are considered.

Students will prepare a graduate project with their thesis supervisior.

This course focuses on the problems that occur while defining and determining a philosophical problem or contemporary philosophical discussions.

This course is based on the scientific theories of the 20th century. It focuses on the problem of understanding and interpretation and the methodological differences between the natural and social sciences.

This course discusses the concepts of understanding, explaining and interpretation on the basis of the texts of philosophers from the field of hermeneutics; such as Dilthey, Gadamer, Habermas and Ricoeur.

This course approaches to the conceptual structure of art, and to its function and/or functions from a philosophical point of view. Thus, the main concepts and problems used in the frame of artistic activity are evaluated in relation with the main trends and approaches concerning art.

This course studies Heideggers ideas from multiple aspects about being, time and art departing from his works. Heideggers critique of traditional Western metaphysics and his interpretation of Nietzsche will be examined and discussed.

The course which is based on the main concepts of Kantian philosophy, gives place to knowledge proces as a central concept of philosophical discourse. It also examines the central concepts of Enlightenment departing from the philosophers texts.

This course focuses to the main concepts of Nietzsches discourse as a rebellious philosophy. It relates Nietzsche to ancient philosophers departing from his works. Additionally, his critiques of the philosophers of his era and specially his determination of the human notion will be examined.

In this course the background of Wittgensteins ideas and his influences on the contemporary philosophy will be discussed, departing from one of his main works. The main arguments of Tractatus, an early Wittgenstein work, and their influences on Vienna Circle will be examined as well as the relation between the Philosophical Investigations, a late Wittgenstein work, and todays perspectivist and contextual theories of knowledge.

This course helps students to understand and clarify their philosophical approaches and to decide their subjects and advisors of thesis and according to their tendencies. The content of the course are decided by students and their advisors.

The qualifying exam consists of two steps, written and oral. In order to continue the program, students must successfully pass on both stages.

Students who are that are succesful at the qualifying exam, propose their thesis that are suitable to scientific and ethical.

Students prepeare to Ph.D thesis in this term

The course will inquire into and discuss the problem of application, to particular situations, of
human rights as fundamental principles of establishing social relations and of organizing the
State.

The course will deal with problems of ethics as a field of philosophy and, on the basis of these
problems, will discuss the ethical aspects of human rights.

The course will examine the concepts of citizen and civic rights in their various dimensions
and historical background, and will discuss the specificity of the way of looking at human
affairs, developed by the consciousness of being a citizen and the relationship of this way of looking with the protection of human rights.

The course will discuss theoretical human rights problems, to be selected by the instructor according to the specificity of the group of trainees.

The course will discuss problems faced with in the implementation of human rights, to be
selected by the instructor according to the specificity of the group of trainees.

The fundamental role of the European Court of Human Rights and its universal and regional characteristics will be evaluated. The methods of protection and embodiment of the human rights will be examined with a special reference to the relation of this protection with the Turkish Law.

The aim of this course is to evaluate in detail the contemporary conflicts in the international law. In this context, especially the international law problems of Turkey will be examined in the legal framework.

Within the scope of this course, relatively new political thoughts and movements of 1980s will be discussed. Some of these movements, like feminism, environmentalism and anti-globalization movements, are new for the world. Some others like liberalism, conservatism, while depending on 19th century ideologies, have renewed themselves and become influential in current Turkish politics.

In this course, the relationship among the social structures, mind, knowledge production and ideologies will be studied. In addition to classical theories and approaches in sociology of knowledge, the recent and contemporary perspectives will also be discussed.